New Search
If you are not happy with the results below please do another search
63 search results for: transparency
Florida Citizens Seek Drilling Industry Transparency
/in Archive, Articles, NewsBy Maria Rose, Communications Intern, FracTracker Alliance Pamela Duran waited impatiently in front of a Hampton Inn in Naples, Florida on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, with her husband Jaime, and several of their community members. They had to wait several days for a press conference with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regarding natural […]
Data Transparency Bill Will Aid Emergency Response
/in Archive, Articles, Our PerspectivesFire in Hopewell Township PA, Southwestern PA on 3-31-10 Earlier this week, a Pennsylvania Senate committee approved a bill that would require natural gas drilling companies to provide emergency response information to local authorities. Here are the key requirements of drilling companies that are being proposed: Post emergency response information at each well site Register […]
Improved PA DEP Drilling Data Transparency
/1 Comment/in Archive, Events and AnnouncementsRecognizing the need for government and industry-related drilling data to be more transparent, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) has added new resources to their oil and gas website for data related to natural gas drilling compliance and production. As the press release says, this is the first time that all of this information is […]
Electric Vehicles: Better Wheels
/0 Comments/in ArticlesThe wheel may have been influenced by nature, but today, the inverse is true. The anthropogenic automobile stimulates climate change and the environmental ravages correlated with a heating planet. Twenty-eight percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the US come from transportation – more than any other economic sector. As the climate crisis spirals out of […]
For A New Decade
/0 Comments/in Articles, Events and AnnouncementsIn the summer of 2019, FracTracker began work on a bold strategic plan. With the organization’s last formal plan dating to 2013, the effort was long overdue. Consultations, stakeholder surveys, and scans of issues and trends fed a rigorous, facilitated retreat. More conversations followed, accompanying iterative drafting, until a comprehensive and detailed plan emerged. Meanwhile […]
Pipelines Continue to Catch Fire and Explode
/2 Comments/in Articles, Health & Safety, Infrastructure, PipelinesFor the past decade, petroleum operators in the United States have been busy pumping record amounts of oil and gas from the ground. But has the pace been too frenzied? Since the vast majority of the oil and gas is not used in situ, the industry must transport these hydrocarbon products to other locations. The […]
Mapping the Petrochemical Build-Out Along the Ohio River
/1 Comment/in Articles, Infrastructure, Petrochemicals & PlasticsNew maps show the build-out of oil and gas infrastructure that converts the upper Ohio River Valley’s fracked gas into petrochemical products In 2004, Range Resources purchased land in Washington County, Pennsylvania and “fracked” the first well in the Marcellus Shale, opening the flood gates to a wave of natural gas development. Since then, oil […]
The Growing Web of Oil and Gas Pipelines
/in Articles, Infrastructure, PipelinesAlthough the vast majority of scientists agree that we must rapidly move away from fossil fuels to avoid a human-caused climate catastrophe by the end of this century, pipeline construction remains a big business. Pipelines are the backbone of domestic fossil fuel use and for delivering fuels to terminals for international export. Yet aside from […]
A Disturbing Tale of Diminishing Returns in Ohio
/in Articles, Economics, Infrastructure, Waste, WaterUtica oil and gas production, Class II injection well volumes, and lateral length trends from 2010-2018 The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently announced that Ohio’s recoverable shale gas reserves have magically increased by 11,076 billion cubic feet (BCF). This increase ranks the Buckeye State in the top 5 for changes in recoverable shale natural gas […]