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ALBANY, N.Y. — Experts reviewing the health effects of shale gas
development in New York are among the nation’s most prominent in
environmental health, giving opponents hope but the industry concern that
reviewers will warn against drilling operations that use hydraulic
fracturing.
Fracking rules under consideration by state
DEC have all sides holding breath
A week filled with regulatory maneuvering in New York has
supporters of shale-gas drilling hoping for the best, critics fearing for the
worst and environmental regulators straining to stay somewhere in
between.
Peter Mantius: Doctors’ fracking concerns being ignored
For years, New York State officials who oversee natural gas drilling
have stiff-armed doctors on the public health risks of fracking.
Fracking Secrets by Thousands Keep U.S. Clueless on Wells
A subsidiary of Nabors Industries Ltd. (NBR) pumped a mixture of
chemicals identified only as “EXP- F0173-11” into a half-dozen oil wells
in rural Karnes County, Texas, in July.
Revised fracking rules raise more questions in the
Finger Lakes region
A revised set of proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing natural
gas released this past week by the state Department of Environmental
Conservation raise more questions about how the future of natural gas
drilling will play out in New York.
The history of fracking
1860s: Liquid first used to stimulate shallow, hard rock wells in
Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky and West Virginia.
1930s: Idea of injecting a nonexplosive fluid into the ground to
stimulate a well began to be attempted.
UT plans to drill for gas on its land, study fracking
The University of Tennessee plans to drill for natural gas in its
research forest in Morgan and Scott counties, a proposal that would allow
UT to lease its land to an oil and gas company and then study the
environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing — often called fracking.