A sudden spike of earthquakes in southern Kansas is raising eyebrows in the region, where there have been more earthquakes in the past two weeks than there were in the years between 1990 and 2013. Washington Post. Oct 28 2015
Month: October 2015
Tory U-turn on fracking regulations will leave safeguards totally inadequate
Government seeks to lift a ban on shale gas drilling in drinking water protection zones, key wildlife sites and under national parks. The Guardian. Oct 27 2015
Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone: Teaching, Writing, and Living above the Marcellus Shale
We lived in Tioga County in northcentral Pennsylvania, one of the busiest counties during the Marcellus shale natural gas boom. Environmental Health News. Oct 27 2015
Studies Link Fracking Chemicals to Premature Births, Reproductive Harm
Two new studies are adding to the growing body of evidence that exposure to fracking chemicals poses a risk to people’s health.
Healthy Child, October 26, 2015
Oil production possibly linked to Oklahoma quakes since 1930s: USGS
Oklahoma earthquakes may have been related to oil production activities as early as the 1930s, a study released this week by the U.S. Geological Survey said. Reuters. Oct 23 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/22/us-oklahoma-quake-idUSKCN0SG2DQ20151022
Study reveals proximity of schools, hospitals to fracking activity
Thousands of Pennsylvania residents attend school or receive health care within one mile of a permitted natural gas fracking well site, according to a report released Tuesday. Scranton Times-Tribune, Pennsylvania. Oct 21 2015
As the Fracking Boom Spreads, One Watershed Draws the Line
After spreading across Pennsylvania, fracking for natural gas has run into government bans in the Delaware River watershed. The basins of the Delaware and nearby Susquehanna River offer a sharp contrast between what happens in places that allow fracking and those that do not.
Yale, 20 Oct 2015.
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/as_the_fracking_boom_spreads_one_watershed_draws_the_line/2921/
As the fracking boom spreads, one watershed draws the line
The basins of the Delaware and nearby Susquehanna River offer a sharp contrast between what happens in places that allow fracking and those that do not. Yale Environment 360. Oct 20 2015
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/as_the_fracking_boom_spreads_one_watershed_draws_the_line/2921/
Pennsylvania panel to examine drilling impacts on poor communities
Pennsylvania’s Office of Environmental Justice has mandate to review, for the first time, shale gas facilities that could increase the health and environmental risks in poor and minority communities. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pennsylvania. Oct 20 2015
Four years without water: How shale drilling impacted one rural community
Uncle Denny is standing at his kitchen sink, holding a Mason jar full of brown-tinted water with air bubbles rising along the sides. “Leave it set overnight, it’ll turn black as your camera,” he says. Harrisburg Patriot-News, Pennsylvania. Oct 20 2015
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/10/four_years_without_water_how_s.html