LAS VEGAS— Five conservation groups today challenged a U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan to auction nearly 200,000 acres of public lands next month for fossil fuel development.
The administrative protest asserts that the BLM failed to adequately analyze the impacts of fracking and related industrialization on public lands ecosystems, surface and groundwater, wildlife and the climate.
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/fracking-05-25-2017.php
Independent oil producers argue that they are being hurt by massive new horizontal drilling and fracking operations and want the practice limited. They claim that fracking causes oil to migrate away from traditional wells. Hmmm, even the industry claims that fracking causes pollutants to move underground.
http://ktul.com/news/local/indepent-oil-producers-want-limits-on-horizontal-drilling-and-fracking
Wisconsin’s environmental protection agency has authorized a Georgia timber company to fill more than 16 acres of Monroe County wetlands in order to build a $65 million frac sand facility. Meteor Timber, one of the largest private landowners in Wisconsin, has proposed building a processing and loading facility along Interstate 94 near the town of Millston to dry and ship frac sand the company will mine from a nearby site it acquired in a 2014 purchase of nearly 50,000 acres.
Yesterday, campaigner Louise Somerville asked on Facebook how people had found about fracking. We thought the answers were very interesting and asked for permission to reproduce the thread. Another campaigner, Vanessa Vine, asked the same question this morning. We’ve combined the answers.
Law360, New York (February 8, 2017, 3:45 PM EST) — ProPetro Holding Corp., a private equity-backed provider of fracking services to oil and gas companies, on Wednesday filed initial public offering plans to raise up to $345 million under guidance from Latham & Watkins LLP, marking the latest energy issuer to rejoin capital markets.
https://www.law360.com/articles/889812/pe-backed-fracking-co-propetro-files-345m-ipo
While different people have different opinions about this method of getting oil and gas from underground, everyone can agree that good data about the wells is a good idea to help minimize waste and increase safety and decrease the need for drilling anywhere that it doesn’t make sense.
http://www.9news.com/tech/fracking-data-pioneered-by-denver-company/386678725
Joel Gay, president and chief executive officer at Energy Recovery, discusses new, disruptive technologies for the fracking industry and being positioned to take advantage of oil market shocks. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets.”
But there’s only one drilling operation in the county and the operator doesn’t use fracking techniques and has no plans to do so. The board has built a sturdy wall against no looming threat. San Francisco Chronicle, California. Jul 26 2016
The potential upsides and downsides of fracking technology for oil and gas keep coming. A new study focuses on alleged contamination of drinking water in one of the highest-profile, longstanding cases. MarketPlace. Mar 30 2016
http://www.marketplace.org/2016/03/29/world/study-fracking-contaminated-water-supply