Fracking Resource Guide

A Crash Course


A Crash Course	Can we benefit by this new source of natural gas without it affecting our water and lifestyle? This collection of bibliographic resources, government documents, letters, and videos is a crash course in fracking.

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Firm's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said	Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the oil-field supply corporation he headed, Halliburton Co., did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries. But he insisted that he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq. "Iraq's different," he said... read more
Boom and Bust	A webinar hosted by Cornell University's Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) on May 9, 2011 presented the work of a graduate student project in the Dept. of City and Regional Planning guided by Professor Susan Christopherson. (PDF). read more
Raising Elijah	In the absence of federal policies that are protective of child development and the ecology of the planet on which our children's lives depend, we serve as our own regulatory agencies and departments of the interior... read more
Read Between the Times	Broder's piece goes on to offer a smokescreen of protest by the right, but according to Dusty Horwitt of the Environmental Working Group, “An industry insider like John Deutch is completely unacceptable to lead this panel...It looks as if the Obama Administration has already reached the conclusion that fracking is safe.” read more
Strong Push	Sens. Tony Avella, D-Whitestone, Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, and Joseph Addabbo, D-Queens, introduced a package of bills April 11 that includes three bills for tighter regulations and transparency for oil and gas drilling and a bill by Avella to ban hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, in New York State. read more
Don't Speak For Me	"The U.S. Chamber Doesn’t Speak For Me” campaign is designed to expose the Chamber’s dirty business in Washington D.C. and discredit their efforts. read more
Damning Evidence	Anyone not living under a rock must be aware of the mountain of bad news that's recently come to light about fracking. Read Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy's emails: informative, dedicated, and free. read more
A Life’s Value	To protests from business and praise from unions, environmentalists and consumer groups, one agency after another has ratcheted up the price of life, justifying tougher — and more costly — standards... read more
Frack Check WV	*FrackCheckWV.net* was created as a platform for educating citizens about the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing and providing tools and guidance for effective citizen action and advocacy. read more
GOP Votes Threaten Us	Brad Johnson is a climate researcher-blogger at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He blogs at the ThinkProgress Wonk Room on the climate crisis, energy policy and building a green economy. read more

Paul T. Anastas	Tracy Bank	Maude Barlow
Wendell Berry	John Boehner	John Bredehoeft
Elizabeth Burns	George W. Bush	Robert Casey
Richard L. Cassin	Dick Cheney	Susan Christopherson
Theo Colborn	John Cole	Tim DeChristopher
Diana Degette	David Dzomback	Nora Eisenberg
J. Henry Fair	Josh Fox	Lee Fuller
Daniel Gilbert	Thomas Gold	Raul Grijalva
Walter Hang	Garrett Hardin	Tony Hayward
Sue Heavenrich	Maurice Hinchey	Nathaniel Hitt
Robert Howarth	Molly Ivins	Lisa Jackson
Brad Johnson	Robert F. Kennedy Jr.	Clifford Krauss
Barbara Lifton	Abrahm Lustgarten	Amy Mall
Peter Mantius	John McFarland	Jonathan McIntosh
Bill McKibben	Carl T. Montgomery	Robert Myers
Michael C. O'Connell	Ben Perkus	M. Ray Perryman
Rick Piltz	Louis Proyect	David Roberts
Mike Roselle	Helen Slottje	Kirk Smith
Leslie Stahl	Sandra Steingraber	Maura Stephens
Nicholas Stern	Ed Swartz	Ben Tettlebaum
Henry David Thoreau	Calvin Tillman	Ken Ward Jr.
Henry Waxman	Tom Wilber	Sharon Wilson
Hannah J. Wiseman	Bill Wolfe	The Yes Men
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