The Latest On: Fracking
March 15, 2011
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Ending The Secret About Chemicals In Our Drinking Water
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but secret gas drilling chemicals don’t belong in drinking water.
That’s exactly the kind of sentiment that makes it very inconvenient for Dick Cheney’s buddies at Halliburton who want to use secret chemicals to extract gas from the earth – a controversial method known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.”
You see, the pesky Safe Drinking Water Act kept getting in the way. So they asked for special treatment from Congress. And in 2005 they got it.
March 11, 2011
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PA Gov. to Energy Exec: You’re the Boss of Everyone
Fresh off his state’s radioactive river scandal, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has once again landed in hot water (no pun intended) over a line in his proposed budget which hands the energy executive he appointed to head the state's economic development agency "supreme" decision-making power to fast-track gas drilling permits in the state.
March 11, 2011
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Friday Finds: Single Serve Stupidity
Del Monte sells individually wrapped bananas
March 10, 2011
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O Give Me A Home, Where The Skies Are…Oh Never Mind
Which has a worse smog problem ? The car-choked sprawling megalopolis of Los Angeles? Or the wide open plains of Wyoming?
If you guessed LA, you’d be wrong. It’s actually Wyoming.
This depressing tidbit comes courtesy of the oil and gas industry, which is in the midst of a drilling boom that has left the air in Wyoming and other areas cloaked in smog and hazardous air pollutants.
March 4, 2011
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Friday Finds: Walmart Extinguishes Flame Retardants
Walmart blazes trail in banning flame retardants
March 1, 2011
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Radioactive water being dumped into our rivers?
The recent New York Times investigation into the dangers posed to our air and water by fracking is a must-read. The meat of the investigation deals with radioactive material in wastewater from the fracking process and its possible migration into our lakes and rivers. The paper's findings are alarming to say the least, here are just a few:
