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Workers release carbon-dioxide vapor after 'fracking' a natural-gas well in eastern New Mexico. Source: arch1design
While the BP oil spill has increased calls to use natural gas as a so-called ‘clean energy’ alternative, activists are sounding the alarm bell about this controversial gas drilling technique – hydraulic fracturing.
This week, we’ll hear excerpts from the movie “Gasland.” We’ll also hear from people from Pennsylvania to the mountains of Colorado who are trying to prevent the toxic fallout from ‘fracking’ before it starts.
Special thanks to Josh Fox, the producer of ‘Gasland,’ and to Alton Byrd and Rachel Zurer for helping to produce this show.
Featuring:
Walter Hang, Toxics Targeting President; Josh Fox, ‘Gasland’ movie producer; Weston Wilson, EPA employee not speaking on behalf of the EPA; Oil and gas industry executives; Pat Farnelli, Norma Fiorintino, Ron & Jean Carter, Dimock, PA residents; Dr. Theo Colborn, Endocrine Disruption Exchange President; Paul Light, Grand Valley Citizen’s Alliance President; Rachel Waldholz, High Country News Correspondent; Maurice Hinchey, New York State Representative, 22nd District; Wes Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper Program Director.
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In Absence of Federal Regulation, Locals Challenge ‘Fracking’
When hydraulic fracturing makes it to HBO primetime, it’s pretty fair to say there’s buzz. But while viewers got the chance to kick back and relax to Josh Fox’s “Gasland” last June, political leaders and ordinary citizens across the country have been working hard to prevent the film’s grim scenarios from spreading. They’re having some success, partly because of increased publicity for the dangers of fracking. In March, the Environmental Protection Agency agreed to reassess the impact of hydraulic fracking on drinking water. Their study should be complete by 2012. Rachel Zurer has more on citizen initiatives to stop the negative impacts of hydraulic fractures — ideally, before they even start.
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For more information:
Battlement Concerned Citizens:
A Committee of Grand Valley Citizens Alliance
Videos, Blogs, Articles, Links:
Report: Marcellus reserves worth $2 trillion
Colorado launches one of the nation’s first health assessments of gas-drilling impacts
Exposing the Natural Gas Industry’s Attempt to Silence Its Critics–Alternet
EPA frac study: What the beginning may say about the end
ProPublica’s extensive coverage of fracking issues:
www.propublica.org/special/hydraulic-fracturing
www.propublica.org/feature/a-reporters-journey-through-the-gas-fields
Scoping Materials for Initial Design of EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Research Study
EPA takes new look at gas drilling, water issues
Video clip of lighting Divide Creek on fire
Rachel Waldholz talks with High Country News editors about Battlement Mesa and fracking
Fracking protest in Albany, NY
Video on Sublette County, Michigan hydrofracking
Kill the Drill: A Call for a Statewide Ban on Gas Fracking in NY
Safe Water Movement to Ban Toxic Gas Drilling in NY
2009 Report by New York City Borough President Scott M. Stringer on hydrofracking
Congress Considers Fracking Regulation Amid Hodgepodge of State Drilling Rules
Weekly Mulch: As risks for oil and gas grow, USSF offers change
Posted Jun 25, 2010 by Sarah Laskow
