Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) is a bone-seeking carcinogen with a 1622 year half-life when airborne. According to this slide from a 2004 Texas Railroad Commission seminar series, District 8 has "high intensity" of NORM.The NORM … [Read more...]
Hydraulic Fracture: EPA Admits What We’ve Known All Along
EARTHblog has a the public release of information concerning the Pavillion, Wyoming water contamination case. My last post about this was: Water Contaminated With Hydraulic Fracture ChemicalsI haven't read the entire report yet. But here's a quote … [Read more...]
The Texas Observer’s New Blog: Forrest for the Trees
Forrest for the TreesA new ecoblog.I like! … [Read more...]
Picture: Bull Sick From H2S Gas?
This is from a regular reader who is quite familiar with oil and gas practices.Sick bull near low lying area near creek. This is near an Amine Gas Treating Plant in Booger County. There was a "death cloud" of gas in area early on 8/16/09 AM, … [Read more...]
Watch Out! America’s Natural Gas Alliance Headed Your Way with $80 Million in Propaganda
America's Natural Gas Alliance, a brand new lobbying group, is headed for our Senate and our airways with $80 million to spend watering down the climate bill and greenwashing natural gas as an alternative fuel instead of what it really is: another … [Read more...]
Midland Hexavalent Chromium Contamination Update
In early April Midland Cottonflats residents learned their water wells are contaminated with hexavalent chromium at over 50 times the acceptable levels. TCEQ provided filters for affected homes and bottled water for drinking but the filters have many … [Read more...]
TPA Round-up
School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week's roundup of blog highlights.From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances … [Read more...]
API Leaked Memo Reveals Industry Staged Energy Rallies
Greenpeace has the leaked memo from the American Petroleum Institute instructing industry to propagandize their employees and contractors to attend industry coordinated fake energy rallies in 20 targeted states. I posted about these fake rallies just … [Read more...]
Drilling the Chain of Life
WARNING: Some readers may find the content and photographs unsuitable for children and sensitive adults. We hear a lot about how gas drilling operations make people sick. What about wildlife, pets and livestock? Click over to FWCanDo to learn how … [Read more...]
Fake Energy Protests Arranged by Oil and Gas Lobby
Big Oil and Big Gas paid Lobbyists $133.2 million last year and $44.9 million first quarter 2009, so they have plenty of money to spend seducing our Congress and the public into letting them continue with their reckless, immoral pollution. Most … [Read more...]
Water Contaminated With Hydraulic Fracture Chemicals
One of the toxicological myths as written by Dr. Marvin Legator in an essay published in Fruit of the Orchard: Environmental Justice in East Texas states:MYTH: The absence of data is the same as negative data.This is one of the most frequently used … [Read more...]
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