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Quick Sand: Frack Sand Mining in Wisconsin

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Each silica sand mine displaces 871 acres of wetlands and more than 12 square miles of forests and agriculture land in Wisconsin to provide the shale gas industry with fracking proppant. By Juliana Henao, Communications Intern Silica sand is used by the oil and gas industry as a way to prop open the fractures made […]

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Largest Coastal Spill in 25 years [in California]

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By Kyle Ferrar, Western Program Coordinator The Santa Barbara Pipeline Spill On May 19, 2015, just 20 miles north of Santa Barbara, a heavily corroded section of pipeline ruptured spilling upwards of 101,000 gallons. The pipeline was operated by Plains All American LLC, based out of Houston Texas, and was used to move crude oil […]

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Unconventional Drilling Activity Down In Pennsylvania

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By Matt Kelso, Manager of Data & Technology Wells Spudded (Drilled) Unconventional oil and gas drilling is well established in Pennsylvania, with over 9,200 drilled wells, an additional 7,200 permitted locations that have not yet been drilled, and 5,300 violations all happening since the turn of the millennium. It took a while for the industry to […]

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Has radioactivity risk from oil and gas activity been underrated?

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Reviewing a Pennsylvania TENORM Study By Juliana Henao, Communications Intern Technologically-enhanced, naturally-occurring radioactive materials, also known as TENORM, are produced when radionuclides deep in the earth are brought to the surface by human activity such as oil and gas drilling. The radioactive materials, which include uranium (U), thorium (th), potassium-40 (K-40) and their decay products, […]

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The Science Behind OK’s Man-made Earthquakes, Part 2

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By Ariel Conn, Seismologist and Science Writer with the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences Oklahoma has made news recently because its earthquake story is so dramatic. The state that once averaged one to two magnitude 3 earthquakes per year now averages one to two per day. This same state, which never used to be seismically […]

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Pipelines vs Oil Trains

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By Juliana Henao, Communications Intern Media outlets have been very focused recently on reporting oil train derailments and explosions. Additionally, the Keystone XL pipeline has hastened political debates and arguments for years by both political parties since its initial proposal in 2008 – and the May 19th pipeline oil spill in California isn’t helping matters. In the […]

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Increasing Risk from Exploding Crude Trains

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By Randy Sargent, Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab and Samantha Malone, FracTracker Alliance In the past two years, crude oil trains have exploded 10 times, killing 47 people.     It could have been much worse. Eight of the ten trains exploded in rural areas. The train that flattened half the business district of the small […]