Fracking

Top 5 Reasons LNG Exports Are a Very Bad Idea

Top 5 Reasons LNG Exports Are a Very Bad Idea

Michael Brune Most Americans have probably heard about the “boom” in natural gas, with U.S. production up by one-third since 2005. Besides historically low natural gas prices, one consequence is that companies like Exxon Mobil are now pushing the federal government to approve permits for more than 20 liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. Big […]

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    Green Technology Thinkshop April 20

    Green Technology Thinkshop April 20

    Green Technology Thinkshop The Springmill Learning Center, an innovative outdoor education facility in Mansfield, Ohio, will host the Green Technology Thinkshop on Saturday, April 20 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Schedule of events: 9 a.m.: Pass the PumpRichland Moves bicycle group will present their work on a complete streets plan for Mansfield including work […]

    Fracking and Farmland

    Fracking and Farmland

    Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) has launched new webpages, Fracking and Farmland: Stories from the Field, that provide the personal stories of farmers concerned about Ohio’s booming fracking industry and illustrations of how oil and gas extraction could impact Ohio’s food producers. High-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, […]

    America’s National Parks Threatened by Oil and Gas Development

    America’s National Parks Threatened by Oil and Gas Development

    Center for American Progress By Jessica Goad and Christy Goldfuss America’s national parks are undoubtedly some of our “best ideas.” They are unique places across our country where public lands are preserved for their natural, cultural or historic value, as well as for the unique contributions they provide to local and regional economies and our […]

    Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline through Ohio Raises Grave Concern

    Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline through Ohio Raises Grave Concern

    Thanks to News Channel 5’s investigator Sarah Buduson for interviewing me regarding the proposed 250-mile Nexus Gas transmission pipeline from Northeast Ohio to Canada. The pipeline would transport Utica shale gas from fields in eastern Ohio to customers in Ohio, Michigan and Ontario, Canada with possible plans of an expansion once operations begin in November […]

    BREAKING: One Dead in Oil and Gas Well Explosion in Ohio

    BREAKING: One Dead in Oil and Gas Well Explosion in Ohio

    EcoWatch This photo collage of the oil and gas well explosion today in Bolivar, Ohio was put together by Bill Baker. Photos by Robert West (top two and bottom right) and Mary Daum (bottom left). [Editor’s note: I just received clarification that earlier reports that two had died in the oil and gas explosion south […]

    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 […]

    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 […]