It's a Lie, It's a Sham, It won't Work
The gas industry is spending millions of dollars to sell the merits of drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale. But how much of their propaganda is actually true?
The gas industry is spending millions of dollars to sell the merits of drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale. But how much of their propaganda is actually true?

Citizens Announce Nation’s Largest-Ever Fracking Rally in Washington, D.C.
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A recent peer-reviewed study concludes that fracking could allow contaminants to travel from deep shale 'to aquifers in less than 10 years'. The author recommends that "The rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing requires that monitoring systems be employed to track the movement of contaminants and that gas wells have a reasonable offset from faults." Neither of these steps is currently being taken, or even contemplated, as far as we know.There's more…
A People’s Hearing on Fracking will provide Western New York the Hearing the Department of Environmental Conservation should have provided.There's more…