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Hazardous Air Pollutants Detected Near Fracking Sites

Bloomburg News By Lisa Song - Dec 3, 2012 InsideClimateNews.org -- For years, the controversy over natural gas drilling has focused on the water and air quality problems linked to hydraulic fracturing, the process where chemicals are blasted deep underground to release tightly bound natural gas deposits. But a new study reports that a set of chemicals called non-methane hydrocarbons, or NMHCs, ...

Appalachia Resist!

This action follows the action camp hosted by Appalachia Resist! which served as a training for an ever widening group of community members, including farmers, landowners, and families who want to join the resistance to injection wells and the fracking industry in Southeast Ohio. With this action, Appalachia Resist! sends the message to the oil and gas industry that our ...

Athens Countians Respond to Injection Well Permit Application with Demand for Public Hearing

For Immediate Release Athens (OH) County Fracking Action Network, acfan.org Sept. 12, 2012 contact: Roxanne Groff, 740-707-3610, grofski@earthlink.net, acfanohio@gmail.com A public notice for an Athens County injection well permit application for the Atha well on Rte. 144 near Frost, OH, has been posted. Citizens have until Sept. 28 to send in comments and concerns about the application ...

Hats off to Cincinnati

August 1, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Alison Auciello, Food & Water Watch, (513) 394-6257, aauciello@fwwatch.org / Council Member Laure Quinlivan, City of Cincinati, (513) 352-5303, Laure.Quinlivan@cincinnati-oh.gov Cincinnati Becomes First Ohio City to Ban Injection Wells CINCINNATI, Ohio—Following today’s unanimous vote by the Cincinnati City Council to ban injection wells associated with ...

National forest's 'open forum' didn't instill much confidence

To the Editor: Wayne National Forest leaders and spokespersons expressed satisfaction with Wednesday's "open forum" on high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (HVHHF) on forest lands: a first in their history. It's hard to understand this satisfaction. Anne Carey, Wayne supervisor, said the forum was intended to inform; public participants disputed the "facts." Wayne spokesperson Gary Chancey repeatedly listed participating Wayne ...

Legendary oilman calls for tougher controls on fracking

Our energy writer Elizabeth Souder has an eagle’s eye and found this really interesting item. Legendary oilman and Barnett Shale fracking expert George Mitchell has told Forbes that the federal government should do more to regulate hydraulic fracturing. That’s right, an energy guy calling for more rules on fracking. And his reason for more regulation is pretty straightforward: “Because if they don’t do ...

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 2:33PM

Land Application of Hydrofracturing Fluids Damages a Deciduous Forest Stand in West Virginia

In June 2008, 303,000 L of hydrofracturing fluid from a natural gas well were applied to a 0.20-ha area of mixed hardwood forest on the Fernow Experimental Forest, West Virginia. During application, severe damage and mortality of ground vegetation was observed, followed about 10 d later by premature leaf drop by the overstory trees. Two years after fluid application, 56% of the trees within the fluid application area were dead.

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