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A Year in the Life of Ohio’s Utica Play
Posted on April 23, 2013 | No CommentsThe Ohio Utica play has taken off in the last calendar year, jumping from 160 permitted wells as of March 2012 to 453 since then. This equates to 1.24 permitted... -
Trout Unlimited Testing for Water Quality in PA’s Marcellus Region
Posted on February 7, 2013 | 2 CommentsTrout Unlimited (TU) is one of several organizations that are actively monitoring water quality in Pennsylvania’s rivers and streams. Currently, TU is collecting data in 99 different watersheds throughout the... -
A Rare Resource in WV Host Farms
Posted on January 25, 2013 | No CommentsBy Samantha Malone, MPH, CPH – Manager of Science and Communications While I am a full-time staff member of FracTracker Alliance, like many other people I wear several hats. One... -
Texas Lease and Pooling Data Available
Posted on December 26, 2012 | No CommentsIn the wacky world of oil and gas data, you never know what unexpected treasures there are to be found. For that matter, you never know what standard data will... -
A Tale of Two “Gas Rush Stories”
Posted on December 4, 2012 | 1 CommentMany people may have seen or are familiar with Gas Rush Stories, a series of short documentaries about natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. According to the website, these stories are... -
Summer Summary of the Trail Logbook Project
Posted on October 31, 2012 | 4 CommentsAs summer transitioned into fall, and as winter knocks on our doorsteps in PA, I would like to take some time to summarize the preliminary feedback coming in through our... -
The Changes that Autumn Brings
Posted on September 28, 2012 | 2 Commentsby Brook Lenker, Executive Director, FracTracker Alliance FracTracker continues to evolve to meet the growing demands of a nation – and world – confronted with unconventional gas and oil drilling... -
Unveiling FracMapper, FracTracker’s new mapping system!
Posted on September 28, 2012 | No CommentsTransition to FracMapper These are exciting times for those of us at FracTracker – now officially the FracTracker Alliance. One of the many changes that we have been working on... -
Life and Times of Loyalsock
Posted on August 31, 2012 | 5 CommentsBy Brook Lenker, Executive Director, and Samantha Malone, Manager of Science and Communications It’s so quiet you can hear moss squish underfoot and the tapping of a woodpecker a quarter-mile... -
Unconventional Permits Declining Sharply in PA
Posted on August 7, 2012 | 3 CommentsFollowing shale gas trends in the media can be a confusing task. One article, entitled Shale gas boom lifts W.Va. construction industry, discusses the positive impact that the gas industry...