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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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As always, it’s been a busy week in the world of natural gas leaks and natural gas explosions, but this past few days some tremendous work being done in the mainstream media documenting the extent to which the natural gas industry has co-opted the regulatory processes that are supposed to safeguard the public health and
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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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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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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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Two days ago, the International Energy Agency issued a report that declared the world could be on the verge of the “Golden Age of Natural Gas,” citing increasing demand and concerns about nuclear power as two of the factors that have laid the groundwork for this glorious era-to-be. The report stated that demand for the
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