Fracking News
The big excuse I use for my blogging absence these days is: I'm gone a lot. I was gone on my son's 21st birthday because I was in the San Juan Basin under the mysterious cloud of methane with my boss, Bruce Baizel, and Kathleen McCleery, Special … [Read more...]
The Fracking Reaper is busy 24/7. Be smart and don't let the Spooky Fracking Reaper get you. Here are several opportunities to learn about fracking and avoid the Fracking Reaper. "Root and Branch Revue," November 4 - 7 On Wednesday, … [Read more...]
UPDATE with a FLIR video showing emissions from the exact plants Denton wants to build. I apologize for my absence here and offer two lame excuses: I've been running around all over the place, mostly while sick, doing things I think you will … [Read more...]
Beware! Greenwashing Denton Fracking The natural gas industry is trying to expand their market and tighten their stranglehold on Denton by posing dirty fossil fuel as clean energy. The greenwashing spin at Renewable Denton is slick and shiny. They … [Read more...]
Denton SOS Dear Readers, You will not believe this! After all that the good citizens of Denton, Texas have been through, Denton Municipal Electric (DME) now wants to put a natural gas power plant (or two) in Denton. Let me show you what a … [Read more...]
It's 6:50 PM and the EPA methane hearing panel is taking a break because the speakers are winding down. So far there have been (I think) 114 speakers and all but 8 support the rules. That makes 106:8 people speaking at the EPA methane hearing who … [Read more...]
Another worker death from fracking fatal vapors David Simpson died in Oklahoma where the medical examiner listed Simpson's cause of death as unknown but failed to do an autopsy that could have discovered the cause. Simpson was found slumped … [Read more...]
First get some tissues. Next: Read this tragic story about workers killed by deadly hydrocarbon fumes: How shale oil can kill Mike Soraghan, E&E reporter EnergyWire: Monday, September 14, 2015 When Joe Morales found him, Jim Freemyer was … [Read more...]
The Texas Railroad Commission caught on fracking industry lap again. This is not really breaking news. The lapdog never leaves the frackers lap. The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) has absolved XTO/ExxonMobil and Enervest from any responsibility … [Read more...]
EPA methane rules needed ICYMI: I was in the Eagle Ford Shale most of August. The first 11 days, I visited some oil and gas facilities and recorded, with Earthworks' FLIR camera, huge, uncontrolled methane and volatile organic compound releases that … [Read more...]
Residents in the Eagle Ford Shale are suffering from multiple health issues associated with oil and gas production. Eagle Ford Shale Flares Effect Health and Climate In addition to volatile organic compounds VOCs that come with methane releases and … [Read more...]