EARTHWORKS Library
Real costs of oil and gas noise abatement
PUBLICATION DATE: December 5, 2005
AUTHOR: Lisa Sumi
SUMMARY: This is a chart containing cost information related to mitigating noise from oil and gas operations
Overview of Oil and Gas Field Chemicals and Monitoring
PUBLICATION DATE: November 22, 2005
AUTHOR: Wilma Subra
SUMMARY: Presentation at the 2005 People's Oil and Gas Summit: Toxics in Our Communities
Overview of Oil and Gas Field Chemicals and Monitoring
PUBLICATION DATE: November 22, 2005
AUTHOR: Wilma Subra
SUMMARY: Presentation at the 2005 People's Oil and Gas Summit: Toxics in Our Communities
Restoring Public Trust in Pipeline Safety
PUBLICATION DATE: November 4, 2005
AUTHOR: Carl Weimer
SUMMARY: Pipelines 101: Presentation 1.
Produced Water From Oil and Gas Production
PUBLICATION DATE: November 4, 2005
AUTHOR: Lisa Sumi
SUMMARY: Produced Water Issues: Presentation 1.
Evaluating Environmental Health Concerns
PUBLICATION DATE: November 4, 2005
AUTHOR: Gina Solomon, M.D., M.P.H.
SUMMARY: Introduction to Environmental Health Issues: Presentation 1.
Community Health Risk Assessment: A Case Study
PUBLICATION DATE: November 3, 2005
AUTHOR: Teresa Coons, Ph.D.
SUMMARY: Assessing Human Health Risk
Methane Migration from Seeps and Abandoned Wells
PUBLICATION DATE: November 3, 2005
AUTHOR: Dan Randolph
Overview of Drilling, Completion, and Production; and Potential Contamination Issues
PUBLICATION DATE: November 3, 2005
AUTHOR: Jim Heneghan, P.E.
SUMMARY: Exploration, Production and Underground Wastes: Presentation 1
Subsurface Transport of Oilfield Wastes
PUBLICATION DATE: November 3, 2005
AUTHOR: Don Neeper, Ph.D.
SUMMARY: Exploration, Production and Underground Wastes: Presentation 2
Oil and Gas Field Pipelines
PUBLICATION DATE: November 3, 2005
AUTHOR: Lois Epstein, P.E.
SUMMARY: Pipelines 101: Presentation 2
Natural Gas Development: A Public Health Concern
PUBLICATION DATE: November 3, 2005
AUTHOR: Theo Colborn, Ph.D.
SUMMARY: Introduction to Environmental Health: Presentation 2.
A Bit About Air
PUBLICATION DATE: November 3, 2005
AUTHOR: Charlene Anderson
SUMMARY: Air Emissions Presentation
Coalbed Methane Industry: Produced Water and Toxics Issues
PUBLICATION DATE: November 3, 2005
AUTHOR: Erin Sexton
SUMMARY: Produced Water Issues: Presentation 2
No Dirty Gold Retailers Ad in National Jeweler
PUBLICATION DATE: October 11, 2005
AUTHOR: No Dirty Gold campaign
SUMMARY: Ad ran in the October 16th, 2005 edition of National Jeweler magazine.
Noise and Oil and Gas Development in Colorado
PUBLICATION DATE: September 6, 2005
AUTHOR: Lisa Sumi
SUMMARY: A presentation at the September, 2005 Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Noise Hearing
Sierrita Mine, AZ Aquifer Protection Permit, EARTHWORKS Comments
PUBLICATION DATE: August 22, 2005
AUTHOR: Roger Featherstone
SUMMARY: Earthworks urges the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to fix the major flaws in the Sierrita APP and re-circulate an improved draft for additional public comment.
OGAP/SJCA Colorado Noise Rule Submission
PUBLICATION DATE: August 9, 2005
AUTHOR: Lisa Sumi
SUMMARY: This document is the Oil and Gas Accountability Project (OGAP)and San Juan Citizens Alliance (SJCA) submission regarding recommended changes to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission's rule on noise from oil and gas operations.
Kensington “Fill” Permit
PUBLICATION DATE: July 5, 2005
AUTHOR: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District
SUMMARY: This U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit authorizes Coeur Alaska, under the Clean Water Act, to dump mine waste into Lower Slate Lake in the Tongass National Forest.
Improving the Competitiveness of America’s Mining Industry
PUBLICATION DATE: April 28, 2005
AUTHOR: Lauren Pagel
SUMMARY: The rhetoric of much of the hardrock mining industry does not match reality. Under the 1872 Mining Law, the hardrock mining industry has more access to public lands than any other extractive industry, and less regulation.
Comments Opposing Renewal of Barrick Goldstrike Air Quality Permit
PUBLICATION DATE: April 28, 2005
AUTHOR: Western Mining Action Project
SUMMARY: Western Mining Action Project, writing on behalf of EARTHWORKS and Great Basin Mine Watch
Our Drinking Water at Risk
PUBLICATION DATE: April 7, 2005
AUTHOR: Lisa Sumi
SUMMARY: OGAP has prepared a critique of an EPA study that found that hydraulic fracturing does not pose a threat to drinking water. For a number of reasons, outlined in the OGAP report, the EPA study is inadequate.
Evaluation of human health and ecological impacts in Buyat and Totok Bays, Indonesia
PUBLICATION DATE: March 10, 2005
AUTHOR: Amy Crook
SUMMARY: A Center for Science in Public Participation accuracy review of documents pertaining to the human and ecological impacts of Newmont's Minahasa Raya mine on Buyat and Totok Bays.
Photos of Valentine’s Day Street Protest
PUBLICATION DATE: February 11, 2005
AUTHOR: Earthworks
SUMMARY: Photos of No Dirty Gold Valentine's Day street protest outside Manhattan jewelers.
Photos of open pit mines
PUBLICATION DATE: February 10, 2005
OGAP/SJCA Noise Stakeholder Submission
PUBLICATION DATE: January 8, 2005
AUTHOR: Lisa Sumi
SUMMARY: OGAP and the San Juan Citizens' Alliance participated in a year-long multistakeholder process regarding oil and gas noise regulations in Colorado. This is one of the main submissions that OGAP/SJCA made to the stakeholders' committee.
EARTHWORKS Journal—winter 2004/2005
PUBLICATION DATE: December 22, 2004
SUMMARY: The inaugural issue of EARTHWORKS Journal (formerly MPC News).
Buyat Bay is Polluted and a Risk to the Community
PUBLICATION DATE: November 10, 2004
AUTHOR: WALHI, JATAM, ICEL
Millsite Claims Under the 1872 Mining Law
PUBLICATION DATE: November 5, 2004
AUTHOR: Western Organization of Resource Councils
SUMMARY: 1972-1999
Millsite Claims Under the 1872 Mining Law
PUBLICATION DATE: November 5, 2004
AUTHOR: Western Organization of Resource Councils
SUMMARY: The Millsite Claim Limit, Impacts on the US Mining Industry, and The Crown Jewel Project,
EARTHWORKS letter to Dow Jones News re “Newmont Critical of Indonesian NGOs”
PUBLICATION DATE: October 20, 2004
AUTHOR: Stephen D'Esposito
The more you know, the less gold glows.
PUBLICATION DATE: September 16, 2004
AUTHOR: Earthworks and Oxfam
Hardrock Mining: Risks to Community Health
PUBLICATION DATE: September 1, 2004
AUTHOR: Aimee Boulanger
SUMMARY: This report begins to address the gap in scientific study and public information regarding risks for people living near mines.
Pima County Marble Mine Public Comments
PUBLICATION DATE: August 20, 2004
AUTHOR: Roger Featherstone
Robin Redbreast Mine Proposal Public Comments
PUBLICATION DATE: August 6, 2004
AUTHOR: Roger Featherstone
Silence is Golden, Leaden, and Copper
PUBLICATION DATE: July 1, 2004
AUTHOR: Robert Repetto
SUMMARY: The study investigated the adequacy of Canadian and US mining companies' disclosures of material environmental information. Disclosures were found to be deficient, especially in the disclosure to investors of known material environmental risks and liabilities.
- 1872 Mining Law
- Abandoned Mines
- Acid Mine Drainage
- Bristol Bay
- Conflict Minerals
- Critical and strategic minerals
- Cyanide
- Financial Assurance
- Human Rights
- Investment
- Jewelry
- Mercury
- Mining air pollution
- Mining regulation
- Mining water pollution
- Mining public comments
- Mining miscellany
- Tar sands
- Toxics Release Inventory
- Uranium
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