Industry Website Terms SUNY Fracked Gas Deal an “Ironic Twist”
Here’s how Gas Business Briefing, an industry trade website, covered last week’s $22 million deal between EnergyMark, LLC and the State University of New York: EnergyMark awarded 3-year natgas contract...
View ArticleAnnouncing the New Shale Institute at UB
Did you know about the new Shale Resources and Society Institute at the University at Buffalo, SUNY? Of course you didn’t, because this new institute hasn’t been “rolled out” to the public, yet. It...
View ArticleGrisanti Receives Praise and Condemnation for Earth Day
After winning the 2012 William B. Hoyt Environmental Excellence Award from the Audubon Council of New York State (at Delaware North’s swank Gideon Putnam Hotel & Spa in Saratoga Springs) for his...
View ArticleSUNY Institute Funder Fracked by SEC Probe
Aubrey McClendon has been removed from his position as chairman of the board of Chesapeake Energy, the company he founded. Click here to read an account from the Guardian, describing how Chesapeake’s...
View ArticleFlawed UB Report Good Enough for DC Lawmakers?
A few days ago, the Public Accountability Initiative reported how the flawed report produced by the Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI) at the State University of New York at Buffalo has...
View ArticlePop Quiz for New Yorkers: Is the Sky Pink?
Here’s a report from Rolling Stone about Josh (Gasland) Fox’s new short film, “The Sky is Pink?” Natural gas wells leak, inevitably, over time. The casings degrade, crack, and the gas, etc., seeps into...
View ArticleEngelder: Frack-Induced Earthquakes are like Hockey Skates
The Raging Chicken Press out of Kutztown, PA, has this story by a philosophy professor at Bloomsburg University named Wendy Lee. In it, she deconstructs a public listserve and email exchange she had...
View ArticlePAI Uncovers Committee to Frack NY
The Public Accountability Initiative pulls the covers off the Committee to Save New York. Click here to read their discoveries, and find out which gas industry group actually submitted the logo above...
View ArticleMeet the SRSI Advisory Board
Last week, SUNY Trustees resolved to get answers from UB regarding its controversial Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI). The institute has come under fire since its inception, and has...
View ArticleIs Binghamton’s Water at Risk?
Eleven bridges span the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers in Binghamton, NY, carrying cars, trains, and pedestrians back and forth. The city of 47,000 grew in the valley at the confluence of these two...
View ArticleIs Drinking Water in New York at Risk from Pennsylvania Fracking?
Yes, it is. This video by Bill Huston is a follow-up to last week’s post about Binghamton’s water supply.
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