Hi guys, I’m Ben Pelto and I am interning with SkyTruth this summer. I am working on our surface water impacts of Marcellus Shale drilling project. Below is a map of Pennsylvania with all of the permits and spuds (where drilling has started) for 2011 only. That is one heck of a lot of action […]
File this under better late than never. On November 19th and 20th, we had the pleasure of participating in the People’s Oil & Gas Summit 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA which was hosted by our friends at Earthworks. Our portion of the event came on Saturday morning in the workshop entitled: Web-based tools for information sharing […]
That’s right – we’re moving. So please excuse our silence lately as we change from our original office space of the past decade (!) to new offices in the funky old Entler Hotel, located in the pulsating heart of downtown Shepherdstown, WV. Even bigger news – we’ve hired an office administrator, Teri Biebel. Teri lives […]
Everything we do has an impact, and utility-scale renewable energy development is no exception. Wind farms, solar power facilities, and geothermal energy developments share some of the same characteristics that make up the visible “footprint” of oil and gas drilling: access roads, utility corridors, equipment staging/storage. Of course, these renewable energy projects are a lot […]
We decided to see how many oil and natural gas wells have been drilled in the state of Colorado. It’s got a long history of drilling, and is currently in a booming phase of drilling for natural gas that is having both good and bad impacts on the economy, society, public health and the environment. […]