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Americans Against Fracking Calls for a Ban on Fracking in the U.S.
A group of more than 100 public health, consumer, environmental
and faith-based organizations announced today the launch of Americans
Against Fracking, a national coalition dedicated to banning hydraulic
fracturing, or fracking, and drilling associated with fracking for oil and
natural gas in the U.S. Including organizations such as 350.org, Berks Gas
Truth, Breast Cancer Action, CREDO Action, Catskill Mountain Keeper,
Center for Biological Diversity, Delaware Riverkeeper Network,
Democracy for America, Food & Water Watch, Frack Action, 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.
Community College Faculty Says No to Fracking, Yes to Clean Energy
In a standing-room-only meeting on Dec. 4, the governing body of
the Community College of Philadelphia’s (CPP) faculty and staff union
denounced the College’s ties to the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC).
MSC is the primary fracking industry lobbying group in Pennsylvania.
Fracking Boom in North Dakota
Has Heavy Impact on Native Americans
In just five years North Dakota has gone from a quiet agricultural
state to a rapidly industrializing energy powerhouse. By the middle of
2012 North Dakota was producing about 660,000 barrels of oil a day,
more than twice as much as just two years before. That number makes
North Dakota the second largest oil producing state in the U.S., after
Texas.
Dangerous gas discovered at sinkhole Thursday
Hydrogen sulfide gas was detected Thursday morning in equipment
that is part of an operation designed to burn off methane from a cavern
beneath Texas Brine’s salt dome site in Assumption Parish, officials said.
Flaring removes 2.7M cubic feet of gas so far from aquifer in
Assumption Parish