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Florida Hydraulic Fracturing, Proposed Drilling, and Seismic Tests

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Over the last few months, we have received several requests to map drilling data in Florida. Below is the information we have been able to procure to-date. One of the newest controversies in the field of oil and gas extraction is playing out in South Florida, just outside of the City of Naples. While there […]

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Sustainability and Unconventional Drilling: Different Definitions, Shared Discourse

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By Jill Terner, PA Communications Intern, FracTracker Alliance In 1987, at the World Commission on Environment conference, sustainable development was recognized internationally for the first time. Sustainability in this sense is broadly defined as both the goal and process of serving present needs while not precluding the ability of future generations to serve their needs1. […]

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FrackFinders Wanted

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A partner in data-crunching, SkyTruth, is seeking volunteers to find waste impoundments from unconventional oil and gas drilling in Pennsylvania. SkyTruth is our “eye in the sky” when it comes to tracking everything from the plume of the BP Oil Spill to flaring in the Bakken. They use remote sensing and mapping technologies to better […]

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The Muskingum Watershed and Utica Shale Water Demands

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How much freshwater has the unconventional drilling industry used to-date? By Ted Auch, OH Program Coordinator, FracTracker Alliance Given that Ohio’s largest conservancy district, the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy (MWCD), is considering the sale of large stocks of freshwater and deep mineral rights to the Utica Shale drilling industry, we thought it would be helpful to […]

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British Columbia Map Now Available

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Increasingly, FracTracker has been receiving requests to map oil and gas data from a variety of locations.  Now for the first time since the roll-out of the ArcGIS Online-based FracMapper platform last year, we have content dedicated to understanding oil and gas data outside of the United States.  Specifically, this map is focused on the […]

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Frac Sands Mines and Related Facilities

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Northern American Frac Sand Mines Pattern, Process, Quality, Quantity, and US Frac Sands By Ted Auch, OH Program Coordinator, FracTracker Alliance; Daniel Berghoff, The Ohio State University; Elliott Kurtz, Intern, FracTracker Alliance Part I, Frac Sands Locations and Silica Geology Map Description Click on the arrows in the upper right hand corner of the map […]

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Texas Drought Conditions and Water Availability

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By Thomas DiPaolo, GIS Intern, FracTracker Alliance – For the last three years, Texas has been experiencing a drought so severe that it has gained media attention around the world; the recurring theme from each media report is that the water use of the oil and natural gas industry is sucking up so much water from […]

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The awkward “k” in “fracking”

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By Samantha Malone, MPH, CPH – Manager of Science and Communications, FracTracker Alliance   We are often asked why there is no “k” after “frac” in our name, FracTracker. This makes for lively conversations at parties, I assure you. Quite frankly, the etymology of the term “fracking” would make for its own interesting study, especially […]