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Fracking, Oil and Gas Development
Oil and gas development, including fracking, near streams and rivers can have a number of impacts. These include pollution of surface and groundwater, sedimentation of streams from construction of roads…
Should We Trade Water For Oil
…times of low flow. Fracking impacts more than just water supply. As more water is used for fracking, less is also available for maintaining ecological baselines. The Ceres report contains…
Energy Development & Rivers
…health. The process of mining can physically damage major expanses of habitat and can damage or bury streams. Fracking for Oil and Natural Gas Fracking uses lots of water, about…
Rappahannock River
…— fracking — for natural gas posed to the river’s clean water. American Rivers’ partners leveraged the report to encourage local municipalities to enact their own restrictions on fracking and…
A Legacy of River Protection and Restoration in the Rappahannock
…protecting regional watersheds like the Rappahannock from new threats like fracking. Remembering events of the early 2000s, Chief Anne Richardson of the Rappahannock Indians recalls, “We had a tradition of…
Lower Youghiogheny named among America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2020
…#2 Washington, D.C. – American Rivers today named the Lower Youghiogheny River among America’s Most Endangered Rivers®, citing the looming threat of destructive Unconventional Natural Gas drilling (‘fracking’) operations and…
American Rivers Announces America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2017
…Mississippi) Threat: Poor water management #5: Rappahannock River (Virginia) Threat: Fracking #6: Green-Toutle River (Washington) Threat: New mine #7: Neuse and Cape Fear Rivers (North Carolina) Threat: Pollution from hog…
Threats & Solutions
…impacts of hydropower, mining and other energy development. Hydropower and Hydroelectric Dams | Fracking & Natural Gas Development | Mining Minerals and Coal Near Our Rivers | Pipelines America’s Most…
Is the Flathead Doomed to Suffer An Oil Spill?
…river in 1889. But now, with the fracking boom in Eastern Montana and North Dakota, the haunting feeling I get when a train sounds its whistle isn’t comforting at all….
Hydropower Doesn’t Need Any More Loopholes
…the injection of undisclosed toxins into groundwater. Now, with Congress leaning in its favor, the hydropower industry wants to ensure its share of fracking-style freedom. Proposed by Alaska Republican Sen….
Rivers Saved – Thanks to You
…must stay vigilant and keep the pressure on. In the meantime, here are a few wins we can all be proud of. Hoback River, Wyoming To stop fracking at the…
Delaware River
…connectivity remains a key part of the management plan, protecting headwater tributaries from the impacts of fracking as the river is restored downstream from historic mining damages. Tributary dam removal…