A study of the drinking water in Wyoming released by the federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday directly connects hydraulic fracturing — or fracking, as it has come to be known in the parlance of our times — by the natural gas industry to water contamination there. From the EPA’s press release: EPA constructed two deep
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A few weeks ago, on Oct. 30, NaturalGasWatch.org had the chance to sit down with “Gasland” producer and director Josh Fox to talk about the natural gas industry in America, how it’s affecting the environment and “Gasland II,” which is currently in production. Fox had just finished up a teach-in on fracking at the Occupy
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When it comes to the federal government, it sometimes seems as if the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. A case in point: the massive new natural gas pipeline that Spectra Energy has proposed to build through New Jersey and under the Hudson River, into lower Manhattan, where it would bring shale
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A few weeks ago, on Oct. 30, NaturalGasWatch.org had the chance to sit down with “Gasland” producer and director Josh Fox to talk about the natural gas industry in America, how it’s affecting the environment and “Gasland II,” which is currently in production. Fox had just finished up a teach-in on fracking at the Occupy
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A couple of weeks ago, “Gasland” producer Josh Fox was kind enough to sit down with NaturalGasWatch.org for a wide-ranging conversation about energy, geopolitics, “Gasland II” and a bunch of other cool stuff. The original intent was to simply transcribe the recorded conversation and roll it out here in easily digestible 400-500 word chunks —
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Normally, NaturalGasWatch.org tries to stay away from simply “repositioning” material that appears out of other media outlets, concentrating instead on original, document-based reporting. But every once in a while, something comes down the line that makes it worthwhile to set that rule aside — and this is one of those times. Of course, it helps
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