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There’s enough oil (maybe) under Central California to make petro
companies vastly rich, and to keep people driving around in their carbonspewing
private cars for many years to come. Only problem is you have to
use hydrofracking to bust up the shale deposits to get at it. And that
involves toxic chemicals and possible contamination of water supplies.
No Alarm Sounded When The West Virginia Pipeline Exploded
When the 20-inch gas pipeline next to Interstate 77 in West Virginia
first ruptured on Tuesday, nobody at pipeline operator, Columbia Gas
Transmission, knew it.
Now, the National Transportation Safety Board is trying to find out
why. NTSB member Robert Sumwalt says no warning went off in the
operating company’s control center in nearby Charleston, so investigators
are going there to interview staffers and review data.
Millions of Acres of Public Lands at Risk from Fracking
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently considering
regulations and guidelines for unconventional oil and gas development on
millions of acres of public land, and SkyTruth believes that public
disclosure must be an integral part of these new rules. The BLM has
already indicated that they are strongly considering FracFocus.org as the
platform for disclosure, however, there are a number of transparency
issues which are not currently addressed by the industry-funded website.
Don’t Frack Denver’s Water
What has separated the fracking wars in the Eastern U.S. from the
Western U.S. is that New York City’s and Pittsburgh’s watershed—the
place where these cities get their drinking water—is proposed to be
fracked. As you can expect, when millions of people learn that potentially
cancer-causing chemicals are going to be injected into the ground near
their drinking water, they get very riled up.
Sinkhole health fears discussed
Louisiana’s state epidemiologist said Thursday that, in his view, the
air in Bayou Corne is better than the air in Baton Rouge.
Texas judge lifts order on TransCanada pipeline
TransCanada can resume oil pipeline work on a private Texas
property for now, a judge said Thursday, at least until a hearing next week