1st Friday Focus on the Environment is a monthly feature on 89.1 WEMU. Michigan League of Conservation Voters Executive Director Lisa Wozniak this month looks at newly proposed state regulations for the natural gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The guest this month is fracking expert Jaque Rose. Rose is co-founder of the activist group Friends of the AuGres Watershed.
RESOURCES:
New Michigan fracking rules (PDF)
Michigan House Committee on Energy and Technology
Michigan DEQ Office of Oil, Gas and Minerals
Friends of the AuGres-Rifle Watershed
American Academy of Pediatrics on Fracking and Respiratory Disease
Request notifications of public hearings on fracking in Michigan
