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Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Panel Gets Earful
The Street | Marc Levy
April 28, 2011
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Gov. Tom Corbett's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission heard from dozens of sometimes angry residents Wednesday who said they are worried that the booming natural gas industry is harming public health and destroying the environment, and that the commission will do nothing to change that.
Tagged with: fracking, oil and gas, drilling, pennsylvania, marcellus
Palm Beach Post - Gold jewelers, activists urge clean karat buys
Palm Beach Post | Susan Salisbury
April 22, 2011
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BY: Susan Salisbury PUBLISHED: 04/22/2011 It's hard to believe that the gleaming gold rings, earrings and other jewelry we wear were once part of a rock within the earth. It takes a lot of rock, too. A single gold ring leaves 20 tons of mine waste behind, says Earthworks, an international mining reform group based in Washington. The National Mining Association's spokeswoman Carol Raulston disputes that, saying it's more like 2 tons of rock and dirt per ounce. The United States is the world's fourth-largest producer of gold, trailing South Africa, China and Australia. Nevada produces most U.S. gold. Earthworks says that gold and other metal mines are big polluters, and they're all doing something, if not everything, wrong.
Tagged with: gold, no dirty gold, jewelry retailers
Colorado No. 2 in carcinogen-laced “fracking” fluids
Denver Post | Allison Sherry
April 22, 2011
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WASHINGTON — Colorado ranked second only to Texas in terms of the number of gallons of carcinogen-laced "fracking" fluids used in oil and gas extraction between 2005 and 2009, according to congressional Democrats.
A 30-page House Energy and Commerce report — the second release in an investigation into hydraulic fracturing — shows that 1.5 million gallons of fracking fluids containing a carcinogen were used in Colorado in that time, compared with 3.8 million gallons in Texas and 1 million in Oklahoma. The report does not show the concentrations of those chemicals or that the carcinogens, including naphthalene and benzene, have endangered drinking water near the drilling sites in Colorado.
Tagged with: fracking, ogap, public health, colorado, chemicals
Argyle Gas Well Drilling Controversy
CW 33 | Ashley Roberts
April 22, 2011
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Argyle —
About a year ago, the Town of Argyle gave companies like Williams Production and Hillwood International Energy the green light to drill on its gas wells. But now, some residents are worrying how this could be affecting their countryside community, including Dezra Edwards, who has lived here for four years. Lately she’s been questioning the quality of life here.
Tagged with: fracking, oil and gas, drilling, texas
Texas Oil & Gas Accountability Project seeks more drilling oversight
Star-Telegram | Jack Smith
April 15, 2011
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The Texas Oil & Gas Accountability Project issued a report Thursday calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to oversee regulation of air emissions from oil and natural gas exploration and production equipment in the state.
In the meantime, the report said, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality "must significantly step up its currently inadequate efforts to protect public health by strictly enforcing emission limits from oil and gas exploration and production equipment."
Tagged with: ogap, drilling, public health, texas, air pollution
White Mountains rec area not a mining pit
FAIRBANKS — Could the White Mountains National Recreation Area become a mining district? The Bureau of Land Management is considering a management alternative that could make this a reality. On March 5, I attended BLM’s public meeting at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center to listen and voice my concerns about potential mining in the White Mountains NRA. I wasn’t the only one.
Tagged with: mining, alaska, blm
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