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TRUTH about Kamala Harris: She wants to abolish ICE, ban fracking and offshore drilling, defund the police, and provide taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegals
Ohio commission decides to allow fracking in state parks
A government commission in Ohio has decided to open some state parks and wildlife areas to fracking. The decision comes amid an investigation on allegations of possible fraudulent support from an industry group representing energy companies, The Associated Press reported. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) greenlit multiple […]
Fracking Company Admits Criminal Responsibility
Landmark Deal: Fracking Company Admits Criminal Responsibility, Will Pay $16.29 Million to Build Pennsylvania Water System Coterra Energy (formerly Cabot Oil & Gas), the gas-drilling company made famous by the documentary “Gasland,” will pay $16.29 million to connect the homes of residents in the rural Pennsylvania community of Dimock to a clean water source. By […]
Fetterman on Why He Changed from 2018 Opposition to Fracking: I Supported it in 2017
During a portion of an interview aired on Tuesday’s edition of “CNN This Morning,” U.S. Senate candidate and Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) responded to a question on what caused him to change his 2018 opposition to fracking given Source Views: 0
UK reverses fracking ban in England to secure energy supply
The UK’s government on Thursday scrapped a moratorium on fracking in England, in an effort to boost local fossil fuel production amid a deepening energy crisis. Newly-elected Prime Minister Liz Truss announced in her first few days in office that she would reverse the 2019 ban on hydraulic fracturing, a drilling procedure that extracts fossil […]
UK UnBans Fracking and North Sea reserves, UK to get Massive Amounts of Gas, Could Fuel all Europe
Home » Economy, Environment, Europe » UK UnBans Fracking and North Sea reserves, UK to get Massive Amounts of Gas, Could Fuel all Europe Liz Truss rolled the dice on her premiership today unveiling a £150billion plan to freeze energy bills for two years and counter Vladimir Putin’s blackmail. Admitting her action is […]
New UK PM Truss Announces Energy Bill Price Freeze, End of Fracking Ban, New Oil Drilling Licences
Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced a freeze on energy bills, an end to the ban on fracking for shale gas, and new licences to drill oil in the North Sea. Views: 0
A Region Scarred By Coal Production Now Faces Fracking Threats
[embedded content]Above Photo: An overview of a coal prep plant outside the city of Welch in rural West Virginia on May 19, 2017. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez talks with filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield about her documentary “Hard Road of Hope” and the destruction coal and gas companies have wreaked on West Virginia. In […]
Study Measures Fracking’s Impact On Nearby Surface Water Quality
Above Photo: A new study correlates poorer surface water quality with nearby hydraulic fracturing but finds that the impacts aren’t major enough to be considered harmful by federal regulators. Energy Policy Institute at The University of Chicago. “Our work provides the first large-sample evidence showing that hydraulic fracturing is related to the quality of nearby […]
Documents reveal EPA approved toxic chemicals for fracking in 2011
Former President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had approved the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as well as dangerous chemicals that break down into PFAS, while fracking for gas and oil since 2011 despite concerns about toxicity. BREAKING: Our new study turned up evidence that highly toxic, cancer-causing chemicals called PFAS were used […]
School Children, Fracking Fumes, Immigrant Parent’s Daughter, Climate Crisis and Billions of Dollar
Media reports from the U.S. tell about environmental incidents and hardship of the common people in the society. Fracking and Children A Fort Worth Star-Telegram report (Thousands of Arlington’s schoolchildren are exposed to fracking fumes, report warns, Thu, June 17, 2021) said: More than half of Arlington’s public school children attend classes within half a […]
Exxon is telling investors its Permian fracking projects are ‘world class’. The data says otherwise.
ExxonMobil’s production numbers in the Permian basin in West Texas and New Mexico appear to have deteriorated in 2019, according to new analysis, calling into question the company’s claims that it is an industry leader and that its operations are steadily becoming more efficient over time. Chastened by years of poor returns and rising angst […]
Fracking 101: What you should know
Image Credit: Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock What is fracking? Fracking is a process of blasting water, chemicals and frac sand deep into the earth to break up sedimentary rock and access natural gas and crude oil deposits. The fracking industry, which has sought to promote the practice as safe and controlled, has preferred the term “hydraulic fracturing.” […]
Struggling to make a profit, fracking investors are searching for the exit
The outlook is increasingly bleak for oil and gas companies. The beginning of this year has seen the highest number of companies announce bankruptcy during the first quarter in five years. Eight oil and gas companies announced they were filing for bankruptcy during the first quarter of 2021. Meanwhile, earlier this month The Financial Times […]
Where does all the radioactive fracking waste go?
Image Credit: George Etheredge/Rolling Stone On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel […]
California’s fracking ban fails in the Senate
Fracking will continue in California. A bill to ban oil and gas production within 2,500 feet of a home, school, hospital or other residential facility fell short of the five votes it needed to move forth after the Senate’s Natural Resources and Water Committee failed to get the vote. While California is a major U.S. […]
Delaware River Basin Commission votes to ban fracking in historic victory
Image Credit: Sachin Daluja/Flickr In a historic move, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) voted Thursday to ban hydraulic fracking in the region. The ban was supported by all four basin states — New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York — putting a permanent end to hydraulic fracking for natural gas along the 13,539-square-mile basin, […]
How the fracking revolution is killing the US oil and gas industry
After over a decade of the much-hyped U.S. fracking miracle, the U.S. oil and gas industry is having to deal with years of losses and falling asset values which has dealt the industry a serious financial blow. This is despite the fracking revolution delivering record oil and gas production for the past decade, peaking in 2019. While […]
Donald Trump Signs Order to Protect Fracking Industry
President Donald Trump on Saturday announced the signing of an executive order to protect both the fracking and oil and gas industries following former Vice President Joe Biden’s pledge to “transition from the oil industry.” “Just signed an order to protect fracking and the oil and gas industry,” the president wrote on Twitter. “This means […]
Victory: East Pittsburgh Community Stops Fracking Well
Edgar Thomson Fracking Well Appeal Rejected by East Pittsburgh Board. Decision may spell the end of controversial plan to drill at US Steel Mill. The East Pittsburgh Zoning and Hearing Board announced this evening that it was rejecting a permit appeal from Merrion Oil & Gas, the company seeking to drill a fracking well at […]