Social & Environmental Links
WTF is Going On? Citizens Media
To Ensure the Food, Water, and Fish We Consume are Safe: Food & Water Watch
Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math – Rolling Stone Aug. 2 2012.
David vs. Monsanto – Free documentary about corporate control over farming
How Walmart is Take Over the Food System
XL Pipeline Whistleblower – MUST READ!
Pipe Dreams? Jobs Gained, Jobs Lost by Contruction of Keystone XL Pipeline
Toxic Liquid Spills From Pipelines
Video: Health Effects of Environmental Pollution
DOE’s Dispersal of Radioactive Waste into
Landfills and Consumer Products
The True Cost of the Tar Sands - Must see video!
US Security at Risk Over Water
Map of Oil and Gas Accidents and Spills 2000 – 2009
Damning new study links toxin increase directly to oilsands
Unconventional Drilling
Food & Water Watch: Why Ban Fracking?
Research: Fracking: Food & Water Watch
Mothers Against Drilling in Our Neighborhoods
The Marcellus Accountability Project for Tompkins County – has good resource page
The Napalm Creek Oracle - Out of Coshocton, OH
Center for Healthy Environments and Communities
Local Communities that Have Taken Action Against Fracking
693 OH Oil and Gas Wells Fail Inspection in 2011
Webinar: Global Warming Impacts of Shale Gas Development by Hydraulic Fracturing
Shale Gas Push Would Wreck UK’s Climate Change Targets
Beware Fracking Pitfalls, Ex-Dish Mayor Warns
Sandra Steingraber: Breaking Up with the Sierra Club
Marcellus Shale Reality Tour Video Series (the tour gas companies don’t want you to see)
Marcellus Shale Reality Tour Part 1
Marcellus Shale Reality Tour Part 2 – Dimock Day Trip
Marcellus Shale Reality Tour Part 3 EPA comes to Dimock
Marcellus Shale Reality Tour Part 4 Gas Well Flaring
Marcellus Shale Reality Tour Part 5 Erupting Water Well
Marcellus Shale Reality Tour Part 6 Eviction Notice
Fracking Protest Targets Federal Auction of California Public Land
‘Fracking’ brine | Gas-well waste full of radium – Study suggests water trucked to Ohio from Pa. might be radioactive
Gas Wells Leak:
Alberta Expert – Fracking Contamination Will Get Worse
Water Contamination from Gas Well Drilling
Fracking Will Cause Irreversible Harm
Dr. Anthony Ingraffea’s excellent 3-part talk
Dr. Ingraffea’s latetest update
Scientists explain how hydraulic fracturing can permanently contaminate public water supplies
Contaminated Water:
Chesapeake Pleads Guilty to Clean Water Act Violations Associated with Marcellus Shale Drilling
Recommendations for Drinking Water Well Sampling Before Oil and Gas Drilling – ODNR, OEPA and ODH
Gas Drilling Industry Makes Stunning Admission
NY State Insider: ‘Hydraulic Fracturing as It’s Practiced Today Will Contaminate Our Aquifers’
Drinking Water Systems in PA and WV Report High Carcinogen Levels
Disposal of Fracking Wastewater Polluting PA Rivers
Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing
Not So Fast, Natural Gas: Why Accelerating Risky Drilling Threatens America’s Water
Natural Gas Companies Fight to Keep Chemicals They are Using Secret
Incidents Where Hydraulic Fracturing Is a Suspected Cause of Drinking Water Contamination
Carcinogetic Bromindated trihalomethanes
Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering US Water Supplies
Irish Children Talk About Fracking
Potentially Explosive Water Wells in Medina, OH
Water Contamination from Shale
Human Carcinogen Found in Drinking Water Near Gas Drilling Ops
EPA to Supply Drinking Water to Dimock, PA
Water Contamination – Fracking Not the Problem
Untested Science Fracking Natural Gas Controversy
Oil and Water – Drilling Stirs New Concerns
Water contamination on dairy farm – video
The Environmental Dangers of Hydro-fracturing – by Robert Myers, Ph.D. (Lock Haven University)
Substantial water pollution risks from hydraulic fracturing: research
Fouled Waters: Woodlands residents search for ways to survive without clean water - report from PA
Analysis of Marcellus flowback finds high levels of ancient brines
EPA’s Fracking Study May Dodge Water Contamination Frequency Issue
Contaminated Air:
Air Too Dangerous to Breathe: How Fracking Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands
Fracking is OK as Long as You Don’t Breathe
New Report Reveals Toxic Air Near Natural Gas Operations
Infrared Video of Drilling Air Pollution
Rural Wyoming town has worse air quality than Los Angeles after fracking
Latest Cornell University Study: Natural Gas Could Be Dirtier than Coal
Day Four of Chesapeake contaminated air spill, residents sick, local media told to keep quiet
BLM Agrees to do More Air Quality Studies in CO
Cornell researchers say shale drilling will stir climate change
Video: Calvin Tillman ex-Mayor Dish, TX & Tim Ruggiero presentation April 27, 2011 – 1 hr. 18 min.
Video: Calvin Tillman, former mayor of Dish, Texas, speaks at McLaggan Hall, UNB on October 22, 2011 - 1 hr. 10 min.
Like Wyoming, Utah finds high wintertime ozone pollution near oil, gas wells
Oil and Gas Drilling Linked to Smog
It Started with Nosebleeds: What fracking did to one US town
Natural Gas Wells Proliferation Poisoning Children’s Air, Research Suggests
Arial footage of gas well flaring
NY American Lung Association Statement on Fracking
Video – Silica Sand Storm at Frack Site
Emissions pose health threat to Ohio drilling neighbors, family doctor says
Effects on Animal and Human Health:
Jamie Frederick of Coitsville, OH tells her story of how her life and health were destroyed
Fracking: The Dirty Truth in North Dakota Part 1
Don’t click on the link within part 1 to get to part 2. For some reason it jumps to the end of the video. Just use the part 2 link here.
Fracking: The Dirty Truth in North Dakota Part 2
The Heartbreaking Story of Judy and Carl Stiles - Update: Carl died on Jan. 26, 2012
One woman in Colorado describes what fracking has done to her family
In North Dakota and Nationwide, A Boom in Health Problems Accompanies Fracking
Cattle and Gas Drilling Don’t Mix
Youngstown Fracking Survivors Speak Out
Know the Drill – shows regular people and the ways in which fracking has devastated their health, contaminated their air and water and made their homes worthless.
Chemicals in Natural Gas Drilling – Environmental Health Analyst, Theo Colborn PhD, informs us about the serious health and genetic problems caused by the toxic chemicals used in the fracking process.
People speak out on health effects after Frack spill in Leroy, PA
Fracking fury reaches fever pitch in Erie, CO
Marcellus Shale Reality Tour video
Cornell Study Finds Cattle Deaths Tied to Hydrofracking
Gas Drilling Disrupts Lives, Endangers Health in Bradford County, PA
Drilling fluids and Health Risk Management
Fracking may be the cause of medical mystery in NY
Pennsylvania farming community turned into natural gas waste zone
Cancer Clusters Found Near Pipelines
SOS Butler County: Black Water + Purple Water = A Fracking Nightmare
Prof: Fracking Fluid Harmful to Animal Health
Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health
New study fuels hydraulic fracking debate
Fracking hazardous to New Yorkers’ Health
Compressor Station Noise - 1 – 2 min. into the video it hit’s 94 decibels.
Pipe Down! That Noise Might Affect Your Plants
Gas Drilling Leaves Toxic Soup
Ohio Woman Fights Natural Gas Industry After Illness Caused by Drilling
Link Between Low Birth Weight and Fracking, Says New Research
Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Infant Health: Evidence from Pennsylvania
Baltimore Nurses demand disclosure of chemicals used in natural gas drilling
Dr. Theo Colborn reads a letter to the president
Cancer-Causing Chemicals Used in 34 Percent of Reported Fracking Operations
Technical Issues:
Testimony on Compressor Stations
OSHA Reported Fracking Casualties
Congressional Study: Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing
Safety groups ask for Okla. oil, gas stand downs
Earthquakes:
US Government Confirms Link Between Earthquakes and Fracking
UK Fracking Firm Admits to Causing Earthquakes
How Fracking Caused an Ohio Earthquake
Earthquake Hazard Associcated with Deep Well Injecion – Report for EPA - U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1951
It’s Official: Human Activity Can Cause Earthquakes
Special Investigation: The Earthquakes and Toxic Waste of Ohio’s Fracking Boom
Study finds correlation between injection wells, small earthquakes
Radiation:
Radiation Problems Due to Hydrofracking
So who is in charge of fracking wastewater, anyway?
Will Ohio Start Accepting Drilling Brine at 40 Landfills?
Fracking Waste Water Can Be Highly Radioactive
Economy:
Fracking: The Ultimate Scam Revealed
Fracking Ohio’s Utica Shale to “Boost Local Economy”? A “Total” Sham
Fracking Nonsense: The Job Myth of Gas Drilling
Fracking Export Bonanza Continues
Shale Gas Decline Much Faster than Prior Estimates
Regarding America’s 100-year Shale Gas Supply
U.S. Shale Gas: Less Abundance, Higher Cost
A Miracle In the Marcellus Shale?
Oil Giant’s Shell Game Nets Elderly Farmers
Is A Farmer Truly Rich If He Ignores The Consequences of Signing His Land Away To A Gas Lease?
Drillers Bidding Against Farmers for Water in CO
Mortgages/Insurance:
Fracking for Gas and the Silence of the Insurance Companies
Rush to Drill Creates Mortgage Conflicts
Mortgages for Drilling Properties May Face Hurdle
How to Frack a Mortgage and Groundwater at the Same Time
Analysis: Insurers find it tough to price fracking risk
Nationwide Insurance will not cover fracking exposures
PA Couple Denied Mortgage Due to Drilling on Neighbor’s Property
Road Damage:
Photos of Fracking Road Damage
Document Estimates Fracking Damage to New York Roads
Gas Industry Exposés:
Connecting the Dots: The Marcellus Natural Gas Play Players – Part 1
Connecting the Dots: The Marcellus Natural Gas Play Players – Part 2
Summary of Industry Giveaways in the 2005 Energy Bill
A case study in how industry influence squelches the science of gas drilling impacts
Fracturing natural gas wells requires hundreds of tons of chemical liquids
Speech suppression against scientists becoming standard operating procedure
Study Finds 3,355 Marcellus Violations between 2008 and 2011 – Cabot, Chesapeake, Chief, among companies with most violations.
Fracking and Psychological Operations: Empire Comes Home
Former Gas Industry ‘Water-handler’ Now a Whistle Blower
How Big Energy Companies Plan to Turn US into 3rd-World Petro-State
Silencing Communities: How the Fracking Industry Keeps Its Secrets
Frackers only disclose 43% of chemicals they put in the ground
Chesapeake Energy Cheat Sheet: What’s Been Uncovered So Far
Gas profiteers’ shocking crimes
Oil and gas campaign donations received by political candidates
Chinese government-owned oil company trying to get foothold in US
Risk Disclosures:
Chesapeake Energy 10-k filing – Goto page 27
Laws/Standards:
Pipeline Issues
Gas pipeline mud blowout video
Traffic
Farmer Uses Pickup to Block Frack Trucks
Carroll County Crashes Rise with Truck Traffic
Video: Typical five minutes in a rural town once fracking starts
Anti-Fracking Music Videos:
OH State of the State Protest 02/07/12
Don’t Frack My Mother – Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono & Jimmy Fallon
Information on Directional Drilling Technology