Landowners upset over unpaid royalties in the Barnett Shale | wfaa.com Dallas – Fort Worth
October 26, 2012
Landowners upset over unpaid royalties in the Barnett Shale | wfaa.com Dallas – Fort Worth.
The Public Radio Energy Project
October 25, 2012
The Public Radio Energy Project.
The Power of ONe
Just heard the national NPR program as described below on their website. I was sorry to hear Alex Chadwick hosting this have half-baked “self consciously unbiassed report”that was not unbiassed – one word for the industry, then another other word for the industry then a few words from people whose quality of life has been hurt and a lot of words from people whose pocketbooks have not. Just ordinary folks! Not a single scientist speaking against fracking and for it Berkeley’s Richard Muller, supposedly a scientist, who is very much for it, and whom only people who follow this know is now thoroughly discredited as any kind of thinker at all.. There was a lot of lachrymose hand wringing – oh…. how do we do choose between our needs and our ???? No steingraber, no ingraffea, no mackibben. Only one high point-a student who said the only thing we should be doing is living with less and stopping global warming,.And this the day after their fund raiser is over. Would they have done badly if it had been aired the day before? All over the country? I think so. They must hear from us! You can listen on line or tonight at 7pm.
Carole Marner
Joe Heath on Capitol Pressroom
October 24, 2012
anytime on-line at capitolbureau.org
We continue to discuss energy withOnondaga Nation attorney Joseph Heath. According to today’s NYTIMES, “The glut (in natural gas) puts the United States at the center of the increasingly globalized natural gas market.” Recently EXXON was issued an export license for natural gas; and a Qatar government-owned company received a permit to ship US gas to Japan and elsewhere overseas. What does this mean for the debate over hydrofracking here in New York?
Oct. 24, 2012
Fracking Has the USGS Been Co-opted?
October 18, 2012
RWMA Newsletter – Fracking Special Edition 2012.
Fracking
Has the USGS Been Co-opted?
EARTHWORKS | Public health and gas development
October 18, 2012
EARTHWORKS | Public health and gas development.
Public health and gas development
Where oil and gas development goes, health problems often follow.
Yet industry representatives and policymakers seeking to expand drilling often dismiss claims of health impacts as “personal anecdotes” and isolated incidents.
The primary reasons that public health risks posed by increasing gas development can be disputed:
- A lack of established science. Widespread scientific investigation has only recently begun to investigate the relationship between gas development and public health impacts.
- State governments, which are largely responsible for protecting the public from irresponsible oil and gas development, have until recently refused to consider the issue.
- Even as they have become widespread, individual reports of health problems in the gas patch have been continually dismissed as anecdotal by industry and government.
To investigate the connection, between August 2011 and July 2012 Earthworks’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project (OGAP) researched the extent, types, and possible causes of health symptoms experienced by people living in the gas patches of Pennsylvania.
The main conclusions of the project — Gas Patch Roulette: How Shale Gas Development Risks Public Health in Pennsylvania:
- Contaminants associated with oil and gas development are present in air and water in many communities where development is occurring.
- Many residents have developed health symptoms that they did not have before—indicating the strong possibility that they are occurring because of gas development.
- By permitting widespread gas development without fully understanding its impacts to public health—and using that lack of knowledge to justify regulatory inaction—Pennsylvania and other states are risking the public’s health.
Gas Patch Roulette documents:
- Press release
- Gas Patch Roulette: Summary Report (4 pages)
- Gas Patch Roulette: Full Report (51 pages)
For more information:
The health survey form through which residents reported health symptoms.
Additional information and data tables to support some of the analysis and charts found in the report.
- Association of symptoms and distance from facilities, by age group – Data associated with Figure 1
- Data on Air Tests Results by County
- List of Symptoms Associated with Chemicals Detected in Air Tests
- Data related to Figure 4: Differences in symptoms based on respondents with water and air tests
Tagged with: toxics, regulation, public health, pennsylvania, marcellus shale, health and toxics, gas patch roulette
Gas Patch Roulette: Differences in symptoms based on respondents with air and water tests
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Gas Patch Roulette: Summary Report
How Shale Gas Development Risks Public Health in Pennsy
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