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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Clifford Krauss: propagandistClifford Krauss: propagandist par excellence

I especially enjoyed his reporting on how some environmentalists are for gas drilling despite the inflammatory water faucets and cancer clusters:  You don’t have to be working at FAIR to ask the question which environmentalists? -Louis Proyect.

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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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No ConsensusHydrofracking in New York State: Poll Shows No Consensus

According to this NY1/YNN-Marist Poll, New Yorkers divide on the issue.  41% oppose hydrofracking while 38% support it.  A notable 21% are unsure.  Similar proportions of registered voters statewide share these views.

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Rules? Not until 2012Analysts: Don't expect 'fracking' standards until after 2012 election

A federal proposal laying out new standards for a controversial natural-gas drilling practice called hydraulic fracturing likely won’t be issued until after the 2012 elections...the timing of the standards would take that hot-button issue off the table.

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Waters of the U.S.
Americans depend on clean and abundant water. However, over the past decade, interpretations of Supreme Court rulings removed some critical waters from Federal protection, and caused confusion about which waters and wetlands are protected under the Clean Water Act.
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Fracking the Karoo-No!Fracking the Karoo - The People Say No!
“Do you know what fracking the Karoo is like?” demanded Esme Senekal of Somerset East. The people from Royal Dutch Shell and their consultants didn’t reply, their faces impassive.  “It’s like you coming and drilling holes in our mother, and then leaving us to look after her and take her to hospital. Leave the Karoo alone!
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Fracking Fluid Ban in BuffaloProtests urge fracking fluid ban

Protestors outside the Buffalo offices of the Department of Environmental Conservation today called for an executive order by Governor Andrew Cuomo to define fracking fluid as a hazardous waste and ban its treatment by municipal facilities...

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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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Flamable WaterScientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking

For the first time, a scientific study,  has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire.

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Frack Check WVFrack Check WV (West Virginia)

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.

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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