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Fracking rules may be released 'any day now'
Times Herald-Record
The other day, Pennsylvania's Tom Shepstone, a spokesman for the natural-gas industry, said "any day now." In fact, he said he was hoping that the regulations allowing the horizontal gas-extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, would be ...
Long fight over fracking still divides Pa. town
Philadelphia Inquirer
Kemble has festooned his yard with about three dozen anti-fracking signs, as well as a 40-foot billboard propped up against a mobile home. Kemble, 57, has refused to sign a settlement with Cabot, although most of the litigants have recently come to ...
Strictly Business: Fracking issue divides communities near and far
Elmira Star-Gazette
Over the past four years, rising commodity prices and the new fracking technology brought drilling in with a vengeance. Jobs became plentiful. Drilling companies bought their way into the residents' hearts. They donated money to local sports teams and ...
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Fracking fears under spotlight
West Sussex County Times
But are the fears justified? Are the consequences of fracking unpredictable and the risks too great or are those risks well known and manageable? Would there be a significant benefit to the UK economy with greater security of energy supplies? And would ...
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Committee votes to keep an eye on fracking
Wanganui Chronicle
It's not often that councillors Michael Laws and Rob Vinsen are on the same side of a debate, but that's what happened during a split vote on the subject of fracking during last week's meeting of the Wanganui District Council's Community and ...
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Historical marker commemorates Breman's oil boom
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
People hoping to strike it rich flooded the area, and using an early form of fracking — they dropped nitroglycerin down a well — individuals, companies and the area profited. Although oil remains as an important “fiber of the village,” Terry Borah, a ...
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AES out at Somerset plant, facility now run by Upstate Power
Niagara Gazette
The group talked about “fracking,” a controversial way to get natural gas from deep underground sources. Pennsylvania profited but has environmental problems. New York state proponents say they will do fracking the right way, without polluting the water.
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North Dakota's Oil Boom, or the Price of Prosperity
First Coast News
North Dakota, population 780,000 and counting, is undergoing one of the biggest oil booms in US history, thanks largely to the drilling technique known as fracking that has put billions of barrels of oil within reach. But growth comes at a price.
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NWT faces ripple effect of oil boom
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Natural gas development has been halted in Quebec while the province weighs the pros and cons offracking. Industry paid for that tour, though a few local politicians who participated covered their own costs. The Northwest Territories' trip included ...
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Media Coverage Lacking Until it Shows What Abortion Really Is
LifeNews.com
As an example, let's take the issue of fracking. Strong feelings exist on both sides of this issue. Yet, mention the word, and some educated people may say, “Huh?” That would explain why, for instance, a Washington Post article on the subject, in its ...
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Industrial water in high demand in North Dakota
In-Forum
Courtesy North Dakota Water Commission. FARGO – The oil boom's thirst for “fracking” fluids fuels a thriving market for water that has become an industry with yearly sales estimated at between $45 million to $120 million. Consider that it takes several ...
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Anti-fracking bylaws meeting to be held Tuesday
Truro Daily News
TATAMAGOUCHE - A meeting to discuss anti-fracking bylaws will take place on Tuesday in Tatamagouche. The gathering will be held at the Tatamagouche Centre at 7 p.m. with the discussion surrounding ideas for local solutions to a global problem.
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Bloomberg putting money in fracking
NWAOnline (subscription)
Bloomberg putting money in fracking. By THE NEW YORK TIMES. Posted: August 26, 2012 at 4:32 a.m.. Print item; E-mail · Share · Tweet. After giving away a chunk of his personal fortune to the cause of eliminating coal-fired power plants, Mayor Michael ...
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ReporterHerald.com
This can only be done through studying what zoning and environmental regulations we can legally legislate and enforce. In all probability this must be done before the 175-foot-tall drilling rigs and subsequent 3-5 acre fracking well pad sites with VOC ...
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Forestburgh will hold hearing on gas-drilling ban
Times Herald-Record
FORESTBURGH – The Town of Forestburgh will hold a public hearing Tuesday on a local law that would ban natural-gas drilling, or fracking. The hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 332 King Road in Forestburgh. In July, the Town of Highland ...
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Humans extinct? Probably not, but
Democratic Underground
... aquifer draw-downs and poisoning with fracking chemicals, oceans poisoned by oil spills and dispersants, ocean dead zones caused by fertilizer runoff, ocean water acidification and reef destruction due to CO2 absorption, make for a win in the argument?
PhillyDeals: PhillyDeals: Taxpayers lose when city pays more for 'lowest' bid
Philadelphia Inquirer
Long fight over fracking still divides Pa. town · He sees potential in Divine Lorraine · Job lag is one more Revel woe. PHILLY.COM's TOP FIVE PICKS. A charity's loss, and its cry for legal help · Pa. reviewing probation policies after cop killing ...
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Bay Ridge Journal: Bloomberg Backs Fracking
By Kip
As New Yorkers mobilize statewide against the extreme gas extraction method known as hydrofracking or "fracking", New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in a glowing Washington Post op-ed on Friday, touted fracking's virtues -- it isn't ...
Bay Ridge Journal
Mayor Bloomberg, Fracker-in-Chief? - The Village Voice Blogs
By John Surico
With a combination of horizontal drilling and something known as hydraulic fracturing, Mitchell pioneered the use of 'fracking' - a practice that pumps toxic chemicals into the Earth to simply push out the goods. Soon enough, gas companies ...
Runnin' Scared
Knuckledraggin My Life Away: Must be all that fracking over in North ...
By wirecutter
Must be all that fracking over in North Dakota..... EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) – People from all over El Dorado County (California) say they're hearing loud booms several times a week, but there are many theories on what is causing them.
Knuckledraggin My Life Away
Baltimore Nonviolence Center: Anti-Fracking Protesters Confront ...
By Max Obuszewski
Anti-Fracking Protesters Confront Pennsylvania Gov During Kayaking PR Trip on Endangered River August 24, 2012. At just after 8 am on Thursday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett got into a blue kayak in Beach Lake, Pa to begin a 15 mile ...
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Long fight over fracking still divides Pa. town - Philadelphia ...
From: Philly.com News - 1:51am - August 26, 2012. DIMOCK, Pa. - More than three years after residents in this Susquehanna County town complained that Marcellus Shale natural gas development polluted their private water wells, the ...
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No fracking rush in New York in 2012 or 2013 or ? | Shaleshock Media
By Chip Northrup
Not (m)any horizontal shale gas wells in New York in 2012, 2013, or ? because the economics are not there and the SGEIS will be DOA and head straight to court Related Posts SliderRelated PostsFracking Shale In New York Horizontal ...
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The Broadside » The Fracking of Rachel Carson | Sandra ...
By Sharon
Sandra Steingraber 1. Rachel Carson, the ecologist who kicked the hornet's nest, wrote a book that needed no subtitle. Published fifty years ago this September, Silent Spring rocketed to the top of the bestseller list, prompted a meeting with ...
The Broadside
Fracking in the USA | Starting Out London
By Jobs
The 3-way balancing act in between the atmosphere, job growth and power self sufficiency are all going to play out in earnest here in Ohio for the duration of the coming elections. The key reason for the developing interest in our State is the ...
Starting Out London
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New York State close to deciding on fracking - CBS News
CBS Evening News: New York State close to deciding on fracking - CBS News has learned that New York is close to making a decision about fracking; ...
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Fracking Victims Kept in the Dark by Their Own Doctors
The horrific effects of fracking continue to grow with doctors in Pennsylvania now caught up in ...
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Will Public Outcry Against Fracking Sink Governor Cuomo's Political ...
On Monday a mass march and rally will take to the streets in New York, which is a week before Governor Cuomo is expected to release his plans for fracking in ...
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Hydrofracking protesters take to State Fair : News : CNYcentral.com
Dozens of protesters came to the opening day of the State Fair to speak out against ...
Cuomo says “no final decision” on hydrofracking | Vote Up! | Vote Up ...
When asked about hydrofracking during a stop in Rockland County today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo relied on a familiar phrase. Cuomo, a Democrat, said the state ...
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Fracking opponents rally; NY gov's decision nears
Businessweek
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 1,000 demonstrators marched to New York's state Capitol on Monday to keep up the pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he prepares to decide whether to allow shale gas drilling using high-volume hydraulic fracturing after ...
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Bloomberg Backs Fracking - But Far From City's Water Supply
WNYC (blog)
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday reiterated his commitment to fracking as a way of extracting natural gas from upstate New York — but said it shouldn't occur near the network of reservoirs that feed drinking water to the city. The mayor's remarks ...
Sean Lennon Attacks Fracking in Op-Ed
RollingStone.com
Sean Lennon ripped fracking today in a New York Times op-ed, saying the process of extracting natural gas has been falsely portrayed as "clean." "Natural gas has been sold as clean energy," Lennon wrote. "But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock ...
NY to rule on fracking, which could affect the Delaware River Water Basin
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
SANFORD, N.Y. - Back when Elizabeth and Margaret Davidson were little girls playing along the West Branch of the Delaware River, a ball, maybe, would float away. And they would say, "Guess it's headed for Philadelphia." Decades later, that notion has ...
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Company says no fracking for oil, natural gas in...
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
The northern Michigan company prospecting for oil and gas in the middle of Oakland County does not plan to use the water-intensive practice of “fracking” if the exploratory wells it is drilling are successful. Ben Brower, a representative of Jordan ...
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Fracking's 'dire consequences' aren't exactly as they seem
The Newark Advocate
All but a tiny corner of southwestern Licking County (and all of Knox County) sits atop the oil-rich and natural-gas-liquids rich Utica Shale formation. These resources can be exploited via hydraulic fracturing of horizontal formations. Activists (aka ...
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Fracking OK'd in Wayne Natonal Forest
Marietta Times
The forest's supervisor, Anne Carey, said in a statement that she determined the plan could adequately address any damage and risks to the forest from the natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. She also said there is ...
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REGION: Fracking ban committee sets sights on 2014 general election
Southgate News Herald
"I think some people in Washtenaw are very well aware and are very frightened," said LuAnne Kozma, an organizer with the Committee to Ban Fracking in Michigan. "More people in Washtenaw need to be aware, as it's definitely going to be a hotbed of ...
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Methane Showing Up in Water Contaminated By Fracking
Firedoglake
But this will not last if the fracking that has unlocked so much natural gas leads to the release of underground methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Among all the other pollutants we're seeing in the water supply of areas with a high frequency of ...
Penn Yan joins Keuka fracking opposition
OBSERVER-REVIEW.COM
Y.) to hopefully persuade him to prohibit hydraulic-fracturing (fracking) in the area. The agreement includes signatures from township representatives in the Keuka Lake watershed and requests that the governor protect the area from heavy industrial ...
Torrey area residents hear opinions on fracking
Penn Yan Chronicle-Express (blog)
More than 70 residents of the town of Torrey gathered recently in the Dresden Firehouse to hear both sides in the ongoing debate over whether to allow horizontal gas well drilling and the controversial high-volume hydraulic fracturing, commonly called ...
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Guest Viewpoint: Fracking is too dangerous for Tier to be NY test area
Press & Sun-Bulletin
My name is Dan Lamb, and I am running for Congress at the geographic epicenter of the debate over hydraulic fracturing. Our new 22nd Congressional District stretches from the Southern Tier to Utica and includes all or part of three of the five counties ...
NY to rule on fracking, which could affect the Delaware River Water Basin
Philadelphia Inquirer
After putting a hold on hydraulic fracturing in 2008 to study its environmental effects, New York is poised to allow fracking - and could issue its final rules after Labor Day, many in the industry say. Opponents are concerned enough that more than 1 ...
Fracking opponents rally; NY gov's decision nears
Auburn Citizen
The coalition of groups rallied at Albany's Corning Preserve along the Hudson River before marching several blocks to the Capitol to deliver a pledge of resistance demanding that Cuomo ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The process uses millions of ...
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Gas Fracking - Learn From Nigeria's Mistake, Warns Environmentalist
AllAfrica.com
He said: "There were plans to carry out fracking - the hydraulic fracturing of rock to extract shale gas - in the Karoo, an arid area of South Africa's eastern Cape, where the wells would be up to 5kilometres deep, and there was "no indication where ...
Feds say OK to fracking in national forest
Columbus Dispatch
More than 3,300 acres of the Wayne National Forest could go back on an auction block after federal officials decided shale drilling and “fracking” can be allowed within the forest. Shale wells could be drilled in as many as 13 sites throughout the ...
Cloud 'destroys time' and fracking is great innovation
Register
VMworld 2012 Dell supremo Michael Dell, EMC CEO Joe Tucci, NetApp opposite number Tom Georgens, soon-to-be VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and his prececessor Paul Maritz have held court on a CEO-only panel at VMworld, largely reciting the same old ...
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Hundreds march in opposition to fracking
Albany Times Union
While fracking protesters have been marching through the Capitol and demonstrating for more than a year, Monday's event was a bit bigger and a bit more highly organized than usual, featuring luminaries like actress Debra Winger, who lives in Sullivan ...
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Long fight over fracking still divides Pa. town
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
But the battle scars are unhealed in Dimock, whose name has become synonymous with hydraulic fracturing - fracking. The rush to drill struck a deep reservoir of hostility. Residents who support or oppose shale-gas development complain that their ...
Nuclear energy proponent criticizes fracking, upsetting some GOP delegates
MarylandReporter.com
A nuclear energy expert from Maryland found himself under fire from some members of the state's Republican delegation during his Monday breakfast speech after criticizing natural gas fracking and its viability as a primary energy source. Donald Hoffman ...
More than 1000 march in Albany against fracking
Press & Sun-Bulletin
ALBANY — When more than 1,000 people marched in the streets of downtown Albany to protest hydraulic fracturing on Monday, they left little doubt who they were targeting. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's name and face were featured on dozens of neon signs ...
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Fracking regulations must aim to protect
The Coloradoan
Our organization was extremely disappointed to see Dan Weinheimer from the city of Fort Collins say in the Coloradoan last week that the city's goal is to "not get sued" with regards to writing new oil and gas regulations. Part of thecCity's job and ...
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Taranaki Daily News
The results of a poll on the website were also pretty even, seesawing throughout the day. At 4.30pm yesterday results showed 51.8 per cent had answered no to the question "Is the TRC right to take a stand and officially snub three high-profile fracking ...
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NEWS: Sean Lennon Hates Fracking, Screaming Females Raise the Dead & More
Spinner
NEWS: Sean Lennon Hates Fracking, Screaming Females Raise the Dead & More. Posted on Aug 28th 2012 3:30PM by Cameron Matthews · Comments · Email This. Screaming Females. Burt Reynolds changed RiFF RAFF's life. Read through several artist's ...
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Hundreds Urge Cuomo Not to Approve Fracking
WNYC
(Karen DeWitt/WXXI). Anti-fracking advocates rallied in Albany Monday to try to convince Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban the natural gas drilling process in New York. Meanwhile, a State Senator says he believes any final decision will be once again delayed.
Uni staff question links to gas industry
WA today
A US boom in natural gas production from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has raised concerns that ties between industry and academic research may compromise scholars' independence. Other universities have responded to similar concerns.
Bloomberg Says Report Boosts Pro-Fracking Argument
WNYC (blog)
As the state weighs whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come out in favor of the controversial technique — with some regulations — and said Monday that natural gas is important for improving air quality and public health.
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Longmont City Council to ready November ballot
Daily Camera
LONGMONT -- The fracking debate is about to shift from the council chambers to the ballot box. On Tuesday night, the Longmont City Council will vote to put a citizen-sponsored anti-fracking initiative on the Nov. 6 ballot. The measure would ban ...
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W.E.N.N » Sean Lennon Warns About Fracking In Opinion Piece
By wennnewsdesk
John Lennon's son Sean has issued a public plea to officials in New York to ban hydraulic fracturing projects in the state to preserve natural land that is “on the verge” of destruction. The Beatles legend's widow Yoko Ono and their son Sean ...
W.E.N.N
Capitol Confidential » Video: Green Party candidate on 'fracking rats'
By Casey Seiler, Capitol bureau chief
Courtesy Kyle Hughes of NYSNYS, here's an anti-fracking speed rap from Donald Hassig, North Country environmental gadfly and Green Party candidate for Congress in the 21st District, who was in town to take part in today's rally. Topics ...
Capitol Confidential
NY Mayor Bloomberg Backs Fracking | The Price of Oil
By Andy Rowell
The people have spoken, but they are being ignored. Yesterday, over one thousand people marched to New York's state Capitol to demonstrate their opposition to fracking. They delivered a pledge of resistance which has now been signed by ...
The Price of Oil
Sean Lennon Slams Mayor Bloomberg Over Fracking
By Jay.
Sean Lennon's anti-fracking folk performance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last month didn't stop Mayor Bloomberg from endorsing "safe" fracking , and so the musician and scion of John and Yoko took to the Op-Ed pages of the Times ...
Oh No They Didn't!
Fenton Launches Artists Against Fracking
By nospam@example.com (Greg Hazley)
Progressive PR firm works launch of celebrity-backed Artists Against Fracking as member Sean Lennon takes shot at natural gas PR in New York Times op-ed. Full Story | Subscribe to O'Dwyer's | Free E-Newsletter on PR. Posted by Greg ...
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That (anti) fracking rally in downtown Albany | All Over Albany
By AOA
The anti-fracking movement is fired up right now because the Cuomo administration's decision on whether to allow the natural gas extraction method is reportedly near -- and the word circulating is that the admin will allow some fracking in the ...
All Over Albany
The Marcellus Effect: 1000-plus Protest Fracking in Albany
By Sue Heavenrich
More than 1,000 people showed up in Albany yesterday to tell Governor Andrew Cuomo just what they think about fracking. The gist of their message: "No Fracking Way!" As one banner noted, how can Andy hope to become President if he ...
The Marcellus Effect
Why Ohioans Want New York to Ban Fracking « EcoWatch: Uniting ...
By spear
While New York leadership seems anxious to receive the short-term profits fracking might promise, you are rejecting the waste that would be generated and plan to send it to us—radioactively contaminated drill cuttings, chemically and ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
Fracking opponents rally; NY gov's decision nears | Climate ...
By Global Justice Ecology Project
August 28, 2012. Source: Associated Press ALBANY | More than 1000 demonstrators marched to New York's state Capitol on Monday to keep up the pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he prepares to decide whether to allow shale gas ...
Climate Connections
N.Y. to rule on fracking, which could affect the Delaware River Water ...
By admin
Margaret (left) and Elizabeth Davidson stand on the banks of the west branch of the Delaware River, just 36 steps from Elizabeth's home in Sanford, N.Y. They are opposed to fracking, concerned about what it may do to the water. SANFORD ...
Ohio Citizen Action
Fracking Foes March on Albany: Pledging to Resist New York Gas ...
By Ed Sutherland
More than 1000 environmental activists marched on the New York Capitol to deliver a message to Gov. Andrew Cuomo: 'Don't Frack New York.' Alleging they were shut out of the decision-making, opponents of hydrofracking also delivered ...
The Ithaca Independent
New York's Fracking War : Climate Desk
By Philip Bump, Grist
Andrew Cuomo to ban all fracking statewide. It's unlikely to happen; an announcement on areas wherefracking will be allowed could come as early as next week. But a key way to influence an elected official is to demonstrate popular support ...
Climate Desk
Say Anything After New Fracking Regulations Imposed, ND Drilling ...
By Rob Port
To be fair, this is still a feverish pace, but rig counts in western North Dakota seem to be in decline with a spokeswoman from the State Department of Mineral Resources blaming “the increased costs to operate them.” What increased costs?
Say Anything
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Long fight over fracking still divides Pa. town
DIMOCK, Pa. - More than three years after residents in this Susquehanna County town complained that Marcellus Shale natural gas development polluted their ...
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New York's fracking war: Activists rally in Albany; Bloomberg tries to ...
Hundreds protest against fracking in the state capital, while New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg makes a $6 million grant to the Environmental Defense ...
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Anti-Fracking Protesters Confront Pennsylvania Gov During - AlterNet
Posted every few miles on the river's banks were groups of protestors, challenging the governor's pro-drilling policy with signs and chants.
www.alternet.org/.../anti-fracking-protesters-confront-pennsyl...
There's No “Safe” Fracking, Governor Cuomo | Food & Water Watch
We've teamed up with Josh Fox, Emmy award-winning director of Gasland, on this ad running ...
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Protestors, industry pressure Cuomo on gas fracking
North Country Public Radio
Sandy Steuben, from Albany, said this decision will be remembered by liberal voters like herself: "If he finally comes out for a ban on hydrofracking finally, I'll think better of him. If he wants to issue permits, then it's sort of like the usual ...
Tuesday's news briefs from the Associated Press
North Country Public Radio
Aug 28, 2012 — Hydrofracking opponents rally as Gov. Cuomo's decision nears. Vermonters vote to decide Attorney General, Senate candidates. Vermont Gov. Peter... Protestors, industry pressure Cuomo on gas fracking. Aug 28, 2012 — Hundreds of people ...
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Bloomberg Backs New Gas Infrastructure, Supports 'Responsible' Fracking
Patch.com
Mayor Michael Bloomberg waded into the contentious debate over hydrofracking with the release of a new report Monday that found that the city would benefit from an upgrade to its network of gas lines in the form of cleaner air and energy cost savings.
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Anti-hydrofracking groups making their voices heard - YNN, Your ...
The issue of hydrofracking has New Yorkers almost evenly divided. And fearing signals that Governor Cuomo plans to lift the state moratorium, opponents are ...
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