A Crash Course
A Crash Course This Website Is A Crash Course In Fracking

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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Yes: It Takes a LiePeabody coal company threatens to sue over getting punked

Change.org, the website that allows users to create petitions for social change, received a legal threat from Peabody Energy after Coal Kills Kids (CKK) -- a group that partnered with the Yes Men to unveil a faux Peabody charity initiative earlier this week -- continued the hoax with a mock petition.

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Strange Disasters[Two of] the Seven Strangest Man-Made Disasters

An Insurance industry blog by Jared Wade. Strange Disasters includes a story about a crater in Turkmenistan caused by scientific laissez-faire about natural gas extraction.

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Boom and BustEconomic Implications of Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Development: Potential Impa
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).
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Worldwide Fracking RisksThe risks of oil and gas production acknowledged around the world
Government officials from around the world have recently declared that the risks of natural gas drilling are too great to allow it to proceed without additional analysis.
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Will drillers respect environment?Getting drillers to respect the environment

"Our quality of life has an unquenchable thirst for energy. Offshore drilling and production helps to satisfy this thirst."  --Richard Haut

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New York Rally 3/24/11Rally at the Albany Mall on Thursday March 24, 2011

Bring everyone you can find as well as your biggest signs and banners.  After the rally, we will march to the Governor's office on the Second Floor of the Capitol to let him know we support his policy that New York's "watersheds are sacrosanct."

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Under the SurfaceUnder the surface : fracking, fortunes and the fate of the Marcellus Shale

Hydrofracking’s proposed a  massive industrial transformation on a huge swath of rural Northeastern U.S.  It has divided communities and sparked an intense public debate about science, economics, law making and enforcement.  Under the Surface tells the story of the Marcellus Gas Rush and is written by Tom Wilber, a newspaper reporter who covered the environmental beat for Binghamton, N.Y.’s Press & Sun Bulletin. Recommended!

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EPA HF Draft Plan 2011Draft Plan to Study the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Wa

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public face-to-face meeting of the SAB Panel to conduct an independent review of EPA's Draft Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan.

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Energy & Commerce Committee Investigates Fracking ConEnergy & Commerce Committee Investigates Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturi

A report linking the fracking industry to violations of the Safe Drinking water Act is putting the biggest names in the fracking industry on the defensive.

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Going Under from GHGHigh court could melt climate-change cases

Here you have a particular village that is going to be under water.  Various scientific and government studies report that the right combination of storms could flood the entire village at any time and have recommended relocation at costs varying up to $400 million.

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Authors

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
Mark Zoback