B-CAUSE (Bucks Concerned About Unsafe Shale-gas Extraction)

Category: Fracking Dangers

  • Collateral Damage

    LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) makes it possible to transport large quantities of fossil energy to foreign countries that want to make plastic or burn it as fuel. Neither of these uses is kind to Mother Earth.

    Tracking Fracking | Watershed Sentinel
    In light of new research on health impacts, a working group is renewing calls to to add fracking chemicals to Canada’s National Pollution Release Inventory.

    Solution: Keep it in the ground.

  • Violated its own Zoning Law

    90.5 WESA
    By Reid Frazier | Allegheny Front

  • Why are PA Taxpayers Subsidizing This?

    It’s a scam. We should not be investing in recovering Lithium from wastewater that we should not be creating in the first place–full stop.

  • Oh Wait, That stuff might be valuable someday

    Produced water, now expensive to dispose of, may become a valuable byproduct in the future. So the industry is pleased to have won a court battle over who owns it. I wonder if they’ll pony up the cash to pay for the harm it does when it pollutes local wells and streams.

    Texas Supreme Court Rules on Produced Water Ownership – Inside Climate News
    The justices ruled Friday that the company holding the oil and gas lease also lays claim to the produced water. The ruling comes as more companies are seeking to turn a profit on what has long been considered a vexing waste stream.

  • Produced Water is a Hazardous Byproduct of Fracking

    The energy industry is notorious for doing the bare minimum in terms of ethical and legal protection of the environment. Here’s more news of environmental concerns.

    Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations – Inside Climate News
    The fracking industry says its operators strictly adhere to regulations, and it has “no greater priority” than ensuring worker and community safety.

  • More Quakes Reported

    Did Fracking Cause Colorado’s Latest Earthquake? – Yellow Scene Magazine
    A 2.9 magnitude earthquake shook Dacono, Colorado, raising new concerns about fracking and seismic risk. Here’s what we know.

  • Fracking Advocates are Relentless

    They want to overturn the ban on fracking in the Delaware Watershed. Support Delaware Riverkeeper!

    Non-profits advocate for maintaining fracking ban in Delaware River watershed
    The non-profits urged the commission, during public comment, not to overturn a ban on fracking that was implemented in 2021.

    Texas is making a big mistake. (Not their first.) Shall we stop buying food grown in Texas?

    Abbott signs law permitting use of fracking wastewater in agriculture
    Texas farmers and environmentalists worry that a new law allowing fracking wastewater reuse could threaten land and water safety.

  • Is your Town Protecting Your Property?

    Land use ordinances and other municipal constraints can be employed to protect citizens from the ravages of fracking. Read about it.

    The Municipal Ordinance Project: PA’s Greatest Tool to Fight Fracking
    By passing protective ordinances at the local level, we’re helping MOP up the fracking mess state legislators and regulators have allowed.

  • Who Needs Protection?

    So you’d like to contribute the water your wells produce to help alleviate the water shortage, but you need a bit of protection? Why?

    Oil companies want protection as Texas considers allowing treated fracking water released into rivers
    As the state grapples with a threatened water supply, industry and lawmakers have invested millions in research to clean the toxic backwash for use in agriculture.

    [T]he oil and gas industry is hesitating to expand this effort [to reuse produced water] unless it can be sure it is shielded from liability after it hands off the water. You could be forgiven for doubting that anything good would come of “shielding from liability.” After all, these are big powerful companies, the backbone of American enterprise, they would certainly be ethical and honest in such matters.

    Yes, I am being facetious. Big Oil and Gas have a terrible record for social and environmental responsibility. Giving them protection from liability would be naive and stupid. The cost of insurance, the cost of cleaning up the toxic byproducts should already be priced in, but it isn’t. That’s just another example of the hidden ways the public subsidizes fossil energy.

  • Quakes

    ODNR links earthquakes to fracking operations in Noble County – Farm and Dairy
    Several earthquakes in Noble County, Ohio were linked to hydraulic fracturing operations at a well pad; the Ohio Department of Natural Resources halted operations.
    Ohio fracking operation suspended in connection to recent earthquakes
    An ODNR official said some of the quakes were strong enough to be felt.

    It’s called a “permit” because our society is accepting as necessary, something that is not otherwise desirable.