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Offshore oil and gas exploration federally approved
By Karen Edelstein, NY Program Coordinator Background Drilling in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the United States has been off-limits for nearly four decades. However, last Friday, the Obama administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) opened the Atlantic outer continental shelf for oil and gas exploration starting in 2018, with oil production […]
What’s in PA Senate Bill 1378?
State Senator Joseph Scarnati III, from north-central Pennsylvania, has introduced a bill that would redefine the distinction between conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells throughout the state. In Section 1 of the bill, the sponsors try to establish the purpose of the legislation, making the case that: Conventional oil and gas development has a […]
OH and WV Shale Gas Water Usage and Waste Injection
By Ted Auch, OH Program Coordinator, FracTracker Alliance Both Ohio and West Virginia citizens are concerned about the increasing shale exploration in their area and how it affects water quality. Those concerned about the drilling tend to focus on the large quantities of water required to hydraulically fracture – or “frack” – Utica and Marcellus […]
These Fish Weren’t Playing Opossum (Creek)
A First-hand Look at the Recent Statoil Well Pad Fire By Evan Collins and Rachel Wadell, Summer Research Interns, Wheeling Jesuit University After sitting in the non-air-conditioned lab on a muggy Monday afternoon (June 30, 2014), we were more than ready to go for a ride to Opossum Creek after our professor at Wheeling Jesuit […]
Public Perception of Sustainability
By Jill Terner, PA Communications Intern, FracTracker Alliance In the previous two installments of this three part series, I discussed how sustainability provides a common platform for people who support and deny the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and natural gas from the ground. While these opposing sides may frequently use sustainability in […]
Crime and the Utica Shale
By Ted Auch, OH Program Coordinator, FracTracker Alliance No matter where you live in Ohio you have probably asked yourself if crime trends will be – or have already been – affected by the shale gas boom. To quantify the relationship between crime rates and oil and gas development, we compared 14 OH counties (that […]