Mapping Fraccidents

basis Justice has released a map showing the location of accidents related to the rising of fracking inwards the USA. Fracking Accidents Across the United States uses the Google Maps API to plot accidents such every bit poisoned drinking water, polluted air, mysterious beast deaths, industrial disasters as well as explosions, which convey been connected to stone oil as well as gas drilling.

The map includes 2 overlays which demo areas where fracking is active as well as areas of potential fracking. The accidents themselves are shown on the map past times skull as well as crossbones map markers. The information origin for each incident is included inwards the detailed written report of each fracking accident.


StateImpact Pennsylvania has released a serial of mapped visualizations of Natural Gas Drilling inwards Pennsylvania.

The maps demo which operators are drilling inwards Pennsylvania as well as where. They also demo which wells convey been cited for violating field environmental regulations. So far at that topographic point convey been over 3,800 violations resulting inwards fines of $5.9 million. The drills are displayed on the map amongst color-coded markers to demo the wells amongst no violations as well as those amongst 1 or to a greater extent than violations.

You tin laissez passer on the axe pick out private wells on the map to thought details almost the operator as well as whatsoever violations.


Faces of Fracking is an investigation into how the impacts of fracking are existence felt inwards California.

This even out map visualization, built using d3.js, plots the locations of the 532 stone oil & gas wells inwards the LA Basin. As yous scroll through the investigation the map also plots the issue of pounds of toxic chemicals released at each fracking site.

Continue scrolling as well as the map zooms out to demo the 3,014 wells across California, where high–intensity production is either planned or already taking place, as well as the 1,105 wells where waste materials is existence injected into the ground. You tin laissez passer on the axe also thought the proximity of each of these wells to California's groundwater aquifers.


The Texas Tribune has published a map showing the location of disposal wells where waste-water, ofttimes from hydraulic fracturing sites, is existence disposed of inwards the state. Texas Disposal Wells visualizes the location of 7,000 disposal wells inwards Texas.

The map uses hexagonal binning to highlight the issue of wells inside an area. You tin laissez passer on the axe zoom inwards on the map to thought the location of the private wells.

The Texas Tribune uses the Mapbox platform. Mapbox has written a dainty tutorial on how to purpose hexagonal binning amongst Mapbox created maps. Binning: an Alternative to Pointmaps explains how the gratis as well as opened upward origin QuantumGIS tool tin laissez passer on the axe hold upward used to practise a hexagon density layer, which yous tin laissez passer on the axe therefore overlay on pinnacle of a Mapbox map.


Colorado experiences, on average, 1 stone oil tumble a day. In amount that is 4,900 spills inwards the final 13 years. The outcome of all those stone oil spills was the unloose of nearly 102 1 thou m gallons of oil, drilling fluids as well as other toxic materials into the environment.

The Western Toxic Release Map shows the location of 13,600 spills inwards Colorado as well as New United Mexican States betwixt 2000 as well as 2013. You tin laissez passer on the axe click on whatsoever of the spills displayed on the map to thought the engagement of the tumble as well as the issue of gallons spilled. You tin laissez passer on the axe also click-through to thought the amount Oil Conservation Division written report on the spill.

You tin laissez passer on the axe filter the results shown on the map past times twelvemonth or thought the amount fourteen years of stone oil spills inwards 1 go.