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Impact of Leasing Gas Drilling Rights
July 6 | Wall Street Journal

An article in the Wall Street Journal explores the impact of landowners cashing in on offers to lease their land for natural gas production. These include: income that can be used to pay off debts or fix up farms, along with possibilities of water depletion or contamination and other environmental concerns.

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Preventing Ground Water Contamination (.pdf)
April 12 | The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has published a Fact Sheet titled "Preventing Groundwater Contamination". It is a 10-page guide that explains sources of....

Wind and Solar “Rights”
August 29 | Slate

Lots of people are making money selling and leasing the rights to their oil, gas, coal and other minerals. Now there is discussion over....

Ground Water Contamination Beneath Cape Cod
May 2 | WebWire

Contamination from the Massachusetts Military Reservation has caused extensive environmental damage and produced a decades-long, billion dollar clean-up project. Denis LeBlanc, a graduate of MIT....

Marcellus Shale in New York
June 29 | New York Times

The Marcellus Shale is named after a town in Onondaga County, New York. The recent natural gas leasing and drilling activity in the Marcellus....

Barnett Shale Podcast at NPR
August 6 | NPR

All Things Considered looks at the Barnett Shale and how drilling amongst the homes and businesses of the Fort Worth area is causing some problems....

Chikyu: Deepest Ever Scientific Drilling
October 3 | Science Centric

A deep ocean floor drilling project is getting underway off the coast of Japan. The researchers will be drilling a subduction zone off of....

Drill Pipe Shortage
August 10 | Reuters

A shortage of tubular goods is threatening to throttle the aggressive drilling plans of domestic drilling companies. There is also a severe shortage of....

Arsenic in United States Ground Water
July 11 | USGS

The most common source of arsenic contamination in ground water is the mobilization of naturally occurring arsenic on sediments. Given the right chemical conditions in....

Bush Wants Offshore Drilling
June 20 | MSN News

President Bush urged Congress to open additional areas to offshore drilling. Those who oppose say that there are already 68 million acres open to....

Obama & McCain on Offshore Drilling
June 21 | Jacksonville Business Journal

Presidential candidates differ on the issue of offshore drilling permits. John McCain wants to allow more offshore drilling in US waters. Barack Obama....

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