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MSNBC and TXsharon in the Texas fracking zone

September 23, 2019 By TXsharon

It's not every day that a country gal ends up on MSNBC, Morning Joe, Ali Velshi, and Lawrence O'Donnell all on the same day while out in the Texas fracking zone. Cal Perry and his team braved 110° West Texas heat to tell the story of out of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Flaring, hydraulic fracturing, oil and gas drilling. pollution

Environmental News

January 20, 2016 By Adam Rinkleff

Here is some of the latest environmental news: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has admitted that nobody knows how much methane is being leaked into the air by industrial hydraulic fracturing ('fracking'). According to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Air pollution, economy, Environmental Injustice, global warming, Greed, Greenwashing, hydraulic fracturing, Methane, Sarcasm, sustainability

Denton’s Methane Problem

December 28, 2015 By Adam Rinkleff

Denton has achieved some notoriety as the first town in Texas to ban fracking. In November 2014, a public referendum was held on this issue, with nearly two-thirds of the community voting against the industrial extraction of methane within city … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dallas, Denton, Devon Energy, Embarrassing, Environmental Injustice, Explosions, fracking bans, HB 40, hydraulic fracturing, Methane, Texas Environment, WTF?

Widespread and systemic: Fracking industry intimidation tactics to hide water pollution

December 3, 2015 By TXsharon

Oral comments presented to the Science Advisory Board Hydraulic Fracturing Research Advisory Panel December 3, 2015 I’m Sharon Wilson representing Earthworks, a nonprofit organization that helps people impacted by resource extraction. Any … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EPA, hydraulic fracturing, Uncategorized

Today was a bad news day for fracking

October 22, 2014 By TXsharon

This is a very busy time for me with early voting in Denton. The "Responsible Drilling" hired guns at the polls are misleading voters about how to vote so they must be constantly watched. And today has been a busy day for some rather bad news for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Denton, hydraulic fracturing

Fracking bias – Pennsylvania DEP edition

August 28, 2013 By TXsharon

Monday my fellow Earthworker Alan Septoff blogged on the biased mainstream fracking debate, featuring the Associated Press and Kevin Begos. Today, he's got more, thanks to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection: As an article … [Read more...]

Filed Under: hydraulic fracturing, Kevin Begos Tagged With: bias, fracking, pennsylvania

VIDEO: John Hanger admits gas drilling can cause water to light on fire

August 21, 2013 By TXsharon

John Hanger, former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and candidate for governor of Pennsylvania admits what we've known all along: industry mistakes can cause water to light on fire. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: hydraulic fracturing, Water Tagged With: fracking, Methane

An opportunity to help prove fracking is contaminating our water

August 2, 2013 By TXsharon

The people who live on the land know that when fracking happens, our water gets contaminated. Some people get proof only to have it hidden HERE. So we have to keep the proof coming but we need to keep industry influence out of it. There is an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: hydraulic fracturing

One fracking test does not safety make

July 19, 2013 By TXsharon

This is blog post shines a spotlight on the DOE fracking study and sees a different angle from mine. By Alan Septoff July 19, 2013 Surprise! Only ONE fracked well has ever been properly tested for groundwater pollution. The AP today … [Read more...]

Filed Under: hydraulic fracturing

BREAKING NEWS: Industry cannot control hydraulic fractures!!!

July 19, 2013 By TXsharon

A new "study" of a single, carefully controlled fracking site was released today. It shows that fracking chemicals from that one single, carefully controlled frack site did not contamination any groundwater. Yet. Oh! Oops! A closer read reveals that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: hydraulic fracturing, Kevin Begos

Using acid in fracking chemicals to melt the rock is not news

May 29, 2013 By TXsharon

This is nothing new--they use acids when they frack--but Reuters wrote about it and it's good to get on the radar. INSIGHT-California environmentalists fear frack fight a distraction By Rory Carroll and Braden Reddall, 5/28/13, Reuters Acid … [Read more...]

Filed Under: hydraulic fracturing

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