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BIG OIL TELLS BIG LIES ABOUT FRACKING
In a recent guest column in the Southern Illinoisan, I argued that: Water for Oil is a Fool’s Trade. Kyna Legner, identified as “field...
Dec 4, 20127 min read
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“Impacts of gas drilling on human and animal health.” New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and
Documents animal and owner health problems with potential links to shale gas drilling. Describes the expansion of drilling and fracking...
Nov 15, 20121 min read
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Landfarming | Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) | US EPA
The following description of Landfarming is an excerpt from Chapter V of OUST’s publication: How to Evaluate Alternative Cleanup...
Nov 14, 20128 min read
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Exposing the Oil and Gas Industry’s False Jobs Promise for Shale Gas Development: How Methodol
The oil and gas industry, industry-funded academics and ideological think tanks have promoted shale gas development — through the...
Nov 2, 20122 min read
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Send Your Representatives “Gas Patch Roulette”
Counter industry denial: Send your representatives Gas Patch Roulette Earthworks released a new report last week, Gas Patch Roulette: How...
Nov 2, 20121 min read
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Breaking All the Rules—The Crisis in Oil & Gas Regulation Enforcement
This report shows that states across the nation are betraying one of the basic agreements between government and the governed: to enforce...
Nov 1, 20124 min read
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An Exploratory Study of Air Quality Near Natural Gas Operations
Read entire report click here. Peer-reviewed and accepted for publication by Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (November 9, 2012). An...
Oct 31, 20121 min read
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Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Overview
TEDX — Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Overview. “Many of the chemicals found in drilling and evaporation pits are considered...
Oct 29, 20124 min read
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EARTHWORKS | Hydraulic Fracturing 101
Hydraulic fracturing – What it is Geologic formations may contain large quantities of oil or gas, but have a poor flow rate due to low...
Oct 24, 201221 min read
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Southern Illinois, Earthquakes and Aquifer Contamination from Fracking
Due to the volume of toxic fluid left underground from hydraulic fracturing activities, Southern Illinoisans are at risk for aquifer...
Oct 22, 20122 min read
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Fracking Our Water: CODE RED For Southern Illinois
Fracking will destroy our water supply. It consumes fresh water in quantities that are almost unimaginable. Just one well will consume 30...
Oct 21, 20122 min read
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Report on Hydrofracturing: A Southern Illinois Perspective
By Louise M. Cook Southern Illinois has a unique opportunity. It is one of the first of the shale-bearing states to have a chance to see...
Oct 21, 20122 min read
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Drilling Doublespeak | Environmental Working Group
Gas Drillers Disclose Risks to Shareholders – But Not to Landowners As natural gas development has pushed into populated areas, gas...
Oct 21, 20121 min read
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What you need to know about fracking | Environmental Working Group
Hydraulic fracturing has been around for decades. But now, natural gas producers are deploying a new gas drilling method called...
Oct 21, 20123 min read
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Unearthed: The Fracking Facade – Video
Un•earthed: Setting the track record straight – A video exposing a flawed claim often abused in the sales pitch for promoting shale gas...
Oct 21, 20121 min read
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Illinois First High Volume Horizontal Well
Just on the outskirts of Stephen A. Forbes State Park in Marion County, Illinois, a high-tech oil well nestled on secluded land owned by...
Oct 21, 20128 min read
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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...
Oct 16, 20124 min read
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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....
Oct 15, 20123 min read
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