30th March 2016 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “The intense means of extraction, known as fracking, is believed to induce earthquakes, compound global warming...
Category - Fracking
Wake Up World’s articles on Fracking (politely known as Coal Seam Gas Drilling).
Leaving a Legacy of Destruction: Fracking Industry Threatens U.S. National Parks
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World As if it wasn’t bad enough to have fracking operations in our backyards — destroying local ecosystems, human health and...
Fracking Wastewater is Cancer-Causing, New Study Confirms
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The fracking industry likes to call its product “natural gas,” but the natural consequence of its activity is the production of billions...
The Fracking Industry’s Answer to Toxic Wastewater: Spray It On Public Roadways
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Just when we thought it couldn’t get much worse on the fracking front — polluted groundwater, poisoned environment...
Fracking Creates Massive Radioactive Waste Problem
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) openly acknowledges that fracking fluid contains “thousands of chemicals”, but...
Drought Stricken California Turns to Oil Industry Wastewater for Crop Irrigation
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World As drought persists in California, oil behemoth Chevron has found an new way to dispose of its fracking wastewater: sell it to U.S. farmers...
Fracking: Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “It was so bad sometimes that my daughter would be in the shower in the morning, and she’d have to get out of the shower and...
EPA Releases Report on Impacts of CSG Mining – You Should Be Fracking Concerned
By Lee “General” Maddox Guest Writer for Wake Up World The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released their assessment of coal-seam gas mining —...
Beware – Our Water is Poisoned!
By Dr. Susan M. Walker Guest Writer for Wake Up World Where we stand now in 2015, everyone is drinking or absorbing poisoned water. Not just the usual poisons so many health advocates have spoken of...
Don’t Kill the Messenger: Utah Midwife Raises Questions About Fracking and Surge in Stillborn Babies
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World With over 20 years experience helping women manage safe and successful home births in Utah and Idaho, U.S., Donna Young was shocked to...
Revealed: Fracking Used to Inject Nuclear Waste Underground for Decades
By Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton Guest Writers for Wake Up World Recently unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried beneath the Earth’s surface by...
The Dangers of Fracking and Why it Must Be Stopped
By Julian Websdale Guest Writer for Wake Up World Hydraulic fracturing is the fracturing of rock by a pressurized liquid. Some hydraulic fractures form naturally – certain veins or dikes...