New York is a lab rat for testing hydrofracturing
Now, the world’s largest drilling fluid supplier is licensing new technologies that have never before been used on a large scale as they work to develop more effective ways to extract natural gas. These new fluids will include nanotechnology, according to the largest supplier of drilling fluids in the world. This potential application of nanotechnology, a branch of science involving the technological manipulation of particles about one-tenth the size of a human cell, has not been thoroughly vetted and tested in natural gas wells.
via The Marcellus Shale: New York is the Natural Gas Industry’s New Lab Rat.
“Frac Attack” movie premiers in Ithaca, NY Dec. 12
When the town of Ithaca, New York gets fracked by natural gas drilling, the water goes sour and the citizens start craving human flesh. Anna and other survivors band together to save their community. Come one, come all, to the World Premiere of the environmental zombie short Frac Attack: Dawn of the Watershed at Cinemapolis!
7:00 Family Screening
7:30 Q&A with Filmmakers
8:00 R-Rated
After Party TBA
$5-10 suggested donation
Tickets at the door – come early!
Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green St, Ithaca, NY
via Shaleshock.org » Blog Archive » 12/10: Frac Attack World Premiere at Cinemapolis.
Dimock Residents Describes Sickness Caused by Hydrofracking (video)
“They got sick in August. It was before school started. I thought it was just a bug and was trying to get them over it before school started. It didn’t go away and kept going until November and December. They had very severe stomach cramps and would throw up or have diarrhea, one or the other other. I was having problems with the water myself. One of my cats would throw up every time she drank the water inside, so we started using other water. This was reinforced by one of my neighbors telling me that one of my neighbors water wells had gone bad, and this was before Norma’s well had blown up. I started putting things together saying, my kids don’t get sick at school but they get sick at home.”
Just last week, the 15 families filed a lawsuit against Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation for allegedly causing a number of problems, including ruining their water supply.
Susquehanna County Residents Sue Cabot (video)
Families in Susquehanna County are suing a natural gas drilling company.
Fifteen families initially signed on to gas drilling plans with hopes for a bright financial future but now they say they are fed up with one drilling company.
About 50 people came together in Susquehanna County, only a few hundred feet from a drilling platform, to announce their lawsuit against Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation.
“There are elderly people involved, children involved. These are people of modest, modest means who have been snookered by Cabot,” said Leslie Lewis, a lawyer for the group.
Rage of Nature: Documentary (video)
The film the Rage of Nature follows director Josh Fox on his odyssey out West, as he encounters natural gas drilling activists, advocates & victims. Then we return with him back East, as he tries to stop the oncoming tide of natural gas drilling from slamming Pennsylvania and New York. We can’t let natural gas interests hijack our transition to clean energy, while drilling continues to go unchecked, destroying our health, our air & our water.
Hydraulic Fracturing in WY (video)
Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica takes FLYP readers on a journey through Sublette County, Wyo. to take a tour of the wells and hear the voices of residents and experts on the issue. Read the full st…
“Kill The Drill” PSA (video)
Watch live: DEC Chenango Bridge hearings, 7 p.m. Thursday
Live video at the link below:
Public hearing in Oneonta on gas drilling (video)
The city of Oneonta and Otsego County held a public hearing Monday night about natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale.
Gas drilling is a new, and potentially very profitable industry for New York. Many property owners around Otsego County have signed leases and drilling has begun on two wells. Monday’s meeting was for residents to voice their concerns about drilling.
Cooperstown resident Lou Allsteadt has spent 31 years working in the oil and gas industry. The former Executive Vice-President of Mobil Oil says he is shocked the New York State DEC has been so lax regulating drilling in the Marcellus Shale. He says the state needs to tighten the reigns on the gas industry.
Ignitable Drinking Water Above Marcellus Shale (video)
Ignitable Drinking Water From a Well in Candor, New York, Located Above the Marcellus Shale Formation
NY Drilling Regs “Woefully Insufficient” (video)
New York State Regulation of Natural Gas Wells Has Been “Woefully Insufficient for Decades.”
The New York-based Toxics Targeting went through the Department of Environmental Conservation’s own database of hazardous substances spills over the past thirty years. They found 270 cases documenting fires, explosions, wastewater spills, well contamination and ecological damage related to gas drilling. Many of the cases remain unresolved. The findings are contrary to repeated government assurances that existing natural gas well regulations are sufficient to safeguard the environment and public health. The state is considering allowing for gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale watershed, the source of drinking water for 15 million people, including nine million New Yorkers.
Drilling for Gas… Polluting Water… Caution! (video)
Arkansas has been inundated with Natural Gas / Shale Drilling. Elected officials in Arkansas have been negligent in supervising this activity. This video serves as a wake up call.
What will natural gas hydrofracking look like? (video)
A drilling operation in Pennsylvania:
Dunkard Creek and Marcellus Shale (video)
Dunkard Creek photos from September 24, 2009 combined with other photos of Marcellus Shale gas drilling activities including Residual Waste tankers and gas well flaring.
Toxic Frack Fluids (video)
Portion of lecture describing some of the toxins associated with the use of horizontal hydraulic fracturing in natural gas wells.
Structure of Hydrofracked Wells (video)
Portion of a lecture describing how a hydraulic hydrofracturing natural gas well is cased, where the casings are located, and why casing might fail.
Radiation in Hydrofracked Wells (video)
Portion of a lecture about hydraulic fracturing in natural gas wells. Could this technology bring radioactive materials to the surface?
Pit Contamination Issues (video)
Portion of a lecture describing a number of possible environmental issues with high volume horizontal hydrofracking in gas wells.
Toxic Frack Fluids (video)
Portion of lecture describing some of the toxins associated with the use of horizontal hydraulic fracturing in natural gas wells.
Why Hydrofracking in Shales is Different (video)
Portion of lecture covering the process of horizontal hydraulic fracturing of natural gas in black shale and the problems associated with this type of drilling.
Geoscience & Mining Graphics, 3D Animations, Illustrations, Websites
Site includes a video that illustrates basic idea of horizontal drilling:
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via Geoscience and Mining Graphics, 3D Animations, Illustrations, Websites.
95% safety record for fracking not safe enough (video)
Portion of a lecture describing why a 95% safety record for gas well fracking may not be safe enough.
Hydraulic fracturing described by industry (video)
Peppy music with coronets sounding progress and a calm voice of authority explaining the basic concept of the drilling method in this professional animation:
Forward To Eden Natural Gas Extraction (videos)
A YouTube channel:
Natural gas extraction means much more than just gas wells and pipelines. It also means gas processing plants and propane strippers. All these various installations make bad neighbors.
Gas drilling with horizontal drilling/hydraulic fracturing uses huge amounts of diesel & vast quantities of water deliberately contaminated with extremely toxic chemicals. And that’s just for starters.
This isn’t a NIMBY thing. This stuff shouldn’t be happening in *anybody’s* backyard. No one should lose their water, their air, their health, and whatever peace & quiet they had, for the sake of corporate profits. (O&G executives, investors, marketing & PR people: If drilling for natural gas is as benign as you claim, then, hey, drill in your *own* backyards, not somebody else’s.) That, folks, would be the end of drilling.
Gas industry shill’s claim of swigging fracking fluid hard to swallow – The Denver Post
The gas industry has taken drinking the Kool-Aid to an absurd new level.
A lobbyist with the Colorado Oil and Gas Association appears in a new film defending the safety of the compounds blasted underground to free up wells, a process known as “fracking.”
“I have fracking fluid taken right out of a fracking truck. I’ve had it in my mouth. I’ve tasted it. And I’m just fine,” says Kathy Hall in “Split Estate,” a documentary that premiered over the weekend.
Let me start by noting this is Hall’s stunt — no one asked if she’d taken a swig — not mine. (I must admit, though, I’ve spent a good bit of time wondering how much COGA paid for her mouthful of highly toxic industrial fluids.)
“It’s nothing you’d want to put in your mouth. That’s as foolish as drinking raw sewage — and probably far more dangerous,” says Dr. Theo Colborn of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange, a Paonia-based group studying the health effects of drilling.
Split Estate screening in Ithaca 10/23/09
10/23 7 pm free screening at Unitarian Church of Ithaca, 306 North Aurora Street, co sponsored by the Unitarian-Universalist Social Justice Council and Shaleshock. Followed by discussion and presentation of information about impacts of gas drilling in Marcellus Shale
via Shaleshock.org » Blog Archive » Split Estate screening in Ithaca.
Split Estate screening in Ithaca 11/3/09
11/3 7 pm Cornell Cinema Uris Hall with an introduction by Shaleshock representative Helen Slottje
The natural gas drilling boom hit the midwest with promised of big money and promises of a clean alternative to fossil fuels. The reality has been far more complicated, with landowners forced to accept drilling rigs right outside their front doors, groundwater becoming contaminated, and public health issues, especially among children. Split Estate focuses on Garfield County, Colorado, where the breathtaking panoramas and clear mountain water are threatened by an industry that is exempt from federal protections like the Clean Water Act , and where one resident demonstrates the degree of benzene contamination by setting a stream alight with a match. A cautionary tale, and one that is all the more important to hear now, and in the Finger Lakes, as gas companies prepare for a massive hydro-fracking push throughout our area. “This film is of value to anyone wrestling with rational, sustainable energy policy while preserving the priceless elements of cultural heritage, private enterprise above-ground, and the precious health not only of people but the land itself.” (Gov. Bill Richardson, New Mexico)
2009, color, 1 hour 16 minutes, USA
via Shaleshock.org » Blog Archive » Split Estate screening in Ithaca.
Film paints picture of fracking
On a crisp September day near the interstate bridge in Narrowsburg, theater director-turned-filmmaker Josh Fox showed his film, “Water Under Attack,” on the back of a 1973 mobile home transformed into moveable movie theater.
via Film paints poor picture of fracking | recordonline.com.
“Split Estate” Video Halts Action on Critical Vote in CO
This compelling documentary shows the dirty side of natural gas, an energy source the industry touts as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. Upstate New York, Pennsylvania, and Colorado are just a few of the many states threatened by new development. The film is triggering explosive debate at sneak preview screenings in industry communities.
via New Documentary Split Estate Halts Action on Critical Vote in Colorado County.
Dirty Secret of Natural Gas Caught on Video
YouTube – Dirty Secret Caught on Video.
Think natural gas is a “clean” energy?
Watch this official video footage from TCEQ showing fugitive emissions at Barnett Shale gas well sites and reconsider.
Fracking and the Environment: Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Contamination
Gas drilling companies such as Halliburton say the gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is safe, but opponents contend it pollutes groundwater with dangerous substances. Now, new evidence has emerged possibly linking natural gas drilling to groundwater contamination. ProPublica journalist Abrahm Lustgarten reports federal officials in Wyoming have found that at least three water wells contain chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. [includes rush transcript]
via Fracking and the Environment: Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Contamination.
Split Estate – the documentary
“’Split Estate’ is an eye-opening examination of the consequences and conflicts that can arise between surface land owners in the western United States, and those who own and extract the energy and mineral rights below. This film is of value to anyone wrestling with rational, sustainable energy policy while preserving the priceless elements of cultural heritage, private enterprise above-ground, and the precious health not only of people but the land itself.”
Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico
What the Natural Gas Industries Do to Your Land | OtegoNY.com
You can trust the gas company and their flunkeys, and you can trust some little lawyer, or you can see what happens to community after community and trust the truth.
Listen to the first words this landowner says, “This was very easy to figure out – it was a cover-up. And the DEP did nothing.”
via What the Natural Gas Industries Do to Your Land | OtegoNY.com.
Fracking Up the Whole World
’cause you ain’t been fracked good and proper til you’ve been fracked by Halliburton.
Video showing hydraulic fracture:
via Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS: Fracking Up the Whole World.
Students asked to make environmental DVD | stargazette.com | Star-Gazette
The Carantouan Greenway is challenging local students to prepare a DVD and 15- to 20-minute presentation on a local environmental issue.
The contest is open to a student or group of students, from freshmen to seniors, who attend high schools in Tioga (N.Y.) and Chemung counties and Bradford County.
Home-school students and resident students in out-of-county schools are eligible.
The topic is “Fragmentation effects on our forest lands and forest land habitat as a result of drilling for and transporting gas from the Marcellus Shale beds.”
According to Marty Borko, Carantouan Greenway president, the presentations will be judged by Tioga and Bradford county “public servants.”
The best presentation will be awarded $500. If more than three are submitted, there will be a second place award of $200.
Submissions must be received by the Carantouan Greenway by June 1.
A public presentation of entries will be held at the end of June. The Carantouan Greenway may use the entries for educational purposes, Borko said.
The Carantouan Greenway is a land trust and environmental educational organization.
Information: Call Borko at (607) 565-2636.
via Students asked to make environmental DVD | stargazette.com | Star-Gazette.
Team 4 Investigation: Brine – Pittsburgh News Story – WTAE Pittsburgh
More than 10 million gallons of brine were sprayed on roads last year and some believe it’s nothing less than legalized dumping of a hazardous waste.
Brine is used to control dust on dirt and gravel roads only in the western part of Pennsylvania, because this is where all of the oil and gas wells are located and as the drilling increases, so does the brine spreading.
via Team 4 Investigation: Brine – Pittsburgh News Story – WTAE Pittsburgh.
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