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Fracking of shale may impair carbon storage projects, study says
From Yale 360 The fracturing of shale rock formations associated with the drilling process known as fracking might undermine future attempts to store carbon dioxide underground, according to a new...
View ArticleNew study: Fluids from deep in Marcellus Shale likely seeping into PA...
by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania’s natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking...
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Cornell study finds that natural gas can help slow global warming quickly
From the Cornell University Press Office ITHACA, N.Y. – No matter how you drill it, using natural gas as an energy source is a smart move in the battle against global climate change and a good...
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The fracking worst problem with natural gas
(By David Suzuki with contributions from with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Editorial and Communications Specialist Ian Hanington. This was first published by the foundation’s blog site...
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New Yorkers Against Fracking will hold a series of vigils
From Green Right Now Reports New Yorkers Against Fracking will be holding vigils in several communities this week, stretching from Brooklyn to Syracuse and several other cities. The coalition is urging...
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Anti-fracking groups gear up for protest in New York
From Green Right Now Reports The New Yorkers Against Fracking coalition is planning a rally in Albany to urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo to keep fracking out of the state. Opponents of fracking in the Empire...
View ArticleThe anti-fracking movie you haven’t heard about yet
From Green Right Now Reports Promised Land, the fictional movie starring Matt Damon that’s been opening in theaters this month, is sure to raise more discussion about the merits and risks of hydraulic...
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Livestock falling ill in fracking regions, raising concerns about food
(This report was produced by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent investigative journalism non-profit focusing on food, agriculture, and environmental health. It was first...
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Anti-fracking groups ask the EPA why it dropped water contamination case in...
From Green Right Now Reports Outraged that the EPA dropped a case against a gas company that apparently contaminated private wells near Fort Worth, environmentalists from more than 80 groups in 12...
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Is the shale gas boom a bubble?
From Green Right Now Reports The U.S. shale boom, being touted as able to deliver 100 years of domestic energy supply, is nothing more than the latest investment bubble, asserts a report released this...
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Stop the Frack Attack rallies in Dallas
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Scores of people worried about the environmental effects of gas and oil drilling in the US, gathered at the Stop the Frack Attack conference in Dallas this weekend....
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Meet six determined, courageous environmentalists honored for making a...
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” – Edward Everett Hale By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now...
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Shale oil production dependent upon ‘drilling intensity’ that will be hard to...
From Green Right Now Reports Fracking for natural gas requires drilling a large number of wells, because each well’s production declines dramatically not long after being brought on line, a new paper...
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Gasland II: America’s fracking nightmare and somnambulent energy policy
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now One of the talking points that has convinced Americans to look politely away from the muck and dirty water while the oil and gas industry fracks tens of thousands of...
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Harmful levels of arsenic and selenium found in water near gas fracking...
From Green Right Now Reports Texas researchers have found elevated levels of arsenic and selenium in drinking water near gas drilling sites in the Barnett Shale, according to a peer-reviewed study...
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DOE Secretary Moniz explains the “all of the above” energy plan and defends...
Green Right Now Reports In his first major policy address since taking over at the Department of Energy, Dr. Ernest J. Moniz sought to explain the administration’s “all of the above” energy plan and...
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How gas drilling can frack up your foundation (hint: it causes an earthquake)
Dots mark the location of the latest earthquakes NW of Fort Worth. (USGS) A fresh bevy of earthquakes — about 32 and counting — north of Fort Worth has rattled area residents over the past two months....
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‘Fracked’ residents call on Congress and the EPA to investigate water...
Green Right Now Reports Texas, Pennsylvania and Wyoming homeowners whose water has been contaminated by gas fracking operations called on Congress today to hold hearings about what they see as the...
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Fracking threatens water supplies in several states; Texas is ‘ground zero,’...
Green Right Now Reports This map cut out shows the intensively drilled Permian Basin in Texas (wells in black) which overlays the Ogallala Aquifer (in red). The Ogallala, a major source of drinking and...
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