Evidence of the Truth About Fracking and Related Processes: take a few minutes to view, peruse the following videos, articles, and reports:

Videos:

1. “The Sky is Pink” Josh Fox: http://vimeo.com/44367635
   
   
2. Even though the following news story is from Columbus, Ohio, the news report is relevant for all of the many states who face the possibility or present reality of fracking, which will result in the need to transport and dispose of waste, thereby increasing the chance for spills and leaks. See the following highly informative NBC 4 news video and report titled “NBC4 Investigates: What’s In The Drilling Waste Water Traveling Into Ohio?” (5/23/2012NOTE: the video has been removed - please view the current print version of the article).
   http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2012/may/23/nbc4-investigates-whats-drilling-waste-water-trave-ar-1047008/
   
   
3. “Ex-oil worker blasts shale gas industry   CBC News Posted: Dec 2, 2011 7:00 AM AT “ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2011/12/01/nb-daigle-shale-gas-concern-913.html
   or same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uEByZiD6Cg
   
   
4. Time Video:  “The Fuss Over Fracking: The Dilemma of a New Gas Boom”
   http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,876880045001_2062814,00.html
   
   
5. Time Video: “Flaming Faucets: When Fracking Goes Wrong” http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,,902909981001_2065158,00.html
   
   
6. [Please see article and 2 news videos: re: California, earthquakes, etc.] “California's Controversial Oil Drilling Hundreds of wells being fracked in California” “By Stephen Stock, Liza Meak, and Mark Villarreal |  Friday, Apr 27, 2012  |  Updated 6:59 AM PDT”, NBC Bay Area
   http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/What-the-Frack-Controversial-Drilling-Happening-Here-in-California-140956263.html
   
   
7. CBS 60 Minutes:  "Shale gas drilling: Pros & cons"
   http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7372850n
   
   
8. “"Heavy Fraffic" from the documentary GROUNDSWELL: Protecting Our Children's Water” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZZQxe6FiGA&feature=player_embedded
   
   
9. “Marcellus Shale Reality Tour Part 5 Truthland Erupting Water Well”:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPM64kseP30&feature=youtu.be
   
   
10. “Family Evacuates Home” WBOY.com (West Virginia):
    http://www.wboy.com/video?auto&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7370199
    
    
11. “Weekend Brine Water Spill Reported in Fowler,” WKBN TV News (27),” Published: 7/11 5:46 pm Updated: 7/18 5:56 pm”
    http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Weekend-Brine-Water-Spill-Reported-in-Fowler/nIQe3_JvvEqdlJ8FSYrrXg.cspx
    
    
12. “Slag Runoff May Have Caused Brookfield Fish Kill,” WKBN TV News (27) “Published: 7/31 10:14 pm Updated: 8/01 8:11 pm”
    http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Slag-Runoff-May-Have-Caused-Brookfield-Fish-Kill/CuanEIQ0pE-bZSFEpq-Aiw.cspx      
    
    
13. “Investigating Acid Spill At Gas Well” “Posted on: 7:20 am, July 6, 2012, by Jim Hamill, updated on: 03:30pm, July 6, 2012” http://wnep.com/2012/07/06/acid-spill-at-gas-well/
    
    
14. CNNMoney: “Is drilling causing Ohio earthquakes? By Poppy Harlow and Erica Fink @CNNMoney January 17, 2012: 11:13 AM ET”
    [Especially see second video titled, “Ohio's mysterious man-made earthquakes”]
    http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/17/news/ohio_earthquakes/?source=cnn_bin
    
    
15. “Couple denied mortgage because of gas drilling - Brian Smith lives near Marcellus Shale well in Daisytown”
    “UPDATED 6:49 PM EDT May 08, 2012”
    http://www.wtae.com/news/local/investigations/Couple-denied-mortgage-because-of-gas-drilling/-/12023024/12865512/-/ohf26fz/-/index.html
    
    
16. “Landfill Radiation Testing” - 4/23/2012, KFYR – TV 5, Bismarck, North Dakota:
    http://www.kfyrtv.com/Video_News.asp?news=56617
    
    
17. PBS News Hour: “REPORT    AIR DATE: Aug. 7, 2012
    North Dakota Boomtown Suffers Growing Pains Trying to Keep Up with Demand”
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec12/boomtown_08-07.html
    
    
18. “Fracking: Untold Stories”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGDwV7oOk2k&feature=youtu.be
    
    
19. “Judge Rules in Favor of Landowners on Seismic Testing” WKBN – TV (27), “Published: 4/20 9:48 pm Updated: 4/20 11:29 pm”
    http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Judge-Rules-in-Favor-of-Landowners-on-Seismic/FTbCivuKfUuf7OBRUvdDAQ.cspx
    
    
20. “DR. ANTHONY INGRAFFEA AT HAMPTON HIGH 1/12/11 PART 2 “
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPVWY96tIxg
    
    
21. "Flaring Gas Well - Monroe County, Ohio - July 19, 2012"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z20lt2aFpRs
    
    
22. “Unearthed: The Fracking Façade” YouTube:  
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPIEzSwPwT0

Articles:

1. [Also has video with the article:] “The Fracturing of Pennsylvania,” “By ELIZA GRISWOLD Published: November 17, 2011,” The New York Times Magazine:
   http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/fracking-amwell-township.html?pagewanted=all
   
   
2.   “Drilling Down Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers,” “By IAN URBINA  Published: February 26, 2011”, The New York Times
   http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us/27gas.html?_r=2&scp=4&sq=urbina&st=cse
   
   
3. “Former gas industry ‘water handler' now a whistleblower,” Post Independent, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, by John Colson, March 10, 2012
   http://www.postindependent.com/article/20120310/VALLEYNEWS/120309875    
   
   
4.  “North Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity” “by Nicholas Kusnetz, Special to ProPublica June 7, 2012, 11:47 a.m.”
   http://www.propublica.org/article/the-other-fracking-north-dakotas-oil-boom-brings-damage-along-with-prosperi
   
   
5.  “Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us” “by Abrahm Lustgarten
   ProPublica, June 21, 2012, 9:20 a.m”
   http://www.propublica.org/article/injection-wells-the-poison-beneath-us
   
   
6. “D&L faced violations in its past” Published: Mon, January 2, 2012 @ 12:03 a.m., by Karl Henkel, The Vindicator.
   http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/jan/02/by-karl-henkel/    
   
   
7. “A Fracking First in Pennsylvania: Cattle Quarantine” “by Nicholas Kusnetz
   ProPublica, July 2, 2010, 4:41 p.m.”
   http://www.propublica.org/article/a-fracking-first-in-pennsylvania-cattle-quarantine        
   
   
8.  “Burning Questions: Quarantined Cows Give Birth to Dead Calves September 27, 2011 | 1:52 PM” By Susan Phillips
   http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2011/09/27/burning-questions-quarantined-cows-give-birth-to-dead-calves/
   
   
9.   “State searching for cause of methane in Franklin Twp. water wells” “By Laura Legere (Staff Writer)
   Published: March 15, 2012”
   http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/state-searching-for-cause-of-methane-in-franklin-twp-water-wells-1.1286095     
   
   
10. “Officials worry about impact of 'fracking' of oil and gas.”By Jim Moscou, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, “A Toxic Spew?” “Aug 19, 2008 8:00 PM EDT”
    “Cathy Behr says she won't forget the smell that nearly killed her. An emergency-room nurse in Durango, Colo.'s Mercy Regional Medical Center, Behr was working the April 17 day shift when Clinton Marshall arrived complaining of nausea and headaches. …”
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/08/19/a-toxic-spew.html
    
    
11.   “People flee as chemical cloud hovers near New Columbia” By Marcia Moore and John Finnerty, August 11, 2012, The Daily Item
    http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x685074962/People-flee-as-chemical-cloud-hovers-near-New-Columbia
    
    
12. “Fracking, Shale Gas and Children’s Health: Toxins and vulnerable populations”, The Daily Item Sat Aug 11, 2012, 08:54 AM ED, “By Barb Harris”
    http://preventcancernow.ca/fracking-shale-gas-and-children%E2%80%99s-health-toxins-and-vulnerable-populations
    
    
13.  “Will Fracking Impact My Family?” by Laura Grace Weldon, July 27, 2012, Wired.com, http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/07/fracking-my-family/
    
    
14. “Toxic Wastewater Dumped in Streets and Rivers at Night: Gas Profiteers Getting Away With Shocking Environmental Crimes”, Alternet, Aaron Skirboll, August 15, 2012:
    “Allan Shipman was found guilty of illegally dumping millions of gallons of natural gas drilling wastewater. But he's part of a much bigger problem.”
    http://www.alternet.org/fracking/toxic-wastewater-dumped-streets-and-rivers-night-gas-profiteers-getting-away-shocking?paging=off
    
    
15. “Few studies on air safety near drill sites Studies on oil and gas-related pollution and its health effects complicated by politics, variables” By Bobby Magill, Coloradoan.com, 9:38 PM, Aug 11, 2012: http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20120811/NEWS01/308110024/Few-studies-air-safety-near-drill-sites?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CNews%7Cp&nclick_check=1
    
    
16. “Fracking Hazards Obscured in Failure to Disclose Wells” Bloomberg, “By Benjamin Haas, Jim Polson, Phil Kuntz and Ben Elgin - Aug 14, 2012 6:26 PM ET”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-14/fracking-hazards-obscured-in-failure-to-disclose-wells.html
    
    
17. “Last updated: August 1, 2012 6:38 p.m. - Gas drilling research suffers from lack of funding KEVIN BEGOS | Associated Press”     journalgazette.net, The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN:
    http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120801/APA/1208010939
    
    
18. “How Fracking Disposal Wells Are Causing Earthquakes in Dallas-Fort Worth August 6, 2012 | 2:52 PM By Terrence Henry “
    http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2012/08/06/how-fracking-disposal-wells-are-causing-earthquakes-in-dallas-fort-worth/

Reports:

1. “Ten Problems with New York’s Shale Gas Drilling Plan,” by Environmental Working Group and Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, June 13, 2012:
   http://static.ewg.org/pdf/Top-Ten-NY-Drilling-Problems.pdf
   
   
2.  [Has link to PDF for full article:] “Original Research, Analysis, ...
   Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health- NEW SOLUTIONS, Vol. 22(1) 51-77, 2012 , Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.  Michelle Bamberger, Robert E. Oswald “
   http://psehealthyenergy.net/Impacts_of_Gas_Drilling_on_Human_and_Animal_Health
   
   
3.  [GAO Report:] “Drinking Water Safeguards Are Not Preventing Contamination From Injected Oil and Gas Wastes RCED-89-97, Jul 5, 1989”  http://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-89-97
   
   
4. “Cracks in the Façade …” Dusty Horwitt, Senior Counsel, Environmental Working Group, August 3, 2011:  http://static.ewg.org/reports/2011/fracking/cracks_in_the_facade.pdf
   
   
5. Letter:  PSE (Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy), September 15, 2011:
   http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/data/Sign_on_letter_Final.pdf
   
   
6. Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air: “List of the Harmed”
   

         http://pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/the-list/