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Riverkeeper and Clean Water NOT Dirty Drilling, a coalition of environmental organizations working together to protect New York water, have launched a video ad campaign to raise awareness of the danger hydraulic fracturing poses to New York State’s water supply. A blog post in The […] More
On April 11, hundreds of people gathered in Albany to make their voice heard to Governor Cuomo in an anti-fracking rally that included legislators, activists, environmental groups, people affected by fracking practices gone wrong and Josh Fox, creator and director of the Academy Award-nominated film, […] More
As published on NRDC’s Switchboard By Amy Mall April 6, 2011 Government officials from around the world have recently declared that the risks of natural gas drilling are too great to allow it to proceed without additional analysis: The Town Council of Bartonville, Texas, in the […] More
by Josh Fox/ GASLAND March 16, 2011 This week, Teddy Borawski, the chief oil and gas geologist for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and a member of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s administration, serving in an official capacity, and on the record, compared […] More
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On March 1, Riverkeeper testified at the New York City Council Committee on Environmental Protection's public hearing on hydraulic fracturing. We will be submitting comments to the DRBC urging the suspension of its current rule-making process and deadlines, and called on the City Council to do the same. More
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Photo courtesy of Josh Fox and latered by Jamie Leo.
As posted on Ecocentric Blog By Robin Madel Maybe Gasland, Josh Fox’s film about fracking, should have been classified as a horror movie, because it appears to have the oil and gas industry running scared. Their lobby group, Energy in Depth, just sent a letter […] More
   February 7, 2011 — With the recent Oscar nomination of my documentary film GASLAND, Big Gas and their PR attack machine hit a new low in its blatant disregard for the truth.  In an unprecedented move, an oil and gas industry front group sent a letter […] More
By Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet Posted on January 23, 2011, Printed on January 25, 2011 Over the past decade, 34 states have succumbed to the hazardous and largely unregulated hydraulic fracturing (widely known as “fracking”) of deep shale formations to extract natural gas. This radical drilling method, blasting […] More
When you talk about the need for increased regulatory oversight of the oil & gas industry, you’re bound to hear the same thing over and over again: Everything’s fine.  At least that’s what oil & gas industry executives would have you believe. We all know […] More
At this time last year, citizens around the state were hunkered down trying to make sense of one of the worst environmental impact statements they had ever seen.  Just as horror stories of drinking water contamination were pouring in from around the country, New York […] More

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