What is the Marcellus Shale?

December 4th, 2009 | Natural Resources News Service | | Leave a comment
Photo: United States Geological Survey
Photo: United States Geological Survey
Under some of the most beautiful parts of rural New York State in the pre-Jurassic era formation called the Marcellus Shale is an unimaginable fortune in natural gas. Getting that gas to market has become an obsession of Wall Street and the biggest gas drilling companies in the world. In this gas rush, New York is fast becoming a geological science experiment that many experts fear will have profound, dire environmental and health consequences.

Continue reading What is the Marcellus Shale?

Denver Court Hands Down Rocky Flats Decision

February 18th, 2006 | Trento's Take | | Leave a comment

Just as the Bush administration is gearing up new nuclear weapons production at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a series of big projects involving the leftovers of the most toxic weapons man has created at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, a dose of reality has crept in. It came in the form of a verdict from a Denver jury that concluded that 13,000 property owners around the old Rocky Flats nuclear plant had been lied to and had their homes devalued.

Continue reading Denver Court Hands Down Rocky Flats Decision

A Deadly Shell Game

January 20th, 2006 | Trento's Take | | Leave a comment

Aiken, South Carolina – In this polite, genteel world, one does not discuss dirty laundry in public and the inelegant nuclear bomb plant located here is this community’s dirty laundry. This attitude adds to a surreal aspect to discussion of the facility here.