Yesterday, Public Citizen spoke before the Department of Energy subcommittee tasked with natural gas drilling and outlined the key steps needed to properly oversee the process of fracking. We are calling on the subcommittee to recommend closure of many loopholes that create regulatory exemptions for fracking. Please join us in urging the DOE to regulate [...]
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Urge DOE to regulate fracking
Posted in Air Quality, tagged Energy, hydraulic fracturing, natural gas, Public Citizen, united states department of energy on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Are we getting “fracked”?
Posted in Air Quality, tagged clean air act, hydraulic fracturing, natural gas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What happens when you let Big Business regulate itself? – You get fracked. Hydraulic fracturing — also known as fracking — is a controversial method of natural gas extraction that involves injecting a toxic chemical sludge into the surface of the earth until it rips open. And it’s a case study in the dangers of [...]
Is fracking worse for the climate than coal?
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, natural gas, tagged climate change, Cornell University, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, hydraulic fracturing, natural gas, shale gas on April 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A new study from Cornell Professor Robert Howarth shows that natural gas from shale beds extracted through hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has the same effect on the climate as burning coal, tarnishing one of the natural gas industry’s major claims of being a less polluting and more climate friendly fossil fuel. A megawatt of electricity [...]
Whaaaa, don’t take my tax break away
Posted in natural gas, tagged natural gas, Tax break, Texas budget deficit on April 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In another effort to stave off critics who call a $1 billion annual tax break for high-cost gas producers in Texas outrageous, a study paid for by the industry has emerged intended to scare folks into believing that for every $1 the state spends in tax breaks it gets back about $4 in related economic [...]
San Antonio and Fracking – could this push the area out of compliance with federal clean air standards?
Posted in Air Quality, natural gas, tagged Alamo Area Council of Governments, Eagle Ford Formation, hydraulic fracturing, natural gas, San Antonio on March 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
San Antonio, which sits just north of what many say is one of the largest oil and gas reserves in the country known as the Eagle Ford, is a heart beat away from violating federal air quality standards for ground-level ozone. It seems it is only a matter of time before the increased emissions from [...]
Which power plants caused the rolling blackouts?
Posted in Energy, tagged electric reliability council of texas, Energy, ercot, natural gas, Rolling blackout, Texas on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
ERCOT just released an updated list of all of the power plants that were not operating Feb 2, contributing to the power shortages that caused the rolling blackouts. That document is here, but we present the data below for your convenience. Notice a trend? Natural gas and Lignite coal were the main power sources that [...]
Was there a gas shortage during the rolling blackouts? Not if you had the right contract.
Posted in Global Warming, tagged electric reliability council of texas, Electricity generation, natural gas, public citizen texas, Rolling blackout, Texas, Texas Railroad Commission on February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Texas Railroad Commission added an emergency item to their agenda today so it could hear from the Texas Energy Reliability Council about natural gas service’s impact on the rolling blackouts that swept the state. They told the Commission that Texas was never in danger of a natural gas shortage during last week’s statewide deep freeze and no [...]
Texas Railroad Commission jumping into the discussion about the rolling blackouts.
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Energy, Matira; Gas, natural gas, public citizen texas, Texas, Texas Railroad Commission on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Railroad Commission added an emergency item to tomorrow’s agenda so it can hear from the Texas Energy Reliability Council about last week’s rolling blackouts impact on natural gas service. The meeting starts at 9:30 am on Tuesday, February 8th at the William B. Travis Building. Watch it online at www.texasadmin.com.
TPPF Energy Report Shows Lack of Vision
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, Renewables, solar, Texas Legislature, tagged Coal, dewhurst, fraser, natural gas, texas public policy foundation on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Keynote’s promotion of coal leans heavily on unrealistic view of the Texas energy market In a forum held last Thursday the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) unveiled a report that attempts to sway the debate about Texas energy policy off its current trajectory – namely ideas put forward by high-profile Republicans officials like Lt. [...]
Flammable water in homes west of Fort Worth!
Posted in Toxics, tagged Benezene, fort worth, fracking, methane, natural gas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ordering a natural gas company in Fort Worth to take immediate action to protect people living near one of its drilling operations who have complained about flammable drinking water coming out of their home faucets. Read some of our earlier blogs about the process that is suspected of causing these [...]
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