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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently considering regulations and guidelines for unconventional oil and gas development on millions of acres of public land, and SkyTruth believes that public disclosure must be an integral part of these new rules. The BLM has already indicated that they are strongly considering FracFocus.org as the platform for disclosure, […]
Last week I posted Part I of our LightHawk flight over West Virginia’s most active unconventional gas field in Wetzel County. Part I highlighted what an actual hydraulic fracturing job looks like and illustrated a chronic issue in rugged terrain – frequent “slips,” which are effectively small landslides. Today I will point out several more issues that were […]
Remember when Chevron spilled 3,600 barrels of oil when they lost control of an exploratory well in the Frade Field off the coast of Brazil last year? Brazilian Federal Appeals Court judge Guilherme Dienthaeler has overturned the ban in what appears to be a rapid move toward a settlement. “(Reuters) – Chevron Corp received a […]
[Click here to see Part II of this Report] For all that we do working on satellite and aerial images, it is extremely refreshing to actually get a chance to go up in the air ourselves. Last month we had the one such opportunity when we were asked by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) if we […]
(UPDATE: 12/7/12 at 11:47 a.m.) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has now listed the Robinson Run Mine 95 coal slurry pond accident a fatality. According to the preliminary report, the operator of a Caterpillar D6 bulldozer was pulled into the wastewater impoundment when the bank collapsed beneath him and two other miners working on expanding one of […]