North Carolina Moves Closer to Fracking

June 1st, 2011 | Natural Resources News Service | | 5 comments

The North Carolina House of Representatives has passed a bill that moves the state a step closer to allowing hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” in the state, where it is now banned. The measure calls for a study – to be completed by  May 1, 2012 – of whether the controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale would be environmentally safe in North Carolina. The state Senate passed a larger energy bill last month that calls for a similar study.

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NYT’s Joe Nocera touts gas drilling, lives in fantasy world

April 18th, 2011 | Bulldog Blog | | Leave a comment
Photo: Wikicommons Ruhrfisch
Photo: Wikicommons Ruhrfisch

New York Times writer Joe Nocera got such a strong negative reaction to his first column supporting natural gas drilling that he wrote another one last weekend defending his position. In this second attempt he uses ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten, a reporter covering these issues, to bolster his position. He said Lustgarten wrote that environmental issues associated with Marcellus Shale gas extraction “can be readily addressed by the employment of best drilling practices, technological investments, and rigorous regulatory oversight.”

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Local N.Y. Environmentalists Fight Fast Tracking of Water Bill as Increased Marcellus Gas Drilling Looms

April 18th, 2011 | Natural Resources News Service | | One comment

ALBANY, N.Y. — A bill in the New York State Legislature with broad support from green organizations, industry and agriculture would overhaul lax water withdrawal rules in the Empire State just as it prepares to open the door for water-intensive hydrofracking of Marcellus Shale natural gas wells.
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“Gasland” Director Responds To Attack By Pennsylvania Official

March 23rd, 2011 | Bulldog Blog | | Leave a comment
Click here to view the trailer for GASLAND. Photo: The Daily Show/Comedy Central
Click here to view the trailer for GASLAND. Photo: The Daily Show/Comedy Central
This week, Teddy Borawski, the chief oil and gas geologist for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and a member of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s administration, serving in an official capacity, and on the record, compared my Sundance award-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary film GASLAND to Nazi propaganda stating “Goebbels would be proud.”  The slander was the latest in a series of smears and misinformation about the film and character attacks on me.

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