Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement

By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch Jan 26, 2012 While most anti-fracking activists have been responding to harms already done, New York state’s resistance movement has been waging a battle to keep harm at bay. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Oh, Canada’s Become a Home for Record Fracking

By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Dec 29, 2011 Early last year, deep in the forests of northern British Columbia, workers for Apache Corp used 259 million gallons of water and 50,000 tons of sand to frack 16 gas wells in what the company proclaimed the biggest hydraulic fracturing operation ever executed what the company proclaimed the biggest hydraulic fracturing operation ever. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Link Between Natural Gas Fields and Health Issues Remains Largely Undocumented

Staff / Truthdig Oct 2, 2011 Last month, the investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica published a report that highlights how dangerously little scientists and government officials know about the health consequences of living near a natural gas drilling site. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

6 of 7 Fracking Evaluators Are on Industry’s Payroll

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2011 Last spring, President Obama asked Energy Secretary Steven Chu to assemble an advisory board to review the practice of hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as "fracking," which is used to extract natural gas buried deep underground. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm

David Sirota / Truthdig Jun 10, 2011 I thought we would witness the recent Fukushima reactor meltdown or footage of Americans setting their tap water on fire and at least agree to stop pursuing energy policies that we know endanger our health and safety -- if not out of altruism, then out of self-interest. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

On Manning, Fracking and Walker’s Chickens

Staff / Truthdig Jun 10, 2011 On this week’s episode of Truthdig radio in collaboration with KPFK, author Alice Walker tells tales of her beloved chickens, Scott Tucker speaks up for Bradley Manning, and Sarah Stillman reports about financial coercion in U.S. war zones. Plus: What's all this about fracking? Update: Full transcript. Dig deeper ( 36 Min. Read )

N.Y. Attorney General Takes Aim at ‘Fracking’

Staff / Truthdig Jun 1, 2011 New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against three federal agencies, alleging that they have failed to properly study the impact of proposed regulations on "fracking," a potentially dangerous process in which pressurized water and chemicals are used to dislodge oil and natural gas below the earth's surface. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

NYU’s Studio 20 Releases ‘The Fracking Song’

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2011 A team of student journalists at New York University's Studio 20 program created an extremely clever animated music video to give the American public the lowdown on "fracking," a potentially dangerous method of drilling for oil and natural gas by using pressurized liquids to hydraulically fracture subterranean rock. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Follow Wyoming on Fracking Regs

David Sirota / Truthdig Oct 8, 2010 Frank Sinatra once said that if he could make it in New York, he could make it anywhere. Thanks to new drilling rules, environmentalists can now say the same about Wyoming. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Cracking Down on Fracking

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Feb 24, 2010 Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )