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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Water From Gas WellsRegulation Is Lax for Water From Gas Wells

...the relatively new drilling method — known as high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking — carries significant environmental risks.

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iLoveMountainsiLoveMountains

Organization web site features a widget that shows how you are connected to mountaintop removal where you live.

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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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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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Chevron RemixChevron - Human Energy
Jonathan McIntoshs' Remix Video is a critical and transformative work that constitutes a Fair Use in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. Source footage from Chevron TV ads, US Army ad, BBC News, Future Weapons, CSI and several other short clips recorded off television.
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Skeptic SnubbingSnubbing Skeptics Threatens to Intensify Climate War, Study Says

Listening to climate change doubters, and not dismissing them, might avert a "logic schism" similar to the political stalemate on abortion, according to a new paper involving research on skeptics.

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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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Not Talk Falsely NowCornell University Law School - 2011 Energy Conference
The Cornell University Law School - 2011 Energy Conference (March 31-April 2, 2011) explored, among other topics, the legal issues associated with natural gas drilling and energy policy, different scientific perspectives on how clean and sustainable natural gas is, alternative clean energy sources, and the potential risks and benefits of shale gas development in Upstate New York.
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Drill, Baby, Drill!Drill, Baby, Drill!: The chant of the political naif
Numerous complainants petitioned the USA government to get the EPA to review the earlier decision on hydraulic fracking. One of them, from Neil Zusman, Ithaca, NY, is particularly poignant: I have read widely on this topic and it is of personal interest to me. I am not a scientist. I observe the events along the historical timeline that includes civil rights, anti-war protest, and the environmental movement....
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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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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