A natural gas leak in Portland, Maine created potentially explosive conditions along a five block stretch beneath one of the city’s major commercial thoroughfares early Sunday morning. According to an incident report obtained by NaturalGasWatch.org, a pedestrian flagged a passing police to report the smell of natural gas near the intersection of Cumberland and Washington
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Spectra Energy, the company seeking permission to construct a massive, new natural gas pipeline that would run between New York City and New Jersey, has been cited by federal regulators for 17 inadequacies in its pipeline safety operations and procedures. According to a June 13 Notice of Amendment from the PHMSA to Spectra, the federal
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Hydraulic fracturing advocates will tell you that fracking, as it has come to be known in the parlance of our times, is completely safe, that thousands upon thousands of wells have been “fracked” in the United States and not one has contributed to contaminated drinking water. Fracking, of course, is the process by which millions
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It’s been a busy week around the country for natural gas leaks and natural gas explosions, so let’s get right to it, then, shall we? In St. Louis, MO, a vacant house exploded on Monday night, blowing and bricks from the building and setting the place on fire. No one was injured. In Ellicott City,
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Talisman Energy may have sent Terry the Friendly Fracosaurus out to pasture, but you can still download a copy of the coloring book that features the natural gas-drilling dinosaur right here at NaturalGasWatch.org. “Talisman Terry’s Energy Adventure” was a 24-page coloring book aimed at children, ostensibly to instruct them in the virtues of hydraulic fracturing,
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Methane concentrations grew so strong following an April 19 blow-out at a natural gas well operated by Chesapeake Energy in northeastern Pennsylvania that the company cleared the area of crew members and equipment in case the facility exploded, according to documents detailing the incident obtained by NaturalGasWatch.org. Following the April 19 blow-out, which sent tens
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The impact of natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing could have a significant and debilitating impact on tourism in the southern part of New York state, according to a new study from a regional planning board there. The study, done by the Cornell University doctoral candidate Andrew Rumbach at the behest of the Southern Tier
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Even though the nation sits atop what many analysts believe are some of the most potentially productive natural gas fields in the world, France has banned the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as it has come to be known in the parlance of our times, according to French media reports. From the French newspaper
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