RESOURCES: Links of Interest

Social & Environmental Links

WTF is Going On? Citizens Media

To Ensure the Food, Water, and Fish We Consume are Safe: Food & Water Watch

Google News: Fracking

Occupywallst.org

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

http://www.neogap.org/neogap/

Mothers Against Drilling in Our Neighborhoods

EcoWatch

Ohio Shale Map

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

Injection Wells 101

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

Ohio Oil and Gas Violations

Gas Rush Stories

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

How Gas Wells Leak

Schlumberger Gas Leak Study

Fracking Aquifers

Shale Gas Whistleblower Video

Anomaly in Duke Methane Study

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

Reflections on Dunkard Creek

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

Drilling Air Pollution video

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

Leaking Profits 

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

A Day at the Farm

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.

Fracking Hell

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.

Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

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

Got Contaminated Milk?

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:

Blowout Preventers Fall Short

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

Dead Cows and Earthquakes

Earthquakes in Arkansas

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

 
 
 
 
 

 Natural Born Drillers

 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 

 

Rush to Drill Creates Mortgage Conflicts

Mortgages for Drilling Properties May Face Hurdle

How to Frack a Mortgage and Groundwater at the Same Time

Fracking the Homestead

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:

CHAINSAWS AGAINST FRACKING: Lycoming County township official blocks road with downed trees to force drilling company to make repairs

Photos of Fracking Road Damage

Document Estimates Fracking Damage to New York Roads

Gas Industry Exposés:

Common Cause Report

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

Bombshell Study: High Methane Emissions Measured Over Gas Field “May Offset Climate Benefits of Natural Gas”

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

 
Rolling Stone response to Chesapeake Engery comment on expose - even better than the original article!

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 

Petro Plutocracy

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:

OH Drinking Water Standards

Final Analysis – SB165

OH Man Camp Guidance

New York’s Attorney General Files Intent to Sue EPA for Failing to Address Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Industry

Pipeline Issues

Farmer vs Oil Company

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:

You Can’t Drink Money

My Water’s on Fire Tonight

OH State of the State Protest 02/07/12

No Fracking Way

Don’t Frack My Mother – Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono & Jimmy Fallon

I Want a Future, Too

 

One Response to “RESOURCES: Links of Interest”

  1. Tonya: June 30, 2011 at 10:27 pm #

    Information on Directional Drilling Technology

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