Julie Dermansky

About

Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers Universityโ€™s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Visit her website at www.jsdart.com.

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Fracking is in full swing in the Eagle Ford Shale region of southern Texas, home to the most productive oil field in the Unitedย States. For Cynthia Dupnik, whose Karnes County home is in the center...
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The streets of Norco, Louisiana are filled with Christmas lights like lots of U.S. towns this season. But on December 19th, the sky above Norco was illuminated by massive flaring atย Shell Chemical'...
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Evaluating pipeline safety is the business of engineers and scientists, but evaluating the human cost of transporting hazardous materials near peopleโ€™s homes is best left to those whoโ€™ve experience...
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Fort Worth was the first major city in America to allow extensive fracking within the city limits โ€” but it wasnโ€™t the last. Arlington, Texas, fell to the frackers next โ€” only this time, the fracker...
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When a representative from Chesapeake Energy knocked on Phyllis Allen's door in 2003 and offered $300 for her mineral rights and an invitation to a lease-signing pizza party, she turned them down.ย ...
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In Denton, Texas, 40 miles northwest of Dallas, residents and students at the University of North Texas are getting a free courseย in what itโ€™s like to live in the middle of a frackingย field.ย  Altho...
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A federal pipeline safety official admitted on camera recently that he made a point of ensuring his home wasnโ€™t in the path of any pipelines before buying it, and that he wouldn't advise anyone to ...
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If you ever doubted that one man's stand against the oil and gas industry can make a difference, consider the case of Michael Bishop. The 65 year old Marine veteran, first year medical student, far...
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Weatherford, Texas,ย homeownerย Steve Lipsky has nothing to hide. He is not trying to take down Rangeย Resources, a large oil and gas company with aย reputation for bullying its critics, nor is he tryi...
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The second phase of hearings in the legal battle over the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico ended on October 17th.ย Following two weeks of testimony by the U.S. Department of Justice and BP, U.S...