marcellus shale
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010 - 11:38 pm
A small-town Texas mayor from deep in gas country has been making the rounds of several upstate counties this week, warning rural New Yorkers about the toll horizontal gas drilling could take on their towns. The mayor made a push for heavy regulation,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 - 5:57 pm
Reuters has been doing a great job lately of following the debate over natural gas drilling in New York State. Their latest article takes a look at the growing problem of disposing of frack water, which is too salty and contaminant-laden for most... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 - 12:21 pm
New York City doesn't have the only unfiltered water supply in the state. The city of Syracuse also drinks unfiltered water from Lake Skaneateles, making it one of just a handful of cities in the U.S. that are allowed by the EPA to drink unfiltered... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 - 11:05 am
The Evening Sun reports that a Chenango County board of supervisors meeting this week got unusually feisty on the topic of natural-gas hydrofracking.
Supervisor Ross Iannello kicked off the discussion about local exploration and drilling by asking for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 - 12:30 pm
Not all of the social costs (or, as the economists like to say, "negative externalities") of horizontal natural-gas drilling are related to the actual fracking process. For instance: wear and tear on rural roads from dramatic increases in heavy truck... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 - 9:05 pm
The AP has a really good story on horizontal natural-gas drilling that's been making the rounds of many newspapers, both in and out of the Marcellus Shale.
Explained: why "fracking" creates more waste than conventional techniques, why getting rid of the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 - 7:44 pm
Un-Natural Gas reports that Calvin Tillman, mayor of DISH, Texas, is visiting Delaware County later this month to talk about the problems his town has had with natural gas drilling.
DISH hosts eleven massive natural gas compressors, four metering... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 - 10:49 am
The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin reports that pro- and anti-gas-drilling groups in the area sat down over breakfast recently to talk about what they have in common when they're not hurling nasty epithets at one another.
Dan Fitzsimmons, chairman of... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 - 2:52 pm
Interest in the Marcellus Shale is heating up at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which just launched a tipline where New Yorkers can report sightings of illegal gas and oil drilling. The agency is asking residents of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New... Read more
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