Tag: Fracking
The Republican party has long-been considered the Anti-Science party for its outright denial of climate change and evolution. It’s even been suggested that people who identify as liberals are more intelligent. But that doesn’t preclude liberals from having their own major set of biases when it comes to science. A new study by professors at […]
Throughout his reelection campaign, Governor Cuomo was tiptoeing on eggshells with foam shoes concerning a number of political issues. At one point, he was soooo worried about saying something wrong that he refused to debate. Now that’s he’s firmly installed in Albany for another four years, the governor’s ready to say things again. Well, his […]
London-based architect Jason Lamb wanted to know — “with all the downside [sic] of fracking, is there a way that you could implement fracking with long term benefit to the community?” Lamb took the English city of Blackpool — situated above a bed of shale rock, the geological requirement for the environmentally unfriendly practice — […]
The highest court in New York State ruled this week that towns can use zoning laws to ban hydraulic fracking within their borders, the New York Times reports. There has yet to be any fracking in the state, as the State Health Department studies its harmful potential, but that hasn’t stopped people from worrying what […]
You’ve seen documentaries about tap water bursting into flames and read all about the lives it ruins in the news, but fracking isn’t a process you often get to see IRL. If you find yourself in Northwest England this summer you can come pretty close, though, by checking out Fracking Futures, a new installation at […]
Emerging mixed-media artist Jeremiah Johnson (not this one) will present his solo exhibit Never Enough in Chelsea this month, making his NYC debut. He was raised on a fruit and flower farm (awwww) in a region of Pennsylvania that has recently fallen victim to the Fracking Industry, something that has deeply influenced his art. Johnson […]
The above image comes from NASA’s Black Marble series of satellite photos, which caused quite a stir when it was released online last month–look at all the beautiful lights, the tiny cities! But as it turns out, one of those clusters of illumination isn’t a city at all; it’s an enormous cluster of fracking outposts, sending hundreds […]
