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Blockade at PA Fracking Site Highlights Risks to Farms and Food
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 27th, 2013
EcoWatch: Residents of Western Pennsylvania and friends of Lawrence County farmer Maggie Henry locked themselves to a giant paper-mache pig today in the entrance to a Shell natural gas well site in order to protest the company’s threat to local agriculture and food safety. The newly-constructed gas well is located at 1545 PA Route 108, Bessemer, PA , 16102, less than 4,000 feet from Henry’s organic pig farm.
The farm has been in the Henry family for generations and has been maintained as a small business...
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Comments Off on Blockade at PA Fracking Site Highlights Risks to Farms and Food200,000+ Comments Delivered to DOE Criticizing Economic Study on Natural Gas Exports
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 25th, 2013
EcoWatch: Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, CREDO, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Food & Water Watch and Sierra Club delivered more than 200,000 public comments, including extensive technical comments and a companion economic analysis report, along with a letter signed by 80 organization to the Department of Energy (DOE) expressing outrage over an economic study on exporting natural gas overseas that it is reviewing.
Yesterday was the last day to submit public comments to the DOE on the economic study,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on 200,000+ Comments Delivered to DOE Criticizing Economic Study on Natural Gas ExportsFighting Unregulated Fracking in California
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: The Center for Biological Diversity went to court today to compel California regulators to enforce an existing state law that should protect people and the environment from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a rapidly spreading new method of oil and gas extraction. The lawsuit filed this morning in Alameda County Superior Court says the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources has allowed fracking to expand without legally required oversight.
California law applies safeguards and...
Groups Initiate Federal Court Battle to Stop Illegal Coal Pollution
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: Last March 22 on world water day, Waterkeepers all over the world took action to fight for swimmable, fishable and drinkable waters. Each Waterkeeper chose the issues they felt were the greatest concern to the health of their local community and waterway. The French Broad Riverkeeper and the Western North Carolina Alliance decided to spend world water day gathering hundreds of community members together to call for an end to air and water pollution from the Progress Energy coal fired power plant...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Groups Initiate Federal Court Battle to Stop Illegal Coal PollutionFracking and Farmland
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) has launched new webpages, Fracking and Farmland: Stories from the Field, that provide the personal stories of farmers concerned about Ohio’s booming fracking industry and illustrations of how oil and gas extraction could impact Ohio’s food producers.
High-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as "fracking," is a method of oil and gas extraction that injects millions of gallons of water laced with toxic chemicals and...
Pennsylvania Fracking Wastewater Likely to Overwhelm Ohio Injection Wells
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 23rd, 2013
EcoWatch: The total amount of fracking wastewater from natural gas production in Pennsylvania`s Marcellus shale region has increased by about 570 percent since 2004, as a result of increased shale gas production, according to a study released yesterday by researchers at Duke and Kent State universities.
Though hydraulically fractured natural gas wells in the Marcellus shale region produce only about 35 percent as much wastewater, per unit of gas recovered, as conventional wells, according to the new analysis,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Pennsylvania Fracking Wastewater Likely to Overwhelm Ohio Injection WellsSierra Club to Engage in Civil Disobedience for First Time in Organization’s History to Stop Tar Sands
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 23rd, 2013
EcoWatch: If you could do it nonstop, it would take you six days to walk from Henry David Thoreau`s Walden Pond to President Barack Obama`s White House. For the Sierra Club, that journey has taken much longer. For 120 years, we have remained committed to using every "lawful means" to achieve our objectives. Now, for the first time in our history, we are prepared to go further.
Next month, the Sierra Club will officially participate in an act of peaceful civil resistance. We`ll be following in the hallowed...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Sierra Club to Engage in Civil Disobedience for First Time in Organization’s History to Stop Tar SandsGroups Demand Fracking Chemical Info
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 22nd, 2013
EcoWatch: In an effort to help protect the public from exposure to toxic chemicals, the Powder River Basin Resource Council, Wyoming Outdoor Council, Earthworks and Center for Effective Government (formerly OMB Watch) went to court today to ask a judge to require the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC) to disclose information about chemicals used during the controversial oil and gas development process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Under regulations approved in 2010, Wyoming...
New Report Shows Inextricable Link Between Food, Water and Energy
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 14th, 2013
EcoWatch: Food, water and energy systems are inextricably linked, and as recent events like droughts, oil spills and increasing food prices make clear, the U.S. can no longer view these systems in isolation. A new paper from the GRACE Communications Foundation explains that when the food, water and energy nexus becomes unbalanced, there are clear consequences for public health, our economy and the environment. The paper, Food, Water and Energy: Know the Nexus, describes how and where these systems intersect,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on New Report Shows Inextricable Link Between Food, Water and EnergyFederal Scientists Detail Stronger Evidence of Global Warming in National Climate Assessment
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 12th, 2013
EcoWatch: A map depicts temperature changes over the past 20 years, compared to the average between 1901 and 1960. "The period from 2001 to 2011 was warmer than any previous decade in every region," according to the National Climate Assessment.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released its draft National Climate Assessment on Jan. 11, just a week after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed the U.S. experienced its warmest year on record.
According to the Letter...
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