Group goes door to door with hydrofracking petitions
Utica Observer Dispatch
By BRYON ACKERMAN A group of residents opposed to hydrofracking has gone door to door in towns and cities across the county obtaining signatures for petitions that are then submitted to municipal officials in an attempt to get moratoriums on ...
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Localities poised for fight on hydrofracking
Bizjournals.com (blog)
The city of Buffalo was among the first municipalities in New York state to draft anti-hydrofracking legislation and it appears many others are following suit. The ban in Buffalo may not be necessary because there is little likelihood of companies ...
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Riverkeeper Sees Environmental Victories in 2012
The Daily Chappaqua
2012 could also be the year that hydrofracking is practiced in an environmentally safe way, or not practiced at all, and a year when bacteria levels in the Hudson River improve so that it is always safe to swim in the Hudson when it is not raining. ...
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One way to wean us from natural gas
Syracuse.com (blog)
By Readers' Page Many of us are in denial about the relationship of using natural gas and hydrofracking. Bottom line: If we stop consuming natural gas, the need for hydrofracking disappears. Nearly everyone in the city of Syracuse is dependent on ...
Key funding for Central New York could be on tap in State of the State Wednesday
Syracuse.com
In Central New York, hydrofracking, the deep, horizontal drilling method used to extract natural gas, is among those tough issues. Supporters say the industry will bring thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenues. ...
Albany Times Union (blog)
He's cast himself as an arch-conservative and defender of gun owner rights but has staunchly opposed hydrofracking and now Hudson Valley Senator Greg Ball is going after industrial agriculture, complete with a You Tube video of a bull he apparently ...
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Where will water come from for drilling?
Syracuse.com (blog)
By Kathy Dauccio Since New York is still in the evaluation phase about hydrofracking, there are some lingering questions which I would like you to address. The first has to do with the large volume of water required. Each well requires on average 5.6 ...
EnviroPolitics Blog: Natural gas fracking has new PR problem ...
By Frank Brill
On the first morning of the 2012, public relations consultants for the natural gas industry woke to headlines reporting that a fracking-related well had triggered a magnitude 4.0 earthquake in Youngstown, Ohio. Its shaking was felt as far away as ...
EnviroPolitics Blog
Prof. John Nolon speaks to Marketplace about “fracking” in the ...
By newswire
The controversial practice of hydrofracture natural gas drilling, or “fracking,” may be coming to a suburb near you, according to a recent story on the American Public Media show Marketplace. According to the story, fracking “is actually making ...
Newswire
Health District column: Slow down on fracking decisions | The ...
You probably have heard the term 'fracking' and wondered what exactly the word means.
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Fracking Earthquake Connection Widens, Canada Getting Into It Big Time
SustainableBusiness.com
Officials in eastern Ohio ordered natural gas fracking to cease permanently in four fluid-injection wells after a 4.0 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake followed 10 smaller tremors during 2011, all centered around the wells. ...
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How fracking caused an Ohio earthquake
Christian Science Monitor
The 4.0 Ohio earthquake this weekend was a reminder that hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking,' can cause seismic faults to shift if not disposed of carefully. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer / January 2, 2012 The link between "fracking" and earthquakes was ...
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Fracking isn't worth the risks
The Journal News | LoHud.com
That's exactly what has happened in the current debate over the natural gas extraction method known as hydrofracking, better known as fracking. You've probably seen the mega-million-dollar advertising campaign, including rose-colored TV commercials ...
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Spandex-clad 'hero' stars in NY anti-fracking ad
Wall Street Journal
Moore says Tuesday the goal is to draw attention to fracking ahead of the Jan. 11 deadline for public comment on the Department of Environmental Conservation's proposed regulations. —Copyright 2012 AP.
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Do you think fracking causes earthquakes?
Wheeling Intelligencer
Fracking or injecting waste water, possibly or most likely. Serious quakes 4.5 or greater, who knows, not enough time to tell. Quakes under 4.5, most likely, but rarely damaging. Unnerving for an area not accustomed to ground movement. ...
On Our Radar: Quakes and Fracking
New York Times (blog)
The finding provides further evidence that the waste from the fracking process may have migrated from the well into deeper rock formations. [The New York Times] Coal producers post stock gains after a federal court ruling blocking the enforcement of ...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Colorado's New Fracking Rules
Huffington Post (blog)
First, the good: A few weeks ago, the State of Colorado passed the strongest rules in the United States for publicly disclosing what cancer-causing and other types chemicals are used in oil and gas fracking. In a ground-breaking and intense set of ...
What you missed over break: A fracking busy time
Athens NEWS
The new "fracking" method involves drilling thousands of feet down into a shale bed, then drilling out sideways in multiple directions. Once the drilling is complete, the operator pumps pressurized water, sand and chemicals underground to break up the ...
Info meeting on fracking held in Atlanta
Petoskey News-Review
ATLANTA — With oil and gas exploration here in Northern Michigan on the upswing again, the process of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is very much in the news these days. To learn more about this sometimes controversial issue, the Montmorency ...
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The Spokesman Review
With only a hint at the catastrophic consequences of fracking, the article undoubtedly passed muster of the only billionaires in the country who make big bankers look benign: oil and gas barons. Natural gas has long been a desirable alternative to ...
Total Buys $2.32 Billion Stake in Chesapeake's Natural Gas Shale Reserves
International Business Times
The techniques used in shale drilling -- better known as hydrofraulic fracturing or "fracking" -- have been cause for concern among environmentalists and others who say it can harm the environment and drinking water, and even be a precursor to ...
Fracking must not harm any New York citizens
Syracuse.com (blog)
By Readers' Page I have one simple request: Make a decision on the extent and type of shale gas extraction that will be beneficial in New York, in all ways, to all of this great state's residents. Your decision needs to be based solely on the facts ...
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Welcome to Frackistan, the place that once was ideal
Athens NEWS
By Laura Post How many times would you guess you've heard the word "fracking" in 2011? Most might say enough. This is good. This means our community is engaging in communication, and this communication builds an even stronger community. ...
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Sephora Haertel: No way fracking is safe
Summit Daily News
Mr. Schafer concludes “data in the EPA report make it clear that fracking is safe.” The report findings do not show hydrofackiing is safe (show some independence and read the report yourself). EPA's press release states “EPA found low levels of ...
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Energy's 10 big questions for 2012 - Court puts cross-state rule on ice - Iowa ...
Politico
Now the EPA faces tough choices over planned greenhouse gas rules for power plants, air standards for fracking wells and new water rules for power facilities. And as the agency's regulators write, its lawyers will be busy as well, as nearly every major ...
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Hydraulic fracturing implicated in pollution of US groundwater.
AFP
New findings from the US Environmental Protection Agency suggest "fracking" could cause contamination, even though the drilling usually takes place thousands of feet below the water table. Regulators in Colorado have just voted to approve new rules ...
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Municipalities pass "home rules" against fracking
YNN Hudson Valley
State environmental regulators are still working on a review of natural gas drilling, but in addition to this "home rule" tactic, pending legislation could make fracking illegal in some parts of New York State. Permits for new gas wells have been on ...
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Editorial: Biased leadership must look at facts on fracking
Winston-Salem Journal
DENR has announced it will have a set of recommendations on the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to draw natural gas trapped in rock formations underground. Members of the Republican legislative leadership have already ...
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Swings and roundabouts on fracking the Karoo
Business Day (blog)
Sue, Shell had better not mess with those Karroo farmers. Water is a helluva lot more important than the revenues from gas. Besides, isn't it time we took a serious look at alternatives to fossil fuels ? We (mankind) put a man on the moon close on 42 ...
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Gasfrac Energy Services: Fracturing Game Changer
Seeking Alpha
What is unique about Gasfrac is that unlike all other fracturing or fracking companies such as Nabors Industries (NBR), Calfrac Well Services (CFWFF.PK) or Trican Well Services (TOLWF.PK) who use water as the fracturing fluid, the company uses liquid ...
2012 prediction: North Dakota will produce more oil than Alaska
Alaska Dispatch
The recent federal announcement that the process for extracting shale oil, hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), was likely responsible for water pollution will influence pending environmental regulations, according to the Journal: The new year should ...
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The Greenest Propaganda Grows in New York
Global Warming (blog)
This flagrant instrument of green propaganda alleges that the “environmental damage” created by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), the contentious natural gas extraction process that involves blasting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals underground ...
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The year ahead: 2012, through our crystal ball
The Unionville Times
Will fracking worries lead to school funding problems in Unionville? Local race for Congress could make national headlines By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com We've spent the last few days reviewing the top stories of 2011 — a pretty easy ...
Heed drilling warnings from Pennsylvania
Syracuse.com (blog)
It wasn't about Phil the groundhog, but the well-established blight of fracking. Big oil companies, like Mobile-Exxon, Shell and BP have absorbed the smaller outfits, their armies of lawyers renegotiating previously signed leases in ways more favorable ...
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NY greens' anti-drilling baloney
New York Post
But those alternatives proved unrealistic — even as natural gas has become plentiful, thanks to dramatic advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The developments made a shambles of the green dream. ...
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Fed to publish short-term rate forecasts
FuelFix (blog)
Pipe Threader: The fracking process can very well cause an earthqwake. It is almost as bad as an earthqwake itself.... BigO: So, much like in Arkansas where the state permitted a bunch of disposal wells going into a formation with a...
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Montana's Supreme Court Blocks Citizens United ...
truthout
In today's On the News segment: The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated the New Year by reoccupying Zuccotti Park late Saturday night, natural gas “fracking” just caused an earthquake in Ohio over the weekend, the Supreme Court of Montana blocked ...
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Moratorium on drilling is good decision
Longmont Daily Times-Call
Oil and gas exploration companies that use "fracking" to extract those resources from formations deep beneath the Front Range rightfully argue that chemically charged fluids are pumped deep beneath the water table, that well bores are lined and that ...
'Fracking' blamed for rare earthquakes
The INDsider
Now, fracking — the controversial process used to extract natural gas from thousands of feet below the earth's surface — has been linked to a series of rare earthquakes in Ohio and other states, the most recent of which occurred in Youngstown, ...
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Fracking critics will share floor with industry reps at Duke University confab
News & Observer
By John Murawski - jmurawski@newsobserver.com Duke University, known for its advocacy of global warming and environmental sciences, is adding "fracking" to its repertoire and holding a conference next week on the topic in Durham. The Jan. ...
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Health District column: Slow down on fracking decisions
Chillicothe Gazette
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a method of drilling for and recovering natural gas from layers of shale located thousands of feet below the earth's surface. Apparently, in eastern Ohio and parts of southeastern Ohio, there's a lot of natural gas ...
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Hector agrees to fracking meeting after third request
Ithaca Journal
This is a conservative town, and all of the other conservative towns aren't concerned with fracking. There's no legal way to stop it." Dickens has said that, personally, he does not want to see fracking come to the Town of Hector "until they can come ...
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Fracking 101: Schools consider training for potential oil, gas jobs
Circleville Herald
AP Photo RW Sidley Company owner Rob Sidley stands in front of a pile of crushed rare conglomerate silica sand Dec. 20 in Thomson, Ohio, that can be processed into a wide variety of products including silica sand used to frack wells. ...
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NY gas drilling opponents aim for local bans
Wall Street Journal
At issue is hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, which critics say could poison water supplies, while the natural-gas industry says it's been used safely for decades. The DEC is taking public comment on its environmental impact review and ...
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Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well
Slashdot
To where your fracking where there are no oil wells just to see if you can get results. This would save lives. And it's a hard argument to say that pumping water at relatively low pressures and total energies (compared to what exists already) is ...
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Shale gas controversy gripped province
Times and Transcript
BY BRENT MAZEROLLE A few weeks ago, New Brunswick's interim opposition leader Victor Boudreau told a reporter in the Times & Transcript's legislature bureau a story that may capture the extent to which hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" has captured ...
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Industry: Pavillion report won't affect Niobrara play
Wyoming Tribune
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the process of using pressurized liquids to create and hold open fractures in a formation in order to extract oil and gas. Opponents of the practice argued the EPA's report is the first solid proof that links ...
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Fracking-water disposal halted after Ohio quake
NWAOnline (subscription)
By HENRY FOUNTAIN THE NEW YORK TIMES An official in Ohio said Sunday that the underground disposal of waste water from natural-gas drilling operations would remain halted in the Youngstown area until scientists could analyze data from the most recent ...
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Environment gave us some great stories
Delaware News
Biggest Ohio story: Fracking, here, there and everywhere. An energy bonanza, it's best considered as a way to buy time until we get to a post-fossil-fuel era. Will we slow down and put good research and solid safety regulations in place first, ...
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NY fracking opponents focus efforts on local bans
Seattle Post Intelligencer
ALBANY, NY (AP) — As state environmental regulators finish a review of shale gas drilling in New York, opponents of gas well "fracking" are taking a local approach, enacting zoning and planning laws that ban the practice. This "home rule" tactic will ...
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New York Post
All the action is on the Pennsylvania side of the border, where fracking — the process by which natural gas is extracted by blasting rock with high-pressure water and chemicals — is both legal and flourishing. And it turns out that even tiny Chemung ...
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Oil boom severly straining North Dakota economy
Minnesota Public Radio
Fracking is a critical part of recovering oil in North Dakota. State officials say in North Dakota, fracking happens two miles below the surface, far from any groundwater. The state Legislature set aside $1 million to sue the EPA if new regulations ...
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Colorado passes robust fracking chemical disclosure rule
Lexology (registration)
This is the strictest such rule in the country, primarily because it does not offer the carte blanche trade secrets protection available for fracking chemicals in many states. The new disclosure rule is the product of collaboration between state ...
In Iowa, Clown Car Hits Bumps on Super-PAC Highway
Esquire (blog)
Fracking is a real issue. Over the weekend, Ohio suspended fluid disposal at five sites, trying to determine if the disposal of the waste products produced by fracking had touched off 11 earthquakes last year in and around Youngstown. ...
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Top U.S. Export for 2011 Was Fuel; U.S. Gas Prices at Record High
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
At a time when oil and gas projects and processes, from fracking to tar sands extraction to the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, are points of contention among environmentalists, labor leaders, Tribal leaders, Republicans and Democrats, the fact that the ...
2011 In The Rear-View Mirror: Objects May Be Closer Than They Appear
Cleantech Blog (blog)
Shale gas and fracking. A chorus of ardent proponents of natural gas development, most vocally Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) — the largest player in the shale gas game – is repeatedly chanting the mantra that shale gas is ...
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Bellingham group bemoans proposed coal trains
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The Bellingham group is taking its cue from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which was involved in a successful 2010 effort to get the Pittsburgh, Pa., City Council to ban fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, for natural gas ...
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Times and Transcript
Indeed, few issues have sparked debate in New Brunswick like that of natural gas exploration and hydraulic fracking. At year's end, New Brunswickers are split in their opinion of shale gas exploration with 45 per cent in favour, 45 per opposed and 10 ...
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Youngstown Vindicator
2011 produced many opportunities for mem- orable images throughout the Valley, from protesters against fracking, to an Austintown man who is getting a new face and a new lease on life, to the changing of the mayoral reins in Youngstown, ...
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There is untold potential for the area lying underground
Youngstown Vindicator
And, increasingly, there are claims and counter claims as to the safety and long-term effects of the extraction method known as fracking. The controversy has literally shaken Youngstown, with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources ordering cessation ...
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10 quick news items to know this morning
Utica Observer Dispatch
As state environmental regulators finish a review of shale gas drilling in New York, opponents of gas well "fracking" are taking a local approach, enacting zoning and planning laws that ban the practice. 3. Authorities search park as gunman remains ...
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What are the key words you'll need to get by in 2012?
Newsworks.org
Was "fracking" anything but a swear word on Battlestar Galactica? What about tiger blood, Kate Middleton, Hunter Pence and many other names, phrases and things that became household terms around here in 2011? As a new year dawns, we want to help you ...
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Gastar Plans 24 Wells For Marshall County
Wheeling Intelligencer
Gastar has finished fracking the Simms 1H, 2H and 3H wells, while the company is now fracking three wells on the Hall pad. In addition, Gastar finished drilling six more horizontal Marcellus wells. "We are pleased with the early production rates from ...
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Newsworks.org
Flash mobs? Fracking? Or tiger blood, Kate Middleton, Hunter Pence and many other names, phrases or things that became household terms around here in 2011? As a new year dawns, WHYY and NewsWorks.org want to help you get a jump on the key words of 2012.
A Greeting For 2012: Looking Back At Durban And Other Progressive Failures ...
CounterCurrents.org
"Fracking," even if it could be done "cleanly," is for economic reasons, one more pound of nails in the earth's coffin. 10. Last but perhaps more appropriately first, the UN recently admitted for the first time that its projected world population of 9 ...
Black River Valley Concert Series opens Jan. 14
WatertownDailyTimes.com
He's sung “No Fracking Way” at rallies in several states and the song has been played at events as far away as Ireland and Australia. He also wrote and recorded “Sometime a Spark,” a song that tells the story of Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian man who ...
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5 Stocks Seeing New Bullish Investor Interest
Seeking Alpha
While the technology revolves around a process known as fracking (hydraulic fracturing), the company is geographically diversified, having large operations everywhere from Brazil to Saudi Arabia. The company's excellent management and investor ...
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LETTERS: Too bad society has failed; A backward little town; and more such cheer
Colorado Springs Gazette
17 guest column “A blessing in disguise for fracking advocates”, I felt compelled to write. What is the Independence Institute anyway? I could not find much on their funding sources, but did find that Schafer used to be a petroleum engineer for Energy ...
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Ohio earthquakes generate fracking concerns
CBC.ca
But after the latest tremor, Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Jim Zehringer told reporters that fracking, used to extract the gas, is not causing the quakes. "The seismic events are not a direct result of fracking," he said. ...
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Greedy governor responsible for fracking waste in our county
Mansfield News Journal
By now we all know that the new storage wells for fracking brine are a done deal. This is not just a problem for Mansfield, but also our county and state. As a county, we are already receiving trash for our landfills from out of state, and now we will ...
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Let's take some edge off fracking debate
Times Herald-Record
"I don't like fracking either, but why should we care that actors are against it? Should this impact what we think and should we value it more than the average person? Who cares? In this dancing with the stars society, we need to get away from these ...
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Casper Star-Tribune Online
In comments to a Bloomberg TV news show, she said the oil and gas industry practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may have been responsible for the contamination of water at Pavillion, home to a few hundred people in west-central Wyoming. ...
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4.0 earthquake strikes in northeast Ohio
USA TODAY
The brine wastewater comes from drilling operations that use the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale. But Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Jim Zehringer said during a news teleconference that fracking is not ...
Put these 10 stories on your radar this year
News & Observer
Fracking could become a reality in North Carolina this year if lawmakers can overcome environmental concerns and legalize the natural gas exploration technology. Enthusiasts are eager to tap into an estimated four-decade supply of the clean-burning ...
Surface water use urged for 'fracking'
Ruston Daily Leader
The bottom of the Smackover Formation is soon to be the test depth for new horizontal drilling. Southwestern Energy Production has almost finished drilling the Robinson 18-19 # 1-15H in Columbia County, Ark. The company on Sept. ...
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Occupy Mansfield Protest Attracts More Than 40 Ohioans
North Central Ohio
Occupy Mansfield sponsored a "Memorial for the City of Mansfield, A Casulty of Fracking" in downtown Mansfield this past weekend. Group Facilitator Bill Baker says if we don't stop waste water from coming in the area could become a desolate landscape ...
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Make your voice heard on hydrofracturing
Auburn Citizen
There's been a moratorium on high volume hydrofracture drilling for natural gas in New York state while this supposedly thorough analysis of fracking's impact has been drafted. The dSGEIS is 1000-plus pages long, and the public was given several months ...
All eyes focused on 2012's issues
Buffalo News
Heated debates over politics, fracking and gambling are bound to hold our attention in the new year By Maki Becker The White House is up for grabs. Two Congressional seats will disappear from the state. The second Democrat to be elected Erie County ...
Ten in '12: What to Watch For in 2012
Longmont Daily Times-Call
Hydraulic fracturing -- "fracking" -- is the process in which a mixture of water, sand and chemicals is pumped into a well at a very high pressure to force natural gas out of rock. The process has been used for decades but has come under intense ...
More storms on the way unless we learn to manage the land
Sydney Morning Herald
On the other great issue facing farmers, coal seam gas mining, and the practice of extraction by hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, Andrews also has strong views. ''Fracking is exceptionally dangerous. Groundwater is the most critical thing in ...
Students take a global look at water
Yellow Springs News
Working with Green Environmental Coalition leader Vickie Hennessy this semester, Smith and Miller learned about the chemistry and mechanics of fracking and the process by which gas companies have attempted to lease private land to extract natural gas ...
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Youngstown Vindicator
Whether or not a brine-injection well for fracking fluids had some bearing on the Horizon League opener's peace, the game had the feel of a Subterranean League opener. One person it didn't rattle was YSU's Brandi Brown of earthquake-tested California. ...
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Construction projects, court cases, vacancy appointments: A busy 2012 is on ...
Daily Camera
Longmont City Council will have the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- in its crosshairs in 2012. Fracking is the process in which a mixture of water, sand and chemicals is pumped into a well at a very high pressure to ...
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Printed letters, January 1, 2012
Grand Junction Sentinel
I would like to share some thoughts on the recent decision by the BLM to open up tracts of land in the North Fork Valley to oil and gas exploration, and consequently, hydraulic fracturing, referred to as fracking. The recent front page article ...
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The Insider's fearless predictions for 2012
Crain's New York Business
Worst case: On the first day that fracking is allowed, a well blowout contaminates Binghamton's water supply. Actor Mark Ruffalo leads a shame campaign, and Occupy Wall Street slaps a “Governor Gas Leak” tag on Mr. Cuomo. The Insider predicts: Mr. ...
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SIDE STREETS: HOAs, blight, death made 2011 an interesting year
Colorado Springs Gazette
Neighborhoods learned a new word: fracking. And social media emerged as the neighborhood front porch of the digital age. The most frequent complaint I hear, year after year, involves homeowners association boards, covenants and allegations of abuse and ...
Predictions 2012: The Setting Sun, a New Dawn or Just Another Day?
UFODigest
For several years, I have predicted that hydraulic fracking will drain the precious water table in America, causing wells to go dry and eventually affecting entire towns and cities' water supplies right when fresh pure water is literally becoming the ...
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Press TV
Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower "For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the ...
Most important news story for the year 2011: NYT article
Examiner.com
And if New York State stops the Fracking moratorium, will the public have to compete with drilling companies for water during our dry summers? Sure there is a lot we don't know about Climate Change, but it is disingenuous of the extreme Republicans to ...
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4.0 earthquake strikes in northeast Ohio
Newsday
... ground near a fault line, creating enough pressure to cause seismic activity. The brine wastewater comes from drilling operations that use the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale. But Ohio Department of Natural Resources...
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Expect fireworks of all kinds in 2012: The Tribune takes a look at what the ...
Greeley Tribune
The US Environmental Protection Agency announced recently that fracking may be the cause of groundwater pollution that will be a concern looking into 2012. Heavy rain clouds move across the skies last week as an oil and gas pump fills the landscape ...
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Santa Maria Times
One of the most controversial developments was the discovery that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, was being conducted on wells on ranch lands in the Los Alamos area. The process, in which pressurized liquid is pumped into a wellbore so that the ...
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We've got the capacity for greatness
Shreveport Times
Especially devastating was one woman's wry observation of how private ponds that service hydraulic fracking operations in the Haynesville Shale miraculously managed to stay full while entire reservoirs — from Toledo Bend to Cross Lake — were drying ...
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Viewpoint: Wisconsin's sandstorm
Leader-Telegram
In addition, sand mined here is used to extract oil and natural gas elsewhere in the US in a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," that the Environmental Protection Agency says may be responsible for causing groundwater pollution. ...
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Top stories of 2011: How you voted
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Oil and gas exploration: Ultra Resources bought the bulk of the Banning Lewis Ranch and won approval to drill three exploratory wells using fracking. Suspended by the county, production could begin in January. The city enacted a six-month ban on ...
Youngstown Vindicator
Many Valley residents with large tracts of land stand to make a lot of money by leasing their mineral rights to drilling companies, but the question that still has not been answered fully relates to the environmental impact of fracking — a process of ...
A look back: The top local news of 2011
Monterey County Herald
A Santa Barbara oil company drops its plan to drill for oil and gas on three parcels near Bradley using hydraulic fracturing — the controversial drilling method also known as "fracking." Sixteen people are voluntarily arrested after blocking the ...
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Earthquake Shakes Valley, Epicenter Near Injection Well
WKBN/WYFX-TV
After experts originally reported the earthquake epicenter to be in McDonald, a few hours later the location changed to within a tenth of a mile of the same well site, leaving those in our area wondering if fracking is to blame. ...
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2011 -- A year of raging storms
Lancaster Newspapers
Marcellus Shale: The pace of natural gas fracking exploded last year in northern Pennsylvania, which became the epicenter of a national dialogue over the boom. About 3900 wells now pierce the ground, up from one in 2004. ...