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Global Frackdown 2 Calls for a Worldwide Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on October 7th, 2013
EcoWatch: On Oct. 19, people from around the world will unite for a day of action to protest fracking. A project of Food & Water Watch, the second annual Global Frackdown will bring thousands of people together that are calling for an international ban on fracking.
Filmmaker Josh Fox calls on concerned citizens around the world to join together for the Global Frackdown event in the video below.
According to Global Frackdown, the anti-fracking movement has grown exponentially since the event last year,...
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Comments Off on Global Frackdown 2 Calls for a Worldwide Ban on Hydraulic FracturingIn Wake of Colorado Flooding, U.S. Reps Call for Hearing on Oil and Gas Spills
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on October 7th, 2013
EcoWatch: Two House Democrats, Rep. Polis (D-CO) and Rep. DeFazio (D-OR), have called on the House Natural Resources Committee to investigate numerous oil and gas spills during Colorado’s devastating floods in September. The hearing would call on members of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) and local elected officials to share their assessments of the damage the flooding has caused--and may cause in the future.
In a letter to committee Chairman...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on In Wake of Colorado Flooding, U.S. Reps Call for Hearing on Oil and Gas SpillsRadioactive Water From Fracking Found in Pennsylvania Creek According to Duke Study
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on October 4th, 2013
EcoWatch: A Duke University study published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, found dangerously high levels of radiation in a creek near a drilling wastewater treatment facility in Pennsylvania.
The study, Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater Disposal on Water Quality in Western Pennsylvania, was conducted over a period of two years from the summer of 2010 to the fall of 2012 and analyzed water samples discharged downstream of the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility into Blacklick...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Radioactive Water From Fracking Found in Pennsylvania Creek According to Duke StudyGroundbreaking Report Calculates Damage Done by Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on October 3rd, 2013
EcoWatch: As federal policy makers decide on rules for fracking on public lands, a new report calculates the toll of this dirty drilling on our environment, including 280 billion gallons of toxic wastewater generated by fracking in 2012--enough to flood all of Washington, DC, in a 22-foot deep toxic lagoon. The Environment America Research & Policy Center report, Fracking by the Numbers, is the first to measure the damaging footprint of fracking to date.
“The numbers don`t lie--fracking has taken a dirty...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Groundbreaking Report Calculates Damage Done by FrackingColorado Rivers Illustrate Realities of Extreme Weather Activated by Climate Change
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 27th, 2013
EcoWatch: The river raced. I was standing near the bridge on College Avenue over the Cache la Poudre River in Fort Collins, CO. Due to the torrential rainstorms, the river had peaked about six hours earlier in the middle of the night, but it was still flowing about 100 times bigger than it usually does in September. A huge tree raged along in the floodwaters, smacked up against the bridge with a cracking sound, and then disappeared under the bridge. Spectators oohed and aahed–a couple dozen of us were watching,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Colorado Rivers Illustrate Realities of Extreme Weather Activated by Climate ChangeAs Scientists Warn About Climate Change, Russia Eyes Vast Frack Reserves
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 26th, 2013
EcoWatch: So tomorrow is the day.
The day that the world’s leading scientists will announce they are more certain than ever that humans are changing the climate.
The report will be met with a frothing load of bile from the usual skeptics linked to a network of right wing think tanks such as the Heartland Institute in the U.S., the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the UK or right-leaning newspapers, many of whom are linked to a certain Mr. Rupert Murdoch.
The skeptical response is nothing new and...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on As Scientists Warn About Climate Change, Russia Eyes Vast Frack ReservesFracking Victims Demand EPA Reopen Investigations into Poisoned Drinking Water and Explosive Homes
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 26th, 2013
EcoWatch: Residents personally harmed by gas drilling and fracking held a press conference in front of the White House yesterday and delivered 250,000 petition signatures from concerned citizens across the U.S. to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy at EPA headquarters. The residents--including Ray Kemble from Pennsylvania, Steve Lipsky and Shelly Perdue from Texas and John Fenton from Wyoming--were all part of the EPA fracking investigations in their respective states that the...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Fracking Victims Demand EPA Reopen Investigations into Poisoned Drinking Water and Explosive HomesState Department Ignores Keystone XL Impact on Endangered Species
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 25th, 2013
EcoWatch: A new analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) finds that the State Department’s review of the Keystone XL pipeline woefully underestimates the impacts it would have on some of America’s most endangered species, including whooping cranes, northern swift foxes, piping plovers, pallid sturgeon, American burying beetles and others. The study found that State Department failed to fully consider the impacts that oil spills, power lines, habitat destruction, construction disturbances and expanded...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on State Department Ignores Keystone XL Impact on Endangered SpeciesFracking and Flooding in Colorado: The More We Know the Worse It Gets
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) reported three new spills today from damaged oil and gas wells caused by the torrential rains and subsequent flooding that continues to batter the state of Colorado.
Oil workers try to lift a storage tank for condensate that was knocked over by floodwaters from the Platte River at an oil well site near LaSalle, CO, on Friday, Sept. 20. Condensate is the mix of oil and water that is pumped out of the ground. The tank was intact and had not...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Fracking and Flooding in Colorado: The More We Know the Worse It GetsToxic Algae Plagues U.S
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: Summer should be a time for fishing, boating and swimming with family on our nation’s lakes. Yet instead of fresh clear waters, many are encountering mats of thick blue-green harmful algal blooms (HABs)--also known as toxic algae.
A new, first-of-its-kind national online map by the communications firm Resource Media shows that 21 states across the U.S. have issued health advisories and warnings related to harmful algal blooms at 147 different locations on lakes, rivers and ponds this summer. ...