Opponents of hydraulic fracturing say the new rules proposed by the federal Bureau of Land Management yesterday afternoon weaken existing requirements and create loopholes that will allow drilling companies to run amok on public lands. If you enjoy the content and coverage you get here at NaturalGasWatch.org, please take a moment to click on one
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We have gotten several inquiries from curious readers seeking more information about the explosions that shook Mobile, Alabama, recently because they have been referred to as natural gas explosions – which is technically true, but not in the sense that one might think. Ed. Note – If you enjoy the coverage and content you receive
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Gasland Part II, the long-anticipated follow-up to the Academy Award-nominated Gasland, from acclaimed filmmaker Josh Fox, will makes its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 21, NaturalGasWatch.org has learned. Ed. Note – If you appreciate and enjoy the content you get here at NaturalGasWatch.org, please take a moment
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If you’re a regular reader of NaturalGasWatch.org — and there are thousands of you — you know that NaturalGasWatch.org is one of the few organizations that refuses to take at face value the PR spin the natural gas industry tries to pass off as fact. And for that, we take a lot of heat …
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Here’s something that might scare the bejesus out of everyone who is concerned about the integrity of our nation’s natural gas infrastructure. Why? Because federal pipeline safety regulations leave natural gas pipeline inspections in large part to the natural gas industry; when it comes to inspecting pipelines for leaks, they are pretty much on their
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If you’ve ever tried to track data about pipeline safety, you’ve probably come to the conclusion that meaningful information is often elusive, buried deep within a federal website that’s difficult to use and seemingly constructed for insiders. ProPublica, the independent, non-profit news agency that has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s primary sources
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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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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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Researchers at the United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) have released a report documenting and assessing substantial “undiscovered” natural gas and oil resources  that extend well up the East Coast of the United States, as far as western Massachusetts and central Connecticut. “The geology indicates that many of the coal beds and shale basins may be
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The University of Texas is reacting swiftly to contain the mounting public relations damage done by a supposedly “independent” analysis of hydraulic fracturing that declared, “there is at present little or no evidence of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing of shales at normal depths” — a  document that was in fact co-written by a UT
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