January 16th - 31st 2012
How fracking lies triumphed - NY Daily News
Bryce: Amid the ongoing battle in New York and elsewhere over hydraulic fracturing, one thing has become clear: The pro-drilling side is losing the public ...
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EPA weighs in on fracking in N.Y. | Star-Gazette | stargazette.com
ALBANY -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is urging New York regulators to take steps to bolster the state's proposed hydraulic fracturing rules, ...
How Shale Fracking May Hurt Your Investment
San Francisco Chronicle
In 2011, two new terms became well known to energy investors all over the world: shale and fracking. These terms represent either the newest technology that will change the way oil and gas and are produced, or it will be a fad, at the least, ...
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Aljazeera.com
Engineers on the drilling platform of the Cuadrilla shale fracking facility on October 7, 2012 in Preston, Lancashire. (Lloyd/Getty) Hydraulic fracturing – also known as fracking – is the process of pumping water and chemicals underground to fracture ...
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Fracking debate parallels 99 percent's campaign against the 1 percent
Athens NEWS
The fracking issue in Athens is a microcosm of what is happening nationwide in terms of the struggles between the 99 percenters (the "have-nots") and the controlling influence of the 1 percenters (the "haves"). The 99 percenters are angry and fed up ...
'Fracking' gives US lease on energy independence
Korea Times
By Arthur I. Cyr "Fracking" rhymes with "hacking" and is not a friendly term. Other unpleasant words that begin with "f" include "fracture," "frenzied," "frustrate" and more. The f-word at issue here, obviously not invented by a public-relations firm, ...
Cabot Cites Obama to Fault EPA's Dimock Fracking Probe
BusinessWeek
The US holds an estimated 2214 trillion cubic feet of gas, enough to meet domestic demand for more than a century at current consumption rates, according to the Energy Department. Fracking accounts for a third of the US gas production, ...
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Energy Tradeoffs: Palm Oil & Fracking -- R-Squared Energy TV Ep. 9
YouTube
Robert Rapier takes reader's questions on palm oil and "fracking" for natural gas. Send your questions for Robert to ask [at] consumerenergyreport [dot] com Original post: ...
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Labour calls for fracking review
Otago Daily Times
The horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technique has been used on 40 onshore wells in Taranaki for a number of years, while fracking could be used by L&M Energy in Southland in the near future, where L&M has identified large gas ...
Commissioners consider strong fracking statement
Athens NEWS
By David DeWitt Photo Caption: Local resident Al Blazevicius, center right, goes over a proposed resolution with the county commissioners Tuesday regarding fracking in the area. Provisions included testing water before drilling begins and extending the ...
Boulder Weekly
After reading the Paul Danish article “War on fracking” (Danish Plan, Jan. 12), I was left wondering why he ended up with a clear conclusion that fracking was completely OK and the response against it was unfounded, given that he points out that the ...
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Editorial: It's not 'extremism' to study environmental impact of 'fracking' or ...
Massillon Independent
By Anonymous A recent Quinnipac University poll revealed that more than seven out of 10 Ohioans believe the process of hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — to extract natural gas from shale deposits in our state should be suspended until more study ...
Americans protest fracking as Obama cheers for it
RT
It took years, but opponents of fracking, the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing for the extraction of natural gas, are finally getting their point across. President Barack Obama, however, still isn't convinced of the cons.
CAPP develops operating practices for natural gas fracking
Calgary Herald (blog)
Fracking has emerged as an industry-changing technology in the oil and gas sector in recent years and its widespread application worldwide has led to public concern over water and other issues. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers will ...
What the Frack?!: Grassroots group pushes for fracking moratorium in Arapahoe ...
Westword (blog)
26 2012 at 12:37 PM The first time Sonia Skakich-Scrima learned about fracking, she was reading the Denver Business Journal almost a year ago to date. What she read alarmed her, but what she Googled afterward tripled that. "I tried to understand why ...
Fracking's costs to communities far outweigh its benefits
Plain Dealer (blog)
By Other Voices Most articles about "fracking" describe economic benefits without mentioning the costs of industrializing our communities. Reports from West Virginia and Pennsylvania counties with three years' drilling experience describe roads clogged ...
Obama Takes Credit for Fracking and Pushes for More Renewable Energy Spending
Technorati
Interestingly, he went to great lengths to point out the role of government investment in the technologies that lead to the present day natural gas fracking boom. He leveraged this point to push for continued government subsidies for renewable energy.
President Obama, You had me until Fracking
OMB Watch
A natural gas extraction process, commonly referred to as fracking, was cited in last night's State of the Union as an example of clean energy. But using fracking to extract natural gas is anything but clean. In fact, the process produces more ...
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Could Fracking be to Blame for Quakes in Ohio?
AccuWeather.com
Though all the quakes have been of varying degrees, seismologists predict it may be due to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process in which oil and gas companies forcefully extract petroleum and natural gases by injecting pressurized fluid into ...
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More than 150 turn out for Randolph fracking forum
Ravenna Record Courier
By Diane Smith | staff writer A standing-room only crowd filled the Randolph Community Center Thursday, 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 ...
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Former Texas mayor to present on fracking impacts
Athens NEWS
A public presentation on the environmental, economic and health-related impacts of horizontal hydraulic fracturing is scheduled for this Saturday at 2 pm The event will feature Calvin Tillman, as seen in the anti-fracking film "Gasland," and will be ...
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Christchurch council seeks moratorium on fracking
Radio New Zealand
Mayor Bob Parker says the process, commonly known as fracking, has caused concerns among the council and the community, and more information is needed about it. He says there are a number of reports that connect fracking with earthquakes and the ...
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Erie quick to tackle fracking, but limited in options
Yellow Scene
Fracking—the process of injecting a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into a well to fracture oil- and gas-rich shale deep underground—became a concern earlier this month when residents learned that Encana Oil & Gas planned to open eight wells ...
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The Carrboro Citizen
Murdoch, professor of environmental engineering and earth sciences at Clemson University, will address topics ranging from the economic benefits of fracking and concerns about environmental risks to the geology of gas deposits and the technology used ...
Weir's £113m move raises its stake in controversial 'fracking'
Scotsman (blog)
Like Seaboard, Novatech specialises in equipment used in fracking – the fracturing of shale formations to develop “unconventional” gas and oil reserves. Fracking has been attacked by environmentalists as ecologically unsound, and fracking tests are ...
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New Zealand group to study fracking in Fort St. John
Energeticcity.ca
Groups in New Zealand have taken an interest in the drilling and fracking industry prevalent in our region. Hawkes Bay, NZ Regional Council will be spending more than $8000 to send a staff member to Northern Canada on a week-long trip to investigate ...
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Obama Calls on Energy Companies to Disclose the Ingredients of Fracking Fluid
OilPrice.com
Yet, advocacy groups complain the chemicals in so-called fracking fluid threaten the environment. State regulators, and most of the energy companies, counter that fracking is safe if done correctly. So was Obama's message Tuesday to the energy ...
Rep. Johnson to host pro-fracking forum in Marietta
Athens NEWS
US Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, is co-hosting "Catching the Wave: Economic Impact and Development Forum – Ohio Shale Development" this Friday at the Lafayette Hotel in Marietta. Doors open at 11 am, and Rep. Johnson will speak at 4:30 pm According to ...
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DeWine: Drilling laws 'not adequate'
Youngstown Vindicator
[John] Kasich has made the point very correctly that fracking can be very good for our economy,” DeWine told The Vindicator on Tuesday. “We want to encourage growth and jobs, but at the same time, we have to assure the public that the protections are ...
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Gas explorations spark climate fear
This is Kent
CLIMATE fears concerning a gas extraction "fracking" process due to take place in Woodnesborough have not been allayed, say opponents, despite the company involved insisting it is "just exploring". Green campaign group Deal With It is strongly opposed ...
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Frack responsibly and risks – and quakes – are small
New Scientist
But fracking has had some bad press, with the main concerns being earthquakes and the contamination of groundwater with gas and chemicals. In the documentary film Gasland, for example, a man is shown igniting water from his kitchen tap.
Obama And Fracking: Different Takes
By Nick Reisman
Andrew Cuomo said in the State of the State, but Obama's comments seem to go even further (Cuomo is constrained by what he can say due to the ongoing DEC review of regulations for high-volume fracking, should the process be allowed in ...
Capital Tonight
Fracking Leads to Natural Gas Price Drops | Planetizen
By Cathie Pagano
Fracking technology led to a gas boom--now there's so much gas available, that prices have dropped along with demand.
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Vermont to place moratorium on fracking | JunkScience.com
By Steve Milloy
There is no fracking in Vermont. WMAC radio reports,. Vermont lawmakers are considering a three-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique for natural gas drilling, while the scientific issues are explored further.
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Fracking bills: regulations in search of problems | Energy Policy Center
By amy
Two bills concerning hydraulic fracturing can be summarized best as excessive regulations in search of problems. I consulted with Doug Flanders, director of policy and external affairs for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA), who ...
Energy Policy Center
Fracking shakes the Earth, poisons our water | Peak Oil News and ...
By admin
Add yet another new concern to the growing list of reasons to oppose hyraudlic fracturing, the natural-gas extraction process known as “fracking”: earthquakes. That's right, following a New Year's Eve earthquake in Youngstown, Ohio — the ...
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Fracking: What's at Stake? | TFW - The Free Weekly
By Blair Jackson
By Joanna Pollock TFW Contributing Writer Fracking, a type of hydraulic fracturing, is actually a shortened term for the drilling extraction process known by the oil and gas industry as ...
TFW - The Free Weekly
Colorado fracking to use more water - Colorado Springs Business ...
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Colorado fracking to use more water. by Staff Writer. Published: January 26,2012. Time posted: 7:06 am. Share this story: Close this Window Bookmark and Share This Page. Save to Browser Favorites / Bookmarks ...
Colorado Springs Business Journal
Oil and Water Don't Mix: What Fracking is Doing to South Texas ...
By Char Miller
Fracking is producing an economic boom and environmental disaster in South Texas.
KCET Feed
Rumor has it: Valley View fracking disposal well burns
By TXsharon
A friend drove by today and the disposal well in Valley View was on fire. Anybody know anything?
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform
By gchambers
Join Fracking Fridays: Call Governor Cuomo every Friday – (518) 474-8390 – and tell him you don't want him to allow anyone to frack with your New York water.
Riverkeeper
Joy and Resolve – Obama on Fracking Last Night « The Green ...
By bluegreenfolk
Last night, a lot of us in the anti-fracking movement turned off the State of Union when Obama started talking about Natural Gas. I know it sucks that Obama played up fracking…OK, he sort of prostrated himself in front Cabot Oil, and Shell, and ...
The Green Umbrella
Kasich on Fracking, Right to Work, GOP, More | Capital Blog
By mkovac
Kasich on Fracking, Right to Work, GOP, More. Posted on January 26, 2012 by mkovac. Gov. John Kasich answers reporters' questions during the 2012 Associated Press Legislative and Election Session. Topics covered include Steubenville, ...
Capital Blog
Fuel Fix » Cabot cites Obama speech to fault EPA's Dimock fracking ...
By Bloomberg
Cabot cites Obama speech to fault EPA's Dimock fracking probe.
Fuel Fix
Tippets: Haunted In New Zealand, Keys Railroad Anniversary ...
By Benjamin Clary
In a column highlighting the travel adventures of a nomad on the cheap, Alastair Bland of the Smithsonian Magazine writes about a recent fishing trip in.
MidCurrent
Obama Backs Fracking to Create 600000 Jobs, Vows Safe Drilling
San Francisco Chronicle
The process, called fracking, is among a list of energy policies Obama said would fuel economic growth. "We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly one hundred years, and my Administration will take every possible action to safely ...
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Long Island Business News
Andrew Cuomo to support a ban on fracking earlier this week has prompted various interested parties to revisit the question of what lies ahead for the controversial natural gas drilling technique. The stakes are high. If fracking – the process of ...
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COLUMN-Fracking complicates the climate debate: John Kemp
Reuters
Fracking has solved one problem (peak fuel) but sharpened another (climate change). Policymakers and voters can no longer rely on increasing scarcity, and rising oil and gas prices, to restrain demand and carbon emissions through the market.
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Weir widens reach amid boom in fracking
Financial Times
Weir is to pay $176m for the family-owned Dallas-based business, and comes two months after the FTSE 100 company deepened its involvement in “fracking”, or hydraulic fracturing, of shale formations to extract oil and gas by paying $675m for Texas-based ...
Stuff.co.nz
The presentation is unlikely to have changed the minds of those opposed not only to the practice of "fracking", but also fossil fuel extraction in general. It was a remarkably civil encounter, spoiled only by a woman who, at the end of the presentation ...
U.S. Energy Executives Believe Energy Independence is Achievable within 15 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
FRACKING IS CONTROVERSIAL AND ESSENTIAL: Fracking, the hydraulic fracturing of subterranean rock to facilitate the flow of gas and oil deposits, has become a lightning rod for criticism among many people who fear environmental consequences.
Halliburton Riding Fracking Boom And Gulf Drilling To $53 Stock Price
Forbes
Oilfield services major Halliburton delivered 50% year-over-year growth in its fourth quarter earnings to cap what has been an extremely good year for exploration and production services globally, and in the US in particular.
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Are Schneiderman, Obama at odds over fracking? (updated)
Albany Times Union (blog)
Update: Givner subsequently decided to comment, albeit not directly on anything Obama said: “AG Schneiderman has been clear and consistent in his position that all decisions concerning 'fracking' must be based on a thorough assessment of the risks it ...
Hydraulic Fracking's Big Cousin
Investorplace.com
Called “super fracking,” it relies on deeper penetration into rock formations. It's more efficient – and controversial Whatever your feelings about hydraulic fracturing—the oil- and gas-extraction process often referred to as hydrofracking, ...
Guest Post: Water Contamination – Fracking is not the problem
Scientific American (blog)
By Scott McNally | January 25, 2012 | 2 With the current negative attention and controversy surrounding shale gas drilling, the words 'hydraulic fracturing' or 'fracking' have become synonymous with something else: water contamination.
Report: Colorado fracking to use more water in coming years, but still a small ...
Bizjournals.com
The amount of Colorado water used for hydraulic fracturing in Colorado is expected to rise 35 percent between 2010 and 2015, but will still be a fraction — about 0.1 percent — of the state's total water use, according to a new report from three state ...
Texas will disclose chemicals used in fracking
Washington Times
1, Texas will become the latest state to require the public disclosure of all chemicals used in the controversial natural gas extraction process known as “fracking.” The measure, viewed by critics as a small victory in the fight against what they ...
Geologist: Fracking fear unfounded
New Bern Sun Journal
The danger connected to fracking as a method to recover natural gas is “not all it's fracked up to be,” a local geologist and retired regulator said Tuesday. Don Oltz, who regulated the process for Alabama and continues to be an independent oil and ...
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Times Writers Group: Fracking deserves scrutiny
St. Cloud Times
The process that has made this possible is called hydraulic fracturing, “fracking” for short. A recent USA Today news report describes fracking as “involving blasting millions of gallons of water, laced with chemicals and sand, deep into the ground to ...
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Fracking opponent ends 8-day hunger strike after meeting with his senator
Legislative Gazette
23, a crowd of around 600 heard McElligott's story at an anti-fracking rally held at The Well of the Legislative Office Building, receiving his message with massive applause and support. Later that day, McElligott ended the strike after encountering ...
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30 Seconds: No need to worry about fracking in Ohio
New Philadelphia Times Reporter
By Anonymous It is virtually impossible for fracking to mess up fresh water. They're fracking thousands and thousands of feet down, 6000 feet, with thousands of feet of limestone, shale, sand, gravel, everything above it. The pipes are cemented in and ...
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In State of the Union Address, Obama says he will push forward with fracking
Washington Post (blog)
They say that hydraulic fracturing — better known as fracking — might taint drinking water or even cause earthquakes. Many want a moratorium. The real answer is to press forward with exploiting this tantalizing resource while studying and curbing the ...
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Cary News
BY ANDREW KENNEY, akenney@newsobserver.com CARY - Town staff and leaders are wrestling with a question that's becoming more common in North Carolina: Are we ready for fracking, the controversial natural gas extraction technique?
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Kaleidoscope: Hoopla abounds in Ohio over 'fracking'; counties seeing gas ...
Aurora Advocate
by Ken Lahmers It's called hydraulic fracturing, or more simply "fracking," and it's causing a frenzy in eastern Ohio. It's not a new method of drilling gas wells -- it's been around for 60 years and more than 15000 Ohio wells have utilized the method ...
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Vermont lawmakers weigh halt to fracking before it begins in state | The Republic
The Republic
With fracking, as the technique is known, a high-pressure mix of water and chemicals is forced into the ground to fracture layers of shale and allow the gas to be released. Environmentalists say the chemicals are a threat to the environment and public ...
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DEP Weighs using mine water for fracking
Republican & Herald
The paper will outline what policies and regulations should be adopted for treatment of mine water if needed, transport of water by truck or pipeline to drilling sites and storage before used in fracking operations. The paper will also tackle ...
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Ewart: Communication uncertainty plagues fracturing debate
Calgary Herald
13 blowout near Innis-fail, but it does offer a few "reminders" for companies conducting fracking in Alberta. The ERCB said the timing of the bulletin and the blowout are a coincidence. Regardless, both are telling communication.
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People's World
On January 18, the vote was 166 to six for putting a stop to the controversial gas retrieval process known as fracking, or hydraulic fracturing. Lawmakers also established a 100 million-lev ($65 million) fine for those who fail to obey this rule.
Act now appeal in gas fracking fight
Blackpool Gazette
But the process – known as fracking, has been halted after two earth tremors in Poulton last year. Now the company has applied to Lancashire County Council for permission to remain on its the site until July 2013, an additional 18 months.
Grassroots effort against fracking in Beaver Township
WFMJ
BEAVER TOWNSHIP, Ohio - A group of concerned citizens crowded into the Beaver Township Administration building Tuesday night to discuss a grassroots effort against fracking and brine injection wells. North Lima resident Julia Fuhrman Davis organized ...
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We'll Frack Alberta's Next Election, Vow Landowners
TheTyee.ca
By Andrew Nikiforuk, Today, TheTyee.ca Red Deer River, Alberta: Crew cleans up spill after fracking caused oil well in area to blow. Photo: ASRG Alberta Surface Rights Group. Tighter regulations to protect groundwater needed, says U of Alberta ...
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Erie trustees reject moratorium on new fracking permits
Daily Camera
Mayor Pro Tem Cheryl Hauger proposed a 120-day "time-out" on yet-to-be approved drilling operations to give the town time to study the health effects of hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking. Dozens of residents who make up an anti-fracking group, ...
Balcombe councillors ask for help to research fracking facts
Mid Sussex Times
JPCT 200112 Green Euro-MP Keith Taylor visits Balcome to support anti-fracking protestors. Mr Taylor with campaigner Vanessa Vine. photo by derek martin BALCOMBE Parish Council is forming a working group to investigate the proposed shale fracking ...
TN MOVING STORIES: House Blasts Feds Over Chevy Volt Battery Fire ...
Transportation Nation
(Bloomberg) Hydraulic fracturing — fracking — has produced so much gas that the price is at a ten-year low. (NPR) Maryland's Montgomery County wants to use bus rapid transit, not rail, for its Corridor Cities Transitway project.
New Fracking Rules in Texas Will Require Chemical, Water Logs
Boise Weekly
Opponents and supporters of hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, are keeping a close eye on Texas, where the controversial method of injecting high-pressured fluids has been a common practice in leading to a natural-gas boom in the Lone Star ...
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Halliburton: Clean Fracking May Lead To 40% Growth In 2012
Seeking Alpha
With such upside potential, the largest obstacle is the political pressure and criticism connected to "fracking." If you are unfamiliar with this term: The fracking process involves pumping millions of gallons of water, sand, and over 900 toxic ...
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Pocono Record
Two oft-mentioned issues: Even if only 0.5 percent of fracking fluid contains hazardous constituents, that is 500 parts per million —100 to 1000 times higher than drinking water standards. To the claim that stronger or more reliable casing prevents ...
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Exclusive: Ministers slammed over fracking
The Independent
The Government has been accused of "appalling complacency" after it emerged that not a single minister has met with the Environment Agency's experts to discuss the hugely controversial gas exploration technique known as fracking. ...
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The dangers associated with fracking are not worth it
Mansfield News Journal
Just look at the ills from this method called “fracking” in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Colorado, Texas and, in particular, the city of Pavilion, Wyo. Jobs? I don't think so, unless it is from cleaning up sites and capping wells. ...
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Water totals to be included in Texas fracking disclosures
Bizjournals.com
When new Texas hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, disclosure rules in go into effect Feb. 1, drillers will have to reveal the amount of water needed for each oil and gas well in addition to reporting chemicals used in the process. ...
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End fracking waiver from Clean Water Act
Allentown Morning Call
The 2005 federal energy law contained a waiver of the Clean Water Act for companies that use hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to release greater quantities of natural gas from the stone that contains it. In the rush to give us more access to domestic ...
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Fracking Companies Employing Psy-Ops Specialists for PR Campaigns Against ...
Firedoglake
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a disturbing story today about how fracking companies are employing counter-insurgency and psy-ops experts to manage criticism of them from activists and the media. Marcellus Shale gas drilling spokesmen at an industry ...
Cuomo: No Fracking Funds in Budget Proposal (w/ video)
Politics on the Hudson (blog)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposal will not include any funding for additional gas-drilling regulators, he said Monday. Speaking after delivering remarks at a Martin Luther King Jr. remembrance ceremony, Cuomo told reporters he won't move to add the ...
Bulgarian protestors demand ban on shale gas
EurActiv
Protestors rallied in more than six Bulgarian cities on Saturday (14 January) calling for a moratorium on 'fracking' - shale gas tests using hydraulic fracturing - and demanding a new law to ban unconventional drilling for gas in the country. ...
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'Breaker-Breaker:' Fracking and trucking safety and security
Towanda Daily Review
It has been estimated that at some specific gas wells it is not unusual to inject into the ground several million gallons of fluids during "fracking." As we all know and can see happening around us obviously, these fluids are trucked in and out of the ...
America's hidden 60 million barrel a day industry
Financial Post
Environmentalists and policymakers have raised concerns about the massive amount of water used fracturing oil and gas wells, and the resulting strain on local water supplies, as well as the safe disposal of fracking fluids and briny salt water brought ...
OUR OPINION: ND must lead on regulating fracking
Grand Forks Herald
Can the same be said for fracking rules? No. And over the months to come, the North Dakota Industrial Commission should act decisively to change that answer to yes. That means taking strong action on a lineup of issues, including new and unfamiliar ...
Cultures clash as fracking comes to the stockbroker belt
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
By Geoffrey Lean World Last updated: January 16th, 2012 You could call it a culture clash – or possibly a PR car crash. This week an American oilman came to town, or rather to a pretty Sussex village, and ran straight into the formidable combination of ...
The Essentials for the Necessary Transition to a Renewable Energy Economy
AlterNet
Natural gas production is being kept alive by the development of hyrdrofracturing technology, or “fracking." As AlterNet has reported, an official with New York State stated that fracking will contaminate water supplies. His is only the most recent ...
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What was the new word of 2011: Hacktivism? Fracking? Food porn?
ABC Online (blog)
Macquarie Dictionary editor Susan Butler spoke to Phil Clark about planking, fracking and hacktivism. Have a listen: You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. This is only a preview. ...
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Tom Bawden: Cheap gas – the benefits and dangers
The Independent
Every week somewhere in the world new evidence surfaces that confirms our worst fears about the environmental dangers of fracking. In the UK, the sole fracking operation was found to have been responsible for earthquakes in the Blackpool area and it ...
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Lismore Northern Star
A spokesperson for Metgasco repeated the company's argument that groundwater was safe from fracking. "I refer you to a December 5 quote by Mr Brad Mallard, the Executive Director of Mineral Resources and Energy at the Department of Trade & Investment, ...
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What is Clean, Abundant, Affordable and the Best Alternative Energy Source We ...
OilPrice.com
Problems, and there were fewer than one would think, were as much a "Drill First - Figure Out Regulations Later" attitude than and real technical issues with horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing "Fracking." The issues were traced to use of ...
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'The DEC must act responsibly to protect citizens and the environment'
The Photo News
Fracking involves huge quantities of water. Might using so much water, repeatedly pumping it in and out, repeatedly fracturing the rock beneath the ground, have some cumulative effects? How would fracking affect tourism, agriculture, land values? 3). ...
FTS sees railcar shortage for frack sand over next 12 months
FuelFix (blog)
(CHK), sees a shortage continuing through the year for railcars needed to haul fracking sand to wells. “Railcars are in very high demand,” Kevin McGlinch, senior vice president of FTS International, said in an interview today at its Fort Worth, ...
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Natural gas price plunge aids families, businesses
Southeast Missourian
7 against hydraulic gas drilling, or "fracking," outside the Philadelphia convention center Wednesday. NEW YORK -- The price of natural gas is plummeting at a pace that has caught even the experts off guard. A 35 percent collapse in the futures price ...
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Minister ordered to co-operate in fracking dispute
Legalbrief (subscription)
Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has been provisionally ordered by the North Gauteng High Court to make available information on the hydraulic fracking task team she set up, according to Rapport. The report notes the Treasure the Karoo Action ...
Juneau County Star-Times
The prize is so-called 'frac sand' - sand with certain properties that make it ideal for the process of 'fracking.' In fracking, oil and natural gas drillers inject a mixture of sand, water and chemicals into oil-bearing shale rock far underground to ...
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Hawke's Bay Today
Ms Mackey questioned whether hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" was part of TAG Oil's plans for the East Coast. Fracking involves injecting high-pressure water, sand and chemicals into rock structures to crack them open and keep them open, ...
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Important Geothermal Project at Newberry Volcano (Includes Hydroshearing)
CleanTechnica
In this full repost below, from sister site Planetsave, Michael Ricciardi gives us an intro to some of the (mild) controversy around geothermal hydroshearing (like hydrofracturing, or fracking, used to obtain natural gas, but not as severe for a couple ...
Geothermal Developers To Pump Water Into Volcano
RedOrbit
Hydroshearing is similar to the process known as hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — a process used to free natural gas from shale formation. But fracking uses chemically-enhanced fluids and creates huge fractures. Pumping fracking wastewater deep ...
Exponential growth in US economy seen coming
Examiner.com
When Mason pressed Feighner on safety issues with the practice of fracking to extract natural gas, Feighner replied those fears are groundless. “There really has not been a single documented case where ground water supply has been impacted due to ...
'Super fracking' going deeper to pump up oil, gas production
Arkansas Online (subscription)
By DAVID WETHE BLOOMBERG NEWS As regulators and environmentalists study whether hydraulic fracturing can damage the environment, industry scientists are studying ways to create longer, deeper cracks in the earth to release more oil and natural gas. ...
Niagarafallsreporter.com
There is no love lost between Kimble and Mayor Paul Dyster, whose nefarious plan to accept toxic wastewater created by the gas well fracking process at the city's sewer plant in order to generate revenue needed following his four disastrous years of ...
Anti-fracking forces gather in NS
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Fracking was also a concern of those at the Canso Causeway. Demonstrators there fear that plans to begin drilling an exploratory well near Lake Ainslie by mid-July will lead to hydraulic fracturing. Petroworth Resources Inc. of Toronto holds ...
Fracking debate heating up local town halls
Auburn Citizen
He said students arranged for both fracking proponents and opponents to speak, and capped off the event with a movie. At the end of the night, Gorr felt horrified. “I thought, 'Oh my God. If this is one-tenth as bad as what critics are saying, ...
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Fracking's side effects: Digging a deep hole?
San Antonio Express
We're talking about fracking — otherwise known as hydraulic fracturing, tapping oil and gas by injecting large amounts of water and chemicals into the ground. It is praised as a job creator par excellence or reviled as having no peer in ability to ...
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Hydraulic fracking threatens environment, property rights
Coshocton Tribune
Public meetings are being held to inform county residents of all the issues surrounding hydraulic fracking with the next being at 6 pm Jan. 19, in the Frontier Power meeting room, 770 S. Seventh St.
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Fracking in New York state: PRO
Utica Observer Dispatch
... usage in the fracking process will negatively impact existing uses and natural sustenance of our watersheds, and the economic benefits of shale gas development are short lived, largely out of state, and do not strengthen our energy independence. ...
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Hundreds protest fracking outside Statehouse
Hudson Hub-Times
"Living through the drilling and fracking phase of the most recent well was a truly terrifying experience," Frederick said. "... Twenty-four-seven, nonstop, we were subjected to such unbelievable levels of noise that you could only understand if you ...
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New Rapides Parish well uses controversial fracking technique to extract oil ...
Alexandria Town Talk
The well uses horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that concerns some environmentalists. Roy O. Martin III, part of the ownership of the well, says, “I truly believe that everything we're doing is environmentally sound ...
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Steve Israel: Earthquake claims heighten fracking debate
Times Herald-Record
The comment period for proposed state rules on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, ended last week. Jill Wiener and Bruce Ferguson, with other volunteers from Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, deliver boxes Wednesday containing over 10300 letters from ...
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Thousands protest Bulgaria 'fracking' plans
Outcome Magazine (blog)
They urged people to push the government to impose a ban on hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, the most commonly used method for shale gas exploration that opponents say might contaminate drinking water. The protestors marched on the government ...
After Battling Fracking and Cancer, Lucinda Lost, and Found
truthout
Her joy was in sustaining our farm against the threat of fracking. After Lucinda's ashes become a part of this piece of the good earth, it becomes sacred ground to me, and the company that owns the so-called "rights" to the gas in the shale below our ...
Strictly Business: Is this the year for fracking in NY?
Elmira Star-Gazette
I don't know if Twain was Strictly Business: Is this the year for fracking in NY? Opponents of hydraulic fracturing hold signs outside the Empire State Plaza Convention Center where New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will deliver his second State of the State ...
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Make the Finger Lakes a fracking-free zone
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
As the state Department of Environmental Conservation digests thousands of comments received before last week's deadline for weighing in on the natural gas-retrieval process known as hydraulic fracturing, one factor has become clear: the Finger Lakes ...
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Amarillo.com
The point of your editorial, that somehow the oil and gas completion technique of fracking is the culprit, is unfounded. The 60-year-old process is tried and true and is well regulated for environmental safety, especially in Texas. ...
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Finger Lakes Times
While expressing a pro-hydrofracking stance, the New York Farm Bureau is urging the governor to speed legislation allowing gas drilling in the state. In a recent letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state Farm Bureau President Dean Norton urged that gas ...
Term limits, gutting of home rule have blocked accountability
Columbus Dispatch
Ohio's debate over “fracking” — gas-drilling by high-pressure injection of water, chemicals, etc. — is the latest demonstration of two unhappy Statehouse facts. One is that legislative term limits let Ohio politicians off the hook for long-term ...
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Down To The Wire; States Continue Push for Plant
Wheeling Intelligencer
Casey is listed as the lead sponsor of the US Senate's version of the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act, more commonly known as the FRAC Act. If enacted, the act allows the US Environmental Protection Agency to regulate fracking ...
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Quakes increase drilling concerns
China Daily
More than 30 countries are now considering hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. But the practice has come under fire for its potential to pollute the air and contaminate drinking water. And the tremors in Youngstown and other shale-gas-producing areas ...
Why will oil prices stay high?
CNN (blog)
Natural gas though is a different issue, recently we have become or will soon become an exporter thanks to shale gas and fracking. If you want to ban all fracking than be prepared to pay more for natural gas and become a net importer. ...
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Fracking comments piled high; DEC will answer thousands of report responses
The Journal News | LoHud.com
ALBANY — Three days was all it took to double the state Department of Environmental Conservation's workload when it comes to hydraulic fracturing. Comments on the agency's proposed hydrofracking rules skyrocketed from 20800 on Monday to an estimated ...
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Evening Observer
In its horizontal fracking environmental impact statement currently out for public comment, the agency writes: "The Department proposes to limit permit issuance to match the Department resources that are made available to review and approve permit ...
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Arkansas Times (blog)
MORE DISCLOSURE ABOUT FRACKING: Texas is forcing more information into the open about chemicals used in fracking for gas? Is it possible that Texas could be more environmentally advanced than Arkansas? Judging by the Arkansas Legislative Shale Caucus, ...
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Mahoning Valley isn't the only Ohio area with recent seismic activity Another ...
Youngstown Vindicator
Injection wells are a disposal method for brine, a salty chemical byproduct of natural-gas fracking and oil drilling. The ODNR has said it does not believe deep injections triggered the small quakes near Marietta, but that has not stopped the state ...
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East Coast 'literally leaking oil and gas'
TVNZ
Mackey also questioned whether the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' was part of Tag Oil's plans for the East Coast. "An increasing number of governments around the world are reviewing or banning fracking because of concerns ...
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Next Big Future
Among the other problems identified with the process of “fracking” to extract natural gas, they have now been identified with increased releases of radioactive emissions. Toshiba has a device for removing 97% of radioactive material from soil and water ...
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New books make way to library shelves
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
... “The Smoke-Free Smoke Break” by Pavel G. Somov, “Midnight Rising” by Tony Horwitz, “Neptune's Inferno” by James D. Hornfischer, “Gas Drilling and the Fracking of a Marriage” by Stephanie C. Hamel, “Fodor's 2012 Alaska”, “Fodor's 2012 England”
'Occupy,' 2011 media word of the year
Press TV
GLM ranked the word 'fracking' third on the list. The term refers to the controversial method of extracting fossil fuels through hydraulic fracturing. Other words on the list include 'Drone' on the fourth place followed by 'Non-veg', 'Kummerspeck', ...
The Economist (blog)
Environmentalists, however, complain that although the law gives concession-holders potential buyout rights to properties where they might want to set up a drill, it says nothing about "fracking fluid"—the huge quantities of water and chemicals that ...
Occupy Wall Street interview: 'We know we're part of something bigger'
Green Left Weekly
I know many people who knew nothing about what “fracking” [hydraulic fracturing] was before, and are now “Fractivists” as part of Occupy Wall Street. Are there many young people involved from schools and universities? A lot of the schools are involved ...
How an Angry young man took a right turn
Sydney Morning Herald
... are ''not really telling the truth'', which is that ''fracking'' is an ''old technology''. Further, Anderson says, the major parties make policies ''on the run'', influenced by polls and ''reactionary'' anchors on conservative radio stations.
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At beginning of year, focus on facts and ignore guesswork
The News-Press
That increase is attributable to fracking, in which pressurized fluid is pumped into rock to get out more oil. Why are some quarters trying to get it banned? It's a story worth tracking. Dave Kamm is a Registered Investment Advisor representative with ...
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Officials expect event to remain popular
ThisWeekNews
Also, McDonald said, landowners in the eastern part of the county have been signing on to lease their land for fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, a mining process that uses pressurized fluid to create fissures in rocks to harvest petroleum or natural ...
Earnings Preview WFT, BHI, NBR, HAL, SLB
Live Trading News
Key Issues: The 2nd largest Oil-field services company, which is the top seller of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, services in North America, expects increased North American onshore drilling business to mitigate any slump in energy prices as ...
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Green Left Weekly
In NSW, more than 20000 people signed a petition for a Royal Commission into all effects of CSG activity, a moratorium on all CSG activity and an immediate ban on fracking. As the anti-CSG movement grows and broadens, governments are on the back foot. ...