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Will Ohio legislation reveal secret fracking chemicals?
A truck hauls water to a drilling operation in rural Ohio in 2011. (Photo by Susy Morris via Creative Commons) Each year, tanker trucks carrying fracking fluid or fracking wastewater log hundreds of...
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Commentary: ‘Rosy’ Illinois fracking jobs report rife with flaws
(Photo by EnergyTomorrow via Creative Commons) By Henry Henderson The Illinois Chamber of Commerce last week released a pretty, remarkably rosy sounding report, speculating on the potential impacts...
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U.S. Chamber’s fracking job boom: Behind the numbers
A worker on a natural gas rig in the Piceance Basin in Colorado. (Photo by EnergyTomorrow via Creative Commons) There’s no question that widespread extraction of shale gas will have a significant...
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Illinois fracking rules could be strictest in the nation
(Photo by Randy von Liski via Creative Commons) Illinois legislators are expected to introduce a bill in coming days or weeks that would regulate hydraulic fracturing in the state. Known as Democratic...
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In Illinois, environmentalists and industry compromise on fracking bill
Illinois Rep. John Bradley, D-Marion, speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Illinois State Capitol Thursday to announce proposed new fracking regulations. (Associated Press / Seth...
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The long road to building a clean-energy company
(Photo by Marc Macleod via Creative Commons) What does it take for an early-stage company with a potentially game-changing technology to snag the investments they need to make it in today’s...
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Intrigue in Illinois after House Speaker calls for fracking moratorium
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan surprised observers last week by announcing support for a two-year moratorium on fracking. (Associated Press) Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s statement last...
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Coal makes a comeback in Europe as conventional gas dries up
Open pit coal mining in Germany. (Photo by Rene Schwietzke via Creative Commons) ©2013 E&E Publishing, LLC Republished with permission By Arthur Max Europe’s declining competitiveness with U.S....
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Ohio tries to avoid repeat of 2011 injection well quakes
A map of Ohio’s bedrock geology. (via Ohio DNR, click to view original) More than a year after a string of earthquakes prompted Ohio to enact tougher rules on disposal wells for fracking wastewater,...
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Utica shale gets infrastructure boost with new processing plant
(Photo by Penn State via Creative Commons) ©2013 E&E Publishing, LLC Republished with permission By Peter Behr Another link in an industrial chain Ohio hopes to see growing around the Utica Shale...
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Commentary: New fracking evidence a wake-up call for Illinois
Ann Alexander is a Chicago-based senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Cross-posted from NRDC Switchboard By Ann Alexander We’ve been saying it till we’re blue in the face:...
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Technological limits could stifle Bakken oil potential
(Photo by hitchhacking via Creative Commons) ©2013 E&E Publishing, LLC Republished with permission By Peter Behr The vast Bakken Shale formation in North Dakota and Montana, a cornerstone of hopes...
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Unfair share: How oil and gas drillers avoid paying royalties
A drilling rig in the Marcellus Shale. (Photo by Penn State News via Creative Commons) Republished from ProPublica via Creative Commons By Abrahm Lustgarten Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre...
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Q&A: Natural gas engines for cleaner fracking
GE’s natural-gas-fueled oil field engines are manufactured in Waukesha, Wisconsin. (Photo via GE) In remote and rugged areas from the Great Plains to Appalachia, drilling and hydraulic fracturing is...
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Chambers of Commerce want fracking oversight left to states
A drilling rig in the Marcellus Shale (Photo by WCN 24/7 via Creative Commons) Calling shale gas a “great new resource of energy” that “creates millions of quality jobs,” Chambers of Commerce in 17...
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Rural county to take Illinois fracking debate to the ballot box
Main Street in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois where voters will decide on an anti-fracking ballot measure this spring. (Photo by J. Stephen Conn via Creative Commons) “Shall the people’s right to...
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Midwest-born ‘Toxic Avenger’ speaks out in the Marcellus
Illinois native Sandra Steingraber has taken her fracking fight to New York. Photo by Dale Willman. High-profile environmental activist, biologist and writer Sandra Steingraber – whom Rolling Stone...
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Ohio study finds more costs than benefits in shale gas drilling
Fracking means more truck traffic on roads like this one in Carroll County. Photo by Susy Morris via Creative Commons. Even before the most recent recession, Carroll County in rural eastern Ohio was...
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Wet gas means more profits for Ohio, says state
M3 Midstream’s Harrison Hub fractionation plant in eastern Ohio. Photo by Kathiann M. Kowalski. Controversy continues over the rapid growth of high volume oil and gas operations made possible by...
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Fracking wastewater is big business in Ohio
This Mount Simon sandstone core shows one of the types of rock used for deep injection wells in Ohio. Photo by Kathiann M. Kowalski. The oil and gas boom made possible by hydraulic fracturing, or...
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