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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryAmong the Pipeline Fighters in Central Iowa Street, Paul Article 2016 Iowans protest the Bakken pipeline, fighting against Big Carbon and 21st century petro-capitalism. Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You: Would You Like Sugar With That? Brasch, Walter Article 2014 The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the ... Bakken Business: The price of North Dakota's fracking boom Manning, Richard Article 2013 Manning the widespread fracking in the Bakken formation (North Dakota), and the environmental and social repercussions it causes. Bold Scientists: Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science Riordon, Michael Book 2014 Accounts of scientists working in the public interest despite powerful opposition. Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth Brasch, Walter Article 2015 The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth. Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater Gaworecki, Mike Article 2014 It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for 'enhanced oil recovery" into aquifers prot... Connexions Library: Environment Focus  Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use. Cuadrilla versus The Nanas - #IamTinaRothery Rothery, Tina Article 2016 Thanks to fracking company Cuadrilla, grandmother Tina Rothery will be in court tomorrow over a £55,000 'debt' imposed on her for joining a peaceful occupation of a fracking site in Lancashire. But as... Engineering consent for fracking: Chris Smith and the 'astroturf' consultancy Mobbs, Paul Article 2015 Edelman, the global PR group, has a history of 'consent engineering' for the fossil fuel industry in North America. EnvironmentSources.com Website 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and importa... Fighting fracking in Poland: the farmers resistance movement: An improverished farming community in Zurawlow is using creative tactics to stop Chevron's shale gas plans Rozmyslowicz, Marta Article 2014 When Chevron arrived in Zurawlów, a small village in Poland's rural Grabowiec county, it was like a UFO landing in the open wheat fields. In June last year a high-tech surveillance caravan appeared in... Fracking Hell: The environmental costs of the new US gas drilling boom EFU Film Film/Video 2014 The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter d... Fracking Indigenous Country: Big Green, Sun Media and Elsipogtog Stainsby, Macdonald Article 2013 Police attack the Mi’kmaq community of Elsipogtog in New Brunswick. Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely cause Tickell, Oliver Article 2017 A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating tha... Future dustbowl? Fracking ravages Great Plains land and water Radford,Tim Article 2015 The fracking boom has caused massive vegetation loss over North America's rangelands, as 3 million hectares have been occupied by oil and gas infrastructure and 34 billion cubic metres of water have b... Gasland Fox, Josh Film 2010 Today, communities in the United States are being more and more affected by natural gas drilling and, specifically, hydraulic fracturing.
Gassing the American People: Fracking Democracy Doe, Phillip Article 2014 Last year the World Health Organization said over 7 million people died from air pollution, making it the largest killer on the planet – killing almost 80 times more people in one year than died of po... Meet The Folks On The Front Lines Of Fracking In California Gaworecki, Mike Article 2014 The oil and gas industry has worked very hard to push the narrative that fracking is completely safe, and that any opposition is led by a small group of full-time activists. Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential "Terrorists" Horn, Steve Article 2017 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has produced a report titled, "Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project," dated April 7, 2017. The DHS f... Oil and Gas Industry's "Endless War" on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman Kelly, Sharon Article 2014 Leave it to Washington's top attack-dog lobbyist Richard Berman to verify what many always suspected: that the oil and gas industry uses dirty tricks to undermine science, vilify its critics and discr... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016 Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in ... Peace Out Wilkinson, Charles Film/Video 2011 Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country. Pipeline Rights vs Private Property Rights Hand, Mark Article 2016 The U.S. natural gas industry views private property with less reverence than it did when the shale gas revolution began 10 years ago. Companies are chomping at the bit to build new pipelines that wil... The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food Wilson, Allison Article 2014 Many fracking chemicals are known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors or other classes of toxins. Studies carried out during the ongoing fracking boom, uncovered serious adverse effects including respir... The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food Bamberger, Michelle; Oswald, Robert Book 2014 Across the United States, fracking -- the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing -- is being touted as the answer to energy independence and a fix for a flagging economy. Drilling companies... Romania - a Peasants' Revolt against Fracking Wickens, Jim; Paraic O'Brien, Paraic Article 2014 Earthquakes and poisoned wells are setting off a revolt against fracking in Romania, revealing deep fault lines between the rural heartlands and the urban political elite. Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry Nikiforuk, Andrew Book 2015 A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of B... Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada Horn, Steve Article 2016 A groundbreaking study published in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link between hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for oil and gas and earthquakes. System Change Not Climate Change McLaren, Jesse (ed.) Article 2014 Stopping climate catastrophe and winning a world of climate justice is a critical task of our generation -- and it will require a radical transformation of society and of our relationship with nature.... Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won't Frack the Rich Kelly, Sharon Article 2016 Fracking companies deliberately keep their wells away from the "big houses" of wealthy and potentially influential people, a top executive from one of the country's most prominent shale drilling compa... Unregulated oil fracking boom does permanent damage Robin, Maxime Article 2013 We know about the dangers of pollution from fracking. But its lethal, long-term byproducts and the ease with which they leak or are dumped may be causing worse problems in a state that can’t even ques... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesCapitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology CNS is a journal of ecosocialism. We welcome submissions on red-green politics and the anti-globalization movement; environmental history; workplace labor struggles; land/community struggles; politica... Corporate Watch Corporate Watch is a not-for-profit co-operative providing critical information on the social and environmental impacts of corporations and capitalism. Since 1996 our research, journalism, analysis an... Sources LibraryDeath on the Bakken shale 2015 North Dakota's fracking industry has the highest worker fatality rates in the US. Why are so many dying and who should be held responsible? Lancashire County Council under pressure from fracking lobbyists Rowell, Andy 2015 Lancashire County Council is coming under intense pressure from fracking lobbyists to approve two controversial shale gas sites in the county, a week after its own planning officers recommended refusa... Science and its enemies Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices Diemer, Ulli 2016 Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of t... Scientists refute lower emissions claim for fracking Kirby, Alex 2014 As advanced technology triggers the boom in extraction of natural gas, a new study warns that market forces mean the cheaper fossil fuel could replace not just coal, but also low-emission renewable an... UK Fracking Task Force calls for improved safety standards Rowell, Andy 2015 A report by the UK Task Force on Shale Gas has called for greater safety and transparency measures to be implemented before widespread fracking occurs across the country. |
