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Texas gas company allowed to resume fracking after three Pa. spills

By | 10.19.09 | 4:12 pm

Hydraulic fracturing – the subject of so much controversy on Colorado’s Western Slope lately – will be allowed to resume in Susquehanna County, Pa., after state environmental officials said they were satisfied with prevention plans submitted by a Texas…

Fracking fluid kills fish in Pennsylvania stream, state enviro officials say

By | 09.22.09 | 7:20 am

ProPublica Monday reported environmental officials were scrambling to clean up 8,000 gallons of a “potential carcinogen” manufactured by Halliburton and used in a natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing that spilled into a creek near Dimock, Pa.

Hydraulic…

NYT editorial laments ‘fracking,’ gas drilling in Catskill Mountains

By | 07.28.09 | 2:41 pm

Any Coloradan who’s spent a significant amount of time living or working back east knows how difficult it is to duplicate the true wilderness experiences one finds in the wide-open spaces of the Rocky Mountain West.

There are places, like…