‘Bridge to Climate Chaos’: New Report Details Urgent Need for Total US Fracking Ban | Common Dreams News
February 8, 2020
“Unless we ban fracking, these terrifying climate trends will intensify.”
Biomass Energy in Pennsylvania: Implications for Air Quality, Carbon Emissions, and Forests
July 1, 2015
PFPI-PA-Biomass-Energy-Report_12_18_12%5B1%5D.pdf.
Biomass Energy in Pennsylvania: Implications for Air Quality, Carbon Emissions, and Forests
70+ pages of analysis – deals with PA specifically but the issues are very general.
Relates also to burning garbage/trash.
“… burning wood and other biological materials for “biomass energy” is widely promoted as a cleaner and low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. Supported by an array of renewable energy incentives and widely marketed as sustainable and environmentally sound, biomass energy facilities ranging in size from institutional heating boilers to 100 megawatt (MW) electrical plants are being built at an unprecedented rate across the United States. Often missing in the rush to take advantage of renewable energy grants and subsidies, however, is discussion of how biomass combustion may affect air quality, greenhouse gas emissions and forests. Air quality regulators know that biomass boilers emit as much or more key air pollutants as fossil fuel boilers, giving them the potential to affect air quality. Scientists increasingly recognize that biomass energy, which is chiefly fueled with wood, is a significant source of greenhouse gases that could put large new demands on forests if growth continues unchecked. Still, the federal government and many states, including Pennsylvania, have prioritized rapid expansion of biomass energy capacity with little consideration of potential impacts. While pollutant emissions, greenhouse gases, and forest impacts from biomass energy are recognized by many scientists and regulators, they are only beginning to be considered at a policy level.”
New Research: USGS In-Depth Study of Fracking from 1947-2010 | Marcellus Drilling News
February 10, 2015
New Research: USGS In-Depth Study of Fracking from 1947-2010 | Marcellus Drilling News.
link to full report inside
Contamination of North America’s Groundwater from Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing) Revealed in a New Case History Catalogue
June 18, 2013
B.C. Tap Water Alliance Press Release, June 16, 2013 (English and French)
Contamination of North America’s Groundwater from Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing)
Revealed in a New Case History Catalogue – http://www.bctwa.org/FrkBC-PrRel-June16-2013-NewCatalogue.pdf
(Stop Fracking British Columbia – http://www.bctwa.org/FrackingBC.html)
Vancouver, BC – Alberta-based environmental consultant Jessica Ernst just released the first
comprehensive catalogue and summary compendium of facts related to the contamination of North
America’s ground water sources resulting from the oil and gas industry’s controversial practice of
hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
Based on research collected over many years, the 93-page report, Brief Review of Threats to
Groundwater from the Oil and Gas Industry’s Methane Migration and Hydraulic Fracturing, looks
to be a game-changer document, providing little ‘wriggle room’ for private industry and
government spokespeople advocating fracking’s immunity from public concern, criticism and
liability.
Ever since the pioneering days of Coalbed Methane fracking experiments in southeast and
southwest United States in the late 1970s, and through subsequent and evolving grandiose technical
stages of widespread experimenting with fracking in the United States and Canada, the deep-pocketed
inter-corporate industry has consistently fought and influenced both government and
citizenry by burying the truth about its cumulative impacts to the environment and human health
through confidentiality agreements, threats, half-truths, and deceptions. This catalogue, devoted
primarily to the theme of groundwater impacts, helps to shine the light upon a behemoth circus of
utter pitch black darkness.
“Jessica Ernst has made a strong case,” notes Will Koop, B.C. Tap Water Alliance Coordinator.
“Her collection provides excellent and technically friendly working tools, enabling the public to
draw their own conclusions from the critical information. This is not just an invaluable document
for North Americans, but for the world.”
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For Website Links to Ernst’s Document Catalogue:
http://www.ernstversusencana.ca/links-resources
http://www.frackingcanada.ca/industrys-gas-migration/
http://lesamisdurichelieu.blogspot.ca/2013/06/fracturation-hydraulique-expose-de.html
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