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Sharon Kelly

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Sharon Kelly is an attorney and investigative reporter based in Pennsylvania. She was previously a senior correspondent covering energy and antitrust at The Capitol Forum and, prior to that, she reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other print and online publications.

us/Josh Fox's Gasland Part II Faces Aggressive Oil and Gas Public Relations Campaign
BySharon Kelly
onApr 22, 2013 @ 11:05 PDT

โ€œItโ€™s coming,โ€ a baritone voice warns as images of a fiery hellscape flash across the screen. โ€œLies. Deception,โ€ someone whispers, just before the narrator launches into a diatribe about Josh Foxโ€™s...
us/More Financial Worries Coming to Light in Domestic Shale Drilling Industry
BySharon Kelly
onMar 28, 2013 @ 05:00 PDT

Virtually anyone who has followed the onshore drilling bonanza knows the name Aubrey McClendon and the company he co-founded, Chesapeakeย Energy. McClendon was the hard-driving CEO and chairman of o...
us/Obama's Energy Strategy -- Too Little, Too Late?
BySharon Kelly
onMar 18, 2013 @ 11:00 PDT

A year ago, President Obama set forth his vision of Americaโ€™s energy policy. โ€œWe need an energy strategy for the future,โ€ he said in a message still prominently displayed on the White House website...
us/Pennsylvania Failing to Sanction Drillers for Fracked Well Failures
BySharon Kelly
onMar 5, 2013 @ 05:00 PST

For the past several years, the shale gas industry has argued that oversight of fracking is getting tighter and that the amount of methane gas leaking from their wells is less than some haveย specul...
us/Shale Industry Moves to Ship Fracking Waste via Barge, Threatening Drinking Water Supplies
BySharon Kelly
onFeb 5, 2013 @ 09:22 PST

It was meant to go unnoticed. A small announcement out of a commissionersโ€™ meeting signaled plans to transport fracking wastewater by barge down the Ohio River. But it caught the eye of locals and ...
us/Shale Gas Uncertainty: How an Industry Talking Point Misses the Mark
BySharon Kelly
onJan 5, 2013 @ 11:30 PST

When oil and gas executives gathered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to discuss the state of the industry shortly after Obama won re-election, they raised a recurring complaint. โ€œWe now face four mo...
us/Oil and Gas Industry Set to Attack Matt Damon's "Promised Land"
BySharon Kelly
onDec 11, 2012 @ 04:00 PST

Next month Focus Features releases Matt Damonโ€™s new movie and the oil and gas industry is worried sick aboutย it. The movie, Promised Land, is about a Pennsylvania farm town deciding whether to go f...
us/Pennsylvania's Top Environmental Regulator Champions Drilling Industry at Shale Conference
BySharon Kelly
onNov 26, 2012 @ 06:59 PST

When Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer stepped to the mic at a shale oil and gas conference earlier this month, he offered one of his most candid descrip...
us/So Wrong, So Often: Karl Rove Grasps For Audience Approval at Oil & Gas Summit
BySharon Kelly
onNov 20, 2012 @ 10:54 PST

When the shale gas industry met last week in Pittsburgh, none other than Karl Rove gave the keynote speech, regaling the audience with a lengthy patriotic anecdote comparing the fossil fuel dillers...
us/In Hurricane Sandy's Aftermath, Fracking Adds to Headaches
BySharon Kelly
onNov 6, 2012 @ 04:00 PST

As Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast last month, tens of thousands of landowners with oil and gas leases faced an especially acute concern: would they get help from FEMA if their properties w...

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