Organizations Supporting a Ban
Chenango Delaware Otsego Gas Drilling Opposition Group
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in Pennsylvania
Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition
New Yorkers United to Ban Fracking
New York Residents Against Drilling
State,County, Township Measures Against Fracking
Food & Water Watch: Mapping the Movement
By Darryl Fears, With deep concerns over fracking, a Va. county says no to more gas drilling Published: February 5 2012
Articles
New York Times, ADAM DAVIDSON, Welcome to Saudi Albany? December 11, 2012
New York Times, MIREYA NAVARRO, Gas Drilling Jitters Unsettle Catskills Sales September 27, 2012
Grand Traverse Insider, KRISTINE MORRIS, When Fracking Comes to Town Monday, August 13, 2012
EcoWatch, 150 Protest at New York’s Schlumberger Frack Facility 08-11-2012
boston.com/business/news, Chesapeake Energy subject of antitrust probe August 10, 2012
Hastings Banner, Experts discuss environmental concerns linked to fracking / 5-3-12
EcoWatch, Walter Brasch, FRACKING: Health and Environmental Impact Greater than Claimed 03-20-2012
EcoWatch Colorado a Model of Irresponsible Oil and Gas Development 03-20-2012
Cadie Thompson, Deborah Rodgers: Shale Companies’ Balance Sheets Raise ‘Red Flags’ Published: Monday, 27 Jun 2011
Kim Palmer, Ohio earthquake was not a natural event, expert says Tue Jan 3, 2012
EcoWatch, BREAKING: Ohio Governor Halts Four More Fracking Wastewater Injection Wells After Yesterday’s Quake Jan-01-2012
Ben Shapiro and Jonathan Sidney, New Years Eve Earthquake Hits Youngstown While Public Pressure Halts Fracking Wastewater Injection Well Site Dec-31-2011
(Reuters)Energy giant hid behind shells in “land grab” Dec 28, 2011
ELIZA GRISWOLD, Situation Normal All Fracked Up 11/20/11
ProPublica, Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time Dec. 8, 2011
Patrick Sullivan, Northern Express, Another Round of Fracking in Northern Michigan 11/14/11
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer 11/10/11
Associated Press, Ohio quakes tied to gas extraction? 11/1/11
Mireya Navarro, New York Times, Pipeline Plan Stirs Debate on Both Sides of Hudson
10/26/11
Kirk Johnson, New York Times, Drilling in Fast-Growing Areas Ushers in New Era of Tension 10/25/11
Helen Robertson, Petroleum Economist, France Revokes All Shale Permits 10/4/11
Gary Hoffman, Traverse City Business News, High & Dry? 10/11
Abrahm Lustgarten, Fresh Air, The Trouble With Health Problems Near Gas Fracking
9/29/11
Clifford Krauss, New York Times, In North Dakota, Flames of Wasted Natural Gas Light the Prairie 9/26/11
Eartha Jane Melzer, Michigan Messenger, Wayne County passes anti-fracking resolution
9/22/11
Mireya Navarro, New York Times, Signing Drilling Leases, and Now Having Regrets
9/22/11
Independent Coalition of Citizens Against Fracking, New report: Cuomo’s fracking panel fatally biased 9/20/11
Abrahm Lustgarten, Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica, Scientific American, Science Lags as Health Problems Emerge Near Natural Gas Fields 9/19/11
Jon Campbell, Albany Democrat and Chronicle, Gas company to sue over town’s drilling ban 9/14/11
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate, study indicates 9/8/11
Stanley Fish, New York Times, Looking for Gas in All the Wrong Places 8/22/11
Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica, Feds Say Major New York Gas Pipeline Poses Safety Risk 8/5/11
Ian Urbina, New York Times, A Tainted Water Well, and Concern There May Be More 8/3/11
Food and Water Watch, AlterNet, Detroit Becomes First City in Michigan to Ban Fracking 7/25/11
Politico Pro, Fracking pitting greens vs. greens? 7/19/11
Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Fracking
Fluids Poison A National Forest 7/6/11
Ian Urbina, New York Times, Behind Veneer, Doubt on Future of Natural Gas 6/26/11
Ian Urbina, New York Times, Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush 6/25/11
Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica, Critics Find Gaps in State Laws to Disclose Hydrofracking
Chemicals 6/20/11
Jim Lynch, Detroit News, Natural gas exploration slows down in Michigan; falling
prices, new extraction laws, iffy test well results cited 6/20/11
Curt Guyette, Detroit Metro Times, What the frack? Controversy over fracking in Michigan prompts calls for ban, moratorium 6/15/11
Linda Gallagher, Antrim Review, County denies brine pipeline request 6/9/11
Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, Natural gas is no climate change ‘panacea’, warns IEA 6/6/11
Eartha Jane Melzer, Michigan Messenger, DEQ announces new rules for fracking 5/26/11
Tim Lundgren, VarnumBlog, Support for Michigan’s Water Withdrawal Tool Cut 5/25/11
Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica, Exxon Ad Makes Gas Drilling Seem Simpler — and Safer –
Than it Really Is 5/25/11
Susan Arbetter, WCNY connected, Does Natural Gas Leasing Hurt Property Values? 5/23/11
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Gas Drilling Companies Hold Data Needed by Researchers to Assess Risk to Water Quality 5/17/11
Tom Zeller Jr, Huffpost Green, Natural Gas Revolution Is Overblown, Study Says 5/12/11
Bryan Walsh, Time, Another Fracking Mess for the Shale-Gas Industry 5/9/11
Mike Soraghan, New York Times, EPA Starts Work on Diesel Fracking Guidance 4/29/11
NGI’s Shale Daily, Ohio AG Urged to Investigate Bizarre ‘Talking Points’ 4/26/11
Paul Napoli, InjuryBoard BlogNetwork, Fracking Blowout at PA Gas Well Stopped, Assessment of Environmental Damage Begins 4/23/11
Kate Galbraith, Texas Tribune, Resistance to Gas Drilling Rises on Unlikely Soil 4/23/11
NGI’s Shale Daily, Encana Nabs Duvernay Shale Acreage, Looks for More JVs 4/21/11
Ian Urbina, New York Times, Chemicals Were Injected into Wells, Report Says 4/16/11
Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press, Gas Drilling’s Promise, Perils Rile Townsfolk 4/12/11
Robert Conradi, Washtenaw Voice, A frackin’ shame 4/11/11
Tom Zeller Jr, New York Times, Studies Say Natural Gas Has Its Own Environmental Problems 4/11/11
Ben Geman, The Hill, Study: Gas from ‘fracking’ worse than coal on climate 4/10/11
Eartha Jane Melzer, Michigan Messenger, Group petitions for fracking ban in Michigan 4/1/11
Jennifer Krill, Earth Island Journal, There’s Nothing Natural About Natural Gas 3/31/11
Kevin Dougherty, Calgary Herald, Minister confirms ban on fracking in Québec 3/17/11
Sarah Eddington, Insurance Journal, Arkansas Earthquakes Decline After Injection Well Closures 3/16/11
Abrahm Lustgarten, Nicholas Kusnetz, Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, PA Governor Gives Energy Executive Supreme Authority Over
Environmental Permitting 3/9/11
Mead Gruver, Associated Press, Wyoming plagued by big-city problem: smog 3/8/11
Kevin Dougherty, Montreal Gazette, Fracking will cause ‘irreversible harm’, Shale-gas
extraction a huge risk, Process will threaten drinking water, jeopardize
agriculture, expert says 3/7/11
Ian Urbina, New York Times, Pressure Limits Efforts to Police Drilling for Gas 3/3/11
Diane Rehm Show, Drilling for Natural Gas: Rewards and Risks 3/1/11
Ian Urbina, New York Times, Wastewater Recycling No Cure-All in Gas Process 3/1/11
Ian Urbina, New York Times, Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers 2/26/11
M. Lisa Weatherford, Midwest Energy News, ‘Fracking’ controversies skip Michigan, for now 2/22/11
Bob King, Politico, Greens sour on natural gas 2/16/11
Marilisa Kinney Sachteleben, Yahoo News, Hydraulic Fracturing Gas Leaks and ‘Pure Michigan’ Make Strange Bedfellows 2/11/11
Associated Press, Leak shuts down drilling operation at Michigan well 2/10/11
Tom Zeller Jr, New York Times, Gas Drilling Technique Is Labeled Violatio 1/31/11
David Caruso, Huffington Post, ‘Fracking’ Pollution In Water: Pennsylvania Allows Natural Gas Drilling Waste Disposal In Waterways 1/3/11
Mark Sommer, A World Of Possibilities, The Gas Rush 12/21/10
Eartha Jane Melzer, Ed Brayton, Michigan Messenger, fracking series 12/2/10 et seq
David Lewis, Energy Collective, Radioactivity and Shale Gas: Some Like It Hot? 12/1/10
Interlochen Public Radio, Michigan Enviro Groups Weigh-in on “Fracking” 11/30/10
Linda Gallagher, Antrim Review, Preliminary applications submitted for Utica shale wells in Mancelona Township 11/17/10
Tom Zeller Jr, New York Times, Governor Bans New Gas Wells on State Land 10/26/10
Jim Lynch, Detroit News, Gas drilling technique sparks fears in Michigan 10/4/10
Lester Graham, Michigan Radio, Companies Buy Up Drilling Rights in Michigan 9/27/10
Robert Jereski, Counterpunch, Banning Methane Minining 9/17/10
Robert E. Martin, The Review, Selling Off Our Health & Future, As the State of
Michigan Leases Massive Acres in Northern Michigan to Natural Gas Companies…. 7/29/10
Keith Schneider, Molly Ramsey, Circle of Blue, Michigan’s New Natural Gas Rush: Energy and Water in Play 7/27/10
Anne Stanton, Northern Exposure, Fear of Fracking 7/5/10
Eartha Melzer, Glen Arbor Sun, “Fracking” gas companies target northern Michigan 6/30/10
State Oil and Gas Lease Auction Sets Historic Record for Revenue 5/6/10
Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Democracy Now, World-Renowned Scientist Dr. Theo Colborn on the Health Effects of Water Contamination from Fracking 4/14/10
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Buried Secrets: Gas Drllling’s Environmental Threat 7/22/08 et seq
Keith Schneider, Michigan Land Use Institute, Industry Renews Pressure to Drill under Lake Michigan Summer-Fall, 1999
Academics/Scientists
Lana Skrtic, Hydrogen Sulfide, Oil and Gas, and People’s Health
Michael Berkowitz, Environment Michigan Research and Policy Center, Toxic Chemicals on Tap: How Natural Gas Drilling Threatens Drinking Water
Ronald Bishop, Chemical and Biological Risk Assessment for Natural Gas
Extraction in New York
Theo Colburn, What You Need to Know About Natural Gas Production
Marc Durand, Shale gas 101 – Utica
Christopher Grobbel, Deep Well Injection: A Position Paper
Robert Howarth, Renee Santoro, Anthony Ingraffea, Methane and the greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations
Anthony Ingraffea, The Facts on Fracking
Stephen G. Osborn, Avner Vengosh, Nathaniel R. Warner, Robert B. Jackson, Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing
Sandra Steingraber, Testimony before the NY State Assembly Standing Committee on
Environmental Conservation, Public Hearing on Revised Draft SGEIS governing
natural gas drilling
University of Buffalo, ‘Fracking’ mobilises uranium in marcellus shale
Health Effects
Chemicals in Natural Gas Operations: Health Effects Spreadsheet and Summary
Water Testing
State-certified water testing labs
Water Withdrawal Assessment Tool
Political Action
Wayne County passes anti-fracking resolution
Lawmakers Declare New Jersey a No-Fracking Zone
New Jersey Senate Bill 2576 to prohibit hydraulic fracturing
New York Senate/Assembly Bill S4220/A7218 to prohibit hydraulic fracturing
Quebec will no longer authorize fracking for oil, gas
Pittsburgh City Council Votes Unanimously to Support Ban
Buffalo City Council Votes to Ban Gas Drilling and Fracking
James Browning, Melanie McElroy, Common Cause, Deep Drilling, Deep Pockets, In Congress and In Michigan 11/10/11
Petitions
Petition to ban fracking in New York State
Sign the petition for a statewide ban on fracking in New York
Protect Your Drinking Water, Sign the Petition for a National Ban on Fracking!
Legal
Gary A. Abraham, Disposal of low-level radioactive Marcellus shale drilling
waste in New York landfills Addison Township v Gout, 435 Mich 809, 460 NW2d 215 (1990)
Simon St. Laurent, Anschutz v Town of Dryden
Harold Fitch, In the matter of O.I.L. Energy Corp for an order establish a
uniform spacing plan and compulsory pooling, Kearney Townshp, Antrim County,
Order # 16-2010, 3/4/11
James Olson, Navigating the Great Lakes Compact: Water, Public Trust, and
International Trade Agreements
Simon St. Laurent, Anschutz v Town of Dryden
Helen Slottje, Just Say No! Using Local Land Use Control to Prohibit Industrialization
Susan Hlywa Topp, Deep Shale Natural Gas Production in Michigan:
Opportunities, Problems, and a Shot in the Dark
Federal district court in Pennsylavania is skeptical but declines to dismiss strict liability claim of plaintiffs who claim that as a result of hydraulic fracturing, toxic chemicals
were leached into the ground and the water surrounding their homes, 2/3/11.
Government
DEQ Page for Hydraulic Fracturing in Michigan
Contact governmental officials here.
Michigan Office of Geological Survey (OGS)
OGS: “Hydraulic Fracturing Of Natural Gas Wells In Michigan”, 9/23/10
State Review of Oil and Natural Gas Environmental Regulations, Inc, July, 2003,
9/23/10
Michigan statutes on oil and gas operations
Michigan regulations on oil and gas operations
Michigan statutes on mineral wells
Michigan regulations on mineral wells
DEQ-OGS Water Withdrawal Analysis for High Volume Hydraulic-fracturing
Michigan requirement for contingency plan including procedure for igniting a well, R 324.1110
Oil & Gas Lease Auction Information
Michigan Maps
Mineral lease auction maps, by county
Utica/Collingwood Permits and Application, 9/14/11
Legislation
Michigan House Bill 5151 Experts to study and recommend fracking conditions
Michigan House Bill 5150 Moratorium until frack recommendations completed
Pro-frackers
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Revised Draft
SGEIS on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program (September 2011),
Well Permit Issuance for Horizontal Drilling and High-Volume Hydraulic
Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale and Other Low-Permeability Gas Reservoirs
American Petroleum Institute, Freeeing Up Energy, Hydraulic Fracturing: Unlocking
America’s Natural Gas Resources
Daniel Arthur et al, Hydraulic Fracturing Considerations for Natural Gas Wells of
the Marcellus Shale
Energy in Depth, A Fluid Situation: Typical Solution Used In Hydraulic Fracturing
Geology.com, Utica Shale – The Natural Gas Giant Below the Marcellus? — Stacked plays in the Appalachian Basin produce multiple natural gas pay zones
Interdisciplinary MIT Study Group, The Future Of Natural Gas
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Michigan Oil and Gas Association
Michigan Oil & Gas Producers Education Foundation
Wall Street Journal, The Facts About Fracking; the real risks of the shale gas
revolution, and how to manage them
Please add Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation to your list of organizations working for a ban on fracking. Our website is currently under re-construction and should be up and running shortly.