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Charts: The Frackers’ Well-Oiled Political Machine | Mother Jones
How the domestic drilling frenzy fills campaign coffers and kills off accountability. —By Gavin Aronsen the energy election This spring,...
Nov 1, 20123 min read
Breaking All the Rules—The Crisis in Oil & Gas Regulation Enforcement
This report shows that states across the nation are betraying one of the basic agreements between government and the governed: to enforce...
Nov 1, 20124 min read
An Exploratory Study of Air Quality Near Natural Gas Operations
Read entire report click here. Peer-reviewed and accepted for publication by Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (November 9, 2012). An...
Oct 31, 20121 min read
Bradshaw, Bigler stand with anti-fracking activists
CARBONDALE — Paula Bradshaw and Michael Bigler had a message for attendees of an anti-fracking rally Wednesday in Carbondale: We stand...
Oct 31, 20122 min read
Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Overview
TEDX — Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Overview. “Many of the chemicals found in drilling and evaporation pits are considered...
Oct 29, 20124 min read
Fracking to arrive in Southern Illinois by June
December 29, 2011 6:00 am • BY SCOTT FITZGERALD, The Southern Drill site selection for oil and natural gas exploration within 70,000...
Oct 29, 20123 min read
Fracking finds opponents in Johnson County | The Vienna TImes
Author’s note: In the course of writing this article, outside of those interviewed for the story, nearly 100 percent of the people I’ve...
Oct 29, 20127 min read
City of Carlyle Illinois Bans Fracking
The city of Carlyle has established the first legal precedent in Illinois that a non-home rule municipality can prohibit drilling for oil...
Oct 28, 20121 min read
Oil and Gas Leases: Issues and Considerations
Leases do not include the same information that companies give to their shareholders. Landowners are not told the actual risks associated...
Oct 24, 20125 min read
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