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The Delaware Riverkeeper’s “Virtual” Canoe Race
Pull! Pull! Please join me in supporting the Delaware Riverkeeper Network’s upcoming Virtual Canoe Race. Adults and junior paddlers can join this fun race by “virtually” paddling down the scenic,...
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It’s Always OUTRAGE-ous In Philadelphia
Protests against unconventional shale gas drilling have been popping up across the United Shale Shocked States of late, and the global List of Fracking Bans and Moratorium, curated by the incomparable...
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Worldwide Fracking Smackdown!
England, Canada, United States, Ireland, Czech Republic, France, Denmark, South Africa… On Saturday, September 22, 2012, energetic yet peaceful protests sprouted up around the globe as many thousands...
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Vedge On The Edge
The Importance of Rain Gardens A little more than halfway through the The Delaware Riverkeeper Network‘s Virtual Canoe Race, and I’m happy to say that our boat, The Green Zombies, is not in last place....
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It’s The Cement, Stupid
Or Why I Favour A Ban On Fracking According to Global Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing, a facebook page administered by Luke Ashley of Wrexam, England, “Understanding how fracking and repeated fracking can...
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Frack Brine On Montgomery County Roads?
DEP’s Permit Pickle Pennsylvania’s municipal water treatment plants were designed to handle the bio solids of sewage, not the radioactive compounds contained in shale gas drilling waste. They can’t...
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Damned Data! PA DEP Still Withholding Vital Water Test Results
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has held out long enough. It’s time for the state to release the full test results from a Washington County, PA water well near a Range Resources...
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Pipeline Destruction Is Coming To Town
Document Pre-Pipeline Stream Conditions in The Delaware River DECEMBER 22-23, 2012 The Delaware Riverkeeper Network needs your help: “We have 19 days to stop this fracked gas pipeline from cutting...
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Best Documentary On Fracking Ever
Triple Divide - Trailer Visit TripleDivideFilm.org to get your sustainably-produced DVD of the highly acclaimed new film Triple Divide – considered essential viewing by Organizations United for the...
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Frack-Free Film Festival
Suddenly, A New Genre: Independent Films About Fracking Cool art house theater or screen porch screening, there’s a whole crop of new films that reveal the true stories of fracking and the impact of...
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Marcellus Spills Fill PA Waterways
“Pretty Please” Doesn’t Stop Surface Discharges Nearly everyday it seems there’s a new report of Marcellus shale gas waste spilling in Pennsylvania’s wetlands and streams, DEP violations like this...
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USGS Warns Of Disinfection Byproducts From Treatment Of Produced Waters
You don’t have to be a hydrogeologist to understand the severity of the U.S. Geological Survey’s most recent warning. As the number of suitable sites for deep wastewater injection wells dwindles, and...
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Philadelphia Water Drive Starts Today!
Pennsylvanians Take A Local Stand To Support People Impacted By Fracking “Imagine finding your tap water has suddenly turned milky, red, or black and sludgy. Imagine taking a shower and finding that it...
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River of Doubt: Ex-Water Exec Appointed New DRBC Chief
What’s it gonna be, Steven Tambini? As former Vice President of Operations at Pennsylvania American Water, who also previously served on the board of trustees for the American Water Works Association...
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Thousands Have Lived Without Love, But Nobody Has Lived Without Water
“Phil’s Gonna Cover This Water Issue To The Point Where You’re Gonna Be Pretty Angry” This short video, Truth About Fracking, features retired Bureau of Reclamation official, Phil Doe, speaking to a...
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Big Poisons, No Plan: List of PA Streams with Frack Fluid Spills
Van Wagner teaches Environmental Science at Lewisburg High School in Pennsylvania. He’s also an accomplished country-folk musician who has donated his time to teach music to kids at Pennsylvania summer...
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Frack Brine On Montgomery County Roads?
DEP’s Permit Pickle Pennsylvania’s municipal water treatment plants were designed to handle the bio solids of sewage, not the radioactive compounds contained in shale gas drilling waste. They can’t...
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Former PA DEP Secretary Krancer Wants Sunoco To Condemn Your Property
What’s the fastest way to get approval to build a hotly contested, demonstrably volatile 299-mile gas liquids pipeline through numerous densely populated suburban Pennsylvania municipalities? First,...
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Pennies From Heaven, Pollution From Hell
Recently, my son wrote an essay about hidden costs. He discussed the heavy toll that certain industries, like factory farming and clothing manufacture, take on humanity and our environment when they...
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The Year Of The Ban – 2014
Fracking Bans Sweep Across North America, And That Was Just The Month Of December A steady uptick in citizen activism, and a broadening awareness of hydraulic fracturing’s negative impact on everything...
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