Category: Photos

photograph by Jacques del Conte

9/19/2013

This photograph by Jacques del Conte was part of an exhibition about fracking that was shown at Exit Art Gallery (New York City, 2011). Photograph used with permission.

0 Comments

Photographs by Michael Forster Rothbart

8/24/2013

0 Comments

Fracking Pennsylvania

There is a war brewing in the hills of central Pennsylvania and the southern tier of New York. Half a mile underground, in the shale bedrock, are vast natural gas deposits worth an estimated one trillion dollars. An increasingly common drilling method called hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" makes it feasible to extract the gas by pumping millions of gallons of water, sand and proprietary chemicals down wells under high pressure.

* * * *

Photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart explores the human consequences of environmental contamination. His book on Chernobyl and Fukushima will be published by TED Books this fall.

Rothbart's photographs were included in FRACKING: Art and Activism Against the Drill, an exhibition at Exit Art (New York City).

0 Comments

Fracking from Space

8/22/2013

0 Comments

from "Fracking Art: 8 Pics of Utah's Open Fracking Waste Ponds" by War on Error (Daily Kos, 7/26/2012)

0 Comments

Fracking Futures

8/17/2013

0 Comments

FRACKING hell or fracking bliss? An art installation at Liverpool's FACT gallery gives visitors a chance to decide what they think of this controversial gas extraction technique. A miniaturised fracking "rig" simulates the sounds, tremors and flames that a real one might produce, and appears to drill right through the gallery floor.

-- from "Art installation brings you face to face with fracking" by Kate Ravilious (New Scientist, 7/31/2013)

An installation in Liverpool explores the future of fracking for shale gas in the UK. Photograph: Christopher Thomond (The Guardian, 8/15/2013)

HeHe - Fracking Futures from FACT on Vimeo.

0 Comments

photograph by Jacques del Conte

Photographs by Michael Forster Rothbart

Fracking from Space

Fracking Futures

Contributors

Archives

Categories