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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 […]
By Andrew Donakowski, Northeastern Illinois University Land cover data can play an important role in spatial analysis; satellite or aerial imagery can effectively demonstrate the extent and make-up of land cover characteristics for large areas of land. For fracking analysis, this can be used to explore important spatial relationships between fracking infrastructure and the area and/or ecosystems […]
Like most states, the data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection do not explicitly tell you which wells have been hydraulically fractured. They do, however, designate some wells as unconventional, a definition based largely on the depth of the target formation: An unconventional gas well is a well that is drilled into an Unconventional […]
By Samantha Malone, MPH, CPH – Manager of Science and Communications, FracTracker Alliance The population most at risk from accidents and incidents near unconventional drilling operations are the drillers and contractors within the industry. While that statement may seem quite obvious, let’s explore some of the numbers behind how often these workers are in harm’s way […]
By Ted Auch, OH Program Coordinator, FracTracker Alliance Ohio is the only shale gas state in the Marcellus and/or Utica Shale Basin that has decided to go “all in.” i.e. The state is moving forward with shale gas production, Class II Injection Well disposal of brine waste from fracking, and more recently the processing and […]
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