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    Suburbs Being Converted to Industrial Zones for Oil and Gas Drilling in Ohio

    Suburbs Being Converted to Industrial Zones for Oil and Gas Drilling in Ohio

    Mothers Against Drilling in Our Neighborhoods By Tish O’Dell and Michelle Aini Gas and oil companies are operating in Broadview Heights with disregard for public health, as seen on this public playground. Why are Broadview Heights, Ohio residents accepting the loss of their rights? Is it because many of them don’t even realize that their […]

    Tate Modern Museum Gets an Unwelcome ‘Gift’ in Protest of Relationship with BP

    Tate Modern Museum Gets an Unwelcome ‘Gift’ in Protest of Relationship with BP

    Oil Change International By Andy Rowell Sometimes the best things in life are so simple. What better way to protest against the sponsorship of the arts by Big Oil than to undertake your own protest art installation? [vimeo_embed http://player.vimeo.com/video/45369224 expand=1] And what is more fitting than a real wind turbine—a symbol of renewable energy—for the […]

    Are We Witnessing the End of Peak Oil?

    Are We Witnessing the End of Peak Oil?

    Oil Change International By Andy Rowell Contrary to what most people believe, oil supply capacity is growing at such an unprecedented level that it might soon outpace consumption. This could lead to overproduction and a steep dip in oil prices. That is the startling conclusion from Leonardo Maugeri, a former senior executive with Italian oil […]

    Ohio Woman Arrested for Blocking Gate to Wastewater Injection Well Site

    Ohio Woman Arrested for Blocking Gate to Wastewater Injection Well Site

    Frack Free Ohio Madeline ffitch, a 31-year-old Millfield, Ohio woman who is outraged at the impact fracking wastewater is having on her community, blocked the gates to the Ginsburg wastewater injection well site on Ladd Ridge Road, west of Athens, Ohio. ffitch was arrested this morning for trespassing while locked to two 50-gallon cement filled […]

    Chesapeake Energy Settles Contaminated Water Well Lawsuit for $1.6M

    Chesapeake Energy Settles Contaminated Water Well Lawsuit for $1.6M

    Frack Check WV Kevin Begos writing for the Associated Press, as reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 23, describes an open legal settlement in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, involving three families who experienced contaminated water wells as a result of Marcellus drilling by Chesapeake Energy. Jared McMicken of Wyalusing said the agreement reached Thursday provides […]

    Don’t Drink the Water

    Don’t Drink the Water

    Michael Brune The next time you pour yourself a glass of water, spare a thought for Jimmy Hall and his neighbors. Jimmy is the fifth-generation Hall to own property on Mill Creek in Letcher County, Kentucky. He has deep roots in coal country. Back in the late 1800s, his great-great-great grandfather’s homestead included an entire […]

    Third Alberta Oil Spill in One Month—Totaling 26,450 Barrels

    Third Alberta Oil Spill in One Month—Totaling 26,450 Barrels

    EcoWatch To borrow a popular hockey term, Canada has scored a hat trick of the worst kind: Three major oil spills in just over one month. The culprit this time around is Enbridge, the Calgary, Alberta-based operator of the world’s longest crude oil and liquids pipeline system, situated in Canada and the U.S. On June […]