Fracking Resource Guide

A Crash Course


A Crash Course	Can we benefit by this new source of natural gas without it affecting our water and lifestyle? This collection of bibliographic resources, government documents, letters, and videos is a crash course in fracking.

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Clifford Krauss: propagandist	I especially enjoyed his reporting on how some environmentalists are for gas drilling despite the inflammatory water faucets and cancer clusters: You don’t have to be working at FAIR to ask the question which environmentalists? -Louis Proyect. read more
Drill, Baby, Drill!	Numerous complainants petitioned the USA government to get the EPA to review the earlier decision on hydraulic fracking. One of them, from Neil Zusman, Ithaca, NY, is particularly poignant: I have read widely on this topic and it is of personal interest to me. I am not a scientist. I observe the events along the historical timeline that includes civil rights, anti-war protest, and the environmental movement.... read more
Meet the Gas Geezers	T. Boone Pickens has somehow managed to sell President Obama and an astonishing number of Congress members on the myth that nat-gas is a homegrown wonder fuel. read more
Boom and Bust	A webinar hosted by Cornell University's Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) on May 9, 2011 presented the work of a graduate student project in the Dept. of City and Regional Planning guided by Professor Susan Christopherson. (PDF). read more
Read Between the Times	Broder's piece goes on to offer a smokescreen of protest by the right, but according to Dusty Horwitt of the Environmental Working Group, “An industry insider like John Deutch is completely unacceptable to lead this panel...It looks as if the Obama Administration has already reached the conclusion that fracking is safe.” read more
Cornell University Law School - 2011 Energy Conference	The conference will use natural gas drilling as a lens to explore energy policy, the global energy market, and the integral role the law can and must play in creating energy security and ensuring a sustainable future. read more
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood	Kentucky ranks dead last in healthy behavior, and 49th in overall well-being, ..More mountaintop removal will only make these problems with the health of Appalachian people even worse. Its hard to get worse than worst, but Hal Rogers is doing his darndest. read more
Strong Push	Sens. Tony Avella, D-Whitestone, Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, and Joseph Addabbo, D-Queens, introduced a package of bills April 11 that includes three bills for tighter regulations and transparency for oil and gas drilling and a bill by Avella to ban hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, in New York State. read more
All Things Nuclear	Expert reports and selections of news accounts and analysis of the breaking news concerning the meltdown of Japan's nuclear reactors ongoing since March 13, 2011. read more
Climate Co-benefits and Child Mortality Wedges	Climate change issues bring into greater prominence that all the world's people are linked together and that we all have a stake in creating a sustainable path for the planet and no such path can allow for 10 million avoidable child deaths each year. read more

Paul T. Anastas	Tracy Bank	Maude Barlow
Wendell Berry	John Boehner	John Bredehoeft
Elizabeth Burns	George W. Bush	Robert Casey
Richard L. Cassin	Dick Cheney	Susan Christopherson
Theo Colborn	John Cole	Tim DeChristopher
Diana Degette	David Dzomback	Nora Eisenberg
J. Henry Fair	Josh Fox	Lee Fuller
Daniel Gilbert	Thomas Gold	Raul Grijalva
Walter Hang	Garrett Hardin	Tony Hayward
Sue Heavenrich	Maurice Hinchey	Nathaniel Hitt
Robert Howarth	Molly Ivins	Lisa Jackson
Brad Johnson	Robert F. Kennedy Jr.	Clifford Krauss
Barbara Lifton	Abrahm Lustgarten	Amy Mall
Peter Mantius	John McFarland	Jonathan McIntosh
Bill McKibben	Carl T. Montgomery	Robert Myers
Michael C. O'Connell	Ben Perkus	M. Ray Perryman
Rick Piltz	Louis Proyect	David Roberts
Mike Roselle	Helen Slottje	Kirk Smith
Leslie Stahl	Sandra Steingraber	Maura Stephens
Nicholas Stern	Ed Swartz	Ben Tettlebaum
Henry David Thoreau	Calvin Tillman	Ken Ward Jr.
Henry Waxman	Tom Wilber	Sharon Wilson
Hannah J. Wiseman	Bill Wolfe	The Yes Men
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