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ewg.org - 19 days ago
Gas Company Won't Drill in New York Watershed
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JAD MOUAWAD and CLIFFORD KRAUSS at New York Times October 28th, 2009 Bowing to intense public pressure, the Chesapeake Energy Corporation says it will not drill for natural gas within the upstate New York watershed, an environmentally sensitive region that ...
chk.com - 25 days ago
10/28/2009 1:01 PM
— chk.com — OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2009-- Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK), America’s most active driller of new natural gas... wells and one of its largest natural gas producers, today confirmed its previous announcements that it has no ... (more) 10/28/2009 1:01 PM

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Fight Over Shale Gas Drilling Not Over
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 25 days ago
Fight Over Shale Gas Drilling Not Over
— greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com — Although Chesapeake Energy said it would not drill for gas in the New York watershed, many groups... quickly pointed out that the company's pledge does not eliminate the possibility that another company will. (more) Fight Over Shale Gas Drilling Not Over

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ewg.org - 19 days ago
EWG Warns of Drilling Threat to NYC Drinking Water
— ewg.org — October 28th, 2009 Statement of Dusty Horwitt, JD Senior Counsel, Environmental Working Group Oversight Hearing on the... Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement Relating to Drilling for Natural Gas in New York State ... (more) EWG Warns of Drilling Threat to NYC Drinking Water

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Enviroblog:  NPR Uncovers Natural Gas's Dirty Secrets

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NPR Uncovers Natural Gas's Dirty Secrets
Enviroblog — Drilling for natural gas is a dirty business, as Enviroblog readers know. Dusty Horwitt, Environmental Working Group's Senior Counsel, has worked tirelessly to document the environmental depredations of a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. Earlier this week, National Public Radio correspondent John Burnett covered yet other possible health dangers of natural gas production. The Barnett Shale gas deposit in Northern Texas is now the site of some 1,300 gas compression stations, Burnett reported. Eleven compressors surround the town ...

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