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Marcellus Tourism Study
Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale: Potential Impacts on the Tourism Economy of the Southern Tier by Andrew Rumbach...
May 30, 20131 min read
SB1715: We will still fight this horrible legislation
SAFE will not stand by as Illinois families are forced to join the Illinois List of the Harmed, and the National List of the Harmed. Stay...
May 29, 201311 min read
656 Wind Turbines Represent $1.9 Billion Record Iowa Investment
Daily Kos Thu May 09, 2013 at 03:32 PM PDT Today’s Des Monies Register has a front page headline in its print edition — 656 wind...
May 10, 20133 min read
Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble
On Sat., April 27, I met up with energy investor Bill Powers at Prairie Moon Restaurant in Evanston, IL for a mid-afternoon lunch to...
May 9, 20131 min read
SAFE’s Rebuttal to the Illinois Chamber of Commerce’s Job Estimates from Fracking Illino
SAFE attorney Richard Fedder explains the flaws in the Illinois Chamber of Commerce’s report on job estimates from fracking Illinois: 1....
May 7, 20134 min read
What boom? Industry pundits claim thousands of jobs will be created, but numbers don’t quite add up
Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate is now higher than the national average. CLICK HERE to read the article in timesonline.com
May 5, 20131 min read
Faster Drilling, Diminishing Returns in Shale Plays Nationwide?
Today’s shale gas boom has brought a surge of drilling across the US, driving natural gas prices to historic lows over the past couple of...
May 5, 20131 min read
Fact vs. Fiction: How Renewables Outshine Fracking
Just how real is the fracking “boom” when compared with other developments within the energy industry—specifically the exponential growth...
Apr 28, 20135 min read
Iowa Wind Energy Association
IWEA Wind Power Facts: Wind Energy Benefits Dickinson County Dickinson County in NW Iowa has 97 wind turbines. During the current tax...
Apr 11, 20133 min read
Tax Revenue From Fracking Will Be A Trickle
By Attorney Rich Fedder of SAFE In a conventional oil or gas well, production tends to be stable for many years. But in hydraulic...
Apr 11, 20131 min read
Illinois proposes fracking tax that is lower than in other states
Oil producers enjoy lowest tax rates when oil is flowing at its peak due to ‘tax holiday’ April 01, 2013|By Julie Wernau, Chicago Tribune...
Apr 4, 20133 min read
The Failed Promise of Fracking Jobs
News Release/For immediate release 4-2-13 Submitted by: Annette McMichael/SAFE Communications Director media@dontfractureillinois.net...
Apr 2, 20131 min read
Heaviest Drilled PA Counties Lose Population
Cornell Professor Susan Christopherson, in collaboration with Ned Rightor, President of New Economy Dynamics LLC, have published a study...
Apr 1, 20131 min read
Groudbreaking Reports Show Fracking is a Risky Short-Term Bubble
Groundbreaking Reports Show Fracking is a Risky Short-Term Bubble EcoWatch Energy Policy Forum and Post Carbon Institute have released...
Feb 21, 20133 min read
5 Reasons Natural Gas Won’t Be an Environmental and Economic Savior
We aren’t going to be able to drill our way out of the climate crisis without creating an even bigger mess in the process. January 10,...
Jan 13, 20137 min read
No Economic Boom from Fracking West Virginia
The Emporer Has No Gas Boom In WV By Sean O’Leary – The State of My State, December 20, 2012, journal-news.net On December 10th, WV Gov....
Jan 9, 20134 min read
Ohio Governor Blasts Out of State Oil and Gas Workers
Kasich Blasts Out of State Oil and Gas Workers, But Drillers Fight Back By Karen Kasler (Ohio Public Radio) The oil and gas boom has...
Jan 4, 20132 min read
Former Gas Field Worker Blows the Whistle
Published on Dec 20, 2012 Williamsport native and formal gas worker David Bean describes what life on the job used to be like: spills,...
Dec 26, 20121 min read
Gas field workers cited in Pa. hospital’s losses
JERSEY SHORE, Pa. – The first operating loss in about five years at a north-central Pennsylvania hospital is a sign of the influx of...
Dec 26, 20121 min read
Fracking Fudged: Looking at Illinois Chamber of Commerce’s Job and Economic Numbers
Henry Henderson Natural Resources Defense Council Midwest Program Director On Thursday, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce released a...
Dec 22, 20125 min read
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