February 1st - 15th 2012
'Gasland' Filmmaker Arrested at Capitol Hearing
New York Times (blog)
By JOHN M. BRODER Courtesy of EarthworksCapitol policemen cornering the filmmaker Josh Fox at a House panel's hearing on fracking. Josh Fox, whose HBO documentary “Gasland” raised questions about the safety of the natural gas drilling technique known ...
Fracking disclosures are now required in Texas
MiamiHerald.com
The rule also requires that operators disclose how much water is used in fracking, a process that may require 1 million to 5 million gallons for a well drilled in North Texas' Barnett Shale. Ed Ireland, executive director of the Barnett Shale Energy ...
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EPA stands by 'fracking' study but calls reach limited
The Hill (blog)
But the agency is warning against use of the finding as a broader indictment of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” noting the fracking in the Pavillion, Wyoming area occurred under conditions “different from those in many other areas of the country.
Fracking company will only operate in North Leitrim
Donegal Democrat
By Sue Doherty The chief executive of Tamboran Resources, the natural gas 'fracking company', has confirmed that they will operate exclusively in north Leitrim and Fermanagh. 'Fracking' or hydraulic fracturing is the controversial process of using jets ...
Bid to keep veil over fracking task team
Business Day
Fracking would be used to extract gas from SA's large untapped shale gas resources — the world's fifth-largest, estimated by the International Energy Agency at 485-trillion cubic feet — under the ecologically sensitive Karoo.
Ohio Tries to Escape Fate as a Dumping Ground for Fracking Fluid
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Fracking Fluid Fracking Fluid Julia Schmalz/Bloomberg via Getty Images At the Southwestern Energy Co., a natural gas production site, water and sand are mixed and then pumped through the tubes at pressures over 6600 psi into the well ...
Colorado 'fracking' protestors booted from Winter X Games
The Colorado Independent
The ESPN Winter X Games provided an ideal venue, the activists said, to educate an extremely large and youthful crowd about fracking — a method of extracting natural gas and oil by breaking rocks with a pressurized mixture of fluids.
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France Urged to Pursue Oil-Fracking Research to Reduce Imports
BusinessWeek
Total SA, based in Paris, and international peers have been hurt by France's ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which the government says may harm the environment. The process, which has made the US the world's largest gas producer, ...
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The Wireless Equivalent of Fracking
Wall Street Journal
President Obama would like to take credit for a fracking boom he had nothing to do with. Fracking is the use of new technology to extract natural gas in unlikely places. The boom is a product of drillers and land owners using their freedom to create ...
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Fracking study to be completed by March
Moneyweb.co.za
The Treasure Karoo Action Group, which opposes so-called fracking in the Karoo, brought an application to force the department to publish details of reports by the government- appointed team tasked with researching the implications of fracking.
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More studies coming on fracking
Wooster Daily Record
Fracking is a method of extracting oil and gas from deep underground shale deposits by pumping in large volumes of water, sand and chemicals. Proponents believe hydraulic fracturing could mean a boost to the state's economy, with big increases in jobs, ...
Fracking expert aims to inform public
The Daily Tar Heel
Larry Murdoch, a professor at Clemson University, spoke at the Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium Tuesday about the benefits and consequences of fracking. Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, involves using a pipe to drill into the soil and ...
Boles Part of Fracking Group Visiting Pennsylvania
Southern Pines Pilot
Jamie Boles and three other House Republicans are in Pennsylvania this week to learn more about fracking, the controversial natural gas extraction method. Fracking is illegal in North Carolina — for now. But legislation passed last year by the General ...
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Fracking discussed in State of the Union address, local efforts to stop ...
Central Michigan Life
Commonly known as “fracking,” hydrologic fracturing is a process that uses pressurized fluid to create cracks in shale deposits located deep underground to extract natural gas. President Obama supports it for an alternative energy and said fracking has ...
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Shabangu moves to block fracking info
News24
Pretoria - Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has argued that the Promotion of Access to Information Act prevents access to draft reports, minutes, and research of her fracking task team. According to section 44 of the Act, public bodies could ...
Tainted-Well Lawsuits Mount Against Gas Frackers Led by Cabot
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Growing Number of Lawsuits Could Slow Fracking-Driven Boom Growing Number of Lawsuits Could Slow Fracking-Driven Boom Norma Fiorentino sued Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. alleging the Houston-based company's drilling left methane and toxic ...
Maryland Bill Would Ban Fracking Fluid Disposal And Treatment
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania drillers routinely truck their fracking wastewater out of state, since the commonwealth doesn't have many locations suitable for the underground injection wells that have been linked to minor earthquakes.
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House approves fracking moratorium
vtdigger.org
The process of fracking entails the injection of large volumes of pressurized water and chemicals into the ground to extract oil and natural gas. Concerns have been raised about its possible contamination of groundwater. The moratorium will allow time ...
Exploratory Fracking Now Underway In Colleyville
CBS Local
“It actually made me full of anxiety when I knew the fracking actually began this morning,” said Colleyville resident Carole Johnson. Seven exploratory gas wells began operating Tuesday, despite homeowner concerns that fracking will release harmful ...
Concerns raised over use of fracking for 'multi-billion euro' gas reserve
thejournal.ie
A NUMBER OF concerns have been raised over the possible use of 'fracking' to extract what is believed to be a major gas reserve in north-west Ireland. A company with a licence for the area said today that the gas under Fermanagh and Leitrim could lead ...
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Infocast's Inaugural Water Management for Shale Plays Meeting
MarketWatch (press release)
Hydraulic fracturing or fracking for oil and gas from shale plays is thriving, especially in Pennsylvania, West Texas and North Dakota. With this backdrop of rapid growth, the Summit's timing is impeccable. Fracking consumes massive amounts of water; ...
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Without a Fracking Tax, PA Could Lose $24 Billion Over the Next 20 Years
Keystone Politics
Our Drilling Tax Ticker tracks the revenue Pennsylvania has lost since October 1, 2009 by not having a tax in place. It shot past $300 million Monday morning. State cuts announced in January to services ranging from help for victims of domestic ...
Manawatu Standard
Kaikoura Mayor Winston Gray says he would back moves to call for more information on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the wake of the Christchurch City Council's request for a government-imposed moratorium. In a letter written two weeks ago to ...
Overflow crowd turns out for 'fracking' discussion in Randolph Twp.
Aurora Advocate
25, with more than 150 residents eager to hear the pros and cons of the oil drilling process known as "fracking." Members of the citizens group Preserve Rural Randolph, advocates for the oil and gas drilling industry and others spoke at the meeting.
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Frank Discussion About Fracking
WTAP-TV
But the potential effects of fracking led to debate over whether the regulations in place were enough to keep the chemicals used in the process, and the product of the drilling, from getting into groundwater supplies. "There has been zero length of ...
The Fracking Truth on Government's Role in Natural Gas Production
Heritage.org (blog)
Well before the government invested in natural gas technologies, it was the private sector that established and developed hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”), a process by which producers inject a fluid, composed of 99 percent water, and sand into ...
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State bills aim to control 'fracking' to extract natural gas
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
SPRINGFIELD — Two local lawmakers are promoting legislation to regulate the process of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a controversial method used to extract natural gas from deep underground deposits of shale. State Rep.
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Fracking: Financial Fuel for America's Future
EP Magazine
However, using an environmentally friendly chemical may change how consumers, political leaders and environmentalists view one sector of the industry: hydraulic fracturing, or, fracking. In an effort to discern fracking fact from fracking ...
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Fracking IPOs: US Silica, Platinum Energy Solutions
TheStreetTV
Fracking IPOs: US Silica, Platinum Energy Solutions.
Fracking begins today on Colleyville wells
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Titan has 11 days to finish fracking the seven natural gas wells there. Residents can expect trucks coming and going as millions of gallons of water and chemicals are injected into the ground to shatter the shale rock to release the gas.
News24
Cape Town - Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu and her director general Thibedi Ramontja will file an answering affidavit in response to a court application to get details on a fracking report. "We are serving to the other party's attorneys, ...
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No need for 'fracking' legislation - study
Irish Times
A European Commission consultancy study on licensing hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" for shale gas in EU member states says there is no need for specific new legislation governing the controversial activity. However, the study notes that public ...
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House committee discusses fracking
Topeka Capital Journal
By Andy Marso Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association President Edward Cross testified to the safety and economic benefit of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," before a House committee Tuesday, finding himself at odds with a member of the Kansas ...
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In Jewish fracking debate, it's the environment vs. energy independence—and ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
By Ben Harris · January 30, 2012 As concerns mount over the environmental and public health consequences of hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, Jewish groups are coalescing around a strategy that supports efforts to extract natural gas from shale ...
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Fracking foes host experts for "Protecting our Communities" Bristol event
MPNnow.com
By Julie Sherwood, staff writer 1 Jordan Kleiman, associate professor at the State University of New York at Geneseo in the Department of History and co-director of the Geneseo Food Project, will speak on “Fracking: What it is, where it came from, ...
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Industry expert answers questions on fracking
Mansfield News Journal
David Hill uses a projection of a map Monday as he speaks about fracking and injection wells at a Mansfield Tea Party meeting at the Waterford. / JASON J. MOLYET/NEWS JOURNAL MANSFIELD -- Oil and gas industry spokesmen said Monday the state Legislature ...
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Md. bill would ban import of fracking wastewater
Philadelphia Inquirer
AP ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Bringing natural gas drilling wastewater into Maryland for treatment or storage would be banned under a bill introduced by a Montgomery County lawmaker. Delegate Shane Robinson told the Cumberland Times-News that Maryland treatment ...
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Celebrity singer coming to anti-fracking benefit
YNN
Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan and the Finger Lakes Clean Waters Initiative announced an upcoming Anti-Fracking concert featuring Natalie Merchant. Merchant became popular with her band 10000 Maniacs before going solo in the mid-nineties.
Former MLA blasts hydro-fracking
CBC.ca
Former MLA Tony Huntjens says he is 'ashamed' of the government's position on fracking. Former MLA Tony Huntjens says he is 'ashamed' of the government's position on fracking. (Government of New Brunswick) Former Progressive Conservative MLA and ...
Industry Group To Hold Fracking Workshops
StateImpact Pennsylvania
By Susan Phillips The American Petroleum Institute wants to educate people about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking for short. “These workshops emphasize the importance of our standards and certification program, demonstrate how states are successfully ...
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Protesters: Cuomo will be accountable for fracking problems
Legislative Gazette
"It is very important for New York state to lead the nation in opposition to fracking." Last summer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed lifting the state's moratorium on hydrofracking. In his recent State of the State Address, however, the governor neglected ...
Producers set voluntary guidelines for fracking
Globe and Mail
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is focusing on so-called fracking as regulators, landowners and green groups increasingly highlight the risks of dirtying aquifers with dangerous chemicals. Natural gas and other toxins, critics charge, ...
New state law targets fracking industry
KSAT San Antonio
Many of the townspeople in Floresville said a new state law adopted last year by the Texas Legislature will help educate the public about the fracking process that most don't understand. "Probably 99 percent don't and I'm among those 99 percent," said ...
Industry sets fracking guidelines for shale gas extraction
CBC.ca
CAPP president Dave Collyer announced guidelines for fracking Monday, saying the aim is to be more open with the public.CAPP president Dave Collyer announced guidelines for fracking Monday, saying the aim is to be more open with the public.
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Cornell Study Links Fracking Wastewater with Mortality in Farm Animals
Boulder Weekly
Fracking (the colloquial name for hydraulic fracturing), involves drilling a well about 8000 feet down, and then up to about 13000 feet horizontally. Three to five million gallons of fresh water, specially formulated sand and up to 250000 gallons of ...
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Congressional research group issues report on EPA's Pavillion investigation
WyoFile
EPA's draft report, issued on December 8, stoked America's ongoing debate over the oil and gas industry's use of hydraulic fracturing — or “fracking” — by concluding that compounds found in the aquifer near Pavillion, Wyo., are likely associated with ...
Dscriber
By Kevin Kallaugher, Posted in dscriber, World Ink Kevin Kallaugher, or "KAL," is the international award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine of London. Kal is a 1977 graduate from Harvard College and started his cartooning career ...
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Concerns about hydraulic fracturing intensify
StarPhoenix
Fracking has been around for over 50 years but is becoming increasingly common in both natural gas and oil production in North America, including Saskatchewan. According to a CBC news item, the use of fracking in the oilfields of southeastern ...
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Gillibrand confident Congress can be productive
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Natural Resources Defense Council experts on hydraulic fracturing, Kate Sinding and Eric Goldstein, join the Editorial Board at 1 pm Wednesday to discuss the future of “fracking” in New York. View the discussions LIVE at lohud.com/editorialspotlight ...
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Denton Record Chronicle
Other speakers raised concerns about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a practice common in the Barnett Shale region that involves pumping millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals underground to break up rock and free the gas.
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Community College offers natural gas training scholarships
Corning Leader
The 72-hour program trains for entry-level positions within the gas industry, giving skills in rig set-up, the drilling/fracking process, on-site rig tour, Red Cross certification and more. For more information, call 607-936-5504 or email ...
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Clemson professor to speak on risks of 'fracking'
Reesenews
... gas supply trapped less than a mile below Lee, Moore, Chatham, Durham and Wake counties. But the process to remove natural gas from shale rock using water, sand and a cocktail of chemicals, called “fracking,” is illegal in North Carolina — for now.
Big money: What Sherrod Brown and Josh Mandel filings won't tell you today
Plain Dealer
It also is North America's largest provider of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, services, according to Forbes. Mandel supports fracking, strongly so. And Hallburton supports Mandel. Brown is an incumbent Democratic senator, whom Mandel hopes to ...
Lars Larson: Obama Keystone call looks crazier and crazier
Oregon Catalyst
He is saying we can manage the risks of the new natural gas drilling method called “fracking.” If he weren't in re-election mode, he probably would choose (and rightly so) to say we can manage this oil pipeline's environmental risks.
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Drilling, Baby, We're Drilling
Salon (blog)
I definitely need to read more about fracking. Linda - Well, that's just it: it makes perfect sense to me why people here want the status quo (petroleum dependence) only more so. But we've go to look further down the road, somehow.
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Local anti-gas demonstrators hit the superpipe at X Games
Aspen Daily News
by Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer A group of valley locals holding signs protesting fracking and natural gas drilling were kicked out of the X Games Sunday night. The protesters had stationed themselves on the walls of the Buttermilk ...
Anti-Fracking Movement Coming to Kent
Patch.com
By Kasha Legeza The anti-fracking movement is coming to Kent, a municipality not currently home to any controversial hydraulic fracturing wells. But there's nothing stopping anyone from establishing them within city limits.
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Fracking opponents urge county to support BREATHE Act
Athens NEWS
By Heather Cantino We appreciate your attention to the extremely urgent matter of protecting our county's air, water, infrastructure, health and economic wellbeing from likely impacts of widespread deep shale drilling and horizontal fracturing ...
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Fracking banned for two years in Binghamton
Binghamton University Pipe Dream
Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan speaks against fracking at the Department of Environmental Conservation's public forum on Wednesday, Nov. 16. On Thursday, Dec. 22, Ryan signed a law to ban fracking in Binghamton for two years. After years of debating the ...
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Why industry doesn't like "fracking" and neither do I
High Country News (blog)
I recently read that the energy industry hates fracking. Of course, they actually love fracking -- as in hydraulic fracturing to crack rock and release all those juicy hydrocarbons. What they hate is the word itself: “fracking.” I hate it, too, ...
Experts deliver dire warnings about fracking impacts
Athens NEWS
Calvin Tillman, former mayor of a town that has been through the process, said his town of Dish, Texas – which has seen fracking conducted nearby by multiple big companies – has suffered massive impacts, including noise, odors and unhealthy chemical ...
Taxing Fracking Is Better Than Taxing Everything Else
Keystone Politics
And because they're going to pay whatever we charge, we should try to raise as much revenue as we can from fracking – right up to the point where we start to see drilling decrease in response to the tax. The reason to do this is that taxing fracking is ...
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Hector to host fracking hearing Saturday
Corning Leader
The meeting comes after requests by the Hector Clean Waters Initiative, other citizens and a petition of more than 800 signatures requesting that the town board enact a ban or moratorium on fracking. The Town of Hector will sponsor a public hearing on ...
Fracking and Clean Water Threats
American Rivers (blog)
So it's heartening to see People magazine covering one of the leading threats to our rivers and clean water supplies – fracking. The natural gas drilling technique known as fracking is a hot topic, highlighted by President Obama in the State of the ...
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Commission asked to OK fracking road protections
Athens NEWS
John Kasich proposed severance taxes on oil and gas developers to help reimburse local governments for road and bridge expenses related to fracking. Stanley has lauded the model agreement, though he did not make it clear in his fax how much that model ...
Gasfrac Energy: Unlocking New Hydrocarbon Liquid Basins
Seeking Alpha
Earlier this year I published an article on waterless fracking company Gasfrac Energy Services (GSFVF.PK). In that article I discussed the various technical, economic and environmental benefits of Gasfrac Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) fracking ...
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A New Resource for Hydraulic Fracturing Information
MarketWatch (press release)
Hydraulic fracturing, often called fracking, is a method of drilling for natural gas reserves, oil and geothermal energy in deep shale formations. Richard Baron, the environmental practice group leader at Foley, Baron & Metzger, said, "Fracking ...
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Is President Obama A Fracking Wonk?
StateImpact Pennsylvania
By Scott Detrow President Obama gave shale gas extraction a specific mention during last week's State of the Union address. “We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly one hundred years, and my Administration will take every possible ...
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Businesses open-minded about wells
Mansfield News Journal
MANSFIELD -- The construction of two injection wells designed to dispose of fracking waste could mean a boost in business for Ashland Railway. A new account, to haul railcars filled with fracking fluid the last leg of a trip from Pennsylvania shale ...
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CAPP announces new fracking guidelines to boost environmental performance
Winnipeg Free Press
CALGARY - The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers announces Canada-wide operating practices to boost environmental performance and transparency inhydraulic fracturing, a controversial process in which sand, water and chemicals are blasted at ...
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Drilling risks depend on rock, oil
Cape Breton Post
In particular, in shale gas projects, a process of small-scale fracking is generally applied, said Ingraffea. “Exploratory drilling is done first to assess the quality of the shale for producing gas, and that's usually done using vertical wells, ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
These four wells sit in the middle of about 400 to 500 similar wells, which all use the hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” process to extract oil and gas from shale rock. The company has been burning through the cash - last year it made a loss of ...
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Hanger Slams CBS for Dimock Story
StateImpact Pennsylvania
(a search of his name with different spellings didn't turn up anything on the CBS website) The reporter made a common mistake, he turned methane migration into fracking, despite Hanger's best efforts to the contrary. What gets Hanger's goat the most is ...
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IPO Preview: U.S. Silica Holdings
Seeking Alpha
SLCA provides for general commercial markets and for the oil/gas fracking market. The growth in the business has come from the fracking market, on which we have turned negative. (1) "Natural gas, the worst-performing commodity this year, rebounded from ...
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Bulgaria may need to revise new shale gas law
Southeast European Times
By Svetla Dimitrova for Southeast European Times in Sofia -- 30/01/12 A new law in Bulgaria to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may need to be revised, as experts say it effectively blocks all drilling and field survey procedures associated with ...
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More on the Mass Hysteria Case in LeRoy, New York
About - News & Issues
If there is a lot of gas drilling and fracking around the school, then there is likely some odor of gas. Add in TV coverage of the dangers of fracking, watching the movie Gasland, or a student who does a report on fracking, and maybe you have the ...
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FXstreet.com
History will show that it was It was George Phydias Mitchell of Mitchell Energy and Development that cracked the code for fracking or is it fracturing or is it "what the frac"? Well if there isn't enough debate, about this issue what the heck do we ...
U.S. Midwest Jobs Return as Applesauce Joins Cars to Lift Obama
Bloomberg
Fracking Payoff Ohio added 72400 jobs last year. That included 18300 manufacturing positions after losing 419400 such jobs from 1999 to 2009, federal data show. Vallourec SA announced in February 2010 that it would build a rolling mill in Youngstown ...
Maybe some of these fears are based on facts that are proven
Cumberland Times-News
The letter written to the editor by Scott Cline, petroleum engineer, argued that citizens concerned about fracking are “long on fiction and short on facts.” (“Unfounded fears about shale gas obscure facts,” Jan. 25 Times-News).