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Nov 5, 20122 min read
The PA-DEP Now Under Attack
At least two articles appeared Friday reporting the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection failed to protect rural residents...
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Nov 4, 20121 min read
THE SKY IS PINK | 15 minute film
This is a 15 minute must-see short film, following up on the oil and gas industry’s criticism of the film “Gasland.” An emergency short...
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Nov 2, 20124 min read
Pennsylvania State Representative Jesse White calls for probe of Dept of Environmental Protection wa
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has created incomplete lab reports and used them to dismiss complaints that...
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Nov 1, 20123 min read
Charts: The Frackers’ Well-Oiled Political Machine | Mother Jones
How the domestic drilling frenzy fills campaign coffers and kills off accountability. —By Gavin Aronsen the energy election This spring,...
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Oct 24, 20122 min read
Chesapeake Testing ‘Green’ Fracking Fluids in Shale Wells – Bloomberg
SAFE comments: Development of environmentally friendly constituents for “slick water” used in fracking does not eliminate, reduce or...
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Oct 24, 20123 min read
Fracking Operations Run Roughshod over Pennsylvania Homeowners
On a recent trip to western Pennsylvania, I visited a man who lived along a leafy country road. He showed me around the house he had...
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Oct 24, 20121 min read
SAFE Featured in Ad to Governor Cuomo of NY
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Charlotte today, but he’s getting a message in the local newspaper here from an anti-fracking group back home in...
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Oct 24, 201211 min read
Fracking Hazards Obscured in Failure to Disclose Wells – Bloomberg
Seeking to quell environmental concerns about the chemicals it shoots underground to extract oil and natural gas, Apache Corp. (APA) told...
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Oct 24, 20123 min read
Amy Goodman: Shale-shocked citizens fight back
Western Pennsylvania is considered the birthplace of commercial oil drilling. On Aug. 27, 1859, Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville,...
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Oct 24, 201218 min read
The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Lax Rules for Drillers that Inject Pollutants Into the Earth – P
On a cold, overcast afternoon in January 2003, two tanker trucks backed up to an injection well site in a pasture outside Rosharon,...
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Oct 22, 20124 min read
Energy Insecurity: Why Fracking for Oil and Natural Gas Is a False Solution
Oil and Gas Industry Aims to Build 19 New Facilities to Export Natural Gas U.S. New Report Explains Why Fracking for Oil and Gas Will...
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Oct 16, 20124 min read
New Report Confirms Fracking is Reckless « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environment
A new report on shale resources and hydraulic fracturing from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—an independent, nonpartisan...
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Oct 15, 20122 min read
EPA Report Links Fracking To Water Pollution
This May 2009 picture shows John Fenton, a farmer who lives near Pavillion in central Wyoming, standing near a tank used in natural gas...
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Oct 15, 20123 min read
What About Radioactive Materials? | Stuart H. Smith
Imagine trying to dump a bunch of potentially radioactive oil waste in a regular municipal landfill without any permits or even testing....
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Oct 12, 20122 min read
Halliburton’s Radioactive Frack Rod Found Alongside Texas Highway After Going Missing
Holy frack that was close! Public relations people and top-level executives at Halliburton, one of the world’s largest oilfield services...
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Oct 7, 20123 min read
Unusual Dallas Earthquakes Linked to Fracking, Expert Says – Yahoo! News
Unusual Dallas Earthquakes Linked to Fracking, Expert Says – Yahoo! News. Three unusual earthquakes that shook a suburb west of Dallas...
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Oct 7, 20121 min read
Stop Airing Oil and Gas Industry Lies During National Newscasts!
Stop Airing Oil and Gas Industry Lies During National Newscasts! People watch national news programs to get credible, honest information...
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Oct 7, 20121 min read
Cabot’s Methodology Links Tainted Water Wells to Gas Fracking – Bloomberg
#NaturalGas #NaturalGasDrilling #Pennsylvania
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Oct 7, 20123 min read
NRDC: More Research Needed to Understand Health Risks of Fracking
Frances Beinecke: More Research Needed to Understand Health Risks of Fracking. A few weeks ago I went to Linda and David Headley’s farm...
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Oct 7, 20121 min read
Vermont Becomes First State to Ban Natural Gas Fracking – YouTube
Vermont Becomes First State to Ban Natural Gas Fracking – YouTube. Vermont has become the first U.S. state to ban the natural gas...
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