Fracking

Study: Fracking Prompts Global Spike In Atmospheric Methane

August 16, 2019 By Blaine Friedlander, News.cornell.edu Educate! Fracking, greenhouse gases, Methane

As methane concentrations increase in the Earth’s atmosphere, chemical fingerprints point to a probable source: shale oil and gas, according to new Cornell research published Aug. 14 in Biogeosciences, a journal of the European Geosciences Union. The research suggests that this methane has less carbon-13 relative to carbon-12 (denoting the weight of the carbon atom at the center of the methane molecule) than does methane from conventional natural gas and other fossil fuels such as coal. This carbon-13 signature means that since the use of high-volume hydraulic fracturing – commonly called fracking...

The Research Is In: Stop Fracking ASAP

August 1, 2019 By Barbara Gottlieb, Otherwords.org Create! Environment, Fracking, Research

Science. Evidence. Facts. Do these even matter anymore in U.S. policy? They should — especially when it comes to issues that affect our health and environment, like fracking. Concerned Health Professionals of New York and my organization, Physicians for Social Responsibility, recently released a remarkable compendium of research on the subject. It summarizes and links to over 1,500 articles and reports and has become the go-to source for activists, health professionals, and others seeking to understand fracking. The new studies we looked at expose serious threats to health, justice, and the climate.

Court Tosses Another Crucial Permit For Atlantic Coast Pipeline

July 27, 2019 Staff, Sierraclub.org Resist! Courts, Fracking, Pipelines

RICHMOND, Va. -- Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a permit that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) needs to continue construction. A three-judge panel vacated the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) review of the ACP’s impacts related to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), ruling that the FWS “lost sight of its mandate” when rushing the review for the pipeline instead of protecting threatened wildlife.

Appalachians Against Pipelines Continues Protests Against MVP Pipeline

July 21, 2019 From Appalachians Against Pipelines Resist! Fracking, Pipelines

Over 30 water protectors from around communities around Virginia walked on to the MVP worksite at Cove Hollow just over the hill from the Yellow Finch blockade blocking work while singing and dancing as a community. Dozens of peaceful protesters walked on to a Mountain Valley Pipeline work site on Cove Hollow Road, stopping work for approximately an hour — they rallied, sang, and left around 10:45 am. After that action, the police swarmed to the nearby Yellow Finch tree-sit blockade en masse, immediately arresting 3 pipeline fighters.

Fracking May Trigger Earthquakes For Decades Even After Operations Cease

July 21, 2019 By Alexandra Jacobo, Nation of Change Educate! Earthquakes, Fracking

Oil wastewater disposal from oil and gas production may cause earthquakes for decades even after operations or are reduced, says new research published earlier this week. Fracking, along with oil and gas production in general, in the United States is a booming industry. With this comes an increase in the rate of oilfield wastewater production. Fracking, the process of shooting water mixed with sand and chemicals into the earth to release the oil and natural gas from rock formations. Fracking produces huge volumes of wastewater that contains cancer-causing chemicals, salts and naturally occurring radioactive material that can cause earthquakes and contaminate aquifers. According to the United States Geological Survey, wastewater disposal from oil and gas production is the number one cause of human-induced earthquakes.

Former Shale Gas CEO Says Fracking Revolution Has Been ‘A Disaster’ For Drillers, Investors

June 25, 2019 By Sharon Kelly, Desmogblog.com Educate! Drilling, Fracking, Gas

Steve Schlotterbeck, who led drilling company EQT as it expanded to become the nation’s largest producer of natural gas in 2017, arrived at a petrochemical industry conference in Pittsburgh Friday morning with a blunt message about shale gas drilling and fracking. “The shale gas revolution has frankly been an unmitigated disaster for any buy-and-hold investor in the shale gas industry with very few limited exceptions,” Schlotterbeck, who left the helm of EQT last year, continued. “In fact, I'm not aware of another case of a disruptive technological change that has done so much harm to the industry that created the change.”

Residents Shout Down Oil And Gas Execs Over Fracking At US Steel Mill

April 8, 2019 Kristina Marusic, Ehn.org Resist! Fracking, Oil and Gas, Pittsburgh

Tensions ran hot Wednesday night during a community meeting about proposed fracking at the site of U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Steel mill in Braddock, 10 miles east of downtown Pittsburgh. Approximately 200 residents jammed into the rowdy meeting, held in a fire hall bedecked with electronic bingo boards and folding chairs. Dozens lined up at a microphone to tell representatives from U.S. Steel, Merrion Oil and Gas, and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection exactly what they thought of the fracking plan.

New Mexicans Strike And Sit-In At BLM State Headquarters To Protest New Fracking

April 8, 2019 Staff, Krwg.org Resist! Fracking, Protests, Strikes

Commentary: Crowds gathered today for a climate strike in front of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) state office in Santa Fe to protest the lease sale of 11,000 acres of public and ancestral tribal lands in Greater Chaco and Greater Carlsbad regions. The BLM is moving forward with this controversial lease sale despite having received over 33,000 protest comments from tribal leaders, environmental groups, and members of the public expressing concerns that the sale would have negative impacts on cultural resources, public health, and the climate.

Puerto Rico Faces A Flood Of Fracked Gas In Wake Of Hurricane Maria

March 30, 2019 Dimitri Lascaris, Therealnews.com Educate! Fracking, Natural Disasters, Puerto Rico

This is Dimitri Lascars reporting for The Real News Network. Media have descended on Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria devastated the island a year and a half ago, and many reported on its struggle to rebuild its energy grid. But behind the scenes, some policymakers and fossil fuel industry leaders are using the crisis to transform Puerto Rico into a hub for liquefied natural gas–gas obtained from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the mainland United States.

Landmark Climate Victory: Federal Court Rejects Sale Of Public Lands For Fracking

March 22, 2019 Staff, Westernlaw.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Fracking, Land

In a landmark victory for climate, health, and public lands, a federal judge late yesterday rejected the sale of public lands for fracking and ordered a halt to drilling on more than 300,000 acres in Wyoming. “This ruling is a triumph for our climate,” said Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians’ Climate and Energy Program director. “To limit greenhouse gas emissions, we have to start keeping our fossil fuels in the ground and putting an end to selling public lands for fracking. This decision is a critical step toward making that happen.”

Are Investors Finally Waking Up To North America’s Fracked Gas Crisis?

February 10, 2019 By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog Educate! Fracking, Oil and Gas

While U.S. politicians from both parties have given standing ovations for the U.S. oil and gas industry, investors appear to be losing their enthusiasm. The so-called shale revolution, the fracking miracle, may have resulted in record oil and gas production in North America, but the real miracle — in which shale companies make money fracking that oil and gas — has yet to occur. The North American natural gas industry is facing a crisis with an oversupplied market and producers that are losing money.

“Nutty” Begins 14-Day Sentence For Monopod Action Against Mountain Valley Pipeline

January 29, 2019 Staff, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Pipelines

From March to May of last year, for 57 days, Nutty lived on a tiny cot atop a tall monopod, blocking MVP’s access to the top of so-called Peter’s Mountain in the Jefferson National Forest. Today, Nutty appeared in court, and pled guilty to ‘Blocking a Forest Service Road or Gate’. The prosecutor was asking for 30 days, but Federal Judge Ballou sentenced her to 14 days in prison. Tomorrow, she will turn herself in to serve the sentence. Directly before her sentencing, this is the statement she made to the courtroom. “As long as there have been laws, there have been circumstances that call on us to break them. As pipeline work approached the mountain, I judged that circumstances made it necessary to take a stand.

Activists Who Crawled Into Fracked Gas Pipeline Found Guilty In Narrow Ruling, Granted Unconditional Release

January 9, 2019 Staff, Erikmcgregor.com Resist! Activists, Courts, Fracking, Pipelines

Cortlandt, New York – On January 8, 2019, Cortlandt Town Justice Kimberly Ragazzo found three New Yorkers — Rebecca Berlin, David Publow, and Janet González — guilty of trespass, rejecting the climate necessity defense; the three shut down construction of the Spectra Energy (now Enbridge) high-pressure, high-volume, fracked-gas, “Algonquin” Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline. Justice Ragazzo highlighted the strict, objective standard of New York’s necessity defense and focused her verdict on the narrow grounds that the defendants had not exhausted all legal remedies, specifically citing the defendants failure to file as ‘intervenors’ with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

Indigenous Group Sues Exxon, Energy Majors Over Fracking Waste Contamination in Patagonia

December 22, 2018 Lorraine Chow, Readersupportednews.org Resist! Contamination, Exxon, Fracking, Indigenous Peoples, Lawsuit

A major indigenous group in the Argentine Patagonia is suing some of world's biggest oil and gas companies over illegal fracking waste dumps that put the "sensitive Patagonian environment," local wildlife and communities at risk, according to Greenpeace. The Mapuche Confederation of Neuquén filed a lawsuit against Exxon, French company Total and the Argentina-based Pan American Energy (which is partially owned by BP), AFP reported. Provincial authorities and a local fracking waste treatment company called Treater Neuquén S.A. were also named in the suit. The Mapuche accused the companies of contaminating the environment with "dangerous waste" due to "deficient treatment" close to the town of Añelo, according to AFP.

Nine Year Losing Streak For US Fracking Sector

December 9, 2018 Clark Williams-Derry, Sightline.org. Educate! Fracking, New Economy, Oil and Gas

Oil prices rose and oil and gas production boomed during the third quarter of 2018. But the US fracking sector continued its nine-year streak of cash losses. All told, a cross-section of 32 publicly traded fracking-focused companies spent nearly $1 billion more on drilling and related capital outlays during Q3 than those companies generated by selling oil and gas. Only 10 of the 32 companies secured positive cash flows for the quarter, and only eight generated positive cash flows over the trailing 12-month period. These results may surprise those who incorrectly equate rising output with financial success.

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