Fracking. Hydrofracturing. Natural Gas Drilling. The imminent prospect of widespread hydrofracking across the Northeast, the US and the globe threatens the health, beauty, and happiness of our homes and natural surroundi...
The following is from Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk: The Frack Talk Marcellus Shale Water Project. You can listen to the entire program here.This unfortunately is not the premise of a new disaster movie in Hollywood, but...
Grassroots Groups Unite For Statewide Ban on Fracking in New York "We spent three years trying to prove that fracking could be done safely, and what we learned is that it can't be done safely. It is incredibly dangerous;...
Sabrina Artel is the creator and host of Trailer Talk, a weekly radio show that engages the community through conversations about culture, politics, the arts and the environment. To find out more about Trailer Talk's Fra...
This piece is from the Binghamton and Loch Sheldrake public hearings for the DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation), SGEIS (Draft Supplementa Generic Environmentall Impact Statement). Once the public comment peri...
Gary Gless in his Baldwin Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles. Gary is one of the founders of Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community (CCSC), a volunteer group started in 2008. He lives adjacent to the Inglewood Oil...
Albany Times Union Letter to the editor from Wes Gillingham - program director, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Youngsville and Dusty Horwitt - senior counsel, Environmental Working Group, Washington, D.C.
In his recent column, Fred LeBrun suggests that an appellate court ruling affirming New York localities' ability to ban drilling and fracking makes it easy for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to approve shale gas drilling statewide ("Frack ruling is far from the last word," May 5). The U.S. Geological S...
'Stock tipsters see "big winners" from shale gas exports. Notably, on the "Best Practices" front, 3 of the 5 "winners" are "low cost producers." Low cost and "Best Practices" just doesn't add up: "Range, Ultra, and Southwestern are among the three lowest-cost producers." Another reason not to trust the drillers. '
Under the Surface represents a kind of reportorial fracking, in which the indefatigable Wilber bores in to extract how the process has had an impact on the lives of those atop or near that gas. -- David Margolick, contributing editor, Vanity Fair, and author of Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Litt...