Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Thursday, June 12, 2014
In Love County, Oklahoma a swarm of earthquakes have been reported since September 17, 2013 when fracking had began in the County. They were occurring a shallow depths which are consistent with the injection depths, but this area has had the same shallow quakes in the past. The casual connection between hydraulic fracturing and earthquakes continues to be unresolved, studies and experts have produced research and opinion on both sides of the issue. Oklahoma state geologist G. Randy Keller called the claims "a rush to judgment," while Interior Department Deputy Secretary David Hayes said his teams have found "no evidence to suggest that hydraulic fracturing itself" is the cause of earthquakes. (The Hydraulic Fracking Blog)
Union workers, farmers, landowners and local businesses on Monday announced they have formed a grass roots coalition striving for a chance to grow natural gas drilling jobs by tapping into the Marcellus Shale beneath many of New York’s counties. Coalition members say that the Southern Tier is one of the most depressed regions in the nation the past decade and is being denied a chance at economic progress by people who are from other parts of the state. They see hydraulic fracturing as that chance. (Times Union Blog)
Multiple mainstream media outlets have covered a new report touting the economic benefits from hydraulic fracturing without disclosing the report's industry funding. The recently released study, titled "America's New Energy Future: The Unconventional Oil & Gas Revolution and the US Economy," received widespread media attention. The report was commissioned by multiple fossil fuel organizations that stand to benefit from growth in the oil and gas industry. According to the report, the increase in unconventional oil and natural gas extraction has added an average of $1,200 in discretionary income to each US household in 2012, and now supports 1.2 million jobs projected to increase to 3.3 million by 2020. (Media Matters)
The Idaho Department of Water Resources is nearing the end of the rule making to develop Idaho rules for underground injection wells to dispose of used fracking fluids and other natural gas wastes. Rather than sending these wastes off to an appropriate treatment facility, the gas industry wants permission to pump it into the ground. During the last legislative session The Idaho Department of Water Resources said that using fracking fluids that contained cancer causing chemicals was okay because much of the fracking fluid would be pumped back up to the surface when the gas was produced. Now it seems that the industry wants permission to pump these chemicals back into the ground. (Idaho Fracking Update)
(I know that I copied and pasted this but I really liked it and it relates to my topic...kinda)
When I was born,
Nature was already dying.
At the age of five,
Only half of the wetlands in the US remained.
When I was only ten,
Almost half of the world's forests had been destroyed.
By the time I was twenty,
The world's oceans had over 400 dead zones
Where no life could be supported.
When I turned twenty six,
Tens of billions of pollinating insects had died worldwide.
By the time I am forty,
Half of the Amazon Rainforest will be eliminated.
By the time I am fifty,
Lions will be extinct in the wild.
By the time I am sixty,
Many of the world's glaciers will have disappeared.
By the time I am seventy,
Ninety five percent of the world's coral reefs will have died off.
By the time I am eighty,
Two billion people will not have access to clean water.
By the time I am ninety,
Nine billion people will live on the planet,
It would take three entire Earths to sustain them,
We will not even have one.
By the time I leave this Earth,
The Nature I knew and loved,
Will be gone.
Nature was already dying.
At the age of five,
Only half of the wetlands in the US remained.
When I was only ten,
Almost half of the world's forests had been destroyed.
By the time I was twenty,
The world's oceans had over 400 dead zones
Where no life could be supported.
When I turned twenty six,
Tens of billions of pollinating insects had died worldwide.
By the time I am forty,
Half of the Amazon Rainforest will be eliminated.
By the time I am fifty,
Lions will be extinct in the wild.
By the time I am sixty,
Many of the world's glaciers will have disappeared.
By the time I am seventy,
Ninety five percent of the world's coral reefs will have died off.
By the time I am eighty,
Two billion people will not have access to clean water.
By the time I am ninety,
Nine billion people will live on the planet,
It would take three entire Earths to sustain them,
We will not even have one.
By the time I leave this Earth,
The Nature I knew and loved,
Will be gone.
Union workers, farmers, landowners and local businesses on Monday announced they have formed a grass roots coalition striving for a chance to grow natural gas drilling jobs by tapping into the Marcellus Shale beneath many of New York’s counties. Coalition members say that the Southern Tier is one of the most depressed regions in the nation the past decade and is being denied a chance at economic progress by people who are from other parts of the state. They see hydraulic fracturing as that chance. (Times Union Blog)
Multiple mainstream media outlets have covered a new report touting the economic benefits from hydraulic fracturing without disclosing the report's industry funding. The recently released study, titled "America's New Energy Future: The Unconventional Oil & Gas Revolution and the US Economy," received widespread media attention. The report was commissioned by multiple fossil fuel organizations that stand to benefit from growth in the oil and gas industry. According to the report, the increase in unconventional oil and natural gas extraction has added an average of $1,200 in discretionary income to each US household in 2012, and now supports 1.2 million jobs projected to increase to 3.3 million by 2020. (Media Matters)
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