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Will Toxic Fracking Wastewater Be Transported by Barge?
The shale gas drilling industry wants to move its wastewater by barge
on rivers and lakes across the country. But the U.S. Coast Guard, which
regulates the nation’s waterways, must first decide whether it’s safe.
Two Arrested at Fracking Protest in North Carolina
North Carolinians, with the grassroots group Croatan Earth First!,
organized a mobile protest this morning at the Department of Environment
and Natural Resources (DENR) Headquarters—217 W. Jones St. in
Raleigh, NC—and marched to the Archdale building—512 N. Salisbury
St.—where the NC Mining and Energy Commission is holding a meeting.
Protestors carrying banners, signs and drums led chants to vocalize their
opposition to the dangerous energy extraction process known as fracking.
Two local North Carolinians have locked themselves to the front of the
Archdale building’s front doors in protest of the state’s continued
movement towards legalizing hydraulic fracturing. There have been two
arrests so far this morning, neither in connection with the lockdown.
Over a dozen groups join NRDC in calling on NYS to open
fracking health review to public input
Earlier today, NRDC, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on behalf of the
Waterkeeper Alliance, and a dozen other national and statewide groups
sent a letter to the Cuomo Administration calling on it to open the ongoing
review of the potential health risks of proposed new fracking to
public review and comment.
BP set to join shale drilling rush in eastern Ohio
BP Plc (NYSE:BP) has started moving into its new operations center
in the Youngstown area, signaling that the world’s mega-oil companies are
coming to Ohio to drill for oil and natural gas in the Utica shale play.
Monitoring projections of sinkhole draw outbursts
Emotions flared Tuesday during a community meeting on an 8.5-acre
sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish as people in the audience realized
that attempts by experts to understand the sinkhole’s cause and deal with
its long-term aftermath would likely extend into the middle of 2013 or
beyond.
LA office fines company again over sinkhole