Methane - the final nail, lest we regulate it: Measuring Fugitive Methane Emissions. Environmental Defense Fund

Measuring Fugitive Methane Emissions
Environmental Defense Fund
What follows is a briefing on the fugitive methane issue, including the range of ... Cornell University professor Robert Howarth has estimated that total ...

A New Paper on Natural Gas as a Bridge Fuel
Council on Foreign Relations
Robert Howarth and colleagues combined high estimates of methane leakage with a focus on 20-year warming potentials to conclude that natural gas is worse ...

Matt Damon Takes On Fracking In Promised Land

Matt Damon Takes On Fracking In Promised Land

WOW. Matt Damon. Fracking. Vid. WOW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5GDuVbXKQ9U

Fracking: Boom or Doom village voice

Fracking: Boom or Doom BY DENISE GROLLMUS

Ask someone like Jon Entine, a science writer for Ethical Corporation, to describe the sort of person who claims hydraulic fracturing presents a pollution nightmare in waiting, and you quickly find yourself pummeled with talk radio invective: "ideological blowhard," "leftist loony," and "upper-middle-class lefties." But none apply to Fred Mayer. When a reporter arrives at his 200-year-old farmhouse on a cloudy June day, one of the first things Mayer asks is: "Do you know who Glenn Beck is? You should really listen to him. Now that man knows what he's talking about." The 62-year-old Vietnam vet's yard in Newark Valley, New York, is full of patriotic flags. His rotund body is covered in ta... more >>

Another Bad Week for Fracking

Another Bad Week for Fracking

Posted: 09 Aug 2012 12:45 PM PDT

It’s been another bad week for fracking. On top of previous studies, a new report has linked this controversial natural gas drilling method to earthquakes in Texas, and another new study has exposed water pollution risks in New York. Nevertheless, a group of federal legislators chose this week to release a letter lobbying for more natural gas exports, which puts them in the unenviable position of advocating for increased risks to U.S. communities.

The Fight For Our Future Woodstock Times

The Fight For Our Future

Woodstock Times - ‎39 minutes ago‎

Fracking for natural gas, mountaintop removal coal mining, nuclear power plants, deep sea drilling, tar sands- all examples of “extreme energies” which are not only destroying communities across the country, polluting the air and water, ...

Like earthquakes? FRACK! thinkprogress

'Remarkable Increase' In U.S. Earthquakes 'Almost Certainly ...

ThinkProgress - ‎2 hours ago‎

By Joe Romm on Apr 6, 2012 at 12:26 pm A US Geological Survey (USGS) team has found that a sharp jump in earthquakes in America's heartland appears to be linked to oil and natural gas drilling operations.