SkyTruth founder and president John Amos testified yesterday before the House Natural Resources Committee regarding our work on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) chemical disclosure, and the Bureau of Land Management’s upcoming decision on regulating drilling and fracking on 750 million acres of public and Tribal lands. The hearing was entitled “DOI Hydraulic Fracturing Rule: A Recipe for Government Waste, […]
Top: Aerial photo taken October 2012 of the Yank Creek watershed in the Thompson Divide, a wilderness area located in western Colorado. Credit: Jane Pargiter – EcoFlight Bottom: SkyTruth simulation of the same area of the Thompson Divide overlain with simulated five-acre well pads and new service roads (in white). To see more views of […]
A man, a plan, a canal. Panama! It’s not just a quaint anagram. In this age of relentlessly expanding global commerce, Panama has been planning ahead, and is investing billions of dollars in supersizing the canal (photo gallery here) to allow the passage of the new breed of supersized cargo ships. Even more coal mined […]
Every couple of weeks or so, the folks at DigitalGlobe/Geoeye publish a newsletter featuring various examples of recent high-resolution satellite imagery from around the world. This is always an interesting, and often jaw-dropping, little publication to look through. Among other things the latest edition features stunning imagery of Egyptian temples and offshore oil platforms, the […]
Narrative and Images by David Manthos; Data Analysis by David Darling Recognized carcinogens are used in 1 in 3 hydraulic fracturing operations across the nation – according to industry self-reporting. Independent analysis of the SkyTruth Fracking Chemical Database by IT professional David Darling found that 9,310 individual fracking operations conducted between January 2011 and September 2012 disclosed the use […]
