Fracking
IE Questions: Is Fracking Dangerous?
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With the help of researchers at AirWaterGas and UCAR, we dive into controversial waters to answer the question: Is Fracking Dangerous?
Inside Energy News
Timeline: Colorado’s Oil & Gas Explosion Problem
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Back-to-back oil and gas explosions and three deaths, have Front Range communities on edge. This timeline lays out the many years of events leading up to these accidents.
Audio
“Senseless Exposures”: How Money and Federal Rules Endanger Oilfield Workers
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Every day, thousands of oilfield workers are exposed to deadly petroleum gases — despite the fact that safer technologies exist that could protect them. Inside Energy investigates how federal regulations and financial incentives combine to put workers at risk.
Audio
Death In The Oil Patch: A New Web Documentary From Black Gold Boom
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America’s thirst for oil is as strong as ever. And thanks to a giant boom in North Dakota, more U.S. oil is extracted at home. That’s turned some cattle ranchers into millionaires, a few oil bosses into billionaires and put money in the pockets of working people.
Audio
Energy Job Corps Focus On Safety
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Wyoming is set to get its first Department of Labor-funded Job Corps center in 2015. It is the first one in the country that will specialize in energy, with an emphasis on oil and gas production. Leigh Paterson examines the need behind this project.
Inside Energy News
Colorado State Of Mind: Oil And Gas Worker Safety
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The oil and gas industry is six times deadlier than other U.S. jobs. On Colorado State Of Mind, Jordan Wirfs-Brock discusses the differences between safety practices in Wyoming and North Dakota and actions that could make the industry less dangerous.
Making Energy
2013 Oil And Gas Worker Fatality Numbers Show Texas And North Dakota Most Deadly
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In 2013, 11 oil and gas workers in North Dakota died from a job-related injury, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Texas had 50 reported oil and gas worker fatalities in 2013, the most of any state. But Texas has roughly ten times more oil and gas workers than North Dakota. Nationwide, 112 oil and gas workers died in 2013, down from 142 the year before. The oil and gas industry, amid safety improvements, is still six times more dangerous than the average American job.
IE Investigations
Data-Dive: Where Is The Oil And Gas Industry Most Dangerous?
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Inside Energy Data Journalist Jordan Wirfs-Brock explains how she calculated oil and gas fatality rates state by state.
IE Investigations
Wrangling Workplace Fatality Numbers: Data Woes And Wins
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Workplace fatality data, specifically the data that goes into calculating workplace fatality rates, is quite possibly the most unruly data Inside Energy has wrangled yet. Not because it’s hard, but because it’s nearly impossible to capture the full story of how dangerous the oil and gas industry is at a local level. Here are some of the biggest challenges involved in analyzing workplace fatality data.
