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The ‘Frack Pack’ Is Stuck In the Past
The ‘Frack Pack’ is back with another rendition of its failed hydraulic fracturing legislative package. House Democratic Reps. Diana DeGette (Colo.), Matt Cartwright (Pa.), Yvette Clarke (N.Y.), and Jan Schakowsky (Ill.) recently re-introduced the ‘Frack Pack’, zombie pieces of legislation that have consistently failed to...
‘Legally Erroneous’: Wolf Administration Slams Anti-Fracking Pa. Grand Jury Report
After two years of investigating, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has reported the findings of a grand jury looking into whether shale gas producers had violated environmental protection laws. Gov. Tom Wolf’s Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees regulation of the industry, isn’t mincing words:...
Activist Group Recycles False Narrative On Fracking Fluid Disclosures
An activist group is recycling its faulty claims and scare tactics around chemicals used in natural gas development as it shifts its anti-fracking efforts from Pennsylvania to Ohio. This year’s attempt by the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PPI) to resurrect debunked talking points about fracking...
NJ Governor Misses the Real Threat in “Ban Fracking” Call
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is calling for an extension of the Delaware River Basin’s fracking ban – prohibiting not just fracking, but all related activities as well. Murphy claims that fracking poses an imminent threat to water in the basin (which includes parts of...
Western Australia’s Independent Scientific Panel Confirms Fracking Poses Low Risk to Groundwater
*NOTE: This good news comes to us from our industry friends at Energy Information Australia. The original post can be found here. Following more than a year of scientific review by an independent panel, the Western Australian Government has decided to lift a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing...
Anti-Fracking Group’s Latest Agenda-Driven Chemical Disclosure Report Falls Woefully Short on Facts
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PPI) is out with yet another failed attempt to resurrect talking points about fracking fluid chemical disclosure. And PPI’s latest activist-funded report, which analyzes Pennsylvania well reports on FracFocus.org from 2013 to 2017, is boldly clear in its primary agenda: “The...
Commerce City ‘Study Session’ Offers Latest Evidence that Colo. Fracking Opponents Need to Hit the Books
Commerce City hosted a “study session” on Monday in which drilling opponents attempted to use long-debunked anti-fracking rhetoric to discredit hard scientific data from Colorado’s top medical and environmental regulators demonstrating oil and gas development is protective of public health. Featuring representatives from the Colorado...
Third Appalachian Basin Study In Five Weeks Confirms Fracking Not a Major Threat to Groundwater
A new peer-reviewed study from Yale University concludes that fracking is not a major threat to groundwater. This is the third study in five weeks based on water analyses in the Appalachian Basin to reach such conclusions, and is the latest of more than two...
Peer-Reviewed Study Finds No Groundwater Contamination from Fracking in Ohio
The first ever and award winning Utica Shale study to examine the root source of methane (CH4) linked to fracking has finally been published in a scientific journal. The long awaited multi-year University of Cincinnati (UC) groundwater study that found no impacts from fracking was...
NRDC-Funded Study: ‘No Indication of Groundwater Contamination’ From Fracking
Just two days after the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and other anti-fracking groups “marched for science” as part of Earth Day, an NRDC-funded study has added to the already long list of scientific evidence that fracking is not a major threat to drinking water....