Frack Action Petition on the sGEIS

Frack Action Petition on the sGEIS

New York State just released the final fracking review (the Final SGEIS), which is the next step toward finalizing the ban. We know this is a long email, but we wanted to share this news, some information about the process, as well as th… ...
Richard Averett 1 day ago
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Final SGEIS, alternate download locations

Final SGEIS, alternate download locations

Ordinarily, we would direct you to download these documents directly from the DEC's website here: http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/75370.html But the DEC website appears to be down for the last 3 days. So, we've combined the FSGEIS and the response document into a single 2040 page document and uploa… ...
William Huston 3 days ago
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New York's Fracked Ban

New York’s Fracked Ban

New York's "ban" on fracking has predictably ended up in a kind of regulatory Catch 22. The state regulatory agency has updated its environmental regulations that could be used to permit HVHF (horizontal shale) wells, but it has not updated the regulations that would govern the drilling of such we… ...
Chip Northrup 6 days ago
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The Pope vs. US Climate Change Deniers - Round 1

The Pope vs. US Climate Change Deniers - Round 1

Pope Francis aide blasts U.S. climate skeptics By Nick Gass 5/12/15 2:37 PM EDT The pope’s closest adviser on Tuesday slammed climate-change skeptics, blaming capitalist motivations from “movements in the United States” for opposing the Catholic Church leader’s upcoming environmen… ...
Richard Averett 1 week ago
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Is Hillary Clinton A "Closet Fracker"?

Is Hillary Clinton A “Closet Fracker”?

Brother of Hillary Clinton's Top Campaign Aide Lobbied for Fracked Gas Export Terminal Co-Owned by Qatar   Anthony “Tony” Podesta began lobbying in late 2013 on behalf of a company co-owned by ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum aiming to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the glo… ...
Richard Averett 1 week ago
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FRACK FREE NATION Conference Call - 7pm Sunday 4/5/15

April 5, 2015
FRACK FREE NATION Conference Call - 7pm Sunday 4/5/15

To discuss the details of the event on Energizedemocracy Climate Justice Earthday - Albany​ on 4/22/15 Conference Number: 1-(302) 202-1118 - Conference Code: 221067 West Capitol Park – Albany, NY PRESS CONFERENCE 10:30 RALLY – 11 am – 9 pm SIGN ON For EARTH DAY 2015 April 22 2015: http://www.frackfreenation.org/earth-day-2015/sign-on/ FAMILY FRIENDLY – SPEAKERS – MUSIC – ACTION

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Frack Club Exposed: Banks Bail on Shale

April 5, 2015
Frack Club Exposed: Banks Bail on Shale

The first rule of Frack Club was don’t talk about Frack Club. Particularly to the lenders. A few of whom might be old enough to actually remember the Sub Prime Mortgage Meltdown. What’s a fracker to do when banks stop lending ? Issue more shares and junk bonds. Fast. What then ? The Republican “Tea Party” will introduce legislation to prop up the frackers and the banks that lend to them: Too Fracked to Fail.   Banks Pull The Rug From Under U.S. Shale Sector By ZeroHedge Back in early 2007, just as the first signs of the bursting housing and credit bubble were becoming visible, one of the primary harbingers of impending doom was banks slowly but surely yanking availability (aka “dry powder”) under secured revolving credit facilities to companies across America. […]

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Texas-sized Dose of Hypocrisy in Frack Anywhere Bill

April 5, 2015
Texas-sized Dose of Hypocrisy in Frack Anywhere Bill

by Julie Dermansky, originally published by DeSmog Blog | Apr 2, 2015 On March 24, the Texas House of Representatives’ Energy Resources Committee passed a bill that would rescind the fracking ban in Denton and other efforts by local Texas municipalities to protect themselves from the oil and gas industry. Once language in the bill is finalized, which could happen today, the legislation will make its way to the full Texas Senate for a vote. “The oil and gas industry are getting what they always wanted – to get these pesky cities out of the way. They’re utilizing the lack of diligence and gullibility of state government – who are bought and paid for by industry, by using the Denton fracking ban to get what they want,” Denton Councilman Kevin Roden told DeSmogBlog. “It is a political cliché to take advantage of […]

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Frackquake Lawsuits in Oklahoma

April 4, 2015
Frackquake Lawsuits in Oklahoma

After the first hundred or so frackquakes, the frackers stopped denying they were happening and started denying which fracker was responsible. Let the lawsuits begin. Earthquake Case Could Doom Fracking In Oklahoma The rise in earthquakes as a result of fracking poses a massive problem for the oil and gas industry. It is not hydraulic fracturing per se that is causing the earthquakes. Rather, the injection of wastewater back into the ground that contributes to fault lines “slipping,” which results in heightened seismic activity. Oklahoma has become the earthquake capital of the United States, surpassing even tremor-prone California. Oklahoma has averaged less than two earthquakes of a magnitude 3.0 or greater over the last 30 years. Shockingly, however, that rate has skyrocketed in recent years. In 2013, the state experienced […]

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Where all the oil trains are going

April 3, 2015
Where all the oil trains are going

Wolf Richter, Wolf Street   The aging pipeline system in the US wasn’t built for the fracking boom. Shale oil production has soared in some areas that are not well integrated into the pipeline network. Primary among them: North Dakota, now the second largest producing state in the US, after Texas. Hence the use of trains to transport crude oil. To the greatest satisfaction of the railroads, Warren Buffet, tank-car makers, tank-car leasing companies, and the like. Wolf Street At first, say in 2010, it wasn’t a big deal. Only 55,000 barrels per day were shipped from the Bakken in North Dakota to other areas in the US. But as production in the Bakken soared, so did shipments by train, punctuated by derailments in Canada and the US that led […]

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Engineer of Exploding Frack Oil Bomb Train Sues Former Employer

April 3, 2015
Engineer of Exploding Frack Oil Bomb Train Sues Former Employer

By Steve Horn - Desmog Blog   A Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF)employee who worked as a locomotive engineer on the company’s oil-by-rail train that exploded in rural Casselton, North Dakota in December 2013 hassued his former employer. Filed in Cass County, the plaintiff Bryan Thompson alleges he “was caused to suffer and continues to suffer severe and permanent injuries and damages,” including but not limited to ongoing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) issues. Thompson’s attorney, Thomas Flaskamp, told DeSmogBlog he “delayed filing [the lawsuit until now] primarily to get an indication as to the direction of where Mr. Thompson’s care and treatment for his PTSD arising out of the incident was heading,” which he says is still being treated by a psychiatrist. The lawsuit is the first of its kind in the oil-by-rail world, the only time to […]

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Iran Agrees to Nuclear Non Proliferation Deal

April 2, 2015
Iran Agrees to Nuclear Non Proliferation Deal

Bravo. Long term, nuclear energy is a better alternative than fossil fuels. Fracking creates more HAZMAT TENORM nuclear waste in a week than the US nuclear power industry does in a year. Fracked gas kills more people in a week than the US nuclear power industry has in its entire history. Nuclear power is safer than fracking. Nuclear power emits no global warming gases. And what of the Iranians ? The 911 bombers were not Iranians. There are no Iranians in ISIS. Or the Taliban. Or Al Qaeda. There were street lights and indoor plumbing in Persia when my ancestors were still beating each other over the head on the heath with sticks. I look forward to renewed relations with Iran. I’d like to go there. In peace, not looking over the […]

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Frackers Average 2.5 Reported Frackastrophes a Day

April 2, 2015
Frackers Average 2.5 Reported Frackastrophes a Day

In only 3 states. Assuming they get caught 10% of the time, that means about 25 goofs - spills, blow outs, leaks, etc. a day. Oil and gas drillers ran afoul of regulators on average 2.5 times a day in three energy-intensive states for mistakes such as wastewater spills, well leaks and pipeline ruptures during the boom in hydraulic fracturing. Online records in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Colorado showed regulators issued 4,600 citations from 2008 to 2013, the Natural Resources Defense Council said Thursday in a report. The report excluded violations in 33 other states with drilling because such records aren’t available on the Internet. “It’s extremely difficult for the public to get this kind of information,” said Amy Mall, an author of the report for the New York-based environmental […]

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Tilting at Tax Shelters: The Great Wind Farm Tax Scam

April 2, 2015
Tilting at Tax Shelters: The Great Wind Farm Tax Scam

The reason why you don’t see many functioning 10 year old wind turbines is because wind farms are financed as tax shelters and the tax bennies run out in 5 years. After that, the wind turbines are not even worth repairing. They are left to spin listlessly in the wind. In high wind regime areas such as Tehachapi Pass in California, you can spot each successive generation of tax shelter programs - none of the older wind turbines are working. Only the current crop of tax shelter machines are turning - and they will work as long as the tax shelter financing requires them to. It doesn’t have to be this way in the US. But it is. It’s a given that wind farms would not get built without state […]

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Why States Fail to Regulate Frack Waste

April 2, 2015
Why States Fail to Regulate Frack Waste

States Undermine Rationale for No Fed Frack Regulations New study details Marcellus/Utica shale states’ failures to regulate oil & gas waste, leaving health and environment at risk Washington, D.C., April 2nd — A new report shows that states ignore the risks of sometimes hazardous oil and gas waste despite EPA’s exemption of such waste from federal oversight based on “adequate” state management. Wasting Away: Four states’ failure to manage oil and gas waste in the Marcellus and Utica Shaleexamines how Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and New York neither regulate oil and gas development wastes as hazardous, nor can assure the public that they are protected from exposure to hazardous waste. “Thirty years ago the Environmental Protection Agency exempted oil and gas waste from federal classification as hazardous, not because the waste isn’t […]

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