Sustainability and Unconventional Drilling: Different Definitions, Shared...
By Jill Terner, PA Communications Intern, FracTracker Alliance In 1987, at the World Commission on Environment conference, sustainable development was recognized internationally for the first time....
View ArticleSustainability and Unconventional Drilling: Pt. II
Different Definitions, Shared Discourse By Jill Terner, PA Communications Intern, FracTracker Alliance In the previous installment of this three part blog series, I focused on how industry defines...
View ArticlePreserving Archaeological Sites with GAPP
The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) has estimated there to be over 195,000 cultural, historic, and archaeological sites in just nine of the most active shale formations located in the U.S. to...
View ArticleWater Use in WV and PA
Water Resource Reporting and Water Footprint from Marcellus Shale Development in West Virginia and Pennsylvania Report and summary by Meghan Betcher and Evan Hansen, Downstream Strategies; and Dustin...
View ArticleFracturing wells and land cover in California
By Andrew Donakowski, Northeastern Illinois University Land cover data can play an important role in spatial analysis; satellite or aerial imagery can effectively demonstrate the extent and make-up of...
View ArticlePublic Perception of Sustainability
By Jill Terner, PA Communications Intern, FracTracker Alliance In the previous two installments of this three part series, I discussed how sustainability provides a common platform for people who...
View ArticleThese Fish Weren’t Playing Opossum (Creek)
A First-hand Look at the Recent Statoil Well Pad Fire By Evan Collins and Rachel Wadell, Summer Research Interns, Wheeling Jesuit University After sitting in the non-air-conditioned lab on a muggy...
View ArticleFlorida’s Geographic and Geologic Challenges
By Maria Rose, Communications Intern, FracTracker Alliance FracTracker has received numerous emails and phones calls wondering about unconventional drilling activity in Florida. Part of the concern...
View ArticleFlorida Citizens Seek Drilling Industry Transparency
By Maria Rose, Communications Intern, FracTracker Alliance Pamela Duran waited impatiently in front of a Hampton Inn in Naples, Florida on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, with her husband Jaime, and several...
View ArticleComparing Unconventional Drilling in Southwestern PA
By Matt Unger, GIS Intern, FracTracker Alliance We recently received a request for unconventional (fracking) drilling data in Southwestern Pennsylvania counties and municipalities. Specifically, the...
View ArticleDigging into Waste Data
By Katie Mattern, FracTracker Summer Intern Seeing is believing, as the saying goes. Without physically observing the amount of waste generated from hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil and gas...
View ArticleComparison of Oil and Gas Violations and the Sale of Wells
By Matt Unger, FracTracker GIS Intern When the unconventional oil and gas extraction boom hit Pennsylvania in the mid-2000s small, local operators were among the first on the scene. As shale plays...
View ArticleHas our beer been fracked?
By Matt Unger and Gianna Calisto, FracTracker PA Interns Recently, a Grist.com article, entitled Hey! Did somebody frack my favorite beer? caught our attention here at FracTracker Alliance. In the...
View ArticleHere They Come Again! The Impacts of Oil and Gas Truck Traffic
Part of the FracTracker Truck Counts Project By Mary Ellen Cassidy, Community Outreach Coordinator, FracTracker Alliance I was recently invited by a community member to visit his home. It sits in a...
View ArticleMissing from the Conversation
By Mary Ellen Cassidy, Community Outreach Coordinator, FracTracker Alliance After spending the afternoon travelling to drilling pads and compressor stations for the extraction and processing of...
View ArticleShale Gas Development on Public Lands
By Mark Szybist and George Jugovic, Jr., PennFuture Guest Authors Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) and FracTracker Alliance have collaborated to create a unique GIS map that enables the...
View ArticleIncreasing Risk from Exploding Crude Trains
By Randy Sargent, Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab and Samantha Malone, FracTracker Alliance In the past two years, crude oil trains have exploded 10 times, killing 47 people. It could have been much...
View ArticleThe Science Behind OK’s Man-made Earthquakes, Part 1
By Ariel Conn, Seismologist and Science Writer with the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences On April 21, the Oklahoma Geological Survey issued a statement claiming that the sharp rise in Oklahoma...
View ArticleThe Science Behind OK’s Man-made Earthquakes, Part 2
By Ariel Conn, Seismologist and Science Writer with the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences Oklahoma has made news recently because its earthquake story is so dramatic. The state that once averaged...
View ArticlePipelines vs Oil Trains
By Juliana Henao, Communications Intern Media outlets have been very focused recently on reporting oil train derailments and explosions. Additionally, the Keystone XL pipeline has hastened political...
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