Natural gas drilling activity is destroying thousands of acres of forest in Pennsylvania, according to a recent report issued by the U.S. Geological Survey. “This type of extensive and long-term habitat conversion has a greater impact on natural ecosystems than activities such as logging or agriculture, given the great dissimilarity between gas-well pad infrastructure and
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This Week In Natural Gas Leaks and Explosions is exactly what it sounds like: an aggregation of natural gas leaks and explosions compiled from various media reports from around the country. It is not meant to be comprehensive; a report of that nature would run exceedingly long and try the patience of you, the faithful
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A new report from the United States Geological Survey estimates that it will take 110,000 natural gas wells to fully harvest the more than 38 trillion cubic feet of shale gas locked underground in the Utica Shale Play. The Utica Shale Play stretches across parts of Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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A few weeks ago, a group of protesters affiliated with Occupy the Pipeline managed to gain access to the construction site at Gansevoort and the Hudson Parkway, where a massive new natural gas pipeline that will run from New Jersey into lower Manhattan is being laid, and blocked construction of the project for more than
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Just days after a federal agency confirmed data linking hydraulic fracturing to water contamination, a New York State Supreme Court Judge struck down a local ordinance regulating the controversial natural gas drilling technique. On Sept. 28, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) issued a report that unequivocally linked fracking activity to well water contamination in
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