By Laura Legere, THE DAILY REVIEW, November 21, 2009 DIMOCK TWP. – In a field between Ronald Carter’s trailer and the gas drilling site less than 500 feet from his front porch, a group of neighbors shared nightmarish stories Friday morning about the natural gas extraction they say has changed their lives and homes.... Read More...
Athens Township in Pennsylvania is considering a permit for a 27-acre water treatment plant for a gas drilling company, but when it gets through talking about the radioactive, saline and heavy metal waste, the millions of gallons of water involved and the dangers of spills in heavy rains, the reader begins to wonder.... Read More...
Any day now, New Yorkers could lose 90 per cent of their water in a New York Minute. The water might not just be undrinkable: you might not even be able to use it for washing vegetables, brushing your teeth, or taking a shower. Going by experiences in other parts of the country, it... Read More...
Communities celebrating the exploitation of natural gas deposits under the Marcellus Shale by hydraulic fracturing could be blindsided by serious environmental consequences. Read More...
It’s a tough assignment to design a city park that is bordered entirely by lanes of impatient traffic, and the recently completed CaVaLa Park on the border between Tribeca and Soho was a tall order. For years it was a roughly cobbled triangular no man’s land that collected debris and crookedly parked trucks in... Read More...
New York City currently has some 14,000,000 trees, some 550,000 of them growing along our streets, all 14 million of them working for us full-time. The city’s trees capture tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants, they save energy by lowering air temperatures in summer and slowing wind speeds in winter. They capture rain... Read More...
