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Fracking

8:50 pm, 04/20/2012

Queens Is Totally The New Florida Right Now | Friday Links

1:10 am, 03/30/2012

NY is about to get Un-Healthy | Friday Links

5:40 pm, 03/23/2012

Get Your Doctor’s Visit And Religious Observance Done In One Place | Friday Links

6:54 pm, 02/24/2012

New York City Not the Suicide Hot Spot We All Thought It Was | Friday Links

11:21 am, 02/10/2012

Will My Cray-Pas Drawing From The 9th Grade Get Me A Free Prostate Exam? | Friday Links

9:14 pm, 01/27/2012

Fracking Really Is Worse Than It Sounds | Friday Links

Can I Recycle…50% of NYC Teachers? | Friday Links

  Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s baby Blue Ivy was born in a Lenox Hill Hospital room that makes us want to run into traffic.   NY Times reporter Jim Dwyer believes New York State can still have affordable energy after a [Read More]

by Max Paige-Vieux

5:30 pm, 01/13/2012

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Get Into Hydrofracking with a 72-hr. Training Course From Corning Community College

Franking Pastoral

by Charles Benson-Hearst

12:35 am, 12/20/2011

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I’m not saying anyone should take this as a sign of where the wind’s blowing in New York’s statewide debate on hydraulic fracturing. All I’m telling you is that—if you are unemployed (and you are)—you might be able to get yourself an entry-level position deploying the state’s trendiest, most controversial natural gas extraction method, if you’ve got $975 and 72 hours to spare [Read More]

11:05 am, 12/19/2011

No One Knows Who or What Killed Charlie the Carriage Horse | Monday Links

11:00 am, 12/12/2011

14 People Randomly Selected For Ethics Panel At Last Minute | Monday Links

1:11 pm, 12/02/2011

Corruption, Scandal, Occupy Wall Street | Friday Links

5:41 am, 11/21/2011

Which NYC Mayor is the bigger ass clown? You decide. | Monday Links

5:50 am, 11/14/2011

NYSE to Get #Occupied? | Monday Links

8:09 am, 11/09/2011

There Were Some Elections Yesterday | Wednesday Links

Stupid Canadian Company Offers Stupid Fracking Compromise

FrackingDisaster

by Charles Benson-Hearst

5:08 am, 11/07/2011

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A GOOD COMPROMISE leaves everyone unhappy, and I can’t imagine anyone being even remotely pleased with a waterless form of fracking—one that produces less groundwater contamination, improves natural gas yield and lets us all get back to the important business of ruining our children’s children’s futures. [Read More]

80% LESS Natty Gas In Marcellus Shale Than Expected, USGeoSurv-SciGuys Say

The U.S. Geological Survey (right) recently reduced the estimate of undiscovered Marcellus Shale natural gas (left) by 80%

by Charles Benson-Hearst

11:32 pm, 08/24/2011

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AS REPORTED by the personal news service of New York City Mayor Michael Bloömberg, the U.S. Geological Survey is now estimating that there is roughly 84 trillion cubic feet of gas—and not the epic 410 trillion cubic feet projected by the U.S. Department of Energy. [Read More]