Part IV: Pick Your Poison – Earthquakes, Train Bombs, Leaking Pipelines U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has linked earthquake activity in Arkansas, Ohio, Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma, to fracking activity. Oklahoma has seen a 50% increase in earthquake activity since last … Continue reading →

New technologies introduced into the oil and gas industry have unlocked immense opportunity for exploration in rock formations that were once deemed unreachable and impenetrable. The result is a heavy increase of oil and gas activity in rural areas across … Continue reading →

Issuer Direct Corp., a disclosure management solutions and cloud-based compliance technologies company has reported its operating results for the first quarter of 2014. The results included revenue and operating results from PrecisionIR, which was acquired by Issuer Direct on August … Continue reading →

Part III: Turning Rural America into the New Industrialized Wastelands Despite precautions not to contaminate ground water, at least 3 states participating in the fracking boom, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, each have hundreds of complaints regarding contamination of water … Continue reading →

Part II: Endangering U.S. Water Supplies Basically, the initial steps for forming a fracking well start off the same as for any conventional well. A hole is drilled down past the first 50 feet or so of soil, down past … Continue reading →

Part I – An Abrupt Awakening This past February of 2014, 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the rural area of Dunkard Township, people were shocked by the dramatic explosion of the Marcellus shale natural gas fracking well, which … Continue reading →

Stellar Biotechnologies, manufacturer of Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH), an important immune-stimulating protein used in wide-ranging therapeutic and diagnostic markets, has retained Stonegate, Inc. to provide institutional investor outreach and capital markets advisory for Stellar, pending regulatory approval. “Stellar has reached … Continue reading →