I’ve been recently asked to demonstrate the visual impacts of some potential wasterock dumps in Superior Arizona. We’ve acquired the plans for the wasterock dumps. The plans were drawn by Golder Associates in 2010 for Resolution Copper Mining, a company pushing for the privatization of public land for the purpose of copper mining. So we […]
Hello, my name is Yolandita. I am an Environmental Sustainability major at Shepherd University and a volunteer at SkyTruth. I have been asked to produce a 3D model of a coal train, that will be published to Google Earth. Coal companies are planning to export coal from Powder River Coal Fields in Wyoming to Bellingham, […]
SkyTruth’s Marcellus fracking monitoring project to a big step forward with our recent (first week of July) trip into the field. Being on the ground observing the sites, the pipelines, road work and traffic that all revolve around the massive drilling industry presence in the region was an eye-opening experience. In studying the rapid development […]
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 […]
It’s our pleasure to introduce you to our newest intern here at SkyTruth, Michelle Behrmann. Michelle is a student at Shepherd University and during the summer months, she will be working on researching sources for information about pollution in the Gulf of Mexico related to oil and gas drilling. She’s been tasked with locating various […]