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Drinking Water Contaminants Linked to Drilling
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A new study finds the source of drinking water contamination at drill well sites are likely leaky cement casings.
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A new study finds the source of drinking water contamination at drill well sites are likely leaky cement casings.
Fracking has led to a huge upswing in oil production in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, according to a new report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
An oil and gas task force announced as part of a compromise to avoid a handful of fracking ballot measures in Colorado is not curbing the frustrations of anti-fracking activists.
In Colorado, the debate over pumping pressurized water underground to extract oil and natural gas has turned local and state governments into rivals. When one city banned fracking altogether, the state launched two lawsuits.
Inside Energy on Colorado State of Mind explaining the disruptive effects of distributed solar, and the public health impacts of oil and gas drilling.
There are plenty of similarities in the ongoing fracking debate in Texas and Colorado, but the parallels end when it comes to how oil companies and politicians are dealing with the public’s questions. While concerned residents and anti-fracking groups fight to regulate or ban fracking, oil companies in each state have responded in their own way, as Zain Shauk and Bradley Olson reported for Bloomberg Business Week:
In Texas, drillers are doing their noisy in-your-face fracking as usual. Meanwhile, on a small farm about an hour from the Colorado Rocky Mountains, the oil industry is giving fracking a makeover, cutting back on rumbling trucks and tamping down on pollution. Of course, the fracking battle is not limited to these two states. Various cities and counties across the country have passed 430 measures to ban or restrict the practice, according to Food and Water Watch.
As communities find themselves in the midst of unprecedented energy development, for people who live near oil and gas wells, are there health risks?
Inside Energy met with scientists to learn how oil and gas drilling affects your health and to clarify the confusion.
Find out about what drilling means for water, air and your health, and how a new research collaboration is helping communities understand the risks and benefits of the drilling boom.
Longmont city council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to appeal to a higher court a District Judge ruling that threw out the community’s ban on fracking.
The Denver Post reveals how the historic compromise was brokered earlier this month that kept anti-fracking ballot initiatives from reaching voters this November.