Category Archives: Hydrofracking
Petro Plutocracy: Oil Tycoons Force Firing of EPA Fracking Enforcer
Cross-Posted from EcoWatch Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Last week, the world got a preview of America’s new post Citizens United petro plutocracy with the oil lords flexing their political muscles like oil soaked body builders pumped up on a steroid drip of … Continue reading
Will Fracking Destroy Colorado’s Rivers?
by Gary Wockner, 3/19/12 Cross-Posted from Ecowatch Oil and gas drilling and fracking pose extraordinary threats to Colorado’s Denver metro and Front Range cities including to air quality, water quality in streams and groundwater, wildlife habitat, private property rights and landscape health. … Continue reading
Filed under Climate Change, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Hydrofracking, Pollution, Water
Confirmed: Fracking Caused Ohio Earthquakes
Cross-Posted from CommonDreams, March 9, 2012 The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) has confirmed that a series of earthquakes in the state were caused by injecting leftover fracking fluids, “brine,” deep into wells. ODNR stated today: Geologists believe induced seismic activity is extremely … Continue reading
Fracking and Psychological Operations: Empire Comes Home
by: Steve Horn, 8 March 2012 Cross-Posted from Truthout When among friends, you’re far more likely to air your dirty secrets. A corporate conference held in Houston, Texas, on October 31 to November 1, 2011, titled “Giving Communications Professionals At Unconventional Oil & … Continue reading
Report: Fracking Could Cause a New Global Water Crisis
Cross-Posted from CommonDreams March 7, 2012 “Does the rest of the world want to live this nightmare?” – Common Dreams staff As the oil and gas industry heads more towards hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, to access resources, a … Continue reading
Filed under Climate Change, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Hydrofracking, Water
Fracking, Obama and the 2012 Debate
by Ted Glick, cross-posted from EcoWatch “This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy. . . that develops every available source of American energy. . . We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly one hundred years. . . … Continue reading
Filed under Hydrofracking, politics, Pollution
As Fracking Boom Hits Ohio, Deceptive Industry Practices Squeeze Landowners
by Erika Eichelberger, cross-posted from EcoWatch Ohio is the latest state hit by fracking mania. The process, which requires pushing millions of gallons of water, sand and industrial chemicals into shale wells to fracture rock and push out oil and … Continue reading
Filed under Energy, Hydrofracking
Documentary filmaker Josh Fox, director of “Gasland,” arrested yesterday for filming Congressional subcommittee hearing on fracking (video)
Note: We have been running stories on Climate Connections for the past few weeks about how authorities are stopping people from documenting activities that the public has the right to know. The 1% are very afraid of the truth. They … Continue reading
Filed under Energy, Hydrofracking, Independent Media, Media, Political Repression, Videos
Obama shilling for drilling, backing fracking
by Bill Weinberg, Thu, 01/26/2012 Cross-Posted from World War 4 Report – President Obama in his State of the Union address Jan. 24 said: “We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years, and my administration … Continue reading
Filed under Energy, Hydrofracking, Pollution, Water
Shale-Shocked—Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement
Cross-Posted from Tom Dispatch by Ellen Cantarow This is a story about water, the land surrounding it and the lives it sustains. Clean water should be a right: there is no life without it. New York is what you might call … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Energy, Hydrofracking, Occupy Wall Street, Pollution, Water
