“A study of birth records found newborns living within 3 kilometers of fracking sites were less healthy than those born farther away, and those within 1 kilometer saw the largest effects,” reports Inside Climate News. They examined records of infants born before & after the fracking boom to the same mother, finding higher incidence of negative … More Reason 4,582 that we should rein in the fracking industry
When I worked at Kiski, some folks on campus were concerned about the fracking that was happening around us, especially because there were fracking wells around the reservoir nearby. They had good reason to be worried. There were some recorded spills and a handful of citations. Now if you know anything about the gas industry … More At some point, we all live downstream from fracking.
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry spoke before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday. He is seeking confirmation as Donald Trump’s Secretary of Energy. In his opening statement, he said “I am committed to modernizing our nuclear stockpile, promoting and developing American energy in all forms, advancing the department’s critical science and technology mission, and carefully disposing … More Rick Perry is 50 years ahead of the Republican platform and 20 years behind where we need to be.
Follow the link below to Mike Badges-Canning shares his thoughts on the tragic seizure and sacrifice of private land for private benefit, for deforestation, for disruption of tradition, for the corrosion of the common good for the falsity of our common wealth. Yesterday, I spent most of the daylight hours on the Gerhart … More Sacrifice Zones
A few years ago I saw Aubrey McClendon at the Shale Gas Insight conference. He was at the top of his game at Chesapeake Energy. He even had Carl Pope at Sierra Club convinced that fracked gas was good because it was less damaging as a greenhouse gas because when you burn it, it’s got … More Aubrey McClendon and the despoliating culture
In January, I read from Heartwood at Webster’s Bookstore and Cafe. Here are some videos that my publisher, Penny Eifrig, took. J. Harlan Ritchey’s art is at my feet in the videos. He drew the cover and internal art in Heartwood. “The Omega Rite” is the opening poem in the book, a sort of overture … More Reading at Webster’s: The Omega Rite, The Fox, Open for Business, and Hume at the Melting Places
Peter Walks for Democracy 