Shale Shocker: How Gas Drilling Companies Shift Risk to Landowners
Homeowners and taxpayers are being faced with complex questions about the hazards and uninsurable risks associated with fracking. What are the broader implications?
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[ Natural Gas Fracking ]
What is Fracking?- The role that natural gas fracking will play in the United States’ energy future is rapidly evolving.
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Infographic- One average shale gas frack job = 4.5 millions gallons of water. What does this number mean to you and your community?
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Blog Series- Hear different perspectives on the controversial natural gas extraction method hydraulic fracturing, commonly called "fracking."
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Associated Posts
Hydraulic Fracturing - Key Resources and Reports
The widespread use of high-volume, horizontal hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a relatively new technological process for oil and gas extraction. To learn more, here is a list of resources that include reports, organizations and multimedia.
What the Hay? Gas Drilling Wastewater Ruins Farmer's Fields
Despite all the oil and gas industry rhetoric this presidential campaign year, there can be serious health and environmental impacts associated with fossil fuel extraction. Just ask farmer, John Peters, whose hay fields were ruined by gas drilling wa
Nexus Food Water and Energy
Food, water and energy -- they may not seem like they are connected but the systems that help produce and bring fresh food and energy as well as clean, abundant water to you, are intertwined.
Fracking Operations Can Cause Earthquakes?
It’s official (or as close as it can get): Oil and gas operations, like those involved in hydraulic fracturing (fracking), can cause earthquakes, according to upcoming study from the highly esteemed U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Our Hero: Josh Fox, director of Gasland
In this conversation we discuss Fox’s recent arrest while trying to videotape a hearing in Congress, earthquakes in Ohio, the role of social issue documentaries in the environmental movement and how many explosions to expect in the film’s
