Welcome to DeSmogBlog's portal to our coverage of fracking and the unconventional oil and gas industry.
To view every article that DeSmog has published about fracking, please visit this string of posts (125 items and growing).
Below is a selection of some of our key coverage of the fracking industry:
Fracking The Future: How Unconventional Gas Threatens Our Water, Health and Climate - DeSmog's full-length report about fracking.
Frac Sand - a collection of articles related to the mining of sand for use in hydraulic fracturing.
Gas Industry's Use of PSYOPS military psychological warfare tactics on U.S. soil - DeSmog's investigation into the gas industry's troubling intimidation campaign.
Additional fracking information from around the web:
New York Times series on fracking - Drilling Down
ProPublica series on Fracking: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat
ProPublica timeline of notable U.S. government actions on fracking: From Gung-Ho to Uh-Oh: Charting the Government’s Moves on Fracking
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
On Sat., April 27, I met up with energy investor Bill Powers at Prairie Moon Restaurant in Evanston, IL for a mid-afternoon lunch to discuss his forthcoming book set to hit bookstores on June 18.
The book's title - "Cold, Hungry and in the Dark: Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth" - pokes fun at the statement made by former Chesapeake Energy CEO...
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