Here are websites with more information about the environmental and health impacts of oil and gas fracking.

A YouTube interview, with Westin Wilson speaking about fracking at the Lowry Bombing Range, Arapahoe County, Colorado.

http://www.youtube.com/user/FrackingColorado

A YouTube “Fracking Colorado” presentation from Feb. 12, 2012, given by Shane Davis, Phil Doe, Wes Wilson, and Sonia Skakich-Scrima, with Q & A, in Denver.

 Need a baseline water test?  There’s information at the bottom of this page, in the “Discussion” box, from the Habitat and Monitoring Coordinator for the Coalition for the Upper South Platte.

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Special Report: U.S. builders hoard mineral rights under new homes

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/09/us-usa-fracking-rights-specialreport-idUSBRE9980AZ20131009

State had 400 oil, gas spills in 2012, report says The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission reviews spills, and water contamination.

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/state-had-400-oil-gas-spills-in-2012-report-says

Phil Doe – A Must Read Account of Fracking Colorado

http://ecowatch.com/2013/must-read-fracking-colorado/

Meet Anthony Ingraffea – From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13724-meet-anthony-ingraffea-from-industry-insider-to-implacable-fracking-opponent

A Fracking First in Pennsylvania: Cattle Quarantine

http://www.propublica.org/article/a-fracking-first-in-pennsylvania-cattle-quarantine

Nationwide Insurance: Fracking Damage Won’t Be Covered

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/nationwide-insurance-fracking_n_1669775.html?utm_hp_ref=green#slide

Water Used For Oil and Gas Drilling In Colorado Increasing Colorado’s oil an gas drilling consumes enough water for 296,100 people/year.

http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_20903583?source=commented

Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us The Hidden Risks of Pumping Waste Underground. Lax oversight and uncertain science plague program under which industries have dumped 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquids deep underground.

http://www.propublica.org/article/injection-wells-the-poison-beneath-us

How Fracking Threatens the Health of the Mortgage Industry.  Signing a gas lease without lender consent is likely to constitute a mortgage default.

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/How-Fracking-Threatens-the-Health-of-the-Mortgage-Industry.html

Cornell University Professor D. Anthony Ingraffea’s “Facts On Fracking” YouTube videos.  Ingraffea presents facts from the scientific, technological and engineering viewpoint.  This is an excellent overview of the drilling and fracking process from a very well respected professional in the educational field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWmXpEkEPg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn0zP1uOjGk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4EZgyk2CDk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU_We3lldd4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Colorado Considers Drilling At State Park.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19708846

In The Clearing Stands A Boxer: One Man’s Fight Against Fracking.

http://www.truth-out.org/clearing-stands-boxer-one-mans-fight-against-fracking/1326401455

Goldman Environmental Prize Winner, Ursula Sladek, has addressed climate change and energy security from the grassroots level. In response to the Chernobyl disaster and Germany’s reliance on nuclear energy, Sladek created her country’s 1st cooperatively-owned renewable power company.

http://goldmanprize.org/2011/europe

German Village Achieves Energy Independence … And Then Some.  The momentum for renewable energy really picked up after Germany introduced a new feed-in tariff under the Renewable Energy Source Act of 2000.  Wildpoldsried produces 321% more energy than it needs and is generating $5.7 million in annual revenue.

http://www.jgpress.com/archives/_free/002409.html

http://inhabitat.com/german-village-produces-321-more-energy-than-it-needs/wildpoldsried-germany/

The Parching Of The West &The Age of Thirst In The American West.  Coming to a theatre near you: The greatest water crisis in the history of civilization.  Essays by William DeBuys

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175475/tomgram%3A_william_debuys%2C_the_parching_of_the_west/#more

Scientists Say Cut Soot and Methane, To Curb Global Warming.  An international team of scientists says it’s figured out how to slow global warming in the short run and prevent millions of deaths from dirty air: Stop focusing so much on carbon dioxide.

http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_19728805

Colorado Drilling Bans Could Be Headed To Courts.

http://www.kunc.org/post/colorado-drilling-bans-could-be-headed-courts

Clean Air Settlement to Strengthen Fracking Safeguards in Colorado.  BLM holds off on drilling, commits to accounting for air pollution along the Front Range and beyond.

http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7436&news_iv_ctrl=1194

Another Ohio Community Rocked by Quakes.

http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/jan/15/another-ohio-community-rocked-quakes/

Three Years After Drilling, Feds Say Natural Gas In Medina County Well Water Is Potentially Explosive.

http://www.ohio.com/news/local-news/three-years-after-drilling-feds-say-natural-gas-in-medina-county-well-water-is-potentially-explosive-1.255525

As Gas Drilling Spreads, Towns Hold Ground Over Control

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/us/towns-fighting-to-stand-ground-against-gas-drillers.html?_r=1&hp

Legal Fallout From Nuclear Bomb Frack Job Reaches Colorado Supreme Court. Citizen activist groups opposed to oil and gas drilling eye key decision.

http://coloradoindependent.com/107333/legal-fallout-from-nuclear-bomb-frack-job-reaches-colorado-supreme-court

Gas Is  ‘a threat, not a bridge’ To Renewables, Experts Warn.

http://www.rechargenews.com/business_area/politics/article284626.ece

U.S. Shale Bubble Inflates After Near-Record Prices for Untested Fields

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-09/shale-bubble-inflates-on-near-record-prices-for-untested-fields.html

 Medical Experts say “Stop Drilling” now.

http://dallasdrilling.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/medical-experts-say-stop-drilling-now-cities-ignore-warnings/

Great Source For The Latest National and International Fracking News.

http://www.marcellus-shale.us/Hot-issues.htm

The Whole Fracking Enchilada:  Violating The Bedrock, The Atmosphere, And Everything In Between.  Biologist Sandra Steingraber gives fracking’s impacts in a nutshell.

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/5839

Oil and Gas Lease Proposal Upsets Residents In North Fork Valley.  The demand for technical information — has been so great that the public-comment deadline was extended from Jan. 9 to Feb. 9.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_19684631

http://www.nbc11news.com/home/headlines/Residents_resist_potential_drilling_leases_in_Delta_County_136714573.html

Cornell Study Links Fracking Wastewater with Mortality in Farm Animals.  An important academic study on hydrofracking impacts on livestock and human health, that also raises serious questions about safety and monitoring our food supply.

http://ecowatch.org/2012/cornell-study-links-fracking-wastewater-with-mortality-in-farm-animals/

http://slopefarms.com/blog/2012/01/09/hydrofracking-impact-on-the-health-of-livestock-and-humans-new-study-from-two-cornell-researchers/

 http://slopefarms.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Bamberger_Oswald_NS22_in_press.pdf

Fracking to Expand On Boulder County Land and County To Consider New Fracking Regulations.

http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-7311-fracking-to-expand-on-county-land.html

http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-7312-county-to-consider-new-fracking-regulations.html

Fracking Discussion Packs Erie Town Hall, No Action Taken On Moratorium.  More than 100 residents show up to sound off on controversial gas drilling practice.

http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_19717207

Facing Some Realities: Consultant Questions Lower 48 Shale Boom.  “It’s unclear that shale gas production will support even the short-term expectations of abundance,” Berman said.

http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/947898485.shtml

Waste Water:  America’s Hidden 60 Million Barrel A Day Industry. Every day, U.S. oil and gas producers bring to the surface 60 million barrels of waste water, with a salt content up to 20 times higher than sea water and laced with hazardous chemicals.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/16/waste-water-barrel_n_1208587.html

Shale Gas Drilling’s Dirty Secret is Out:  The EPA’s findings about fracking’s contamination of ground water have sent a shockwave through a gas industry in denial.  Comments by “Gasland” creator Josh Fox.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/09/shale-gas-drilling-epa-fracking-water-contamination

Water Wars: Arapahoe County Snaps Up Farm Water Rights in Northern Colorado. Buying agricultural water rights and drying up farmground puts pressure on an agricultural industry looking to feed a rapidly growing population, but it also has economic implications.

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20111214/NEWS/712149977

Officials In Texas Town Defend Ordinance In Wake Of Chesapeake Withdrawal.

http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/NaturalGas/6713252

Oil And Gas Leases Place Lenders At Risk:  As the U.S. deals with the aftermath of the collapsed real estate bubble, and erosion of home values, oil and gas development may be an unrecognised risks for real estate lenders.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/28/gas-leases-kimmerle-idUSN1E79Q0DX20111028

Air Too Dangerous To Breathe:  How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands  Drilling is just the tip of the iceberg.  Compressor stations have been associated with significant headaches, bloody noses, skin lesions, blisters, and rashes.

http://www.alternet.org/story/153417/air_too_dangerous_to_breathe%3a_how_

gas_drilling_can_turn_rural_communities_into_industrial_wastelands_%5bwith_photos%5d

 

Fracking Contamination ‘Will Get Worse’:  Alberta Expert  A well-known industry expert in tracking leaking methane from oil and gas wells says a groundbreaking U.S. federal stuy on hydraulic fracturing highlights not only an old and growing problem, but the need for tighter regulations in the shale gas industry.

http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/12/19/Fracking-Contamination/

Learning Too Late of Perils in Gas Well Leases  Americans have signed millions of leases allowing companies to drill for oil and natural gas on their land in recent years. But some of these landowners — often in rural areas, and eager for quick payouts — are finding out too late what is, and what is not, in the fine print.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/us/drilling-down-fighting-over-oil-and-gas-well-leases.html

In addition: A Short Layman’s Guide to Lease Terms & An Archive of Oil and Gas Leases

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/us/drilling-down-laymans-guide-to-lease-terms.html?ref=us

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/02/us/oil-and-gas-leases.html?ref=us

Southeast Aurora residents question who will regulate fracking and address environmental concerns

http://www.aurorasentinel.com/email_push/news/article_8cc67df6-1135-11e1-86df-001cc4c002e0.html

U.S. Government Confirms Link Between Earthquakes and Shale Gas Extraction

http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/earthquake-natural-gas-Rocky-Mountain-Arsenal/11/9/2011/id/37856

TEDX (The Endocrine Disruption Exchange) maintains a publicly available database of the potential health effects of chemicals used during natural gas operations.  The list currently contains nearly 1,000 products, but it is by no means complete.

http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php

Drill method shakes up environmental debate:  Energy industry, critics not giving ground on fracking dispute

http://www.chieftain.com/business/drill-method-shakes-up-environmental-debate/article_a54bf396-1253-11e1-9945-001cc4c03286.html

Fracking of wells puts big demand on Colorado water

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_1939598

Weekend Fracking By Drillers Has Commerce City And Residents Complaining

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19387962

EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer

http://www.propublica.org/article/epa-finds-fracking-compound-in-wyoming-aquifer#

Gas Industrial Complex Series: Speech Suppression Against Scientists Becoming Standard Operating Procedure

http://checksandbalancesproject.org/2011/09/30/gas-industrial-complex-series-speech-suppression-against-scientists-becoming-standard-operating-procedure/

Cross Creek Citizens Address the Aurora City Council About Fracking

http://forums.auroracrosscreek.org/general-talk/your-15-seconds-well-3-minutes-of-fame/

Energy Department Panel Warns of Environmental Toll of Current Gas Drilling Practices

http://www.propublica.org/article/energy-dept.-panel-warns-of-environmental-toll-of-current-gas-drilling-prac

State Unveils Fracking Chemical Disclosure Rules:  Comments Sought Through Nov. 25, Formal Hearing Set for Dec. 5

http://www.postindependent.com/article/20111108/VALLEYNEWS/111109873/1083&ParentProfile=1074

Articles about the fracking town hall held by Sen. Morgan Carroll, Rep. Su Ryden and Rep. Rhonda Fields, on Oct. 20, 2011, and about the reaction of Arapahoe, Elbert, and Douglas counties to the huge wave of oil and gas drilling.

http://www.coloradostatesman.com/content/993102-well-well-well

http://www.aurorasentinel.com/email_push/news/article_13823bb2-00a3-11e1-91f1-001cc4c002e0.html

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_19221360

Drillers seeking a piece of the lucrative Niobrara formation are rushing to buy leases along the Front Range, but some homeowners are digging in.  

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_19169758

Anadarko Petroleum to Dive Deep into the Niobrara

http://www.niobraranews.net/archives/1108#more-1108

Shell’s natural gas play in Colorado raises issues of local versus state input, control.  Citizen advocates in Huerfano County fuming over state permit.

http://coloradoindependent.com/101336/shells-natural-gas-play-in-colorado-raises-issues-of-local-versus-state-input-control

New York State Senator Greg Ball: “Over My Dead Body” Will NY Have Pennsylvania’s Fracking Problem. State Sen. Greg Ball, R-Patterson, is proposing legislation that would set up some rules and guidelines aimed at hydrofracking in New York state.

http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2011/08/30/ball-over-my-dead-body-will-ny-have-pennsylvanias-fracking-problems/

http://www.thedailypeekskill.com/news/ball-calls-moratorium-hydrofracking

Top 10 Giveaways To Big Oil In Rick Perry’s “Jobs” Plan. Rick  Perry’s “jobs” is less focused on creating jobs than providing benefits to multi-national oil and gas companies at the expense of taxpayers.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/14/344339/top-10-giveaways-to-big-oil-in-rick-perrys-jobs-plans/

Fracking is toxic for kids, suit says.  Lawsuit is one of several that have recently been filed in federal court against natural-gas companies accusing them of harming people in the Fayetteville Shale. Other suits contend that fracking operations are contaminating groundwater and devaluing homes. 

http://epaper.arkansasonline.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=ArDemocrat/2011/09/15&ID=Ar02704&Locale

Criminalize Fracking.  Activists in New York   have drafted legislation  that would criminalize fracking.

http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/7866-criminalize-fracking

Why the World May Be Running Out of Clean Water. The arid West, may have passed “peak water” — the point at which it becomes essentially impossible to increase supply.  ”The rapid expansion of the use of hydraulic fracturing to increase natural gas production has serious potential consequences for local water resources,”

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2097159,00.html

UN Report Urges Countries to Take Action to Protect Human Right to Water. Privatization can violate the human right to water through cutoffs, price hikes, contamination, corporate withholding of information or misleading the public, and failing to fulfil obligations. 

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/09/16-3

Parched Texans Impose Water-Use Limits for Fracking Gas Wells

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-06/parched-texans-impose-water-use-limits-for-fracking-gas-wells.html#0_undefined,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:  The Fracking Industry’s War On The New York Times — And The Truth.  Superb investigative journalism by the New York Times has brought the paper under attack by the natural gas industry, whose spinning and obfuscation is impeding leaders striving to institute sensible regulations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/fracking-natural-gas-new-york-times-_b_1022337.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=102111&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief

Rush to Drill for Natural Gas Creates Conflicts With Mortgages. Some banks have become reluctant to grant mortgages on properties leased for gas drilling.  What happens if they lend money for a piece of land that ends up storing the equivalent of an Olympic-size swimming pool filled with toxic wastewater from drilling?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/us/rush-to-drill-for-gas-creates-mortgage-conflicts.html?_r=1

EPA Plans to Issue Rules Covering Fracking Wastewater

http://www.propublica.org/article/epa-plans-to-issue-rules-covering-fracking-wastewater

Doctors Ask New York To Study Health Impacts Before Allowing Fracking

http://www.propublica.org/article/doctors-ask-new-york-to-study-health-impacts-before-allowing-fracking#comments

Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy.  A website dedicated to supplying vetted, evidence-based, scientific information and resources on unconventional gas development (high-volume hydrofracking) and other novel energy production methods. PSE’s mission is to bring transparency to the important public policy issues surrounding such methods, helping to level the playing field for citizens, advocacy groups, media, policy-makers and politicians.

http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/

BLM plan for Colorado oil and gas uses draws sharp criticism from conservationists, landowners, and industry.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19135572

Drilling spills rise in Colorado, but fines rare.  There are 7 spills every 5 days.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18881512

EPA holds hearing in Denver on gas and oil drilling emission rules

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_1899343

Fracking insiders score big in new gas bill, but Americans not told the true costs of massive drilling plan

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/04/10546/fracking-insiders-score-big-new-gas-bill-americans-not-told-true-costs-massive-dr

Anschutz Exploration sues NY town to strike down zoning law that prohibiting gas drilling

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_18914160

State to levy record $940,000 fine against bankrupt operator for abandoning gas wells.

http://coloradoindependent.com/99484/state-to-levy-record-940000-fine-against-bankrupt-operator-for-abandoned-gas-wells

Science Lags as Health Problems Emerge Near Gas Fields

http://www.propublica.org/article/science-lags-as-health-problems-emerge-near-gas-fields

Hot topic of hydrogen sulfide emissions creates cloud of controversy in gas patch

http://coloradoindependent.com/99766/hot-topic-of-hydrogen-sulfide-emissions-creates-cloud-of-controversy-in-gas-patch

U.S. Grassroots Effort to Ban Fracking Floods White House with Calls as Groups Solicit UN to Recognize Fracking as Human Rights Issue

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/pressreleases/u-s-grassroots-effort-to-ban-fracking-ramps-up-as-groups-solicit-the-un-to-recognize-fracking-as-a-human-rights-issue/

As Texas withers from its worst single-year drought ever, and residential water users face mandatory cutbacks, fracking faces no limits on how much water it can pump.

http://motherjones.com/environment/2011/09/texas-drought-fracking-water

In Dry Creek Colorado members of the Hoffmeister family have been plagued by recurring sickness since gas fracking began.

http://www.postindependent.com/article/20110828/VALLEYNEWS/110829902&parentprofile=search

Post Independent  Opinion:  Industry should keep public, workers aware of presence, dangers of hydrogen sulfide.

http://www.postindependent.com/article/20110831/VALLEYNEWS/110839995/1083&ParentProfile=1074

Senator Udall looking into charges that OSHA has taken over 2 years to investigate claims that Silt Mesa resident was exposed to potentially fatal fumes while working on gas drilling rig.

http://www.postindependent.com/article/20110830/VALLEYNEWS/110839986/1083&ParentProfile=1074

Fracking Will Cause “Irreversible Harm”.  A geological engineering professor specializing in rock mechanics and hydrogeology says fracking will cause “irreversible harm”lasting thousands of years.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150155632989458&comments

Pooling Is Law Of Land:  Colorado Property Owners Faced With Possibility Of Being Forced Into Drilling Plans

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_18678240

Oil-and-Gas Panel Okays 25 Colorado Sites For Horizontal Drilling.

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_18642369

COGCC Defends Low Publicity Of Major Fines In Oil And Gas Spill Enforcement Case

http://coloradoindependent.com/93702/cogcc-defends-publicity-of-major-fines-in-oil-and-gas-spill-enforcement-cases

Religious leaders, community representatives, environmental groups and health advocates from 100 organizations representing 2 million people in 13 states have united to protest the U.S. Energy Department’s decision to set up an advisory panel on hydraulic fracturing dominated by people with financial ties to the natural gas industry.

http://www.ewg.org/release/disapproval-fracking-panel-grows

 Shell Project Draws Lawsuit from Huerfano County Group Seeking To Block Gas Test Well

http://www.chieftain.com/business/local/shell-project-draws-lawsuit/article_7de83ff8-b993-11e0-a194-001cc4c002e0.htm

Drilling Around The Law:  Environmental Working Group’s Fracking Regulation Recommendations

http://www.ewg.org/drillingaroundthelaw

Scientists Say DOE Fracking Panel Biased By “financial Ties To Natural Gas, Oil Industry”

http://coloradoindependent.com/95922/scientists-say-doe-fracking-panel-biased-by-financial-ties-to-natural-gas-oil-industry

U.S. Forest Service:  Fracking Killed Trees

http://www.enviroblog.org/2011/07/us-forest-service-fracking-killed-trees.html

Pennsylvania Fracking Hearing: Standing room only and plenty contentious

http://www.enviroblog.org/2011/06/fracking-hearing-standing-room-only-and-plenty-contentious-1.html

Colorado Officials Investigating Hydrogen Sulfide Reports At Oil and Gas Drilling Sites.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/oil-gas-drilling-hydrogen-sulfide-colorado_n_921227.html

Air Sampling In Colorado And New Mexico Reveals Toxins Near Drilling

http://www.gjsentinel.com/breaking/articles/group-air-sampling-reveals-toxins-near-drilling/

Detroit City Council Becomes First In Michigan To Ban Fracking.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/639589/detroit_becomes_first_city_in_michigan_to_ban_fracking?page=entire

Blind Rush?  Shale Gas Boom Proceeds Amid Human Health Questions

http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.119-a348

Debt Ceiling Deal Puts U.S. On Brink Of Defaulting On The Environmental Debt.

http://wilderness.org/content/pr-environmental-debt-20110801

Oil And Gas Boom A Bust For Hunters Along Colorado-Wyoming Border

http://coloradoindependent.com/95335/oil-and-gas-boom-a-bust-for-hunters-along-colorado-wyoming-border

Fracking Operations Cause Thousands of Earthquakes in Arkansas.

http://www.truth-out.org/fracking-operations-cause-thousands-earthquakes-arkansas/1311877041

Forced Pooling:  When Landowners Can’t Say No To Drilling

http://www.propublica.org/article/forced-pooling-when-landowners-cant-say-no-to-drilling/single

Will Elbert County’s Citizens Wake Up To Predatory Water Districts?   Big Oil might find it handy if there were to be water districts in place that had been conveniently set up to usurp the rights of landowners who were unaware that adjudication of water rights was a necessary step to protect them (the landowners) from speculators. Most people are unaware that a Metropolitan Water District can be formed and, in the process, take away un-adjudicated water rights from landowners.

http://www.elbert-grab.com/Arc/EGA-PredatoryWaterDistricts.html

Why Natural Gas Is Not The Solution.  Rising from the ashes of fossil and nuclear fuels to a solar hydrogen economy by 2020.

http://www.phoenixprojectfoundation.us/uploads/Natural_Gas_is_not_the_Solution.pdf

 Water for Oil:  The Devil’s bargain for Natural Gas.  Why we aren’t being protected from fracking and how it is endangering our water.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/191937-Water-For-Oil-The-Devil-s-Bargain-For-Natural-Gas

The issue is about money, and what WE, the People, are up against. America’s Natural Gas Alliance, and other corporations are lobbying to influence members of Congress.  ANGA is behind a 3 million dollar unnatural campaign of political persuasion.

http://my.firedoglake.com/cynicalrevolt/2011/08/05/the-shady-natural-gas-alliance/

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientlbs.php?id=D000046794&year=2011

Fracking threatens organic farmers, conventional farmers and ranchers.

http://www.gilttaste.com/stories/327-what-will-fracking-do-to-your-food-supply

As Weld County fracking increases and industrializes communities, the quality of life and property values decrease.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_18493742

Here are websites for finding current information about fracking in Elbert County, Colorado.

http://elbertcountygasland.com/

http://new-plains.com/

Fracking at Drinking Water Source for 80,000 Pennsylvanians Raises Alarms.

http://www.truth-out.org/fracking-drinking-water-source-80000-pennsylvanians-raises-alarms/1311168512

An article about one man’s quest for answers about natural gas drilling.

http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.11/hydrofracked-one-mans-quest-for-answers-about-natural-gas-drilling

What happens when about 80 new natural gas wells are developed within a mile radius of your home?  Here’s one Colorado family’s story.

http://www.journeyoftheforsaken.com/

This new website has information, articles, links, and a fracktivist blog focused on gas fracking in Colorado, but also with news from the nation and world.

http://wtfrackorg.blogspot.com/

Yellowstone Oil Spill Prompts Evacuations July 2, 2011

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/04/nation/la-na-oil-spill-yellowstone-20110704

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/02/yellowstone-oil-spill-pro_n_889363.html

http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_2b84f0e5-a31a-59b8-aeca-c24581dd4de1.html?mode=image

U.S. Representative for Colorado, Mike Coffman has introduced legislation to speed up oil and gas permitting process

http://www.aurorasentinel.com/hp_sr/article_ef71cbde-a189-11e0-b93b-001cc4c03286.html

New Jersery legislators pass bill to ban fracking.

http://www.truth-out.org/new-jersey-lawmakers-vote-ban-fracking/1309452696

New Texas fracking chemical disclosure law:  critics find gaps in state disclosure laws.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18315326

http://www.propublica.org/article/critics-find-gaps-in-state-laws-to-disclose-hydrofracking-chemicals

Earthjustice provides legal representation at no cost to more than 700 clients, from the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Wilderness Society to community-based coalitions.  Their site has blogs, stories, news, “fraccidents” and more.

http://earthjustice.org/about

http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/colorado-and-fracking

http://earthjustice.org/our_work/campaigns/fracking-gone-wrong-finding-a-better-way

A Cornell University professor’s study finds that natural gas from fracking could be dirtier than coal.

http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2011/04/18/study-fracking-may-be-more-harmful-coal-use

The New York Times has been doing a great “Drilling Down” series of articles on fracking.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/DRILLING_DOWN_SERIES.html

Global Community Monitor has a fracking monitoring program in Battlement Mesa and Durango, Colorado.

http://www.gcmonitor.org/ 

http://www.gcmonitor.org/article.php?list=type&type=224

http://gcmonitor.org/section.php?id=230

http://www.gcmonitor.org/section.php?id=236

Articles on fracking in Battlement Mesa, Colorado.

http://www.postindependent.com/article/20100831/VALLEYNEWS/100839992/1083&ParentProfile=1074

http://coloradoindependent.com/86787/battlement-mesa-activist-lets-not-go-away-quietl

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_18304843

Fracking on Colorado’s Western Slope.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fracking-the-Western-Slope/128162367253303

Fracking information and links to references, resources, and articles.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fracking

Great general information resource site devoted to fracking.  Lots of organizational help.

http://www.unitedforaction.org/

Site with lots of excellent information, especially for medical professionals.  Note that NY achieved their moratorium on fracking primarily by strong support from the NY Medical Society and local medical societies.

http://gdacc.wordpress.com/category/events/http://gdacc.wordpress.com/category/events/

An April 26, 2011 forum on Colorado fracking, on the Tamara Banks Studio 12 Show, Colorado public tv channel 12.  An Industry rep., a Colorado oil and gas commissioner, Westin Wilson (EPA fracking whistleblower), Theresa Meixell (author of Collateral Damage, a book on fracking’s impact on landowners), and a Colorado rancher discuss fracking impact on ranching.

http://video.cpt12.org/video/1900901844

All kinds of fracking information, links, and support.

http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/hydraulic_fracturing_101

The public can post complaints about oil and gas wells on this website.

http://wellwatch.org/wiki/WellWatch

Food and Water Watch is working to ban fracking and has lots of information.

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/fracking/

Coyote Gulch has all kinds of articles related to water in Colorado.

http://coyotegulch.wordpress.com/

http://coyotegulch.wordpress.com/category/climate-change/oil-and-gas/

“Gasland”, a documentary about fracking, was nominated for an Oscar in 2011 in the best documentary category.  The website has news, action items, rebuttals to criticisms of the film, and fractivist groups can be listed on the site.

http://www.gaslandthemovie.com

The South Park Coalition is working to stop fracking in Park County Colorado. Antero Reservoir, a source for Denver’s, water is up there.

https://sites.google.com/site/parkcountygasdrilling/

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_17397839

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_17566858

An article with EPA whistle-blower Westin Wilson discussing the Niobrara formation and other fracking concerns.  The author, Michele Melio, has done many other articles on this site about fracking in Colorado. 

http://www.examiner.com/green-initiative-in-denver/fracking-and-our-water