Tag: fracking

Fracking: The Music Video

by Eric Umansky, ProPublica, May 12, 2011, 9:29 a.m.

Have you been curious what all the hubbub on “fracking” is about? Here is a fabulous music video explaining it:

Here’s more about the video, which was done by David Holmes and other talented journalism students at Jay Rosen’s NYU’s Studio 20. It was part of their collaboration with us to build better explanations for stories. For more on fracking, its lack of regulation, and the potential for drinking water contamination, check out our now nearly three-year running investigation.

 

Natural Gas Politics

by Abrahm Lustgarten – originally published at ProPublica 5-26-09 – Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massive energy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean water laws, Congress is having second thoughts about the environmental dangers posed by the burgeoning industry. With growing evidence that the drilling can damage water…

Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling

by Abrahm Lustgarten originally published by ProPublica 4-23-09 Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow,…