Fracking: Gas Drilling’s Environmental Threat, investigative reports by ProPublica
The Gasland documentary:
- Gasland, a film by Josh Fox
- The Truth about Gasland, a counter-website from America’s Natural Gas Alliance, “30 of North America’s largest independent natural gas exploration and production companies”
- Point-counterpoint about Gasland
Other resources:
- A primer on hydro-fracturing, Center for Health Environment and Justice
- Natural Gas Shale Horizontal Drilling Video, an industry video with a very clear & understandable fracking explanation
- Fractured – Gas drilling in Appalachia, fracturedappalachia.org
- Q&A: shale gas and fracking, Duncan Clark, The Guardian
- Shale Gas or Shell Game, Part 2, Deborah Rogers
- Shale Gas—Abundance or Mirage? Why The Marcellus Shale Will Disappoint Expectations, A.E. Berman
- The Whole Fracking Enchilada, Sandra Steingraber
- Clean Water not Dirty Drilling
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Mineral Exploration & Extraction in Public Water Well Fields: an Ohio Legal & Public Policy Perspective, Power Point presentation, Julie Weatherington-Rice
Documents:
- Natural Gas’s Toxic Waste, New York Times
- Chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, Minority staff, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- The Future of Natural Gas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- What is shale gas and why is it important?, U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Fracking Resource Guide
- Fracking’s dangers for workers, Institute for Southern Studies
- Network for Oil and Gas Accountability and Protection
