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Oil & Gas Accountability Project (OGAP)

Oil & Gas Accountability Project (OGAP)

OGAP tracks drilling impacts with a watchdog’s eye: complaints, enforcement gaps, industry claims, and the fine print of regulation. The hook is accountability — who reports what, who inspects, who pays, who fixes. In boom country, the technical work happens fast and the paperwork trails behind. OGAP exists to pull that trail forward into view, turning scattered incidents into patterns that regulators and communities can’t easily ignore.

Source: Earthworks (2009) Read More

Hydraulic Fracturing of Oil and Gas Wells

Hydraulic Fracturing of Oil and Gas Wells

A nuts-and-bolts explainer of the process: drilling, casing, perforation, high-pressure fluid, sand, and chemical additives — engineered force applied underground to release gas. It’s operational clarity in a debate that often floats above the mechanics. The hook here is not ideology — it’s process: how a well becomes productive, where failures can occur, and why “how it’s done” matters when water, cement, and pressure are the core ingredients.

Source: Earthworks (2010) Read More

Exxon Confronts Nuns, Calpers Over Global Warming Plans, Boskin

Exxon Confronts Nuns, Calpers Over Global Warming Plans, Boskin

Exxon confronted shareholder resolutions from Catholic nuns and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) over climate disclosure and long-term strategy. The religious orders argued that the company’s global warming plans failed to account for environmental and moral risk, while CalPERS — one of the nation’s largest public pension funds — framed climate exposure as a material financial concern. The pressure signaled a shift: climate risk had moved from protest lines into boardrooms and proxy votes.

Source: Bloomberg.com (2007) Read More

U.S. Energy Development Corporation

U.S. Energy Development Corporation

U.S. Energy Development Corporation pursued upstream drilling opportunities across shale basins, aggregating leases and capitalizing on unconventional resource plays. In Meadville, Pennsylvania, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a cease-and-desist order to the Getzville, New York–based firm, citing persistent and repeated violations of environmental laws and regulations.

Source: U.S. Energy Development Corporation | Strive for Excellence (2010) Read More

Triana Energy

Triana Energy

Triana Energy operated in the Marcellus Shale during the boom’s early expansion, navigating leasing, drilling, and eventual acquisition in a fast-moving market. In a 2009 case in West Virginia, landowners who sold natural gas to Chesapeake and its predecessors — including Triana Energy, NiSource Inc., and Columbia Natural Resources — alleged they were cheated out of portions of their royalty payments. In shale’s rapid ascent, corporate timing and contract terms often moved just as quickly as the drilling rigs.

Source: Triana Energy (2010) Read More

Tennessee Gas Pipeline

Tennessee Gas Pipeline

The Tennessee Gas Pipeline system connects production fields to distant markets, underscoring that extraction is only part of the equation. Pipelines determine where gas flows — and which communities host compressor stations and right-of-way corridors. Infrastructure redraws maps.

Source: Tennessee Gas Pipeline (2010) Read More

Watchdog: New York State Regulation of Natural Gas Wells Has Been “Woefully Insufficient for Decades.”

Watchdog: New York State Regulation of Natural Gas Wells Has Been “Woefully Insufficient for Decades.”

Watchdog reporting scrutinized New York’s regulatory approach to natural gas development as the state weighed whether to permit high-volume hydraulic fracturing. New York–based Toxics Targeting examined the Department of Environmental Conservation’s own spill database, identifying 270 documented cases over three decades involving fires, explosions, wastewater releases, well contamination, and ecological damage tied to gas drilling — many still unresolved. The findings challenged repeated assurances that existing regulations were sufficient to safeguard public health and the environment.

Source: Democracy Now! (2009) Read More

Graham Pulls Support for Major Senate Climate Bill

Graham Pulls Support for Major Senate Climate Bill

Senator Lindsey Graham withdrew support from a major Senate climate bill, fracturing a fragile bipartisan coalition. The setback stalled momentum for comprehensive climate legislation. Energy policy once again splintered along party lines, leaving regulatory authority to agencies and states.

Source: The New York Times (2010) Read More

Ecocide in the USSR : health and nature under siege

Ecocide in the USSR : health and nature under siege

The term “ecocide” evokes systemic environmental destruction — landscapes degraded not by accident but by policy and industrial priority. Examining ecological collapse in the former USSR provides a historical mirror: when environmental safeguards erode, damage accumulates quietly until it becomes generational. Energy policy is never purely economic.

Source: BasicBooks (1993) Read More

New York Residents Against Drilling (NYRAD)

New York Residents Against Drilling (NYRAD)

NYRAD organized statewide resistance to high-volume hydraulic fracturing, rallying residents concerned about water, health, and rural character. Through protests, teach-ins, and policy advocacy, the group turned a regulatory decision into a grassroots movement. As Albany deliberated, public pressure intensified.

Source: New York Residents Against Drilling (NYRAD) (2010) Read More

Northern Rockies Rising Tide

Northern Rockies Rising Tide

Northern Rockies Rising Tide organizes grassroots resistance to fossil fuel expansion across Montana and neighboring states. Activists stage protests, train volunteers, and scrutinize pipeline routes and drilling permits. Their strategy blends direct action with community education. In a region defined by wide skies and long distances, the group insists that remote landscapes still demand vigilant defense.

Source: Northern Rockies Rising Tide (2010) Read More

Shaleshock

Shaleshock

Shaleshock captures the upheaval unleashed by rapid shale development — economic spikes, social strain, environmental uncertainty. As drilling rigs multiply, communities wrestle with boomtown dynamics: housing shortages, infrastructure stress, divided neighbors. The shock isn’t only geological. It’s civic. The ground may hold gas, but the surface holds consequences.

Source: Shaleshock (2010) Read More

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Writing in The Nation, Eyal Press traced the evolution of federal natural gas policy from the Clinton administration’s balanced expansion to the Bush administration’s push to remove drilling restrictions on public lands. The article framed shale development not simply as an energy story but as a political shift in regulatory philosophy—one with implications for environmental protection, public land stewardship, and the accelerating push toward fossil fuel extraction.

Source: The Nation (2004) Read More

Land Board approves Otter Creek coal lease

Land Board approves Otter Creek coal lease

“The state Land Board, undeterred by anti-mining protesters who disrupted the board’s Helena meeting for 45 minutes until they were arrested, voted 3-2 Thursday to approve leasing 570 million tons of state-owned coal for development of a mine in southeastern Montana’s Otter Creek Valley.

Source: Billings Gazette (2010) Read More

Ignitable Drinking Water in Candor, NY, Above Marcellus Shale

Ignitable Drinking Water in Candor, NY, Above Marcellus Shale

This video documents a well in Candor, NY—above the Marcellus Shale—where drinking water can be ignited, raising urgent questions about regulatory oversight and underground contamination (Spill #0811696). Referencing Walter Hang’s 2010 letter to the NYS DEC and watchdog reports criticizing decades of insufficient enforcement, the footage situates the incident within a broader pattern of state-level regulatory failure and mounting public protest.

Source: YouTube (2009) Read More

Tree spiker : from Earth First! to lowbagging: my struggles in radical environmental action

Tree spiker : from Earth First! to lowbagging: my struggles in radical environmental action

In Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action, Mike Roselle recounts his evolution from Yippie provocateur to cofounder of Earth First! and the Rainforest Action Network, tracing decades of radical environmental activism from street theater to mountaintop-removal protests in Appalachia. Writing against the backdrop of federal drilling exemptions advanced under Vice President Dick Cheney and ongoing battles over hydraulic fracturing disclosure, Roselle situates non-violent civil disobedience as both moral response and strategic necessity in confronting coal, oil, and gas power structures.

Source: St. Martin's Press (2009) Read More

What Lies Beneath

What Lies Beneath

In a Texas Observer investigation into oilfield waste injection wells, high school art teacher Cecile Carson challenged the Railroad Commission of Texas after commissioners swiftly denied her protest against a proposed injection well near her Wise County property. The case highlights weak enforcement penalties—often capped at a few thousand dollars—and raises broader concerns about regulatory oversight of oil and gas waste disposal in Texas communities.

Source: The Texas Observer (2006) Read More

Two held on $100,000 bails for non-violent protest; Demand Bail Reduction: Call Magistrate Snodgrass 304-369-7360

Two held on $100,000 bails for non-violent protest; Demand Bail Reduction: Call Magistrate Snodgrass 304-369-7360

On May 17, 2010, Climate Ground Zero activists EmmaKate Martin and Benjamin Bryant blockaded Massey Energy’s headquarters in Boone County, West Virginia, protesting mountaintop removal mining. Magistrate Snodgrass set bail at $100,000 each for misdemeanor charges, marking one of the highest bails imposed on nonviolent environmental protesters in the state. The action, linked to broader campaigns involving James Hansen and Daryl Hannah, spotlighted escalating legal pressure on climate resistance movements.

Source: It’s Getting Hot In Here (2010) Read More

Homeland Security in Cahoots with Fracking Gas Corporations

Homeland Security in Cahoots with Fracking Gas Corporations

Leaked internal bulletins revealed that Pennsylvania’s Department of Homeland Security contracted a private intelligence firm to monitor anti-drilling activists, sparking public outrage and forcing Gov. Ed Rendell to apologize and cancel the agreement. The episode raised serious concerns about civil liberties, state surveillance, and the alignment of public agencies with natural gas industry interests.

Source: Workers World (2010) Read More

Tim DeChristopher | Bidder70

Tim DeChristopher | Bidder70

Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, founder of Peaceful Uprising and later cofounder of the Climate Disobedience Center, became known as “Bidder 70” after disrupting a 2008 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction held during the final months of the George W. Bush administration. By posing as a bidder and driving up prices on 22,000 acres of Utah public land slated for fossil fuel development, DeChristopher sought to prevent what environmentalists described as a rushed and undervalued sale. He was later prosecuted and convicted of fraud in March 2011 and sentenced to two years in prison, framing his act as civil disobedience in defense of climate justice and democratic accountability.

Source: Bidder70 (2010) Read More

Mobilize to End Mountantop Removal!

Mobilize to End Mountantop Removal!

Appalachia Rising, a national mobilization held in Washington, D.C., September 25–27, 2010, brought together coalfield residents, grassroots groups, and national organizations to protest mountaintop removal coal mining and its destruction of Appalachian mountains, waterways, and communities. The action ’culminated in arrests at the White House and was covered by outlets including Democracy Now!, framing mountaintop removal as both an environmental and public health crisis affecting America’s water supply.

Source: Appalachia Rising (2010) Read More

Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience

The Thoreau Reader, curated by Richard Lenat in cooperation with the Thoreau Society, presents annotated editions of Henry David Thoreau’s works including Civil Disobedience and Walden. Thoreau’s refusal to pay taxes in protest of slavery and the U.S. war with Mexico later influenced figures such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., whose philosophy of nonviolent resistance drew upon Thoreau’s assertion that when government becomes destructive of human rights, individuals may have a moral duty to resist unjust law.

Source: Thoreau eServer by Richard Lenat (2002) Read More

Birth of EPA

Birth of EPA

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), officially established on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon, emerged from a decade of rising environmental awareness sparked in large part by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. As pollution crises mounted and public pressure intensified following the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Nixon created a strong, independent agency to unify federal air, water, pesticide, and radiation programs under Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus.

Source: EPA Journal (1985) Read More

Natural Gas Drilling Threatens Communities in Northeastern United States

Natural Gas Drilling Threatens Communities in Northeastern United States

In a 2009 report for the Philadelphia Independent Media Center, Nastassja Noell documented escalating tensions in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia over natural gas drilling. Residents described spills, road accidents, and regulatory failures involving Cabot Oil & Gas and Chesapeake Energy, while activist Joanne Fiorito criticized the Pennsylvania DEP for failing to monitor sites. As federal and state oversight faltered, some citizens turned to civil disobedience to defend land, air, and water.

Source: Philadelphia Independent Media Center (2009) Read More

Criminalising Civil Disobedience

Criminalising Civil Disobedience

SourceWatch traces the popularization of the term “eco-terrorism” to Ron Arnold of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. After September 11, the label gained traction through legislation promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), blurring the line between peaceful civil disobedience and terrorism. Environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network argue that redefining protest as “terrorism” threatens media visibility, fundraising capacity, and constitutionally protected dissent.

Source: SourceWatch (2017) Read More

Marcellus Shale Protest

Marcellus Shale Protest

On November 3, 2010, more than 500 demonstrators gathered in Pittsburgh to protest the Developing Unconventional Gas (DUG) East Conference, where industry leaders—including keynote speaker Karl Rove—met to discuss shale gas development. Activists from Pennsylvania and neighboring states marched to the David Lawrence Convention Center calling for a moratorium on drilling and raising concerns about health, water safety, and environmental impacts linked to Marcellus Shale gas extraction. MarcellusProtest.org, a project of the Center for Coalfield Justice, served as an information hub for organizing, events, and regional activism across shale-impacted communities.

Source: Marcellus Shale Protest | No Frackng Way (2010) Read More

Natural Gas Drillers Protest Nomination of Fracking Critics for EPA Review Panel

Natural Gas Drillers Protest Nomination of Fracking Critics for EPA Review Panel

The Independent Petroleum Association of America challenged the nomination of two prominent fracking critics—Theo Colborn and Robert Howarth—to an EPA review panel studying hydraulic fracturing. Industry leaders accused them of bias, citing Colborn’s work on health impacts and Howarth’s draft report suggesting shale gas emissions may rival coal. The dispute highlighted tensions between environmental scientists and industry advocates as the EPA began evaluating the risks of hydraulic fracturing and its implications for climate and public health.

Source: New York Times: Greenwire (2010) Read More

Myth Busting | The Marcellus: An American Travesty

Myth Busting | The Marcellus: An American Travesty

MarcellusProtest.org served as an information hub for grassroots opposition to shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania and beyond. Emerging from local demonstrations, the movement connected activists, events, and resources across the Marcellus region while critiquing industry narratives. Participants later formed coalitions such as Protect Our Parks to resist drilling in public lands. The site documented how regional organizing built enduring activist networks that continued influencing environmental campaigns long after initial protests concluded.

Source: YouTube | "The Marcellus: An American Renewal" (2010) Read More

The Effect of the United States Supreme Court’s Eleventh Amendment Jurisprudence on Clean Water Act Citizen Suits: Muddied Waters

The Effect of the United States Supreme Court’s Eleventh Amendment Jurisprudence on Clean Water Act Citizen Suits: Muddied Waters

In her Oregon Law Review article, “The Effect of the United States Supreme Court’s Eleventh Amendment Jurisprudence on Clean Water Act Citizen Suits,” Professor Hope Babcock examines how the Court’s expansion of state sovereign immunity has narrowed citizens’ ability to enforce federal environmental laws. She argues that recent decisions have shielded state agencies from accountability, weakening Clean Water Act enforcement and limiting private lawsuits under other environmental statutes, thereby constraining the public’s capacity to vindicate federally protected rights.

Source: Oregon Law Review (2004) Read More

Climate Science Watch

Climate Science Watch

“There is growing evidence from the real world that climate changes are accelerating faster than we originally feared and that impacts—already appearing—will be more widespread and severe than expected. This makes the arguments against taking actions against climate change not just wrong, but dangerous,” Dr. Gleick said in his

Source: Climate Science Watch (2010) Read More

Global Warming Experts

Global Warming Experts

Heartland Institute Conference held March 8-10th in New York at the Marriott New York Marquis Times Square Hotel, brought together scientists, economists, legal experts, and other climate specialists to “confront the issue of global warming.”

Source: The Heartland Institute | BBC News (2011) Read More

Poison Fire

Poison Fire

If you plan to stop by these woods on a snowy evening bring some marshmallows and expect an evening sunburn. There’s a chance your treats will be toxic.

Source: YouTube (2008) Read More

Shell Oil Company

Shell Oil Company

Shell USA, Inc. (formerly Shell Oil Company, Inc.) is the United States–based wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc, a UK-based transnational corporation “oil major” which is among the largest oil companies in the world. It is reported that Royal Dutch Shell Plc agreed to buy closely held East Resources Inc., for about $5 billion.

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2010) Read More

The Case of Chevron

The Case of Chevron

According to the EPA’s National Emission Inventory, Chevron was responsible for 4,030,422.95 pounds of green house gas emission pollution in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana in 2002.

Source: Friends of the Earth (2008) Read More

As climate crime continues, who are we sending to jail? Tim DeChristopher?

As climate crime continues, who are we sending to jail? Tim DeChristopher?

Let’s consider for a moment the targets the federal government chooses to make an example of. So far, no bankers have been charged, despite the unmitigated greed that nearly brought the world economy down. No coal or oil execs have been charged, despite fouling the entire atmosphere and putting civilization as we know it at risk.

Source: Grist (2011) Read More

Protests urge fracking fluid ban

Protests urge fracking fluid ban

Protestors outside the Buffalo offices of the Department of Environmental Conservation today called for an executive order by Governor Andrew Cuomo to define fracking fluid as a hazardous waste and ban its treatment by municipal facilities…

Source: PBS | Innovation Trail (2011) Read More

Peabody coal company threatens to sue over getting punked

Peabody coal company threatens to sue over getting punked

Change.org, the website that allows users to create petitions for social change, received a legal threat from Peabody Energy after Coal Kills Kids (CKK) — a group that partnered with the Yes Men to unveil a faux Peabody charity initiative earlier this week (archived) — continued the hoax with a mock petition.

Source: San Francisco Bay Guardian Online (SFBG) (2011) Read More

Chu Names Panel to Study Fracking

Chu Names Panel to Study Fracking

Broder’s piece goes on to offer a smokescreen of protest by the right, but according to Dusty Horwitt of the Environmental Working Group (archived), “An industry insider like John Deutch is completely unacceptable to lead this panel…It looks as if the Obama Administration has already reached the conclusion that fracking is safe.”

Source: NYTimes.com: Green | A Blog About the Environment (2011) Read More

Fracking Canada

Fracking Canada

Stop Fracking Ontario is a web project to inform and promote activism against fracking in Ontario, in the surrounding region, and elsewhere.

Source: Fracking Canada (2011) Read More

Drill, Baby, Drill!: The chant of the political naif

Drill, Baby, Drill!: The chant of the political naif

Numerous complainants petitioned the USA government to get the EPA to review the earlier decision on hydraulic fracking. One of them, from Neil Zusman, Ithaca, NY, is particularly poignant: I have read widely on this topic and it is of personal interest to me. I am not a scientist. I observe the events along the historical timeline that includes civil rights, anti-war protest, and the environmental movement….

Source: Magiric (2011) Read More