natural gas

  • Fracking causes earthquakes

    Ralph Maughan

    Hundreds of thousands of faults, most poorly mapped, just waiting for a bit of lubrication- We all know what causes earthquakes — preexisting long cracks in rock layers (faults) and enough pressure to make them slip.  Most don’t slip very often though. Some will never slip because the pressure is just not, or ever will…

  • Frackers about to have their way with SW Idaho water supply

    Brian Ertz

    Closed Process Highlights Need For Meaningful State Environmental Review, Public Involvement With the recent discovery of natural gas in southwest Idaho many residents are concerned about their local watersheds.  They should be, fracking is an ugly business : Before 2005, regulation of fracking took place under the Safe Drinking Water Act. EPA was responsible for…

  • The biggest gas drilling plan yet for Green River Basin

    Ralph Maughan

    Encana could add 3,500 gas wells SW of Pinedale, WY- Already reeling from the massive Jonah gas field, now a new field covering 4 times as much area is planned.  The “Normally Pressured Lance” natural gas field” (Son of Jonah, as some call it) comes at a time when the formerly pristine air of the…

  • In Pinedale, Wyo., Residents Adjust to Air Pollution

    Ralph Maughan

    Just a generation ago . . . cleanest air the West set against the highest mountains in Wyoming- It was wonderful to backpack, fish, and climb in the Wind River Mountains in the day when they did not overlook a miasma of gas field air pollution. In Pinedale, Wyo., Residents Adjust to Air Pollution. By…

  • Natural gas extraction keeps getting dirtier

    Ralph Maughan

    “Fracking” is the latest assault on our land, water, wildlife and health- Hydrofracking injects water and toxic chemicals deep into the rock to create pockets of volatile hydrocarbons (natural gas of a variety). Unfortunately, the toxic mess underground often doesn’t stay there.  It comes out into surface waters, often carrying the original chemicals plus new…

  • Diesel Use in Gas Drilling Cited as Violation of Safe-Water Law

    Ken Cole

    The practice of fracking, or hydraulic fracture drilling has been a highly damaging practice wherever it is used and now Congress is asking the EPA to take a harder look. Diesel Use in Gas Drilling Cited as Violation of Safe-Water Law. New York Times

  • Gulf oil full of methane, adding new concerns

    Ralph Maughan

    The news just keeps getting worse on this blowout- Methane gas (natural gas) is what caused the explosion. Natural gas not only profoundly depletes oxygen in the ocean at this concentration, it is also a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. I have to wonder if a gas emission of this magnitude is a…

  • Natural Gas May Be Worse for the Planet than Coal

    Ken Cole

    If not worse then just as bad. A lot of energy has been expended to try to make natural gas look “green”. In fact many “green” groups and others are touting it as the “bridge fuel to a 21st-century energy economy” and claim that it is “cleaner” than coal. Well, it turns out that it…

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