March 16th - 31st 2012
Kasich proposes unconstitutional tax hike on fracking waste
Plunderbund
By dirtgirl On March 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment Last week, the Kasich administration quietly introduced a five-fold tax increase on the disposal of chemical-laced fracking wastewater from other states. Disposal of Ohio brine will cost ten times less.
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Official raps fracking critics after sponsored trip
Stuff.co.nz
A local body official hosted in Canada by oil exploration officials has accused the anti-fracking movement of spreading misinformation. Apache Corp – which along with fellow Canadian company TAG Oil – is behind a proposed development which aims to ...
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Group Fighting To Protect Mohican Complex From Fracking
WMFD.com
Mohican Advocates Inc. is voicing their opposition about the Ohio legislature's intention to open state parks to fracking and logging operations. The group held a public forum over the weekend at the Gorman Nature Center in Mansfield to discuss how the ...
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Fracking event today at King of Glory Church
Gateway News
A Shalersville group will host a meeting to discuss protection for water, air and land from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for natural gas at 7 pm this evening at the King of Glory Church, 1667 Route 303, next to the Streetsboro Post Office.
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News & Observer
The release of a state agency's draft report on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the drilling technique used to unlock natural gas (and oil) in underground shale-rock formations, offers a hefty helping of answers. Many are tentative, awaiting further ...
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Mohican Advocates oppose fracking
Mansfield News Journal
MANSFIELD -- The Mohican State Park, Malabar Farm State Park, Mohican Memorial State Forest and Pleasant Hill Lake continue to be threatened with drilling for oil, fracking and commercial logging operations. The Ohio State Legislature voted in 2011 to ...
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A Man Named Fritz, A Process Called Fracking . . . And Your Front Lawn
eNews Park Forest
A technology known as hydraulic fracturing — or “fracking” — allows companies to essentially drill down and shatter the rock formations below ground. This releases natural gas that was previously unavailable. And this isn't just in theory.
The hot button topic of fracking was addressed at a community meeting in ...
NewsNet5.com
BRECKSVILLE, Ohio - The hot button topic of fracking was addressed at a community meeting in Brecksville Saturday. Fracking continues to be an issue in Ohio and Mothers Against Drilling In Our Neighborhoods (MODION) held a public discussion about the ...
Energy Mullahs on Rampage in Alaska, Pennsylvania, Ban Doctors from Discussing ...
OpEdNews
The industry's intention to stop public discussion of health risks is being buttressed by certain high-profile politicians, including Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett -- whose state is at the center of a rush to "fracking' development of it's ...
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Safe drinking water demands rigorous government inspection of natural gas drilling
Montgomery Advertiser
The process is commonly known as fracking. The sand flows into the newly developed fractures and holds them open, allowing the oil and gas to flow to the well and be extracted. This can be done several times during the life of the well.
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FRACKING: Corruption a Part of Pennsylvania's Heritage
Democratic Underground
by WALTER BRASCH The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land in rural and agricultural areas for mineral ...
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Resolve issues before giving OK to fracking
Syracuse.com (blog)
By Readers' Page It is with more than a little bit of skepticism that I am following the hydrofracking debate in New York state. First the industry indicates that the process is 100 percent safe, with no chance of accidents or problems to possibly be ...
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Southern Pines Pilot
In my opinion, fracking is worth the risk, as many more would benefit than be harmed. Rational regulations should be in place to minimize risk. Even the governor is on board. Fracking has worked well in Pennsylvania, northeastern Ohio and North Dakota.
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Tax plan could put Kasich over a barrel -- of oil
Toledo Blade
The budget plan Mr. Kasich proposed this month would raise the state tax on oil and natural-gas extraction, in anticipation of the fracking boom he predicts is just around the corner in Ohio. The governor would use the proceeds from that tax hike to ...
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Cost puts nuclear plants in doubt
Utility Products
Credit for that goes to the success of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." The process uses chemicals, water and sand to drill through shale rock to release trapped gas. Huge shale reserves could provide enough natural gas to fuel America for nearly ...
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Position yourself now for Utica Shale wealth
Coshocton Tribune
Fracking has been going on since the 1950s, but new technology has made it easier to extract oil and gas now. It used to take 16 wells all spread out on a square mile. They now can reach the same ground with five wells in one part of the square mile.
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Deep concern: Environmentalists question groundwater risks
The Tribune-Democrat
The two Somerset wells are among just eight in the state and ostensibly contain brine and other ingredients of “fracking” fluid. The polluted water is being shot so deep into stable rock formations – for permanent storage – that it shouldn't damage the ...
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New South Wales CSG regulations bring certainty for miners, but not communities
The Conversation
In December 2010 the then-Labor NSW state government introduced a moratorium on gas well fracking. They also told the NSW Office of Water to regulate the water impacts of gas exploration, which to that… Garry Willgoose has been a paid consultant to ...
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A Game-Changer for Natural Gas?
Motley Fool
The piece pointed to an emerging consensus that faulty well design, and not fracking, might be responsible for groundwater contamination associated with natural gas production. Mike analyzes what this means for companies in the industry and mentions a ...
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Ohio gas drilling raises concern over water supply
WFMJ
The drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, injects millions of gallons of chemical-laced water into the earth at high pressure to free gas. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/GPdQir ) reports one energy company has an agreement ...
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GOP Senate candidates outline energy plans
WXOW.com
Eric Hovde says in addition to drilling, restrictions need to be loosened on [hydraulic] fracking: a process used to break loose deposits of oil and natural gas. "There was only one case where fracking was shown to do anything to ground water," Hovde ...
We should put more energy into conserving it
TheChronicleHerald.ca
As we grapple with rising fuel prices, fret over fracking, and wring our hands over the safety of offshore oil and gas exploration and production, there is another source of energy out there. It is clean, safe, relatively cheap and in great abundance.
Wooster Daily Record
John Kasich, talking about his plan to increase the severance taxes on fracking production and use the proceeds to implement a corresponding decrease in the state's income tax rates "Our graduates are having great success, and they are sharing ...
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Symposium Speakers Enlighten, Irritate
NWAOnline (subscription)
By Fran Alexander In my ongoing effort to learn more about gas well fracking, it seemed logical to travel to Fort Smith for a two-day “Fayetteville Shale Symposium” last week. Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.
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Europe's Shale Gas 'Revolution': Why Russia Is Shrugging Its Shoulders
Oil and Gas Industry Latest News
The latter process – hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” – has spurred fears that it contaminates groundwater and could trigger subsidence and even earthquakes. A recent documentary film on the side effects of fracking making waves in the United States ...
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Kasich speaks to Chamber about education, energy, health care
Stow Sentry
As part of his mid-biennium budget bill, Kasich has proposed a plan that increases severance taxes on fracking while simultaneously decreases the state's income tax rates. He said the plan makes sure Ohioans benefit from the emerging horizontal ...
Occupy Christchurch apologises to hospital
3News NZ
Workshops are being run until 7pm to cover occupy politics and connected themes, including economics, democracy, the environment and fracking. Occupy Christchurch spokesman Rik Tindall says the camp was created with the best of intentions, ...
January oil production breaks records
Williston Daily Herald
The report credits warm, dry weather with increased fracking and increased production. The total rig count has risen very slowly, but daily production increased by 2-3 percent. Many new rigs are replacing older, less efficient rigs, according to Helms, ...
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Contrast Idaho's oil and gas victory to Wisconsin's mining defeat
The Idaho Statesman
Those rules are now among the top tier nationally for regulating drilling and the controversial fracking process, which is not expected to be used in southwest Idaho. The oil and gas industry never made this an all or nothing issue like the mining ...
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WI Bill Makes It Harder To Fight Frac Sand Mining
Care2.com (blog)
While there are other states with more natural gas than Wisconsin, the state's non-metallic mining laws and geography make it the perfect place to harvest the sand needed for fracking. There are already about 60 frac sand mines operating in Wisconsin ...
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Fresno Bee
Technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling have made it possible for Americans to produce their own oil and gas as never before. We can pump oil with less environmental damage than can Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria.
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With new technology, new opportunities
Edmonton Journal
Indeed, the move to in situ production has mushroomed, just as new fracking techniques have also changed the industry. "Related to that, there's this huge increased focus on the environment, it's growing exponentially. In Alberta we're going to have ...
ESG closer to 'God's work' than obsession with profits
Independent Online
Take, for example, fracking for petroleum gas in the Karoo. Yes it will create jobs, yes it could be good for the economy, but what is the environmental impact? A nice part of ESG is that it will bring increasing pressure on financial services ...
Public 'fracking' meeting to be held in Chapel Hill
Greensboro News & Record
The NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources has already released a draft of that report that says hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," can be done safely in the state, as long as the right protections are in place, according to a news ...
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Gov. Jerry Brown says he's studying 'fracking' in California
Los Angeles Times
Jerry Brown on Friday said that he was taking a closer look at a controversial method of oil extraction known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," as he seeks to help California maintain its role as one of the country's top crude producers.
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California's Brown Says He'll Consider Fracking Standards
BusinessWeek
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, frees trapped oil and gas by injecting water, chemicals and sand underground at high pressure. Environmental groups say fracking contaminates drinking water and pollutes the air. States including Ohio, Pennsylvania ...
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Carroll: New front in fracking wars
Denver Post
Heaven knows that critics of fracking could use a new weapon in their arsenal of fear mongering. The main one they've relied upon for years — the alleged threat of groundwater pollution — has nearly run its course. If fracking fluids were able to ...
What's Fracking Have To Do With It?
Chapelboro.com
by Mark Marcoplos - Local Issues, posted Mar 24 2012 7:00AM The fracking drum is beating louder. Many of us first heard about it when the movie “Gasland” came out, with its shocking footage of a man lighting his tap water on fire.
Larry Dolphin: Fracking requires extensive environmental review
Post-Bulletin
It is being transported to various locations in the southern, eastern, and western United States to be used for hydro-fracking. However, hydro-fracking itself is a controversial natural gas extraction method that has potential devastating impacts on ...
Brown Talks Green: Nuclear Power, Fracking and the High Speed Rail System in ...
The Bottom Line
Governor Brown admitted that when he had started hearing about fracking, the process of mining natural gas from deep underground, he “called up one of our leading oil companies and said 'what's the story on fracking?'” “Well,” the nameless executive ...
What the frack? Obama administration admits fracking risks unknown
Examiner.com
In a report released by the Government Accountability Office on March 22 2012, the federal government revealed that it currently does not know the safety risks associated with unregulated pipelines used in fracking. The 41 page GAO report, ...
DRIESSEN: Facts, not fears, should govern fracking
Washington Times
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is being used successfully in the United States and elsewhere to coax oil and natural gas from shale and other rock formations that previously refused to yield their hydrocarbon riches.
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Fracking: Corruption a Part of Pennsylvania's Heritage
The Public Record
By Walter Brasch Final installment in Walter Brasch's three-part series on fracking. Read part one here and part two here. The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and ...
Group to Pitch Anti-Fracking Law to Kent Council
Patch.com
Any Kent residents who are interested in supporting the pro-human rights and fracking ban are advised that the public is allowed to attend the city council meeting. "We've been circulating petitions only for several weeks and eight out of 10 people ...
Fracking report runs into flak
BusinessLIVE
The battle for the Karoo is heating up in the wake of this month's Shell-funded Econometrix report that suggested exploiting shale gas will bring R200-billion to the economy and create 850000 jobs. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) called it a ...
Pickens: Look at history of fracking for guidance
MarketWatch (blog)
If you want to see the effects of fracking, take a look at what's happened in the Great Plains region, says noted oilman T. Boone Pickens. Fracking already takes place in parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas — some below the surface of the Ogalalla ...
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Public perception taints company
Youngstown Vindicator
By Karl Henkel An oil and gas industry official says the public is not ready for treated fracking wastewater to re-enter the ecosystem, despite Patriot Water Treatment LLC's approved water-treatment technology. Tom Stewart, executive vice president of ...
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The 'F' Word: Unregulated Fracking at Oil Wells Raising Concerns
KCET (blog)
California is the fourth largest producer of oil and gas in the nation, and companies are turning to controversial techniques like fracking. The industry would like to keep facts about the process buried, but it's got residents scared.
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Learn more on fracking impact with music, documentary
Asheville Citizen-Times
BLACK MOUNTAIN — Local environmental and faith organizations will come together Friday for a public information gathering on fracking in Western North Carolina. Learn more about the extraction method, potential impacts across the state, the political ...
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Kasich calls for fivefold hike in brine tax
Youngstown Vindicator
John Kasich's latest proposal to quintuple taxes on out-of-state fracking wastewater. Kasich's proposal, included in Senate Bill 315, calls for a 10-cents-per-barrel tax on all injected fracking wastewater that originates from Ohio and a $1-per-barrel ...
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AbsoluteWealth.com Article Says Report will Teach Any Investor How to Make ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The newest article from AbsoluteWealth.com said that's why its subscription program, the Independent Wealth Alliance, has produced the latest Special Report "Sideways Oil: How "Fracking" is Re-Establishing the US as an Oil Power and How You Can Profit.
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Things will get stranger in state government
Youngstown Vindicator
John Kasich is locked in a showdown with Republicans in the Ohio House and Senate, who are balking at his plan to increase tax rates on horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, activities while decreasing income tax rates by the same amount.
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Does fracking hurt the environment or help energy costs?
Fox Business
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Spring brings water management issues to fore
Calgary Herald
The majority of the public concern about fracking and water has been about the potential for the chemicals used in the process to contaminate drinking water supplies. The volume of water used in fracking is another issue. This month, the head of Royal ...
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Natural Gas Wells Proliferation Poisoning Children's Air, Research Suggests
Huffington Post
According to many public health experts, the natural and manmade chemicals released during drilling, hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) and reinjection steps are making more and more people sick. Adding to the concern are new findings showing the ...
New Pennsylvania Law Prohibits Doctors From Telling Patients About Fracking ...
EnergyBoom
The environmental and public health effects of tapping unconventional gas reservoirs through the "fracking" process have been a topic of serious concern in the United States. Pennsylvania sits on a major swath of the Marcellus Shale, America's bastion ...
HOFFMAN: Random thoughts on the energy industry
Grand Junction Free Press
Word out of the University of Texas and Stanford University is that fracking is completely safe. Research, which was generally favorable toward the energy industry, was completed in areas near fracking operations plagued with groundwater contamination.
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Mansfield official aims to tame drilling
Mansfield News Journal
After he began researching Preferred Fluids Management's plan to drill two injection wells on Mansfield's north side for disposal of out-of-state wastewater resulting from hydraulic fracturing, commonly called "fracking," the law director said he ...
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Ultra lays out Banning Lewis drilling plans
Pueblo Chieftain
Rogers said the pits would be used only for fresh water and not for fracking fluids or the briney water that often comes up with oil and gas from deep underground. That contaminated water would be either reused or disposed of in an injection well ...
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True proposes 2 wells on Wyo. Range leases
Jackson Hole News&Guide
The Forest Service did not say to what extent fracking might be involved, but it does acknowledge that potential effects on groundwater and nearby streams are of concern. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a water-intensive process that pumps large ...
Jerry Brown on California's Past, Present, and Future
Santa Barbara Independent
Characteristically no-nonsense, blunt, and engaging, Brown's lively 45-minute talk covered a range of topics, from past mistakes and this November tax ballot proposal to fracking, the Solyndra scandal, opening up trade with China, ...
No water? You don't have a farm
Gisborne Herald
The application is for a test bore which, according to Alex Ferguson, spokesman for Tag's partner company Apache, has “a 50:50 chance of requiring fracking”. Also this week, a petition was presented to Hawke's Bay Regional Council (HBRC) requesting the ...
Audit: Gas lines tied to fracking lack oversight
Wall Street Journal
AP SAN FRANCISCO — Government auditors say federal officials know nothing about thousands of miles of pipelines that carry natural gas released through the drilling method known as fracking, and need to step up oversight to make sure they are running ...
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Gov't audit: Safety risks tied to gas pipelines used in fracking process need ...
Washington Post
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government knows nothing about thousands of miles of pipelines that tap natural gas flows released through the drilling method known as fracking, and needs to step up oversight to ensure they are running safely, ...
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Outrage over 'insanity' of Shell South Africa fracking plans
CNN
By Victoria Eastwood, CNN Big energy companies proposed to start drilling for natural gas in the Karoo in South Africa, using a controversial drilling technique called fracking. Energy companies plan to start drilling for natural gas to help ease ...
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Gas lines tied to fracking lack oversight, audit states
Deseret News
By Garance Burke AP SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government needs to track safety hazards tied to unregulated pipelines tapping oil and gas released through the drilling method known as fracking, government auditors say. Thousands of miles of small ...
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BusinessWeek
By Mark Niquette on March 22, 2012 The nationwide boom in hydraulic fracturing—aka fracking—means energy-extraction companies in the US can produce thousands of barrels of oil and millions of cubic feet of natural gas from once-inaccessible places.
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Clintonville, Wis. mysterious loud booms caused by fracking?
Washington Post (blog)
“FRACKING?” a commenter wrote earlier this morning. “Funny that it's happened since fracking started,” wrote another later on. Dozens of readers on other sites wrote that they, too, thought fracking could be to blame. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, ...
Chapel Hill weighs anti-fracking stance
WRAL.com
The process, also known as "fracking," involves drilling horizontally into underground deposits of shale and then pumping a high-pressure mix of water and chemicals into a well to break apart the rock and release natural gas. The draft resolution notes ...
Billings Gazette
In 2010, Wyoming began requiring that operators disclose the ingredients in solutions used during the fracking process, in which water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground under pressure to crack open pathways for oil and gas to flow to the ...
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'Fracking' for oil likely to grow in Alaska
Juneau Empire
By Pat Forgey Boosting oil production with “fracking” is likely to help Alaska get more oil out of older or other challenged resources, legislators were told Thursday. Using the process formally called “hydraulic fracturing” but better known as ...
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Industry: Fracking study based on 'outlandish' assumptions
Glenwood Springs Post Independent
The report warns that those living within a half-mile of gas wells being hydraulically fractured, or “fracked,” are being exposed to potentially toxic chemicals. Fracking involves injecting large amounts of water, sand and chemicals deep underground to ...
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Gas industry tackles issues on 'fracking'
Montreal Gazette
Compared with the oil sands industry, the Canadian gas industry's use of hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking', has not faced the same wrath from environmentalists - yet. That could change as the activity picks up pace in the country and stories from the ...
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Fracking issue arrives in Avoca
Hornell Evening Tribune
Hearing presentations from both anti- and pro-drilling groups, such as the Steuben County Landowner's Coalition, could also be part of gathering information on the fracking issue. “We as a board, I think we should encourage (hearing presentations),” ...
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Commissioners Asked To Support Moratorium On Fracking
WMFD.com
She said the oil and gas industry has made every effort to convince people that fracking is safe, will create jobs and wealth. Fleming said the gas and oil industry fails to tell the public that fracking is a boom and bust cycle.
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Phelim McAleer, Pro-Fracking Filmmaker, Erects Billboard In Fracking Country
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer, who famously attacked Al Gore over global warming issues, stepped up his support for fracking on Thursday, erecting a billboard on Route 17 in Rock Hill, NY, on the road to Pennsylvania.
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NC environmental agency says fracking can be done safely
Watauga Democrat
... with Pittsboro-based nonprofit Rural Advancement Foundation International, to study the issue of oil and gas exploration in the state and to specifically focus on the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (also known as “fracking”).
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Industry: EPA fracking rules would reduce oil, gas production
Phoenix Business Journal
This method, known as fracking, involves pumping water, sand and chemicals underground at high pressure to crack open rock layers, thus giving wells access to oil or natural gas. Environmentalists oppose fracking, contending it wastes water and injects ...
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New anti-fracking ad takes aim at HB 1950
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
"Fracking and toxic waste ponds can be 500 feet close to our homes, schools, hospitals, day cares and water bodies. Noxious water processing plants can be 750 feet or closer." One of the bigger highlights of the new law was a revamping of local zoning.
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Letters: Gas industry tackles issues on fracking
Financial Post
Its the lack of enforced regulations that lead to sloppy practices where methane leaks from well heads especially between the fracking and extraction processes and some studies have indicated the possibility that when this effect is included in ...
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HAMILTON: It ain't about fracking, it's about process
Niagara Gazette
What dismayed me was that there were those who were inextricably married to a fanatic fixation on the subject of hydro-fracking, and missed the opportunity to use it as an example of unreasonable decision making. I agree that all of the questions ...
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NC Scientists Discuss State's Fracking Future
WXII The Triad
The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources last week released the results of its study that found the controversial method of natural gas drilling called fracking can be done safely if regulations are put in place first.
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Fracking Forum at Campbell Friday
WFjA Classic Hits and Oldies 105.5 FM
BUIES CREEK–Friday's fracking forum at Campbell University kicks off the first day of a three day NC Academy of Science meeting. Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, is not allowed now in North Carolina. Gas exploration companies have already ...
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Fearful residents in protest over future 'fracking' plan
This is Kent
The residents are concerned Cowden is being eyed for future fracking, having already been the site of an earlier test. CONCERNED: Residents of Furnace Lane in Cowden, who are concerned about the safety implications if the plan to do some fracking in ...
Atrocious anti-fracking movie 'Gasland' could discredit environmentalists
Allentown Morning Call
I kept hearing how well it illustrates the horrors of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the environmentally devastating process that forces tons of water, contaminated with toxic chemicals, deep underground to break up rocks so they release natural ...
Fracking decision for Warro divides opinion
Science Network Western Australia
Image: LiliangTHE ongoing debate on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has gotten more interesting with Environment Minister Bill Marmion's decision to allow the controversial technique to go ahead in WA. Located 60km east of Jurien and 200km north of ...
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TC Line: Fracking's been around a long time
Longmont Daily Times-Call
Fracking first started in 1949 and no documented proof it's contaminated any drinking water supplies. I have paid in thousands of dollars (in FasTracks taxes) thinking I'm going to be part of a city getting rail, and now I learn it's going to be bus ...
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Obama makes fracking funny in Columbus
WDTN
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - President Barack Obama says his administration has shown a commitment to drilling all over the nation, but he has his limits: No drilling at Ohio Stadium. Obama made the comments in jest to his critics during a speech Thursday at ...
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Nassau moves to ban treating fracking water
Newsday
Click here Print Aa Nassau moves to ban treating fracking water Published: March 22, 2012 9:47 PM By SID CASSESE AND PAUL LAROCCO sid.cassese@newsday.com,paul.larocco@newsday.com Nassau County legislators on Thursday followed lawmakers in Suffolk in ...
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New tax fights: No Democrats needed
Canton Repository
You probably know about the “fracking tax.” Kasich wants to raise what's called the severance tax on oil and gas drilling companies. He says it's lower than corresponding taxes in other states and a drop in the bucket compared to the revenue the ...
EPA Says Water Near Pennsylvania Fracking is Safe, but Would You Drink It?
AllGov
Cabot Oil and Gas began fracking operations in the Dimock area in 2006, and by January 2009, some locals were reporting methane bubbling out of their faucets and tap water actually catching fire, meaning that natural gas had contaminated the water.
Fracking Wells' Air Emissions Pose Health Risks, Study Finds
BusinessWeek
Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, has enabled oil and gas companies to access fuel trapped in previously impenetrable shale rock, reversing a decline in US gas production. Environmentalists have previously raised concerns about water ...
Fracking Can Cause Air Pollution, Too: The Ticker
Bloomberg
But fracking can also affect the air -- particularly during the period when the wells are being built. Researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health looked at air samples collected by the Department of Public Health in Garfield County, Colorado, ...
Colorado study finds fracking risks for nearby residents
Denver Post
By Mark Jaffe A mix of volatile organic chemicals coming from the process of fracking oil and gas wells poses a health risk to people living within a half-mile of a drilling site, according to a new study by the University of Colorado-Denver School of ...
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Will Fracking Destroy Colorado's Rivers?
Huffington Post
Oil and gas drilling and fracking pose extraordinary threats to Colorado's Denver metro and Front Range cities including to air quality, water quality in streams and groundwater, wildlife habitat, private property rights, and landscape health.
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Americans Call for More Fracking Regulation
MarketWatch (press release)
President Barack Obama has already said his administration would "take every possible action" to see that gas fracking is done without putting the public's health or safety at risk. Fracking has allowed the US to produce so much gas that the government ...
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Fracking meeting in Sanford expected to draw hundreds of people
News & Observer
By John Murawski - jmurawski@newsobserver.com State officials will be able to accommodate up to 800 people for a public hearing in Sanford on Tuesday to discuss whether fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas, should be allowed in ...
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Fracking: The Wedge Issue of 2012?
National Review Online (blog)
Unsurprisingly, some Americans aren't familiar with fracking, but among those who have, support is fairly widespread. It's an issue that pits Republicans, Independents, conservative and moderate Democrats on one side, and liberal Democrats on the other ...
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CounterPunch
Here in Depression America JoAnn Wypijewski reports on God and cars in Kokomo. by WALTER BRASCH The natural gas industry defends hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, as safe and efficient. Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for ...
Independent Online
Anti fracking protesters outside the building where Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu addressed the Press Club in Cape Town. Picture: Jeffrey Abrahams. Anecdotes are no substitute for hard data. But when they start to reach a critical mass and ...
Insight: Natural gas pain is oil's gain as frack crews head to North Dakota
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Collapsing natural gas prices have yielded an unexpected boon for North Dakota's shale oil bonanza, easing a shortage of fracking crews that had tempered the biggest US oil boom in a generation. Energy companies in the Bakken shale ...
North Dakota: Site Of A Natural Gas And Oil Fracking Boom
International Business Times
By Reuters Staff Writer (Reuters) - Collapsing natural gas prices have yielded an unexpected boon for North Dakota's shale oil bonanza, easing a shortage of fracking crews that had tempered the biggest US oil boom in a generation.
Study shows air emissions near fracking sites may impact health
EurekAlert (press release)
In a new study, researchers from the Colorado School of Public Health have shown that air pollution caused by hydraulic fracturing or fracking may contribute to acute and chronic health problems for those living near natural gas drilling sites.
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Letter: Consider fracking to generate gas
Albany Times Union
During this mild winter when gas production is actually being cut back, it is popular to celebrate local victories in the war against fracking and say, "Who needs it?" The Times Union on March 4 published a Fred LeBrun column titled, "Time is on our ...
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Center Seeks To Shed Light On Fracking And Health
AOL Energy
In the continuing debate over whether fracking for natural gas contaminates drinking water, a new health center in the midst of Pennsylvania's drilling country may provide fresh clues. The nonprofit Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project ...
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Fresh water for fracking flows to Frazer well sites
Tarentum Valley News Dispatch
Range Resources has laid a temporary pipeline through three townships to pump in water needed for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to complete five wells in Frazer. The 8-inch, high-density polyethylene pipeline begins at a water storage site in ...
Liberals calls for hydro-fracking moratorium
CBC.ca
Political problem The issue of hydro-fracking has caused several headaches for the Alward government in the last year. Tony Huntjens, a former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister, said recently the Alward government has not listened to the public ...
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Fracking could pose health threat
Telegraph.co.uk
The controversial drilling process known as "fracking" may release harmful gases into the atmosphere which could cause headaches and breathing difficulties, up to half a mile away, research has found. By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent Hydraulic ...
RPT-INSIGHT-Natural gas pain is oil's gain as frack crews head to N.Dakota
Reuters UK
(Repeats earlier item; no changes to text) By Selam Gebrekidan NEW YORK, March 19 (Reuters) - Collapsing natural gas prices have yielded an unexpected boon for North Dakota's shale oil bonanza, easing a shortage of fracking crews that had tempered the ...
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Fracking boom creates jobs, fuels US energy security hopes
Independent Online
A long-time car salesman relocates to south Texas to capitalise on the soaring demand for truckers to haul sand to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, sites across the Eagle Ford shale formation. Nearby, the Corpus Christi school district cannot find ...
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Govt fracking inquiry looks unlikely
New Zealand Herald
File photo / AP Environment Minister Nick Smith does not look likely to launch the fracking investigation the Greens are calling for. Green Party MP Gareth Hughes has called for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing or fracking, a method used for ...
Poll: More Americans now back domestic drilling
Los Angeles Times
The survey also probed public awareness and approval of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a controversial, increasingly common procedure that involves high-pressure injection of water and sand laced with chemicals into shale formations to shatter rock ...
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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Tests, MATS Hearing, Ballast Water ...
Environmental Leader
A first round of EPA tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in Dimock, Penn., near natural gas drilling operations of Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. had been polluted to unhealthy levels. Samples from six of the 11 homes had concentrations of sodium, ...
Are risks of fracking really worth dubious, temporary gains?
Canton Repository
But Sandra Steingraber, a respected environmental scientist and expert on the health effects of fracking, spoke at the Kent State University Campus recently (“Ecologist warns against fracking in speech at KSU-Stark,” March 14).
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Southeast Ohio Fracking Interest Group public meeting March 27
The Daily Jeffersonian
MARIETTA -- The Southeast Ohio Fracking Interest Group is having its next public meeting on March 27 at 7 pm at the Unitarian Church, 232 Third St., Marietta. They will be showing a video of Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, professor of Engineering at Cornell ...
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As Gas Prices Pinch, Support for Oil and Gas Production Grows
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (blog)
The survey also finds there is limited awareness of the energy drilling method known as fracking, which is used to extract natural gas from underground rock formations: Just 26% say they have heard a lot about fracking, while 37% have heard a little ...
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Revealed! Key legislative backer of oil industry fracking in Idaho holds oil ...
The Wildlife News
By Ralph Maughan On March 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment Part of Idaho is like so many other places in America where a tsunami of fracking is about to hit. Five years ago this seemed very unlikely. Idaho has always been regarded as an unlikely place for ...
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Norwest, AWE to frack for WA gas in June
Ninemsn
A controversial shale gas fracking program will start in a prime agricultural region in Western Australia in June after months of regulatory delays. Norwest Energy on Monday said that its hydraulic fracture stimulation program for the Arrowsmith-2 well ...
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New PA. Fracking Law Prohibits Doctors From Warning People About Health Risks ...
Democratic Underground
However, about 650 of the 750 chemicals used in fracking operations are known carcinogens, according to a report filed with the US House of Representatives in April 2011. Fluids used in fracking include those that are “potentially hazardous,” including ...
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No more brine wastewater for Warren as of April 1, EPA says
Youngstown Vindicator
The city of Warren can no longer accept brine wastewater from fracking as of April 1. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency on Monday issued its final permit renewal to Warren and also an additional permit to Patriot Water Treatment LLC, ...