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Fracking boom is coming -- let's be ready
Zanesville Times Recorder
The impending fracking boom coming our way is both exciting and frightening. It will bring great economic opportunities, but it also brings many unanswered questions.
First Insurance Company Refuses to Cover Damages Caused by Fracking
AllGov
The memo is significant because it represents the considered judgment of professional assessors of risk.
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Poland dreams of energy independence — through fracking
Los Angeles Times
Eager to end reliance on Russian natural gas, and little troubled by environmentalists, Poland is embracing hydraulic fracturing to unlock potentially huge deposits.
Monterey County Herald
AROMAS — "Don t frack Aromas," reads a bumper sticker that went on sale Friday in this rural community. Concern about the controversial drilling technique spiked among residents as a seismic survey aimed at least in part at identifying oil and natural ...
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Steve Israel: Film offers rebuttal of anti-fracking claims
Times Herald-Record
Not from the natural gas extraction method of fracking. This is "Truthland," the new film paid for and produced by the natural gas industry's Energy In Depth and the Independent Petroleum Association of America. It aims to combat Josh Fox's Oscar ...
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Secaucus bans 'fracking' Local officials also call for statewide and national ban
The Hudson Reporter
Secaucus bans 'fracking' Local officials also call for statewide and national ban - The mayor and Town Council banned fracking and fracking waste water in Secaucus at the June 26 council meeting in a resolution that states that the drilling ...
Video: Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon make a late-night pitch against fracking
Examiner.com
Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon made an interesting team together on Friday night's “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” show. Ono and Lennon, whose long hair these days mak.
Meredith Leight: Forced fracking
News & Observer
I am a farmer in Chatham County, and I am concerned about the impact of Senate Bill 820, the state fracking bill, on landowners like me. The bill does not do enough to protect landowners' basic property rights, and it legalizes fracking without ...
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Marvin Woll: Think before fracking
News & Observer
Regarding your July 8 editorial “Rushing to frack”: Now that the legislature has rammed thefracking bill into law the good people of Lee, Moore and Chatham counties will need to make important decisions. Decisions that will affect their lives and ...
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Lawrence F. London Jr.: They'll flee fracking
News & Observer
I am concerned about gas well drilling and fracking in North Carolina and the possibility that drinking water aquifers may become compromised as a direct result of these activities. Pollution could migrate regionally, flowing into aquifers through ...
Who'll Be Next Water Resources Commissioner?
The Ann Arbor Chronicle
Questions asked during the 30-minute event covered issues directly related to the position, or dealt more broadly with water and environmental quality issues, such asfracking and the Pall/Gelman groundwater contamination. Other topics included ...
Marjorie Minor: Water realities
News & Observer
Our legislators have done it again! Passed a law for fracking in North Carolina without having all the information they need to make an informed decision.
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400-mile bike trek draws attention to shale drilling
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Tour De Frack bike trek from Butler to Washington, D.C. is about protesting what riders call "the fracking free-for-all" that has begun in Western Pennsylvania. "This is about the people from the community," said Shayna Metz, 26, of Industry ...
Speaker: Drilling has many hazards
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Subra explained that waste products produced in the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process are exempt from federal hazardous waste laws and regulations, even though up to 60 percent of all fracking waste that is tested is found to be toxic ...
Miners Weather The Slow Burn Of Coal's Demise
Capital Public Radio News
For decades, coal represented half of the nation's electricity generation, but it dropped to only 34 percent in March. Technological breakthroughs in fracking have led to a gas boom that's caused prices to plummet, and now hundreds of coal miners are ...
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It's not just an oil boom, it's an industrial revolution
Bismarck Tribune
In the course of a long day we visited two oil rigs, a fracking operation at another site, a plant that collects the gasses that would otherwise have been flared at the well sites, and several Whiting properties in the Badlands that have been reclaimed ...
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Kasich pitch to farmers: Back my plan
Youngstown Vindicator
The governor for months has been seeking lawmaker support to increase tax rates on oil and gas produced through fracking, an emerging means of extracting fuels from deep underground shale formation by pumping in large volumes of water, chemicals and ...
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Oilfield Truck Accidents Cause One-Third of Industry's Fatalities
Business Review USA (press release)
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is experiencing a boom across the country and has created revenue for municipalities and jobs for workers. These jobs are often dangerous and require exposure to hazardous chemicals, but one of the most dangerous ...
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Midland oil boom strains housing
Amarillo.com
This latest boom has been driven by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the technique of shooting water, sand and chemicals deep underground to crack hard rock and release oil. (The Permian Basin also produces natural gas, but some gets flared off ...
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Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving breaks right hand
Coshocton Tribune
LATEST HEADLINES. Fracking boom is coming -- let's be ready. The approaching fracking boom coming our way is both exciting and frightening. Period of darkness, heat was a turning point in my life. Like most everyone else, I was without power for a week.
Focusing Science on the Damage
New York Times
Extracting this oil from its ultra-deep-water home will be a fantastic technological achievement — a tribute to how we can now harvest energy resources from the most extreme environments. From deep water drilling for oil to fracking for gas and arctic...
Central Pennsylvania residents forced to move after land sold to make way for ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Lynn Johnson. Pastor Leah Schade holds the group together with grit and prayer. In the past year, Rev. Schade has spearheaded one of few faith-driven groups that calls into question the morality offracking. Deb Eck, a resident of the Riverdale mobile ...
Fugitive Methane Caught in the Act of Raising GHG
Forbes
Greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas are greater than from coal because of fugitive methane losses, especially bad during fracking.
Global Economics: Utilities' infrastructure needs to catch up
The Desert Sun
While the overall U.S. energy sector continues its upward expansion at a rapid pace due to the implementation of “fracking,” the backbone of domestic power generation, America's vast network of utilities could be headed for deep trouble ahead.
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Film backing gas drilling screened in area
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
“What is this fracking?” she asks Penn State professor Terry Engelder, whose work pioneered some of the hydraulic fracturing techniques used in unconventional drilling today. “Is the U.S. natural gas industry good or bad?” is another question she ...
Facebook may be used to promote nuclear power
Green Building Press
A group of MPs is recommending that officials and regulators use the same communication strategies as employed by campaigning organisations such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to allay public fears on nuclear power, frackingand carbon ...
News & Observer
Water folly. Silly me! All this time, I thought I needed to conserve water. There are so many ads on TV to help us to use less water, as our resources are “limited.” But then, our legislators vote to move forward with fracking. They obviously know more ...
Conservative Group at George Mason University pushes for U.S. Carbon Tax
Examiner.com
Fear of fracking not based in scientific evidence · Ignoring scientific facts, the UN attempts global governance coup at Rio + 20 · Coastal Virginia sea level rises: Catastrophic climate change or natural causes? Manassas, Va., courtroom at the ...
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Study results give ammunition to both sides of drilling
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Study results give ammunition to both sides of drilling. Study focused on whether materials used in fracking can seep into aquifers. MATT HUGHES. 10:49 pm. Photos. Klemow. Select images available for purchase in the. Times Leader Photo Store ...
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8 new results for fracking
The Watchers - Can fracking contaminate drinking water?
By chillymanjaro
Hydraulic fracturing uses pressurised fluid to crack open deep shale rocks to release the methane trapped within them. Geologists say this potentially harm.
The Watchers
Multi-Chem: Less Bragging About Fracking? « VVV Public Relations ...
By VVV Public Relations
Lowering their fracking profile after a bungled blending blast, this self-proclaimed master fracker can now be found hawking “cleaner fracs through chemistry”. MULTI-CHEM: LESS BRAGGING ABOUT FRACKING? A few days ago we issued a ...
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The Marcellus Effect: What... no "Fracking Insurance"?
By Sue Heavenrich
Three days later, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co – the very company that insures farmers – announced that its policies do not cover damage related to fracking. The company's commercial and personal insurance policies “were not designed ...
The Marcellus Effect
can-fracking-contaminate-drinking-water - The Watchers by Adorra Eli
Hydraulic fracturing uses pressurised fluid to crack open deep shale rocks to release the methane trapped within them. Geologists say this potentially harmful fluid is unlikely to percolate up through a few kilometres of rock to reach the shallow ...
The Watchers by Adorra Eli
Natural Gas Liquids are Following Natural Gas Off a Fracking Cliff ...
By Tom Konrad
Natural Gas Liquids are Following Natural Gas Off a Fracking Cliff. Tom Konrad CFA. The unprecedented boom in natural gas supplies over the last few years as been one of the few tail-winds for the US economy over the last few years, ...
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Yoko Ono & Sean Lennon launch ARTISTS AGAINST FRACKING with
By admin
Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon & Jimmy Fallon perform 'Don't Frack My Mother' for ARTISTS AGAINSTFRACKING. Find out more about Artists Against Fracking at http://ArtistsAgainstFracking.com.
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Profound – Pete Seeger Asks Governor Cuomo to Ban Fracking in ...
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LA Times: Poland dreams of energy independence — through fracking
If geologists are right, up to 768 billion cubic meters of natural gas sits trapped in shale deposits deep beneath the surface in Poland, enough to meet the country's needs for the next 50 years and more.
Natural Gas Europe - Latest News
Web
1 new result for fracking
Hydraulic fracturing, AKA "Fracking", is a new method of extracting gas and oil from rocks at a depth of 2000 to 10000 feet down into the shale (soft, sedimentary ...
How states are regulating fracking (in maps)
Washington Post (blog)
Armed with new drilling techniques, companies are spreading out across the United States, cracking open shale rock in search of vast new stores of natural gas. It's not an exaggeration to say that hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” has revolutionized ...
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Fracked Pennsylvania shale could be naturally leaky
Ars Technica
Drinking water aquifers contained some Marcellus-like salty water pre-fracking.
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Nationwide Fracking Dust-Up Should Be Non-Story
PropertyCasualty360
A story last week that Nationwide would not cover claims from fracking has created some confusion and should never have been a story in the first place, says Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute.
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Fracking is neither safe nor harmless to the environment
Baltimore Sun
Fracking is neither safe nor harmless to the environment.
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Insurance Company Denies Fracking Coverage
Energy and Capital
A U.S. insurance company is denying coverage for any risks related to fracking.
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Mid-West Fracking Actions Escalate As Residents Blockade Ohio Injection Well
It's Getting Hot In Here
Vienna, OH – Concerned residents blocked access to an injection well in Trumbull County this morning, protesting the failure of Ohio regulators to adequately test and monitor dumping of toxicfracking waste. One supporter locked himself to the gate to ...
On Muskegon's mind: Sappi site, fracking, animal testing and 'burger' doughnuts
MLive.com
Muskegon readers showed a more serious side last week.
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On Our Radar: Fracking and Petrochemicals
New York Times (blog)
The gas fracking boom in Texas has benefited the petrochemical industry but raised concerns about water shortages and air pollution.
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Is fracking the new F-word? Some apparently think so
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com
Many criticized fracking anywhere in Michigan, while others defended the method as a way to produce a domestic source of oil and gas.
Green Chip Stocks
National Casualty (Insurance) Company, part of the Nationwide group of insurance companies, has announced that hydraulic fracturing operations are prohibited in relation to properties it insures. The company has determined that the exposures presented ...
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Natgas drillers' water use cut due to Pennsylvania drought
Reuters
Natgas operations unaffected, companies say* Talisman says low prices affected frackingoperations* Carrizo planned around dry seasonBy Jeanine PreziosoNEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) - Drought conditions.
Hydrofracking Roundup: Pro-Fracking Groups Rally; Celebs Launch Anti ...
Politics on the Hudson (blog)
Here's the latest New York news as the hydrofracking world turns: - A number of gas-industry and landowner groups held a big rally in northern Broome.
Fracking's Footprint on Pennsylvania Forests
Newswise (press release)
As the natural gas extraction process known as fracking surges across Pennsylvania, scientists are trying to understand what the short- and long-term consequences could be for the state's forests and watersheds.
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State Regulators Discourage Federal Fracking Rules
KULR-TV
Thousands of companies are thriving due to oil development in the Bakken and other formations across the U.S. But the federal government is considering placing more restrictions on fracking, which could keep companies from investing.
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Jimmy Fallon Welcomes Yoko Ono And Sean Lennon For Rendition Of 'Don't ...
New York Daily News (blog)
ICYMI: Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono left no fracking pun unsung as they unveiled their new initiative, "Artists Against Fracking" Friday on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon." With a little help from Fallon, the two sung "Don't Frack My Mother" to the tune of ...
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Sen. Oelslager Praises North Canton's Volunteerism, Talks Fracking at Rotary ...
Patch.com
Sen. Scott Oelslager stopped by the North Canton Rotary Club meeting this past week and gave the Rotarians an update on fracking, jobs and state revenue.
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Chris Gibson not ready to support fracking
Albany Times Union (blog)
Chris Gibson not ready to support fracking.
New NRDC fact sheet documents how fracking can contaminate drinking water ...
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
A new NRDC fact sheet is now available on the NRDC website. Entitled:
Trumbull County Residents Concerned About Fracking
WOUB
A news release says the protestors gathered "to express concerns about the contents of the 1000 gallons of fracking wastewater that spilled along five miles of road" in a residential area near Vienna on July 7. They demanded that Ohio's Department of ...
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Man Locks Himself to Gate at Fracking Protest
WKBN/WYFX-TV
A man locked himself to a gate, and he and two others were arrested at a well site in Vienna today.
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Man Locks Himself to Gate at Fracking Protest
WYTV
A man used tar to lock himself to a gate at a well site in Vienna today. Two were arrested.
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Yoko Ono And Sean Lennon Launch Artists Against Fracking
FemaleFirst.co.uk
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and their son Sean have launched a celebrity coalition campaigning against drilling techniques in the natural gas industry which could cause the contamination of water sou.
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July 17th: Call ODNR and demand testing of fracking waste
Democratic Underground
For years, Ohio's Division of Natural Resources has refused numerous written and oral requests to test the millions of barrels of fracking “brine” dumped into rivers, pumped into injection wells, and spread onto roads across Ohio (e.g. last weekend's ...
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Yoko Ono And Sean Lennon Rewrite "The Times They Are a-Changin'" For Anti ...
Village Voice (blog)
Yoko Ono And Sean Lennon Rewrite "The Times They Are a-Changin'" For Anti-Fracking Protest; Rock And Roll Officially Dead. By James King Mon., Jul. 16 2012 at 3:45 PM. Categories: Obituary,fracking ...
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Traffic and fracking risk on our doorstep
Gisborne Herald
If TAG Oil find anything and fracking is used then each frack will take up to 1000 truck trips. Apart from the other worries — the impact on my spring water, surrounding land contamination and the price value of my property —there will be no ...
Frack the Border: Cartels Use Oil Boom to Move Drugs
Wired News (blog)
Ignore its proximity to the border, and the Texas fracking boom is like many others around America. Trucks hauling construction supplies barrel down country highways. Boom towns, sprawling networks of new private roads and thousands of drilling sites...
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Fracking opponents heading to Washington for July 28 rally
The Progressive Pulse
With all the attention fracking has been receiving in North Carolina and around the nation, organizers are expecting a large and energetic turnout — even by Washington standards. The Sierra Club will be organizing free transportation (with food ...
Today on Your Call: What's the future of natural gas fracking in California?
KALW
On the today's Your Call, we'll have a conversation about hydraulic fracturing, which involves blasting huge amounts of chemicals, sand and water into the.
Blogs
13 new results for fracking
Public Fear Over Fracking Is Unjustified | RealClearScience
By The Economist
IN FOLKLORE THE will-o'-the-wisp, a mysterious light that lures travellers away from paths into dangerous marshlands, was thought to be the embodiment of evil spirits. The light was probably methane, given off by rotting vegetation, that had ...
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BREAKING: Ohio Residents Blockade Fracking Wastewater ...
By spear
Ohio residents are blocking access to an injection well in Trumbull County this morning, protesting the failure of Ohio regulators to adequately test and monitor the dumping of toxic frackingwastewater in the state. Trumbull County residents ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
Activist Post: The Face of Fracking Victims (Moving and Powerful ...
By Activist
Fracking is one such environmental evil that is falling hard upon select communities in places across America. The following video is powerful in that it is not a technical overview of what fracking is, not an analysis of the damage it potentially ...
Activist Post
By TXsharon
The Big Oil & Gas Mafia claims that they operate in a responsible manner. If you criticize them, like I do, they say you are just against all drilling even responsible drilling. Im not against responsible drilling but I doubt.
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform
U.S. Insurer Won't Cover Gas Drill Fracking Exposure
By admin
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. has become the first major insurance company to say it won't cover damage related to a gas drilling process that blasts che.
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Fracking letter and video with Yoko Ono | OntheWilderSide
By kwilder
Yoko Ono reflects on fracking: A letter to NY Governor Andrew Cuomo AND a new video with Sean Lennon and Jimmy Fallon. Don't Frack My Mother (Mother Earth)
OntheWilderSide
The Land Use Report » Blog Archive » Fracking In Aromas?
By Gary Patton
I don't know how many KUSP listeners have been following the controversies related to oil and gas exploration utilizing “hydraulic fracturing,” or “fracking,” techniques. There are a lot of controversies involved. The technique includes the ...
The Land Use Report
Capital Business Blog » Tioga landowners gather for hydro-fracking ...
By Bill Stroh
This comes to us from the Owego Pennysaver: The Tioga County Landowners Group held an informational meeting on Monday, July 9 at the Owego-Apalachin Middle School Auditorium about gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. The event ...
Capital Business Blog
Study Predicts Fracking Fluids Will Reach Water Supplies 'In Just a ...
By Mark Daniels
Government regulatory agencies have made half-hearted attempts to suggest that they actually will halt the practice, but so far the oil and gas industries have largely been left alone, even as the EPA admits that fracking causes groundwater ...
GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING
The Fracking News – Revolutionary Ideas « Coalition for a Healthy ...
By Coalition for a Healthy County
The Fracking News. Indiana County planning staff is taking their show on the road, and presented their first of three public meetings to introduce the County Comprehensive Plan his week. What isn't in that plan? A get out of jail free card to the ...
Coalition for a Healthy County
The Rural Blog: Report: State fracking laws need overhaul as few ...
By Amy Wilson
"Most states aren't doing enough to ensure the water safety and health of communities near gas wells where hydraulic fracking takes place," according to a new report by a Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy group. Those states ...
The Rural Blog
How Fracking Devastated Butler County, PA « SGTreport – The ...
By SGT
Residents in Butler County, Pennsylvania share their fracking experience. Film shared courtesy of Nature Abounds' friend Rich Waters, a local photographer and videographer who is documenting how fracking is changing the lives of his ...
SGTreport - The Corporate Propaganda...
Fracking Out of a Recession - Colorado Energy News — Colorado ...
By admin
Let's begin with a short quiz. What two things do the following nine states have in common: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Ohio, Louisiana, Texas, Montana, Oklahoma and North Dakota? No, they are not all swing states in the coming ...
Colorado Energy News
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4 new results for fracking
Study Shows Underground Paths Boost Risk of Fracking Pollution ...
A new study raises concern about the ease with which deep ground elements can infiltrate shallow wells.
www.alternet.org/.../study_shows_underground_paths_boost_...
Fracking bill becomes law amid errant vote - Politics ...
N.C. House Republicans successfully overrode Gov. Bev Perdue's veto during a quick vote before midnight, but it took a mistaken vote and a parliamentary ...
www.newsobserver.com/.../state-senate-overrides-gov-perdues...
Disclosure of Fracking Chemicals Remains Woefully Inadequate ...
In a new report issued today, OMB Watch finds that state oversight laws requiring disclosure of the chemicals used in natural gas fracking are in need of an ...
ecowatch.org/2012/disclosure-fracking/
Fracking Timeline | Raleigh Public Record
Fracking Timeline. By Laura White. July 9, 2012 | Posted in: Fracking, News | Tags: DENR,fracking, legislature | 0 Responses ...
www.raleighpublicrecord.org/news/2012/.../fracking-timeline/
Why the US Fracking Industry Worries About the Weather in India
TIME
Workers in America's oil patch pay little heed to the weather. They know for a certainty that down in the South Texas Eagle Ford Shale fields the metal rigs will turn red hot in triple digit summer temperatures, while up north in the Bakken Shale ...
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In Tiny Bean, India's Dirt-Poor Farmers Strike Gas-Drilling Gold
New York Times
Profits from raising guar, a hard bean that is crucial in the drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, have improved the lives of poor farmers in northwestern India.
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Fracking Boom Means Good Times For India's Guar Farmers
Forbes
This 'cow food' makes up a third of the cost of hydraulic fracturing.
Chicago Tribune (blog)
A new study, published in the formidable Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...shows that fluids may have traveled from deep within Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale, one of the formations at the center of the gas boom, into shallow aquifers ...
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US insurer won't cover gas drill fracking
The Chronicle
By Mary Esch ALBANY, N.Y. — Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. has become the first major insurance company to say it won't cover damage related to a gas.
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Anti-fracking activists found guilty of trespass
The Guardian
Lancashire judge rules three activists who had occupied a gas rig are guilty of aggravated trespass.
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Playing A Fracking-Based Bounce In Halliburton
Seeking Alpha
Fracking is a technology that's ready to blow up even as American energy exports and domestic usage are growing rapidly. It's an early indicator for a new manufacturing renaissance. And the best way to play it is with Halliburton and other fracking ...
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Hesketh Bank fracking rig protesters guilty of trespass
BBC News
Anti-fracking protesters who halted test drilling at a rig are found guilty of trespass, assault and obstruction charges.
Lancashire Evening Post
Three protestors who stormed a drilling site in a protest against fracking have been found guilty of aggravated trespass.
Pulteney crowd seeks moratorium on fracking
Penn Yan Chronicle-Express (blog)
Future natural gas drilling in the area continues to pit neighbor against neighbor, and turning neighboring towns into pro- and con- camps. More than 100 people turned out July 11 to crowd the Pulteney Town Hall, asking the board to reconsider a June ...
Nationwide Insurance continues avoiding shale gas fracking risks
Examiner.com
This past Friday, Nationwide Insurance issued a release stating, “Nationwide's personal and commercial lines insurance policies were not designed to provide cov.
Confused reaction to study on Marcellus Shale water quality
Philadelphia Inquirer
Marcellus Shale study claims gas drilling did not contaminate drinking-water wells;. New research shows no Marcellus Shale pollution;. Pennsylvania fracking can put water at risk, Duke study finds;. Yet another study confirms fracking can pollute ...
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Fracking's Magic Beans, Sneaky Smugglers, Weed Dating
OnEarth Magazine (blog)
Magic beans: A bean called guar has long fed people and cattle in India's northwestern state of Rajistan, "one of the world's poorest places." But now that fracking companies have discovered that the bean's powder helps thicken water enough to carry ...
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encore Online
Every time i see that bumper sticker, it fracks me up. North Carolina is doing everything possible to become the West Virginia or Staten Island of the 21st Century. We routinely vote against science, children, education and our own interests. Lately we ...
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Environmentalists say before fracking is allowed, current oil and gas wells ...
Mid-Hudson News
Environmentalists say before fracking is allowed, current oil and gas wells need closer inspections. ALBANY – Some 76 percent of the current gas and oil wells in New York go uninspected by the state annually and before Albany considers approving ...
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An unrelenting focus on fracking
News & Observer
A diverse alliance of statewide organizations and grassroots groups who work for environmental justice, healthy food and farms and clean water, air and energy came together to try to keep North Carolina frack-free. We will be watchdogs on the ...
Ohio Demonstrators Blockade Fracking Site
Democracy Now
In Ohio, a group of demonstrators blocked access on Monday to a natural gas well in Trumbull County used for the dumping of waste from the drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The protesters rallied to call for increased testing and ...
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Three Arrested During Anti-Fracking Protest
Wheeling Intelligencer
VIENNA, OHIO — More than two dozen people protested Monday morning outside KDA In.
Obama Backs Fracking During Campaign Appearance
StateImpact Pennsylvania
President Obama says Americans "should welcome" the shale drilling boom that has lead to increased domestic oil and gas production, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Democrat's caveat - he supports drilling as long as it's done "safely and ...
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A New Report on Fracking Can Change the Debate On US Energy Practices
PolicyMic
A new report from the UK indicates that hydrofracking can be done safely. But with American firms failing to follow best practices for the industry, will this change the debate in the U.S.?
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States' regulation of fracking lacking, report says
Fort Worth Star Telegram
It says states are doing too little to ensure safety and health.
Insurance news from United States shows end to fracking coverage
Live Insurance News
insurance news has identified an action that could become a trend among insurers, as Nationwide Mutual announced that it will not provide co.
Daily Markets
“Energy companies boring into the depths of South Texas in the multibillion-dollar hunt for natural gas and oil are opening a growing fissure in U.S.-Mexico border security as they build hundreds of miles of private back roads and an uncharted pipeline ...
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Gentry sets date for forum on fracking
The Daily Republican
Williamson County Board Chairman Brent Gentry has set a date for a public forum on hydraulicfracking. The forum will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, at the Pavilion of the City of Marion.
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Natgas drillers' water use cut due to Pennsylvania drought
Reuters
Commission suspends permits in most areas since 2008* Talisman says fracking reduced due to low gas prices* Carrizo Oil & Gas planned around dry seasonBy Jeanine PreziosoNEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters)
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Exactly Where is the "Safe" Fracking?
Policyshop (blog)
And the fact of the matter is that there are a lot of folks right now that are engaging in hydraulicfracking who are doing it safely. The problem is, is that we haven't established clear guidelines for how to do it safely, and informed the public so ...
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Fracking And Insurance, What Policy Will Cover You?
NBC4i.com
There has been a lot of misinformation lately about whether your homeowners or farm insurance will cover an accident or spill at an oil or gas drilling site.
US wasting more natural gas than ever as fracking byproduct
Alaska Dispatch
The United States is flaring so much natural gas into the atmosphere -- burning it as oil-field waste rather than extracting energy from it in power plants -- that it now leads the world in the growth rate at which it is trashing that energy source ...
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Man Charged In Trumbull Co. Fracking Protest
WOUB
A Maryland man faces two misdemeanor charges after chaining himself to a gate at a northeast Ohio deep-injection well in order to block trucks carrying wastewater from oil and gas drilling. Vienna police said 22-year-old Ron Shalom of Potomac, Md., was...
Sand Is Turning Down-On-Their-Luck Wisconsinites Into Overnight Millionaires
Business Insider
It sounds like something out of a movie: a Wisconsin farmer wakes up one morning to a phone call asking if he will sell his land for six figures. But that is exactly what's been happening in west-central Wisconsin, where Texas energy giants are ...
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Physician to discuss fracking impact on air quality
The Newark Advocate
Dr. Deborah Cowden, a central Ohio physician, will discuss the potential impact of deep shale development on community air quality and public health on Thursday.
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13 new results for fracking
By Worldwide Hippies
By Cindi Silva,Worldwide Hippies/CJE While awake dreams etch into your brain the subversion of natural order something to strive for cast aside or.
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CARPE DIEM: Fracking the U.S.-Mexico Border
By Mark J. Perry
Fracking the U.S.-Mexico Border. The Houston Chronicle reports that "Gas drilling a boom for drug traffickers, too": "Energy companies boring into the depths of South Texas in the multibillion-dollar hunt for natural gas and oil are opening a ...
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The Face of Fracking Victims (Moving and Powerful Video ...
By clnews
Fracking is an environmental evil that is falling hard upon select communities in places across America. This powerful video is about some of the affected peopl.
Conscious Life News
Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon Launch Artists Against Fracking ...
By spear
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and their son Sean have launched Artists Against Fracking. Ono and Lennon decided to bring together artists from all over to protest hydraulic fracturing and raise awareness about its potential to contaminate ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
Tour de Frack: Bicycle Ride Explores the Impact of Fracking : Living ...
By Editor Post
Welcome to Tour de FRACK (Freedom Ride for Awareness and Community Knowledge), an action oriented way to explore rural communities and the effects of unconventional gas drilling from the saddle of your bike. Traveling by bike ...
Living Green Magazine
TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell NY Governor Cuomo that fracking i ...
By Cal Mendelsohn
Governor Cuomo: If insurance companies think fracking is too dangerous to gamble with, New York should listen. Keep fracking out of our state.
Care2 News Network
By jjtric
“I have no intention of parsing my words when it comes to fracking, I'm against it,” said Amodeo. “This questionable technique has no place in the Empire State and I stand firmly with all those brave advocates who continue to remind us of the ...
Amherst Times
For Rajasthan's Farmers, a Rare Victory - NYTimes.com
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
But much more important to farmers here was the recent discovery that guar could stiffen water so much that a mixture is able to carry sand sideways into wells drilled by horizontal fracturing, also known as fracking. The fracking boom in the ...
India Ink
Democracy Now! | Democracy Now! Headlines for July 17, 2012
By mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
In Ohio, a group of demonstrators blocked access on Monday to a natural gas well in Trumbull County used for the dumping of waste from the drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The protesters rallied to call for increased testing ...
Democracy Now!
Whose Fracking Rights? – The PERColator
By Holly Fretwell
The threat of 'fracking' is real and there is nothing they can do. While the Prager's own the surface rights to their property, the state owns the subsurface and mineral rights. The state has the right to use the land as is 'reasonably necessary' for ...
The PERColator
It's not just an oil boom, it's an industrial revolution
By energy_activist
In the course of a long day we visited two oil rigs, a fracking operation at another site, a plant that collects the gasses that would otherwise have been flared at the well sites, and several Whiting properties in the Badlands that have been ...
Vote 4 Energy
Josh Fox And Mark Ruffalo Explain Fracking - Home - Seismologik
By seismologik
Jul172012. Josh Fox And Mark Ruffalo Explain Fracking. Date Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 10:14AM. Author seismologik | Comments Off | Share Article. Print View Printer Friendly Version · Email Article to Friend · Creative Commons License ...
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Concerned About Fracking in California? Join us July 25 in ...
By Sierra Club CA
Concerned About Fracking in California? Join us July 25 in Sacramento. By Sierra Club CA, on July 17th, 2012. Bookmark and Share · SCC · State Budget Has Mixed Results for Environment ». Comments are closed. State Budget Has Mixed ...
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1 new result for fracking
Nationwide Insurance: Fracking Damage Won't Be Covered
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. has become the first major insurance company to say it won't cover damage related to a gas drilling ...
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Huffington Post (blog)
It's trapped as tiny bubbles in our shale bedrock. Through the technique called fracking, we can blow apart our nation's geological basement -- using water, sand, chemicals, and high pressure -- and get those bubbles to flow up mile-long holes to the surface.
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Fracking may free Poland from Russian energy domination
The Seattle Times
Exploiting these underground resources, though, will mean a lot of noisy, water-intensive and potentially harmful "fracking," or hydraulic fracturing, the process of shooting chemical solutions mixed with sand into the shale to prize it open and release the gas.
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A North Carolina Politician Commits A Happy Fracking Blunder
Forbes
Some notable achievements have resulted from mistakes. Columbus put America on the map in a misguided attempt to reach the East Indies by sailing west. Alexander Fleming discovered the lifesaving antibiotic properties of penicillin when a spore of mold ...
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Cuomo's Next Wise Move on Gas Drilling
New York Times (blog)
But if he is wise, he will also carefully read what Tom Wilber, the most dogged, and grounded, reporter on the fracking beat, has laid out in a new post about Bradley J. Field, the top official in the Mineral Resources division of the state's Department of ...
Report Sees Lax Inspections of NY Gas Wells
New York Times (blog)
A major concern about the advent of a new type of natural gas drilling in New York is whether the state's environmental regulators could keep up with a potential boom once this drilling process, known as fracking, is allowed. A study found that annual ...
Governor says fracking may lead to cleaner fuel
Ventura County Star
According to the Aspen Daily News (http://bit.ly/OWCxax ), Hickenlooper believes advancements for compressed natural gas cars will expand the market for fracking-produced gas. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a gas drilling process that ...
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News & Observer
Excuse us, but there must have been a misunderstanding. Among state House Speaker Thom Tillis' choices for the new state Mining and Energy Commission – OK, let's just call it the fracking board – is supposed to be someone with a “conservation” ...
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Nancy L. DeKlyn: Fracking -- How far will it go?
Daily Camera
Behind the elementary school in Erie looms an Orwellian monster lit up like the menace it is against the summer night sky. It hold us hostage with its constant humming and whirring, screeching and roaring as it drills deep into the ground to extract the new ...
Chamber to promote benefits of 'fracking'
Columbus Dispatch
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Hydraulic Fracturing: Can Environmental Regulators Handle a Fracking Boom?
Village Voice (blog)
Hydraulic Fracturing: Can Environmental Regulators Handle a Fracking Boom? By Victoria Bekiempis Wed., Jul. 18 2012 at 3:27 PM. Categories: Victoria Bekiempis, fracking · Pin It · 320px-Marcellus_Shale_Gas_Drilling_Tower_2.jpeg. Can New York's ...
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Green news roundup: Geoengineering, fracking and flooding
The Guardian
Environment news. • US geoengineers to spray sun-reflecting chemicals from balloon • Investors warn against delaying wind energy subsidy cut decision • Anti-fracking activists found guilty of trespass • Greenpeace activists shut down 74 UK Shell petrol ...
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US insurer won't cover gas drill fracking exposure
The Chronicle
Health and environmental groups claim fracking can contaminate drinking water. The gas industry says it's safe if done properly. Nationwide said risks involved in fracking operations “are too great to ignore" and apply to policies of commercial contractors and ...
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Romney, Obama talk fracking on campaign stump
Gas Business Briefing
Fracking briefly took center stage in the presidential campaign this week after both President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney shared their visions of the gas and oil mainstay and how it should be regulated. Obama on Monday said at a ...
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Yoko Ono, Jimmy Fallon And Sean Lennon Sing 'Don't Frack My Mother' (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
Lennon and Ono recently launched Artists Against Fracking to protest hydraulic fracturing, specifically in New York State. According to the site's list, actors and artists that have joined the initiative include Leonardo DiCaprio, Lady Gaga and Mark Ruffalo.
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Energy and Capital
GreenHunter Water, LLC, wholly owned by GreenHunter Energy, Inc. (NYSEAMEX: GRH), recently announced that it has commenced full water management operations at its New Matamoras, Washington County, Ohio River bulk water storage and barge ...
No fracking brine on county roads, citizens tell Ulster legislature
Mid-Hudson News
KINGSTON – A vote to ban any use of fracking brine for deicing or any other purpose on county roads in Ulster County will come later, but several citizens had their say, in opposition, during a public hearing Tuesday night. “I think that given the amount of ...
Lawmaker discusses mistaken vote on controversial fracking bill
WSOC Charlotte
The vote that Carney is talking about is the one that legalized fracking, the process of pumping millions of gallons of a water-chemical mixture into underground rocks to release natural gas. Carney has voted against fracking bills in the past, but earlier this ...
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State well inspections 'inadequate'
Albany Times Union
Page 1 of 1. ALBANY — The state lags in inspecting oil and gas wells, and is not ready to handle what could be a deluge of wells if it allows natural gas hydraulic fracturing, according to a report issued Tuesday by group against fracking. Earthworks Oil & Gas ...
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Anti-fracking activists found guilty of trespass
Equities.com
Three activists were found guilty at Preston magistrates court on Tuesday on charges of aggravated trespass and assault after occupying a fracking rig in a Lancashire protest last year. In November 2011, Lauren Pepperell, Barbara Anne Cookson and ...
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Fracking's Unlikely Beneficiary: India's Farmers
Newser
Guar, a tiny, durable legume grown in Rajasthan, one of the poorest regions of India, has proven to be a moneymaker thanks to the fracking boom in the US. Indian farmers in the arid region who once grew the bean to help feed their families now find that ...
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Outspoken residents back Avon fracking moratorium
The Livingston County News
The Avon Town Board devoted about an hour of its Thursday, July 12, meeting to “visitor comments” at which about 20 spoke and 40 attended — one of the largest turnouts the board has seen since moving into its new Opera Block quarters four years ago.
Protecting Groundwater: A Guide To Fracking Risks And Best Practices
ThinkProgress
Fracking is used to stimulate oil and gas production and involves the injection of a mix of water, chemicals and sand underground at high pressure to fracture rock and release the oil or gas. Risks to surface water supplies include depletion of fresh water...
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Quebeckers seek the facts on fracking
Globe and Mail
Chantal Beauregard Favreau, the mayor of Béthanie, Que., takes notes in a brown book as she stands beside a lush yellow canola field near Rosemary, a village in southern Alberta. The field is irrigated and she, along with other visitors from Quebec, are ...
Baldwin, Paltrow and Dicaprio's war on hicks from the sticks
New York Post (blog)
What do wealthy celebrities like Alec Baldwin, Leonardo Dicaprio and Yoko Ono have against New Yorkers of more modest means? Apparently a lot since all are lending their names to the group "artists against fracking" which is trying to kill the best economic ...
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Credit Fracking, Not Politicians, For CO2 Falloff
Investor's Business Daily
The most underreported recent environmental story has been the dramatic decline in energy-related carbon emissions — nearly back to mid-1990s levels, and falling. Maybe it's because that story just doesn't fit the left's mantra that traditional energy sources ...
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Shale Wealth Spreads Halfway Around The World To Poor Indian Farmers ...
Daily Markets (blog)
But much more important to farmers here was the recent discovery that guar could stiffen water so much that a mixture is able to carry sand sideways into wells drilled by horizontal fracturing, also known as fracking. Guar farmers, traders and processors ...
Socialist Worker Online
THE FAILURE of the environmental policies of the NDP and Green Party is underlined by their failure to speak out against plans for a massive expansion of natural gas extraction, including fracking, in Alberta and northeast British Columbia (BC). Industry...
UK Government Report Finds That Fracking Can Be Managed Effectively
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
United States: UK Government Report Finds That Fracking Can Be Managed Effectively. 18 July 2012. Article by Casey Hopkins , Charles Chipchase , Kevin Atkins , Larry W. Nettles , James M. Prince , Robert M. Schick and James Daniel Thompson, III ...
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India weather could impact PA, US fracking...
The Reporter
Updated: 07/18/12 10:28 am. Weather concerns go beyond our borders. According to a story in http://ti.me/NF0MhD “the weather forecast 8500 miles away on the other side of the world in Rajastan, India,” is important to the fracking industry here in the states.
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Libous Voter Survey Shows Support, and Questions, about Fracking
FOX 40 News WICZ TV
Libous Voter Survey Shows Support, and Questions, about Fracking. 7/17/2012 (Updated 11:38:02 PM). State Senator Tom Libous was talking with constituents directly Tuesday night, throughout his district--through a live Telephone Town Hall, conducted ...
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14 new results for fracking
Capitol Confidential » Watch it live: Senate Dems fracking forum
By Jimmy Vielkind, Capitol bureau
Share share E-mail. Live, from New York City, it's a Senate Democrat-sponsored forum on hydraulic fracturing! The video feed is below; here's the speaker's list: Members of the Senate Democratic Conference Senate Democratic Leader John ...
Capitol Confidential
Fracking Isn't As Messy Or Dangerous As Everyone Thinks ...
By The Economist
Deep in the rolling tree-clad hills of Pennsylvania, on a hilltop close to a group of barns and farmhouses, Chevron's Kikta well pad can be found at the end of a narrow country lane. This is part of the Marcellus shale, 250000 sq km (96500 ...
Business Insider
A Look at Fracking Through the Social Media Lens - Media Badger
By Giles Crouch
Fracking. It's a rough word for what is shaping up to be the most contentious issue around the energy and resources sectors, ahead of the tar sands and pipeline leaks. To understand what the primary concerns of citizens are in regard to ...
Media Badger| Intelligence &...
Fracking site bows to Earth First! convergence | Waging Nonviolence
By admin
Following their annual week-long Round River Rendezvous, occurring this year in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest, Earth First! activists from across.
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Study Shows Underground Paths Boost Risk of Fracking Pollution «
By lily victoria
“Researchers found it was unlikely that shale gas drilling had caused higher levels of salinity in some of the water wells sampled, since the briny wells were either not near drilling operations or showed higher salinity prior to drilling. However ...
Plunge In CO2 Output Due To Natural Gas Fracking | Climate Depot
'Increasingly, power plants are turning to natural gas because it has become abundant, and therefore cheap. And though technology is improving our ability to reduce emissions from coal usage, natural gas is still a much cleaner source' The ...
Climate Depot
Governor says fracking may lead to cleaner fuel – Aurora Sentinel
By BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
According to the Aspen Daily News (http://bit.ly/OWCxax ), Hickenlooper believes advancements for compressed natural gas cars will expand the market for fracking-produced gas. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a gas drilling ...
Aurora Sentinel » Aurora Sentinel
Plunge In CO2 Output Due To Natural Gas Fracking
By support@climatechangedispatch.com (MERRILL MATTHEWS, IBD)
The most underreported recent environmental story has been the dramatic decline in energy-related carbon emissions — nearly back to mid-1990s levels, and falling.
Climate Change Dispatch
US's steep decline in CO2 emissions due to fracking opening up much
By Ian S.
US's steep decline in CO2 emissions due to fracking opening up much more natural gas. Author: Ian S. 18 Jul. Natural gas burns much cleaner than coal. This shows the feudalistic intentions of the Left though: fracking is already banned in ...
Inoperable Terran
Green news roundup: Geoengineering, fracking and flooding ...
The week's top environment news stories and green events • If you're not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox Environment news • US geoengineers to spray sun-reflecting chemicals ...
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PEN-e from Pace Law School Library: In the News: Guar Gum in ...
By Taryn Rucinski
In the News: Guar Gum in Hydraulic Fracking Fluid. Recently, the New York Times and other news outlets have reported that many poverty stricken areas in India have been the unwitting beneficiaries of a much needed financial boom from a ...
PEN-e from Pace Law School Library
Fracking And Sand Mines Deserve Our Scorn And Derision ...
By dekerivers
Maybe for a side business–just to make more money–the fracking industry can also lobby for balloons to be released at weddings so to kill more innocent wildlife. Who cares that balloon fragments when ingested by wildlife and sea animals ...
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Fracking is Happening all over the ... - Natural Gas For Europe
Because of the never before seen and almost impossible to solve problem of climate change,fracking is happening all over the environmental movement.
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News Round-Up: July 17, 2012 | Stuart H. Smith
By admin
A selection of today's headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster: New NRDC Fact Sheet Documents How FrackingCan Contaminate Drinking Water Sources ...
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1 new result for fracking
Fracking's footprint on Pennsylvania forests
As the natural gas extraction process known as fracking surges across Pennsylvania, scientists are trying to understand what the short- and long-term ...
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Billionaire Father Of Fracking Says Government Must Step Up Regulation
Forbes
So it was surprising to hear Mitchell say yesterday that he is in favor of more government regulation of fracking. “The administration is trying to tighten up controls,” he told me. “I think It's a good idea. They should have very strict controls. The Department of ...
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The hidden health risks of fracking
Baltimore Sun
Imagine you are a nurse working in an emergency room, and a worker on a gas fracking well comes in covered in chemicals used in the drilling process. You call the gas company to find out what chemicals are being used to help in your assessment of ...
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Alec Baldwin's fracking hyprocrisy
New York Post (blog)
After all, it is Baldwin's name that appears first among the list of "artists against fracking," which is a group devoted to denying other private property owners the same rights Baldwin is demanding for himself, namely the right to use their property as they see fit ...
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Fracking makes waves in Lancashire
Financial Times
First there was an earthquake. Then explosions boomed across the rolling Lancashire countryside. And that was before any shale gas had been commercially exploited. It is not surprising, therefore, that fracking has proved controversial along the retirement ...
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Fracking tour fails to sway Quebec farmers
Victoria Times Colonist
Popular support for fracking, which involves pumping a mixture of water, sand and other chemicals deep underground at high pressure to fracture rocks and access the resources trapped inside, is lower in Quebec than anywhere else in Canada. Photograph ...
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NY Chefs Unite Against Fracking, Hold July 26 Fundraiser at Brooklyn Winery
Huffington Post (blog)
Governor Andrew Cuomo has a decision to make, whether to open New York State to the process of fracking, and chefs in New York are uniting in opposition. It's not often that chefs get political, but the issue of fracking has caused such luminaries as Mario ...
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State Senate questions ethics of DEC at fracking hearing
Examiner.com
was an important aspect of Senator Avella's hearing yesterday, which followed the recent discovery of a “collusion” between DEC and the fracking industry. Thomas Cluderay of the Environmental Working Group, a national nonprofit (EWG, not to be confused ...
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Letter: A firm fracking plan is needed
Albany Times Union
Even in specified counties that contain Marcellus Shale where drilling would be allowed there would be no drilling in towns that have instituted a ban or moratorium on fracking. Yet it's clear that aquifer boundaries do not correspond with the artificial political or ...
BHP hit with another fracking fracas in US courts
Sydney Morning Herald
BHP and other energy companies in eastern Arkansas have been peppered with class actions in the past year as residents claim the injection of liquids into underground shale formations, a process known as fracking, has caused tremors and damaged the ...
The Livingston County News
Either the industry will be allowed to pump millions of gallons of fracking chemicals into the ground, or they won't. Likewise, either Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state Department of Environmental Conservation respect the right of home rule or they don't.
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Portage fracking moratorium delayed
Dansville-Genesee Country Express (blog)
Portage town officials are among the few remaining towns in Livingston County with hydrofracking a moratorium still pending. The board meets the second Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the at the highway department building.
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Local fracking opponents decry spill in Fowler
Warren Tribune Chronicle
WARREN - A small group of opponents to hydraulic fracturing and injection wells in Trumbull County took their concerns over a recent brine water spill in Fowler to county commissioners Wednesday. Meanwhile, county Engineer Randy Smith at the same ...
Here's The Story Of A Public College's Fracking Dilemma
Business Insider
On the other are the university's commitment to sustainability and the community's opposition to "fracking," the term that describes the way drillers break the rock to get at the gas. Critics of the industry say colleges are too eager to accommodatefracking ...
Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon Sing Anti-Fracking Song on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'
NewsBusters (blog)
The left claims that hydraulic fracturing, more commonly know as fracking, contaminated the water in Pennsylvania and Colorado, despite University of Texas at Austin researchers who found “no evidence” of that. Small town support for fracking is rarely talked ...
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'Green' fracking fluids add to global debate
Business Day
But "green" fracking fluids — in essence partly biodegradable or environmentally friendly — have not yet entered into the equation in SA, where several multinational companies have applied to test the country's large untapped shale gas resources, estimated ...
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Noisy bars, gardens, fracking, housing top bill at EV town hall
The Villager
BY LESLEY SUSSMAN | It was “open mic night” at the Tompkins Square Library on Tuesday, but the more than 100 local residents who packed the “East Village Town Hall” meeting that was held there were not interested in reading poetry or performing music ...
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Stuff.co.nz
A landmark British investigation into fracking has concluded that the controversial practice is safe with little risk to health and the environment. The review, by the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, says fracking can be managed effectively ...
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Karoo fracking report delayed, promised in August
Business Day
A task team report on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas in the Karoo will now be released in August. Answering questions during Thursday's post-Cabinet media briefing, Cabinet spokesman Jimmy Manyi apologised for the delay, as the report ...
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Woodstock bans activities tied to fracking
Kingston Daily Freeman
The unanimous approval Tuesday night followed a public hearing that drew six speakers, all of whom said the zoning amendment was needed to discourage the process known as hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracking or fracking. “No, we're not going to be ...
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North Dakota's Fracking Boom Brings Complications With It
StateImpact Pennsylvania
In North Dakota's Bakken, they're fracking for oil. North Dakota's fracking boom is increasing domestic oil production — it's now responsible for one in ten domestic barrels produced. Soon, some of that oil will be processed at Sunoco's Philadelphia refinery.
House of Representatives trying to stop new fracking rules
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
In the case of the BLM's proposed fracking rule, agency analysis concluded that the proposal would not have negative economic impact and, as my colleague Briana Mordick points out in her blog, recent oil and gas industry economic analysis used ...
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Fracking in Alaska: Shale oil exploration under way on North Slope
Alaska Dispatch
It's a fracking miracle: Wildcatters are exploring Alaska's deep underground formations, hoping to strike it big while igniting a shale-extracted oil-and-gas boom. Great Bear Petroleum, a small Austin, Texas, oil company that in recent years has invested heavily ...
Shell all set to spend R1.6bn on fracking
Fin24
Johannesburg - Shell has indicated it is likely to spend about R1.6bn on the exploration of shale gas in the Karoo as cabinet looks set to give the green light to the removal of the fracking moratorium, according to an article in Business Report. Shell SA general ...
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County plan wouldn't allow water sale for fracking
Longmont Daily Times-Call
At Wednesday's meeting, attended by more than 40 people, planning commissioners stopped far short of recommending that the county's comprehensive plan include a permanent ban on oil and gas drilling in general -- or at least a prohibition of "fracking," in ...
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Sacramento to host California's final fracking workshop
Los Angeles Times
Environmentalists are planning a rally to step up pressure for a statewide moratorium on "fracking," which involves injecting chemical-laced water and sand deep into the ground to tap oil. Previous meetings in Culver City and Ventura attracted ...
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Supervisors Hope to Further Examine 'Fracking' Act Tonight
Patch.com
During both the June 7 and July 5 meetings, Supervisor George DeVault was the most vocally opposed to Act 13, finding fault with it on two fronts – the way it is “gutting local government” and what a type of natural gas drilling commonly known as “fracking” ...
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TruthLand: The Truth on Fracking
WBOY-TV
About 30 People came out to the Virginia Thomas Law Center for the Performing Arts at West Virginia Wesleyan on Wednesday evening to see "TruthLand." TruthLand is a documentary by a Pennsylvania woman who is a mother, grandmother, teacher, and ...
Protesters loud and clear on fracking
Blackpool Gazette
The Gathering on the Green was organised by Residents Action Against FyldeFracking (RAFF) – alongside Frack Free Fylde and Ribble Estuary Against Fracking(REAF) – and Tina Rothery, from RAFF, said the turn-out showed the level of public concern.
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13 new results for fracking
By Jim Holstun
And who can forget the sequel, The Empire Fracks Back, when the Emperor injected millions of gallons of fracking fluid into Anderaan, Princess Leia's home world, contaminating the water supply and creating artificial earthquakes?
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Pennsylvania fracking moratorium:Only for the 1% » In the U.S. ...
By Betsey Piette
Philadelphia — With the stroke of a pen, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett exempted the state's wealthiest counties from the direct impact of natural gas drilling. The controversial process of hydraulic fracturing — fracking — has taken a heavy ...
Workers World
Industry fracking leader supports more government regulations ...
By Amy Mall
George Mitchell, an oil and gas industry leader widely thought to have pioneered the use of frackingto tap into shale formations, was recently interviewed by Forbes Magazine about the regulation offracking. Among his quotes:
Switchboard, from NRDC › Amy...
Rubblebucket joins Artists Against Fracking on Jimmy Kimmel Live ...
By spear
Artists Against Fracking is an initiative of musicians, actors and other celebrities to build awareness of the destructive effects of fracking. Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon launched Artists Against Frackingand appeared on Late Night with Jimmy ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
Can fracking contaminate drinking water? Mutiny Radio
By lachupacabra
Last year his team claimed drinking wells close to fracking sites in Pennsylvania were contaminated with methane – perhaps from fracking – a finding that was met with a storm of criticism. Now Vengosh claims more evidence of possible ...
Mutiny Radio
Fracking leads to air and water pollution
By TheLCN staff
How many chemicals will get into our air from the wastes stored in the waste lagoons? Will they pop out like soda when you open a bottle?
Livingston County News
Green Activists Isolated As Obama Backs Fracking | JunkScience.com
By Editor
The practice popularly called “fracking,” regionally concentrated so far in eastern Ohio and neighboring Pennsylvania, involves ground injections of chemically treated fluids at high pressure to fracture shale deposits and free oil and natural ...
JunkScience.com
British Inquiry Clears Fracking | Stuff.co.nz
By Rob Maetzig and Helen Harvey
A landmark British investigation into fracking has concluded that the controversial practice is safe with little risk to health and the environment.
Stuff.co.nz - Taranaki Daily News
Bloomberg Businessweek targets Mormons, Fracking, Income ...
By mikeparanzino (Diary)
As Democrats hyperactively promote a Bloomberg Businessweek blog post today musing that massive stock losses in 2009 theoretically could have eliminated Mitt.
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Fracking growlers! | Community Beer Works
By Dan
Now then, let's talk about fracking. No, I'm not trying to bring up how you should really watch the Battlestar Galactica reboot if you haven't (although you definitely should), and I wouldn't hold it against you if you thought that because I was very ...
Community Beer Works
Top 10 Reasons Why Fracking is “Fracked Up” - Scaling Green
By Lowell F.
Clearly, there are many reasons not to like hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Here are our Top 10 for your reading pleasure and (hopefully) edification. It contaminates our water supplies. As ProPublica reported in late June 2012, “When ...
Scaling Green
Industry fracking leader supports more government regulations ...
By NRDC Switchboard
Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C.: George Mitchell, an oil and gas industry leader widely thought to have pioneered the use of fracking to tap into shale formations, was recently interviewed by Forbes Magazine about the ...
SierraActivist
Video: Wildass Roadblock and Treesit Shut Down Fracking Rig - Blogs
By EF! J Collective
Video: Wildass Roadblock and Treesit Shut Down Fracking Rig. 19 Jul. May this be the first in a series of fracking rig shut downs and may the next ones last years, till the damn things come down. Occupy the frackers.
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The Fight Over Fracking in Colorado's North Fork Valley ...
The creek above Paonia is slowing to a trickle in July's heat, the watershed as dry as those that recently burned for two weeks outside Colorado Springs. But in ...
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Possible Damage From "Fracking" Not Covered By Standard ...
In case you were wondering, insurance policies for homes and commercial properties probably don't cover any damage that might be caused by "fracking" – a ...
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Public Fear Over Fracking Is Unjustified | RealClearScience
IN FOLKLORE THE will-o'-the-wisp, a mysterious light that lures travellers away from paths into dangerous marshlands, was thought to be the embodiment of ...
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Here's Who's Most Afraid of Fracking | Rodale News
Fracking and insurance don't mix, one major player in the industry says.
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Fracking Insurance: Winners and Loosers
Huffington Post (blog)
The additional hazards associated with gas well exploration and the use of hydro-frackingtechniques used in gas well[s], production and the resultant increase in infrastructure such as well pads, pipelines and roads to service the wells have increased the ...
Fracking regulations, a legal battle in Pennsylvania
VOXXI (blog)
One year after Governor Tom Corbett's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission published its 136 page Final Report—July 22, 2011—with 96 recommendations to “develop a comprehensive, strategic proposal for the responsible and environmentally sound ...
After first-half ambush, US drillers find respite in guar wars
Reuters
N), North America's third-largest fracking-services provider, said on Friday. FTS International, another top oil-service company in North America, had pegged the second-quarter peak at $14 a pound. The price jump caused earnings for oil services companies ...
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After first-half ambush, drillers find respite in guar wars
Reuters
Guar spiked to $12 per pound in the second quarter but has since dropped to $5, Baker Hughes, North America's third-largest fracking-services provider, said on Friday. FTS International, another top oil-service company in North America, had pegged the ...
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Thanks in Good Measure to Fracking U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down 9 ...
Reason Online (blog)
The Institute for Energy Research, a generally free market think tank that focuses on energy policy, notes that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are down 9.1 percent below their 2007 peak. Why? The sluggish economy has reduced demand for energy; high oil ...
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After first-half surge, U.S. drillers find respite in guar wars
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas drillers are finally catching a break from the surging cost of a tiny seed at the heart of the nation's oil and gas bonanza. After a surprise three-fold price surge in the first five months of 2012, which roiled earnings for oil ...
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Pay attention to fracking debate
Chillicothe Gazette
The majority of the drilling and fracking activity in the state currently is centered around Carroll County, but we know it's only a matter of time before we find ourselves in the same situation as Pennsylvania. Officials with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. have said ...
Link found between fracking and low birth weight
Mother Nature Network (blog)
The research, led by Elaine L. Hill, a Cornell University doctoral candidate, looked at birth measures such as birth weight and premature birth for newborn babies born in Pennsylvania from 2003 (before fracking began) to 2010. The study evaluated records for ...
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Talking About Fracking and Its Dangerous Effects On Local Farms With Chef ...
Papermag
As it stands, Governor Andrew Cuomo is pursuing a plan to allow fracking of the Marcellus region, a shale formation that stretches across 28 counties of New York State near the Pennsylvania border. In case you haven't seen Josh Fox's documentary Gasland ...
Back story on the fracking vote
Greensboro News & Record (blog)
One of the questions folks have had about the craziness surounding the legislature's veto override on the fracking bill has been why Speaker of the House Thom Tillis would have called for a vote without knowing he had the votes he needed, thus requiring ...
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Link between low birth rate and fracking says new research
Current TV
New research suggests the health of newborn babies is adversely affected in areas close to sites undertaking natural gas extraction by way of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking; the method of obtaining natural gas by blasting shale with a solution of water and ...
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WATCH: David Letterman Goes On An Epic Rant Against Fracking And The ...
Business Insider
Late Show host David Letterman went on an epic anti-fracking rant Wednesday evening, calling out "greedy oil and gas companies" for "injecting highly toxic and carcinogenic chemicals" into the ground. He's the latest celebrity to take issue with the boom in ...
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Fracking safe, claims UK science body
New Zealand Herald
The controversial oil and gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", is capable of being managed sustainably and without serious risk of groundwater contamination or inducing damaging earthquakes, the Royal Society has found.
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Woodstock approves fracking prohibition
Times Herald-Record
On Tuesday night, the Woodstock Town Board voted unanimously to change its zoning to outlaw the controversial natural gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and virtually anything to do with the storage, treatment or disposal of waste ...
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France Has No Plans to Review Fracking Ban, Energy Minister Says
Bloomberg
The French government currently has no plans to lift a ban on hydraulic fracturing, known asfracking, the technique used to extract gas and oil from shale rock, Environment and Energy Minister Delphine Batho said in an interview with radio station RMC today ...
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Anti Fracking campaign to continue
virtual-lancaster (blog)
Campaigners against 'fracking' have vowed to continue their fight, despite court judgements against some and support for the technology from... Last chance to air the pros and cons of Link Road? After a week of “Issue Specific” hearings into the proposed ...
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France sticks to 'fracking' ban
The Australian
"The government clearly and distinctly maintains the ban on exploiting shale gas because nowhere in the world has it been proven that this exploitation can be done without significant environmental damage and important health risks," Batho told BFMTV.
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Are the Frackers Force-Feeding Us Poisonous Water or Are We Drinking the ...
Politicker
Each speaker, such as Josh Fox, the director of anti-fracking films Gasland and The Sky is Pink, kept repeating the same message: fracking isn't safe and never will be; the powerful oil and natural gas companies are ignoring concrete, scientific evidence and ...
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Stock and Land
BHP acquired Chesapeake's assets in early 2011. Disputes over royalties contracts are not new in the fracking industry, but the Browns want their case widened to include other landowners in Arkansas whose leases have similar terms. BHP said it hoped the ...
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Fracking tour fails to sway farmers
Regina Leader-Post
Shown what life next to extensive natural gas development would be like, a group of farmers from Quebec remains unconvinced that it's for them. Wednesday marked the end of a three-day tour in which a group of 12 farmers, politicians and rural residents ...
David Letterman: Fracking Is Ruining America
Yidio TV & Movie News
With its adoption as a practice increasing despite acknowledgement of environmental risks rising proportionally, Nationwide Insurance recently set a precedent by becoming the first U.S. insurer that refuses to cover damages sustained due to frackingbecause ...
Upper Milford Supervisors say 'Fracking' law Must Go
Patch.com
Opponents of Act 13 typically list the relatively unknown environmental dangers of fracking as well as the way the state law usurps the zoning rights of local governments as their primary reasons for seeking its repeal. In an effort to learn more about Act 13 ...
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OEC educational forum offers views on fracking
Youngstown Vindicator
Janet Reeves, a retired Mahoning Valley nurse, started her talk about fracking Thursday by stating the issue is something that causes stress, makes people anxious and sometimes even angry. The crowd at the Ohio Environmental Council (OEC) event ...
Halliburton's Earnings Could Be Hit By Low Gas Prices And Rising Costs
Forbes
Oilfield services providers have been hit by the rising cost of gaur, which is used in the preparation of fracking fluid. The industry has also been impacted by lower exploration in natural gas plays because of a sharp drop in the commodity's price in the U.S. ...
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Link Between Low Birth Weight and Fracking, Says New Research
The Epoch Times
(L-R) Senators Liz Krueger, Bill Perkins, Tony Avella, and Joseph Addabbo Jr. listen to Thomas Cluderay of Environmental Working Group testify at a forum on fracking in Manhattan on Wednesday, July 18. (Kristen Meriwether/The Epoch Times) ...
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David Letterman On Fracking: 'We're Screwed' (VIDEO)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
On Wednesday night's "Late Show," host David Letterman took several minutes to share his thoughts on fracking. Scolding the "greedy oil and gas companies of this country," Letterman said, "Ladies and gentlemen, we're screwed."
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By rss@dailykos.com (NorenforSenate)
I take the attempts to do fracking type gas drilling seriously. I get my drinking water from Cayuga Lake and aim to keep it clean and safe. An aggregate of $23 million in lobbying was spent on Pennsylvania state officials and candidates by the ...
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Friday fracking video | BlueNC
By scharrison
Fracking is taking over Europe as well. I can only believe this is insanity on a massive scale. China is a full blown environmental catastrophe in their race to become more like Americans. Capitalism is killing us. Progressives are the true ...
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Christopher Helman: Billionaire Father Of Fracking Says ...
By Editor
So it was surprising to hear Mitchell say yesterday that he is in favor of more government regulation of fracking. “The administration is trying to tighten up controls,” he told me. “I think It's a good idea. They should have very strict controls.
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Friday Finds: The Risky Business of Fracking | Earthjustice
By Jessica Knoblauch
The public safety of New Yorkers is at stake as fracking threatens drinking water supplies for millions. Explore FAQs and blog posts about gas drilling in New York State, and learn how you can help safeguard your water supply. See: A New ...
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New Findings Blast Industry Arguments against Fracking-Related ...
By mpeters
It looks like every day more and more cracks are appearing in the stock oil and gas industry argument about fracking-related water contamination. For those who haven't heard it before, the standard line goes something like this: fracking ...
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State Senator Calls for Gov to Meet with Fracking Critics | Environment
By cristian@gothamgazette.com (Kamelia Kilawan)
At a forum on Wednesday, Avella said he thought the governor and the state's environmental regulatory agency are "moving rather quickly” on a decision to allow the controversial form of natural gas drilling - also known as fracking – in New ...
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Scaling Green » Blog Archive » Father of Fracking: “They should ...
By Lowell F.
Well, well, well, apparently all that money spent by the natural gas “fracking” industry to convince people that what they do is safe, and not in need of any further regulation, isn't working. Going to see George Phydias Mitchell feels kind of like a ...
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Lights, Cameras…Fracking! | Blog | Energy Tomorrow
For lots of people in the Marcellus Shale portions of Pennsylvania, energy from fracking is helping them alter the courses of their lives. And it could help even more if New York state approves hydraulic fracturing on some scale. “Empire State ...
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Earth First! blockade shuts down frack site in PA state forest ...
By svef!
Although some of us have been organizing against fracking for years, we began working to create the idea of Occupy Well Street several months ago, hoping to work with the growing public awareness of social movements and direct action, ...
Occupy Well Street, Stop Fracking!
Will the US export fracking to the rest of the world?
Washington Post (blog)
Okay, that's not an entirely new invention. As T. Boone Pickens has pointed out, people have been using pressurized fluid to split open rocks underground since the 1940s. But it wasn't until very recently that the U.S. natural gas industry, with support from the ...
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Fracking: Legal, but still not permitted
Durham Herald Sun (blog)
By Ruth Samuelson Herald-Sun guest columnist. Two big misconceptions persist regarding the bill adopted recently by the state legislature that legalized hydraulic fracturing – also known as “fracking” – as a means of extracting natural gas in North Carolina.
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No evidence supports a connection between fracking and earthquakes
Baltimore Sun (blog)
11:00 a.m. EDT, July 21, 2012. The conclusions of geological experts on the relationship betweenfracking and earthquakes are much clearer than letter writer Barbara McNamara suggests ("Fracking is neither safe nor harmless to the environment," July 16).
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Greens renew push for ban on fracking
Stuff.co.nz
The Green Party has reignited its campaign for an urgent nationwide moratorium on fracking, citing documents they say highlight critical oversights in the monitoring of the controversial oil and gas industry technique. Energy spokesman Gareth Hughes ...
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Longmont fracking foes submit petitions for proposed ballot measure
Longmont Daily Times-Call
LONGMONT -- Supporters of an anti-fracking charter amendment turned in their petitions to the Longmont City Clerk on Friday, submitting more than 8200 signatures. If at least 5704 of those names are ruled valid, the measure would go to the Nov. 6 ballot.
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David Letterman's Rant On Fracking
Daily Markets (blog)
Watch David Letterman's two-minute rant above on the “greedy oil and gas companies of this country” who are trying “to squeeze every little last ounce of oil and gas out of previously pumped wells by injecting the substrata of our planet with highly toxic, ...
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TC Line: Vote out the 'fracking bunch'
Longmont Daily Times-Call
Life goes on, and pretty soon we can vote that fracking bunch out of office. Take notes, people. Swampy park. We went to the concert at Roosevelt Park Tuesday night, and we were very disappointed that it was like walking through a swamp. They had watered ...
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More to drilling than just fracking
Aspen Times
Presuming that Governor John Hickenlooper is right and the natural-gas business is a blessing for Colorado and that fracking is well controlled, there is a side of this industry that needs serious new state control. That is the extraction of sand and gravel for ...
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Concerned citizens protest Lubbock fracking contract
KCBD-TV
They say the City of Lubbock has put the local environment at risk by agreeing to "fracking" - hydraulic fracturing - on city-owned property. Fracking is a process of cracking the bedrock underground to increase the production of oil and gas wells. The cracks ...
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Fracking Pioneer: The Government Should Tighten Controls
Business Insider
Forbes' energy writer Chris Helman got an exclusive interview with George Phydias Mitchell, generally regarded as the inventor of modern hydraulic fracturing of shale rock. He told Helman that he definitely thinks the government needs to be involved in ...
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North's environmental institute calls for impact assessments on fracking
Irish Times
While it was not yet clear what the downsides of fracking might be, he warned that the chemicals used “could contaminate freshwater drinking supplies” and that there were “well-documented concerns that drilling and extraction have led to minor earthquakes”.
Drug Cartels Exploit Fracking on Texas-Mexico Border
AllGov
Drug Cartels Exploit Fracking on Texas-Mexico Border Saturday, July 21, 2012. Drug Cartels Exploit Fracking on Texas-Mexico Border. (photo: Eagle Ford Shale Blog). Texas' obsession with underground drilling for natural gas has created a giant gap in the ...
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'We're Screwed': David Letterman Crushes Fracking in an Epic Rant [Video]
EnergyBoom
For nearly two minutes, Letterman ranted about fracking and its potentially disastrous environmental effects. In their effort to "suck every last ounce of oil and gas," Letterman chastizeed oil and gas companies for the public health threat they're creating: ...
Beaver Township Trying to Get Signatures for Home Rule
WYTV
Supporters said it gives residents and township officials more local authority to protect certain rights, like individual property rights. Julia Fuhrman Davis is one of the driving forces behind the petition and added that it is a response to fracking. "I want to protect ...
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Natural Gas: A Bridge to a Low-Carbon Future or Not?
Huffington Post
Much of this debate centers around the practice of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking), techniques that have opened vast reserves of shale gas for exploitation but have also sounded alarm bells for many because of concerns about fracking's ...
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Shale oil bonanza to cost refiners billions
The News International
The world's average crude oil barrel is becoming lighter as new hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” technology and deep horizontal drilling extracts very high quality hydrocarbons. New US shale provinces are now pumping more than a million barrels per day ...
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Businesses, workers feel lull of natural gas glut
Shreveport Times
In Bossier City, Key Energy district manager Buddy Terry said there's hardly enough work haulingfracking water to go around. “The only thing that's going to help anyone is the price of natural gas going back up. “We had to make a change. Our yard wasn't ...
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Oil industry should be nationalized
Nanaimo News Bulletin
What 'Big Oil' in Alberta is exploiting is bitumen and whether you call it 'oil' or 'tar', it's hard to deny that current policy (including 'fracking') is causing some pretty serious environmental consequences, whatever the economic advantages may be. Perhaps it's ...
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AIDS rise in Uganda shows need for more resources
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Baker Hughes Rises After Profit Beat Estimates: Dallas Mover
Businessweek
Baker Hughes has been working on reducing costs and improving utilization in its hydraulic-fracturing business in North America after customers shifted from natural-gas basins to oil fields. The company in the past has attributed much of its fracking-business ...
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IPO market heats up after Facebook freeze
Huffington Post
... Waldo Canyon Fire Soil Burned So Severely It's Like A 'Moonscape' 70 · Barge Sinks Off Michigan Coast, Spills Unknown Amount Of Diesel Fuel 242 · WATCH: Letterman Goes OnFracking Rant Against 'Greedy Oil And Gas Companies' 827 · LOOK: Shell ...
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Aereo Threatens Broadcasters By Streaming Network TV Online
Huffington Post
WATCH: Letterman Goes On Fracking Rant Against 'Greedy Oil And Gas Companies' 1k · WATCH: Millions Of Mysterious Creatures Wash Ashore On Hawaii Beaches In Rare Event 978 · Waldo Canyon Fire Soil Burned So Severely It's Like A 'Moonscape' 70 ...
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News Roundup: Dole, OriginOil, Kennedy-Wilson
Los Angeles Business Journal
NEW UNIT: OriginOil Inc., which has developed a process to convert algae into fuel, announced the formation of a separate business unit for cleaning up water used in fracking. The Los Angeles company said its algae-based technology should help reduce ...
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Nasdaq ups ante in Facebook reimbursement plan
Huffington Post
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Longview News-Journal
It pumps high-pressure fluids underground to unlock oil and natural gas in a process called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” It helps companies evaluate how much oil sits in underground reservoirs, and Schlumberger provides drill bits, sensors, software and ...
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The U.S. Should Import Gun Control from China
Business Insider
Fracking Pioneer: The Government Should Tighten Controls · Politics · Politics · Defense · World · Law & Order · OBAMA: 'We May Never Understand What Leads Somebody To Terrorize Their Fellow Human Beings' · OBAMA: 'We May Never Understand ...
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Most US states trail pre-recession job levels
Huffington Post
Drillers have learned how to access previously unavailable oil reserves using a process known as hydraulic fracturing or "fracking." The number of oil wells in North Dakota has doubled in the past five years, and oil production has increased fivefold.
"Dramatic" New Maya Temple Found, Covered With Giant Faces
National Geographic
Natural Underground Pathways and Fracking. A new paper explores the natural pathways that may exist between shale formations and the aquifers that provide drinking water. ScienceBlogs Picks. One Does Not Simply “Believe” in Dark Energy… One Does ...
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US Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Declining
Canada Free Press
[ia] Plunge in CO2 Output due to Natural Gas Fracking, July 17, 2012. [ii] Energy Tribune, Irony of Ironies: Europe Switches to Coal as U.S. Gas Glut Reduces Emissions, July 12, 2012. [iii] Energy Information Administration, World Shale Gas Resources: An ...
Pennsylvania Bill Would Require Pre-Drill Water Quality Testing
NGI's Shale Daily (subscription)
A longtime foe of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Pennsylvania General Assembly has introduced a bill that would require companies applying for permits to drill Marcellus Shale natural gas wells to conduct pre-drill water quality tests for nearby ...
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At Your Service: League of Women Voters of Berks County
Reading Eagle
Accordingly, we participate in voter registration drives, sponsor candidate forums, publish voter guides and hold public meetings and discussions on important issues like gerrymandering, hydraulicfracking and gender equality. History: The League of Women ...
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10 new results for fracking
Carbon emissions down thanks to… fracking « Hot Air
By Jazz Shaw
So… all of that evil fracking and how it's going to destroy the environment you were going on and on about? Is it any wonder that you haven't heard a peep about this out of the current administration or the armies of climate change enthusiasts ...
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Earth-like Planet: More on "fracking"
By Charles Carrigan
This article high-lights one of the points I was making yesterday - "fracking" and "irresponsiblefracking" are not the same thing. It is the latter that we need to eliminate. The article gives some good background on the development of modern ...
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CARPE DIEM: David Letterman's Rant on Fracking
By Mark J. Perry
David Letterman's Rant on Fracking. Watch David Letterman's two-minute rant above on the "greedy oil and gas companies of this country" who are trying "to squeeze every little last ounce of oil and gas out of previously pumped wells by ...
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Actually, Fracking Can Be Done Safely Without Poisoning Our ...
By William Wei
Everyone's worried that the chemicals used in fracking could poison our drinking water. However, energy expert Michael Levi tells us that fracking can actually be done safely without contaminating anyone's drinking water. Michael Levi, who is ...
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Bay Ridge Journal: New York Chefs Against Fracking
By Kip
What do star chefs Mario Batali, Elizabeth Falkner, Chris Santos, Amanda Freitag and Michael Laiskonis have in common? They all oppose the Cuomo administration's plan to permit the extreme gas drilling method known as hydrofracking ...
Bay Ridge Journal
The Sky is Pink – Anti-Fracking Film by Gasland's Josh Fox ...
By documentary.net staff
An emergency short film from Josh Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of GASLAND addressing the urgent crisis of drilling and fracking in New York state.
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Fracking is safe with strong regulation, says UK's top science body ...
The controversial oil and gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", is capable of being managed sustainably and without serious risk of groundwater contamination or inducing damaging earthquakes, the Royal ...
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Natural Gas: A Bridge to a Low-Carbon Future or Not? — A blog on ...
A boom in natural gas activity, thanks in large part to fracking advances, has prompted the question: Is natural gas the way to transition between fossil fuels and renewables? Especially vis-a-vis the climate? It's an ongoing debate in science ...
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67 Pennsylvania Communities Sue State over Unconstitutional ...
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For Immediate Release July 19, 2012 Contact: Tracy Carluccio, Deputy Director, Delaware Riverkeeper Network (office): 215-369-1188 x104 (mobile):
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Fracking fuels energy debate | Science News for Kids
The hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of deep shale deposits is unearthing a lot of natural gas — and controversy.
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Can fracking pollute water? Study tries to answer - US news - MSNBC
A new study being done by the Department of Energy may provide some of the first solid answers to a controversial question: Can gas drilling fluids migrate and ...
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