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Frack-Free Stark County, Illinois People’s Action and National Nurses
United, Americans Against Fracking supports federal state and local
efforts to ban fracking and to stop practices that facilitate fracking like
natural gas exports, frac sand mining and pipeline construction.
Review: UT Study Declaring Fracking Groundwater-Safe Failed To
Disclose Conflict of Interest, Should Be Withdrawn
An independent review of the University of Texas study that
famously declared fracking could not be tied to groundwater
contamination has recommended that the school retract it.
The fracking boom, as told in six railroad industry graphs
You can learn the story of the fracking boom by looking at one set of
data: railroad shipments. Because, you know, it’s 1890.
Our Lisa Hymas explained how and why oil companies are
increasingly relying on rail shipments; in short, no new pipelines plus a
huge spike in extraction. But how big is that spike? Here is how the
Association of American Railroads depicts it [PDF]
Voters Say: Yes, Fracking Does More Harm Than Good
The more you know about fracking, the more likely you are to
oppose it.
That’s how things played out at the Nov. 30 debate, sponsored by the
Campbell Public Affairs Institute of Syracuse University, at which Cornell
University Professor Robert Howarth and I duked it out with frack
supporters Tim Whitesell and Ed Hinchey.
Yet Another Blow to the Fracking Industry
Weeks after SUNY Buffalo’s upper-level administration gave the
Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI) the boot due to its gas
industry public relations effort masked as a “study,” University of Texas-
Austin’s (UT-Austin) administration has somewhat followed suit for its
own “frackademia” study.
Natural Gas Nation: EIA Sees U.S. Future Shaped By Fracking
Truck stops will need restyled fuel pumps. New factories, and some
old ones, will whir to life. Ports will send new tankers onto the open seas,
heralding the return of the United States to the top of the global energy
scene.