Yesterday, Carrizo Oil & Gas dumped 3 tanker truckloads of “black, kerosene smelling fluid in the sludge pit, an unlined sludge pit!” The sludge pit is right behind Jana DeGrand’s and Jennifer Cole’s houses.Last week, I spoke with the V.P. of … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale Air Quality: Errors and Misstatements by Texas Oil & Gas Association
February 13, 2009The Honorable Lon BurnamTexas State House of RepresentativesDistrict 90Room CAP GW.8P.O. Box 2910Austin, TX 78768Dear Representative Burnam,Thank you for inviting me to speak at a capitol briefing on Wednesday regarding the air … [Read more...]
Video: Smoking frack in the Barnett Shale? Source of N. Texas Smog
UpdatedIt seems some of that vapor during hydraulic fracture is carbon dioxide and some is...Pumped: Workers release carbon-dioxide vapor after 'fracking' a natural-gas well in eastern New MexicoRobert Nickelsberg / Getty ImagesAir is the primary … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale Gas Well Compressor Noise Tortures Wise County
Some Wise County residents are tortured by gas well compressor noise. Several letters have appeared in the Wise County Messenger recently. Here's the latest:Do the well operators care? There is a fruitful discussion taking place in the comments.Noise … [Read more...]
If hydraulic fracturing is so damn safe, why does Big Oil need exemptions?
Protect Wyo aquifersFriday, February 6, 2009 2:05 AM MSTEditor:Wyoming senators are considering resolution SJ5, hydraulic fracturing.This resolution -- drafted by the oil and gas industry -- will request that our state's congressional delegation … [Read more...]
Video Shows Emissions From Barnett Shale Drilling Rig In Denton County, Texas
North Texas has some of the worst air in the nation.Drilling the Barnet Shale for natural gas is responsible for most of the smog in North Central Texas, according to a new peer-reviewed study. Currently, there are nearly 10,000 functioning gas wells … [Read more...]
More Drilling Pollution in Marcellus Shale
You will remember the exploding water wells and water wells polluted with production gas in the Marcellus Shale as a result of drilling by Cabot.Now there has been a spill of 100 gallons of diesel fuel by Cabot.The spill is the latest in several … [Read more...]
Sludge Pit Rule Uproar: Money is nothing if you have no clean water.
New Mexico had about 800 cases of water pollution and 421 of those were caused by sludge pits. To protect the natural resource that we cannot live without, water, New Mexico passed stricter legislation.The article in the Albuquerque Journal requires … [Read more...]
Propaganda: Natural Gas: A Bridge Fuel That Can Help Improve Air Quality
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.George W. BushNatural Gas: A Bridge Fuel That Can Help Improve Air QualityJanuary 30, 2009 -- The executive director of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council … [Read more...]
Abrahm Lustgarten Nominated for Goldsmith Prize
How the West’s Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 AmericansProPublica Finalist for Goldsmith PrizePosted: 29 Jan 2009 05:24 PM CSTby Paul Kiel, ProPublica -We at ProPublica were excited to learn today that Abrahm Lustgarten’s … [Read more...]
Groups Sue EPA for Letting Big Oil Violate Clean Air Act
EPA sued over lack of oil-gas rulesDenton Record Chronicle - Denton,TX,USAby Peggy Heinkel-WolfeEnvironmental groups are suing the EPA for...failing to write emission rules for the oil and gas industrythus allowing Big Oil to violate the Clean Air … [Read more...]
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