Press Clipping
Sierra Club repents taking Chesapeake money
Feb 02 2012
On February 2, the Sierra Club published a column by its Executive Director:
"[B]eginning in 2007 the Sierra Club had received more than $26 million from individuals or subsidiaries of Chesapeake Energy, one of the country's largest natural gas companies." It continues …
Shale-Shocked: a report from upstate New York
Jan 24 2012Find the entire story on TomDispatch.com (a project of The Nation Institute).
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Full Text of CDC advisory on Hydrofracking
Jan 11 2012On January 5, the Associated Press reported on an email message from the Center for Disease Control. Here is the complete text of Dr. Portier's message.…
Fracking Nonsense: The Job Myth of Gas Drilling
Jan 11 2012"Natural gas companies are trying to sell fracking as the solution to all of the economic ills ailing this country." 
This recent article from the Center for Economic and Policy Research breaks down that claim.…
NYT: Fracking to take water from drought-stricken S. Africa
Jan 03 2012Per Ian Urbina of the New York Times, Dec. 31, 2011:
Drilling Down: Hunt for Gas Hits Fragile Soil, and South Africans Fear Risks
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Fracking Contamination 'Will Get Worse': Alberta (CA) Expert
Dec 21 2011
A well-known industry expert in tracking leaking methane from oil and gas wells says a groundbreaking U.S. federal study on hydraulic fracturing highlights not only an old and growing problem, but the need for tighter regulations in the shale gas industry.
(From http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/12/19/Fracking-Contami.... Thanks to Keuka Citizens Against Hydrofracking.)…
Fracking on NPR's Fresh Air: Interview ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten
Sep 29 2011Today's (9/29/11) airing of NPR program Fresh Air includes an interview with ProPublica investigative journalist Abrahm Lustgarten about his reporting on water contamination near gas wells.…
Alarm bells sound for Karoo residents after US farmer’s water supply ruined
Sep 27 2011DESPITE assurances by Shell that fracking in the Karoo will not affect the region’s water supply, shocking details have emerged in the United States of how shale drilling by the giant petroleum company has wiped out a farm’s pristine water supply.…
Spin overtaking facts in Marcellus Shale debate [AP]
Sep 25 2011
This AP article, now hosted by dozens of media outlets, features a photograph of Marcellus Protest's banner and contingent at Shale Gas Outrage. Too bad the author, Kevin Bagos, fell prey to another kind of sensationalist oversimplification. Read the AP article - and then read this blog post post which critiques it.…
Signing Leases for Drilling, and Now Having Regrets - NY Times
Sep 23 2011A recent article in the New York Times tells a story many of us have heard from farmers and property holders time and time again: If they could go back in time and do it over--they would never have signed a lease.…
