- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 25, 2022
Researchers’ Own Findings Discredit New Study Linking Fracking to Childhood Leukemia
Another round of attention-grabbing headlines has swept the media, this time blaming fracking for childhood leukemia, yet they fail to highlight obvious limitations and past contradictions by the very same researchers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 2, 2022
“Oil and Gas Threat Map” Offers No New Analysis, Only Fearmongering
The Oil and Gas Threat Map, a newly launched interactive map from two anti-fracking activist organizations, simply rehashes flawed research in an updated format.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 27, 2022
Broomfield Health Survey Researchers Confirm: Findings Do Not Show Oil and Natural Gas Is Causing Health Impacts
Researchers, including the University of Colorado School of Public Health’s Lisa McKenzie, whose past work has been criticized by the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment, presented the preliminary findings of a recent health survey conducted for the City and County of Broomfield at a town hall Thursday night to a virtually empty room.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 24, 2022
Taxpayers Beware: Broomfield Health Survey Ignores Key Context
Researchers with a long history of publishing deeply flawed studies targeting Colorado’s oil and natural gas industry – who have been previously criticized by state regulators – are out with a $55,217 survey that polled residents in Broomfield, Colo.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 28, 2021
Ecocide Reveals the Totalitarian Heart of the Climate Cult
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Ecocide is the latest effort by the Church of Climate, a/k/a the Climate Cult; a totalitarian movement out to control every single aspect of others’ lives.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 13, 2021
Green Fraud and Why No One Wants to Talk About It
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley provides a review of Marc Morano’s new book: Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse Than You Think.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 7, 2021
Harvard Report Coverage Misleads on Natural Gas Mortality
Harvard University researchers are painting a misleading picture of their recent study’s findings on mortalities and health care costs resulting from the combustion of fuel sources to provide energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 30, 2021
Industrial Wind Health Issues Aren’t Blowing Away Quickly
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley looks at the subject industrial wind projects and their impacts on human health, using a Victoria, Australia example] MasterResource has followed the growing issue of negative health effects of industrial wind turbines.Setbacks Are But A Fractivist Weapon When It Comes Oil and Gas
... … … [Editor Comment: Fractivists in Colorado and other states are using setbacks as a weapon to try to destroy the oil and gas industry and there is nothing fair about them.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 27, 2020
EMHS Kicks Its Food Bank Up A Notch with A Little Help from Its Friends
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … [The Endless Mountains Health System (known simply as EMHS locally) is unique in that it also operates a food bank with a little help from its friends.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 20, 2020
Nursing COVID Impacted Gas Field Communities Back to Health
Rick Hiduk Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com … … COVID-19 has impacted communities everywhere, including gas field communities, but the gas industry is helping in nursing these areas back to health.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 2, 2020
Cuomo to Ban the Fracking That Gives Us the Plastics That Save Us
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Andrew Cuomo is sneaking a permanent fracking ban into his state budget; a ban on the development of the raw material used to make plastics saving lives.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 2, 2020
Blue Bloods or Blue Collars? The Mega-Battle We’re in with Elites
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Everywhere we look today, and especially with regard to fracking and global warming issues, blue bloods are doing all they can to shunt aside blue collars.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 10, 2019
Coverage of Carnegie Mellon Study Omits Clean-Air Facts
Over the weekend, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article detailing a Carnegie Mellon University study that claims to have calculated cumulative environmental and employment impacts of the shale revolution that has positively transformed Pennsylvania and surrounding states in the Marcellus and Utica Shale basins.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 22, 2019
Colorado Health Agency Uses Pseudo-Science Modeling to Trash Fracking
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. A Colorado health agency, under the thumb of a fractivist governor, is using air quality modeling, with no connection to reality, to trash oil and gas.New Report Shows No Link Between Fracking and Health Problems
A scientific review of more than two dozen studies aimed at linking oil and natural gas development to poor health found no direct association between fracking and illnesses, dealing another blow to activists trying to link the two together.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 19, 2019
‘Our Nation’s Air’ Report: U.S. Air Pollutant Emissions Fell 74 Percent Since 1970
Key U.S. air pollutant emissions continue to decline, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s annual Our Nation’s Air report. Combined emissions of six common pollutants dropped by 74 percent from 1970 through 2018, even as energy use and population increased, according to the report.Multi-State Health Analysis Exposes Flaws of Fracking Health Studies
The Colorado Department of Public and Environment and Pennsylvania Department of Health recently teamed up to analyze studies claiming to link health impacts to oil and natural gas development.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 31, 2019
Anti-Fracking Researcher Quietly Admits: Studies Show No Harmful Pollutants Near Oil and Gas Sites
The activist who wrote a 2012 memo encouraging anti-fracking groups to connect health problems and fracking even when no evidence existed to support the claims recently co-authored a report admitting that the vast majority of scientific research shows no harmful air pollutants near oil and natural gas sites.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 19, 2019
Air Pollution A No Show at School Near Range Resources Site
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) A study performed at the request of Range Resources near some of its drill sites and a Washington County school campus reveals no air pollution impacts.New Report: Air Quality & Health in Pennsylvania Not Impacted by Shale Development
Two years of data recorded around Marcellus Shale development near a school in Pennsylvania show the operations “do not pose any acute or chronic health concerns” and have not impacted air quality in the surrounding area, according to a comprehensive study released this week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 11, 2019
“New” Health Study Compendium Is Repackaging of the Same Old Discredited Fracking Studies
A literature review of studies that have unsuccessfully attempted to show fracking is negatively impacting health is getting some media attention based on its claim that air quality monitoring and modeling may not capture the full picture of oil and gas development impacts.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 26, 2019
Shale Revolution Helps Prevent More Than 11,000 Deaths Annually
Lower heating costs – brought on by increased natural gas production from the shale revolution – reduced winter mortality rates from 2000 to 2010, according to a new National Bureau of Economic Research paper.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 11, 2019
New Pennsylvania Study Aims for Long Shot Conclusions with Minimal Data
The latest attempt by researchers to portray natural gas development as harmful to public health fails in its efforts to show hospitalization rates increased with shale drilling in Pennsylvania, pushing instead an unexplained and loosely based connection to cases of urinary and skin diseases in unspecified Marcellus Shale counties.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 22, 2019