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Florida resolutions opposing unconventional oil drilling

December 10, 2015/by Karen Edelstein

By Karen Edelstein, Eastern Program Coordinator Florida, where there has long been an interest in drilling for oil, has recently come into the cross-hairs for unconventional extraction several miles beneath the state. Oil drilling has had spotty and elusive success in the Sunshine State, but new technologies like hydraulic fracturing – fracking – could potentially provide […]

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Creek Connections

November 16, 2015/by Guest Author

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Maps of Updated Central Penn Pipeline Emphasize Threats to Residents and Environment

October 7, 2015/by Guest Author

By Sierra Shamer, Guest Author The Atlantic Sunrise Project or Central Penn Line is a natural gas pipeline Williams Companies has proposed for construction through eight counties of Central Pennsylvania. Williams intends to connect the Atlantic Sunrise to their two Transco pipelines, which extend from the northeast to the Gulf of Mexico. FracTracker discussed and […]

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Pennsylvania’s Drilling Waste Distributed to Eight States

September 18, 2015/by Matt Kelso, BA

By Matt Kelso, Manager of Data & Technology According to data published by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Pennsylvania’s unconventional oil and gas waste that was generated in the first half of 2015 found its way to treatment facilities, disposal wells, and landfills in eight different states. While the majority of the waste […]

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Public Herald’s #fileroom Update

September 15, 2015/by FracTracker Alliance

Crowdsourcing Digital PA Oil & Gas Data FracTracker Alliance worked with Public Herald this spring to update and map oil and gas complaints filed by citizens to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) as of March 2015. The result is the largest release of oil and gas records on water contamination due to fracking in […]

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3 Community ‘Sentinels’ Honored with FracTracker’s Environmental Stewardship Award

September 2, 2015/by Guest Author

By Brook Lenker, Executive Director In my earlier conservation work, I was always inspired by the activities of certain volunteers. Whether it was a guy who touched the lives of scores of kids through his outings and mentorship or a watershed maven who was the queen of planting and restoration, there are people who go […]

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Landfill Disposal of WV Oil and Gas Waste – A Report Review

August 18, 2015/by FracTracker Alliance

By Bill Hughes, WV Community Liaison As oil and gas drilling increases in West Virginia, the resulting waste stream must also be managed. House Bill 107 required the Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to investigate the risks associated with landfill disposal of solid drilling waste. On July 1, 2015, a massive […]

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West Central Wisconsin’s Landscape and What Silica Sand Mining Has Done to It

July 16, 2015/by Ted Auch, PhD

By Ted Auch, Great Lakes Program Coordinator, and Elliott Kurtz, GIS Intern The Great Lakes may see a major increase in the number of sand mines developed in the name of fracking. What impacts has the area already seen, and does future development mean for the region’s ecosystem and land use? Introduction Sand is a necessary […]

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Quick Sand: Frack Sand Mining in Wisconsin

July 16, 2015/by Ted Auch, PhD

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 […]