Recently, a group of students at Oxford’s St. John’s College wrote to Professor Andrew Parker to discuss their demands about the university divesting from fossil fuels. As you can probably guess, being that this took place at Oxford, the students presented the university with a philosophical quandry. However, professor Parker’s response was to use the…
After a tragedy, such as the loss of a loved one, people tend to seek out who or what is the villain responsible. This logic has recently come about resulting from Pennsylvania officials who, according to The Wall Street Journal, recently announced they were going to investigate a potential link to fracking and cancer in…
by Erin Mundahl October 18, 2019 Western Wire Consumers are getting caught in the crossfire of environmental activists’ war against natural gas and the new battlefield is in the kitchen. Environmentalists began collaborating with state government officials from across the United States at a closed-door gathering in New York this summer to lay out the…
By Hank Campbell | July 15th 2019, Science 2.0 A study has taken a look at the radii of homes with measured data near natural gas wells and statistically linked that to higher radon. While some in media will use that to sound this week’s ‘science is killing us’ alarm, the reality is that something…
Toward the end of October, scientist and author Matt Ridley called out opponents of fracking for falsely claiming that fracking was causing earthquakes in Lancshire, Great Britain. Ridley stated in an op-ed in The Times of London: Last Saturday, BBC Radio 4 ran throughout the day with headline news about the shale-gas company Cuadrilla causing…
A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that methane increases were due to natural variability and not drilling. According to the Associated Press, manuscript is one of many scientific examinations coming out showing that drinking water around natural gas fracking sites in Pennsylvania are not contaminated. While some…
A study published Friday in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment authored by Geologists with the University of Cincinnati reveals no evidence of natural gas contamination in Ohio drinking water from counties where recent oil and gas drilling took place due to their proximity to the Utica Shale formation. According to Science Codex, the scientists…
