Hurricane Sandy has made residents of Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region wary of the potential for pollution from the combination of floodwaters and natural gas drilling sites, a story in the Huffington Post reports.
The concerns center on a procedure known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” which involves pumping large volumes of chemically treated water underground to break up rock formations and release natural gas.
The procedure is becoming increasingly common along ...
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The approval of a controversial method of natural gas extraction may be delayed in New York, as the state Department of Environmental Conservation tries to come up with new rules governing the process.
