The connection between fracking (hydraulic fracturing) — greenhouse gases / methane release, manmade earthquakes, excessive water use and gound water contamination — and the clear, present, accelerating EMERGENCY of global heating and climate breakdown / disruption / destabilization.
Selected articles, posts, reports
- Toolkit – A fractiviist’s toolkit: How you can take action to protect water and stop fracking, Council of Canadians
- Great segment – The ‘benefits’ of fracking, The Daily Show
- Post – Fracking boom slouching toward bust, R. Heinberg, CommonDreams
- Post – Bridge to nowhere? NOAA confirms high methane leakage, up to 9% from gas fields, gutting climate benefit, Joe Romm, Climate Progress
- Post – Fracking FAQ: Behind the natural gas boom, Josie Garthwaite, Grist
- Article – How the fracking industry keeps its secrets, Mike Ludwig, Truthout
- Post – Shale shocked: ‘Remarkable increase’ in U.S. earthquakes ‘almost certainly manmade,’ USGS scientists report, Joe Romm, Climate Progress
- Post – Ohio fracking waste injection well caused 12 earthquakes, Joe Romm, CP
- Post – Gas industry’s head in the sand on fracking, Tom Kenworthy, CP
- Article – Big fracking bubble: The scam behind the gas boom, J. Goodell, RollStone
- Article – Shale gas a bridge to more global warming, Stephen Leahy, IPS
- Article – Fracking emits large quantities of greenhouse gases, methane, SA
- Report – Fracking threatens our water, health, climate, DeSmog
Websites and Wikipedia
- Website – GasLandtheMovie.com
- Website – Stop fracking in Canada! Council of Canadians
- Website – Frack-Off.org.uk
- Wikipedia – Hydraulic fracturing
- Wikipedia – Earthquake
- Wikipedia – Natural gas
- Wikipedia – Ground water
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