March 1st - 15th 2012
Polish fracking well probe shows no harm to environment
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
Drilling at Poland's first shale gas exploration well using the controversial technique known as fracking has not harmed the environment, according to a government study published on Friday. Hydraulic cracking, or fracking, performed at a site in ...
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Fracking Boom a Ponzi-Inflated Bubble About To Pop? Rolling Stone Sure Thinks So.
Dallas Observer (blog)
As fracking moved out of the expansive pastures and into close-quarter cities, the industry ran face-first into tougher city-by-city ordinances regarding spacing from houses and schools, effectively shrinking the amount of acreage they could frack (Or, ...
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Pro-Fracking Film Trumps Anti-Death Penalty Project on Crowdsourcing Site
Big Hollywood
So it's fascinating to watch the crowdsourcing battle royale between “FrackNation,” a film by Big Hollywood contributors Phelim McAleer and Ann McElninney which argues against the Obama administration's stance on hydraulic fracking, and “Troy Davis ...
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WBFF/WNUV Baltimore
AP News NEW YORK (AP) -- Heading into today's final trading session of the week, the key averages are mixed, but it wouldn't take much to change that. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama has called a Georgetown law student ...
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Campbell University to host forum on fracking
Fayetteville Observer
By Steve DeVane A forum at Campbell University on March 23 will try to present scientific views of the controversial method of drilling for natural gas known as fracking. Fracking, which is short for hydraulic fracturing, is not allowed now in North ...
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Fracking includes actions that are dangerous to our Earth
Syracuse.com (blog)
By Readers' Page I am concerned about how the plants and animals are going to end up in the future because of fracking. There have been earthquakes in Arkansas, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia, Virginia and Wyoming because of fracking.
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Welsh Water pulls out of fracking probe at Llandow
WalesOnline
A Welsh Government planning inspector will hold the inquiry in May into the plans by Bridgend Coastal Oil and Gas, which opponents fear could open the door to the controversial gas extraction technique known as fracking.
How The Kochs Are Fracking America
ThinkProgress
The pipeline will transport natural gas from fracking sites in southern Texas. Koch Pipeline is a Koch Industries subsidiary. – 2. Flint Hills Resources recently purchased a small craft pier and wharf in Ingleside, TX to store shipments of natural gas ...
Karoo shale gas can bring huge benefits
BusinessLIVE
However, concerns over the environmental effect of fracking - the technique used to remove the gas, also called hydraulic fracturing - have dominated much of the debate around the planned project. Fracking involves pumping a mixture of water, ...
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If There Is One Motto In America's Fastest Growing Boomtown — This Is It
Business Insider
Besmirch fracking and expect a mob scene. I expected to be called out on this one, but simply couldn't resist crouching down and getting a good shot in front of a bank of office windows. No punches were thrown and no charges were filed.
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Water rates, billboard on table in Franklin
MyCentralJersey.com
FRANKLIN (SOMERSET) — Increased water rates, a lawsuit involving a digital billboard, a fracking resolution, a public parks meeting and a new arts council are just a few of the things the Township Council and administration have had on their plates ...
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Shell-Commissioned Report on South Africa Gas Flawed, Group Says
Bloomberg
Exploration companies pump chemically-treated water and sand underground to release oil or gas trapped in rock, a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Development of about 10 percent of South Africa's shale gas reserves would add as much ...
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California becoming more dependent on foreign oil
San Francisco Chronicle
Improvements in hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," have allowed oil companies to tap petroleum reserves trapped in tight shale rock formations beneath North Dakota and Montana. As a result, US oil production has increased every year since 2008.
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Is exporting gas worth the cost to our health?
Coos Bay World
It is understandable that Ms. Bybee would be confused about fracking and its many incarnations. Bentonite is used in the drilling associated with placing pipelines under streams. A frac-out is what happens when that drilling goes awry and results in ...
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Poland: Fracking Safe Despite 'Fearful News' from the U.S.
NGI's Shale Daily (subscription)
As their country dreams of becoming "the second Norway" of natural gas, scientists in Poland asked themselves whether hydraulic fracturing (fracking) stimulation of shale gas wells is safe for the environment. The answer: yes, if done according to ...
US Silica: A local shale oil and gas play
Washington Times
In addition to its specialized use in glass, fiber optics, and ceramics, the sand from some of US Silica's US mines, such as its facility in Columbia, South Carolina, is vitally important for—wait for it—the process of fracking.
Hydrofracking hurts many living creatures, including human beings
Syracuse.com (blog)
By Readers' Page I wanted to let you know that I am infuriated with fracking. I think the negatives outweigh the positives, so I don't want fracking. Do you want to wake up one morning and find out that everyone's water has been polluted or that a ...
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Randy Schenkat: Energy issue bigger than most realize
Winona Daily News
We certainly know there's contention about frac sand mining, but we rarely talk about the bigger issue — is fracking for natural gas going to make us energy independent, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using less coal, and be a boon to our economy?
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Colorado Governor Stirs Up Fracking Debate
NGI's Shale Daily (subscription)
So far the campaign is raising more interest than anticipated, according to COGA, and mostly because anti-fracking groups are crying foul. Gov. John Hickenlooper, a one-time petroleum geologist turned entrepreneur, is featured in the first 30-second ...
Door Closing for Wyoming Lawmakers on Resolution Against the Department of Energy
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
They have a strong case, assuming the link between Fracking and the poor water quality, they have as strong a case as you can possibly get.” But still, getting officials to agree to tribal control is a different story. “I think there are way too many ...
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TV Commercials and the Art of Deceit
The Bradenton Times
They were talking about fracking for natural gas. Sure it would be nice if these claims were true, but the talk of jobs is terribly inflated and it is very well documented that under no circumstance is it safe. Fracking is the most profitable method of ...
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New York Post
By ERIK KRISS ALBANY — When it comes to fracking in upstate New York, Gov. Cuomo says the issue isn't whether it will happen — it's how it will happen. “I don't think the question was, 'Should we develop natural gas?' ” Cuomo said on Albany's Talk ...
Frontier CEO: Niobrara opportunity for Sterling
Journal-Advocate
Fracking is one of the new technologies being used. "One of the major issues with fracking is the water table and what it does to the water table," Eberhart said. It's important to note that there is usually roughly a good mile between where the ...
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No end in sight yet to rising US gas prices
Inquirer.net
When it's empty, I help them out,” adding that “God will grant lower prices to those who don't drive Humvees and V8s.” Ramona Braza in Sacramento takes to heart the local issue of fracking. Not the expletive, it refers to the process of accelerating ...
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Reader calls for halt on 'fracking opinions'
Gisborne Herald
Last Saturday it was his conviction on the benefits of cycling. Then, on Monday, his slanted viewpoint on state housing. And on Thursday we got his biased conception of hydraulic fracturing. Frankly, I am bored with this councillor's fracking opinions.
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Con: Tapping more fossil fuels is likely to be fossil foolish
Janesville Gazette
Breakthroughs in gas extraction — in particular, hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” — have made gas cheap and abundant. Gas inventories are piling up, and if reserves go unsold, expect prices to fall further. The natural gas glut has repercussions in ...
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How Natural Gas Is Changing Global Energy Market
CNBC.com
Fracking, or the use of highly pressurized water, sand and chemicals to break apart rock, releasing the gas inside, has resulted in a surge in natural gas supply. Some estimates put that supply at 100 years worth, while just a few years ago, ...
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Record Herald
When it comes to the environment and domestic energy, Santorum made it clear he was for hydraulic fracking. "Americans have been using hydraulic fracking to since WWII. Now that it is creating a revolution, the Obama administration is saying they have ...
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President Obama is the energy snob
Columbia Daily Tribune
It is the work of old-fashioned ingenuity — innovations in hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling that unlocked the Bakken formation — and the profit motive. We should want to replicate North Dakotas everywhere we can. Yet we deny ourselves ...
Livestock and climate: Whose numbers are more credible?
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
So it's no surprise there is disagreement among experts as to the exact environmental impact of a given industry, with the "fracking" controversy being only the latest high-profile example. Meanwhile, however, an argument has been brewing over the past ...
Only in Print: Meet our Notable Alumni, Jimmie Carr
Galesburg Register-Mail
Page C1 • Read letters to the editor on such topics as fracking, Obama and the Keystone pipeline. Page A4-5 The following are stories you will find today only in the printed and e-edition of The Register-Mail. • GateHouse Media's Ken Exum tells us ...
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No Radioactivity Alerts From Gas Drilling Waste
WETM-TV
Nine months ago radiation detectors were installed at the landfill after neighbors said they were concerned that some of the drill cuttings from hydro fracking might be radioactive. Chemung County Public Health Director Robert pPage says there have ...
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Kansas.com
So our trusty state may allow oil companies to spread fracking waste over the Kansas farm fields. Just think – we may be the state glowing night in the center of the US Just makes me feel rosy all over. Hope you welfare farmers enjoy it.
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Area students get look at political process as part of Santorum's visit
Chillicothe Gazette
The issues the students said they wanted Santorum to address Friday were gay rights, job creation, abortion, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the separation of church and state. Santorum addressed fracking, saying he supports the practice as a way ...
Romney Touts Fracking, Slams Obama's Energy Policy
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Rich natural resources and fracking (a method of using fluids to extract oil and gas from shale deep underground) have inspired an economic boom in the frigid high plains state. Mr. Romney tore into President Barack Obama here, saying he has slowed the ...
The Big Fracking Bubble: The Scam Behind the Gas Boom
RollingStone.com
By McClendon's estimate, the industry has drilled more than 1.2 million wells nationwide, yet so far there have been only a few confirmed cases where things have gone wrong – despite dire warnings from scientists and environmentalists that fracking ...
Stopping Fracking at the Local Level?
Public News Service
A new industry-sponsored advertisement says that the hydraulic fracturing process to get oil and gas has caused no groundwater contamination in Colorado - but critics and some cities say the ad is misleading and "fracking" needs to slow down.
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Professors: Check your water in fracking areas
The Steubenville Herald-Star
WHEELING - Three biology professors discussing natural gas fracking at Wheeling Jesuit University on Monday stopped short of calling for a full ban on the procedure, but they clearly have questions regarding the process. From as far away as Los Angeles ...
Buffett Poised to Win Wager on America With Burlington
Bloomberg
Burlington Northern Santa Fe's track network puts it among the best situated of its peers to meet shipping demand for fracking sand, pipe and crude in the northern US Bakken region, where oil production has more than tripled since 2008, according to ...
Panel at Denison University forum differs on safety of fracking
The Newark Advocate
Denison University will host two additional forums on fracking. The impact of fracking on the community will be the topic at the next forum at 7 pm March 20 in Slayter Auditorium. The presenters will be Athens County resident Al Blazevicius and Cheryl ...
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Fracking foes want loophole shut
Albany Times Union
Such "transfer language" could "allow the state to roll out a fracking program the Legislature hasn't signed off on," said Katherine Nadeau, program director of Environmental Advocates of New York. Nadeau and others who signed the letter said Cuomo and ...
Hickenlooper issues executive order on fracking
Fox 31 KDVR.com
The order comes after the town of Erie voted Tuesday night to draft an emergency 180-day moratorium on fracking, a common process used by oil and gas companies to loosen mineral reserves for extraction by shooting a mix of water, sand and chemicals ...
Gas fracking regulation in the works in Paradise Township
Pocono Record
By Andrew Scott Paradise Township is working on an ordinance amendment to regulate any future hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," in the township. Fracking is the controversial process of removing natural gas from rock formations deep beneath the ...
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Environmental group says state ignores fracking issues
Central Valley Business Times
California regulators have no idea how many oil and gas wells have been fracked in California despite having requested and received $3 million in new funding in 2010 to regulate the practice, claims the Environmental Working Group of Oakland.
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YES! Magazine
In New York, judges are standing up for communities' rights to say no to corporate drilling. by Maura Stephens In New York State, some 82 towns and counties have passed ordinances outlawing fracking, a natural gas drilling method known for causing ...
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WDTN
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - Fracking is becoming a hot topic in the Miami Valley as companies try to tap into new sources of energy. The League of Women Voters hosted a community discussion Wednesday evening at the University of Dayton.
WOUB panel explores ins, outs, pros, cons of fracking
Athens NEWS
Chase and Fleming defended fracking, while Kruse and Debatin raised concerns about it. WOUB's live panel discussion on fracking, "Newswatch In-Depth: Fracking Frenzy," aired Tuesday evening, providing a forum for southeast Ohio to ask questions or join ...
Portage candidates square off on fracking, government
Ravenna Record Courier
By MIKE SEVER | STAFF WRITER Voters heard directly from candidates in contested countywide races in Wednesday nights forum by the League of Women Voters of Kent. The anticipated boom in natural gas drilling was the most direct issue of the evening ...
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Finding middle ground on fracking
Arkansas News
By Rick Fahr The “fracking” debate in our state today is little different than the hog raising debate of the late 1990s. Both cases pitted business interests against individual concerns, with the whole thing simmering around lingering environmental ...
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Pro-fracking film offers executive producer credits for small investors
Wayne Independent
By Josh Wengler A new film seeking to debunk the controversial anti-fracking film “Gasland” is offering supporters who invest as little as $1 the opportunity to be named as an executive producer in the film's credits. Parts of the film have been shot ...
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Mayor Bloomberg Supports Fracking Outside NYC Watershed
New York Daily News (blog)
BY Glenn Blain At the end of his press conference in Albany, Hizzoner was asked his views about the controversial form of natural gas drilling known as hydraulic fracturing or Fracking. Bloomberg gave it a thumbs up – so long as it is not near the New ...
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Study says oil/gas production to generate nearly 66000 jobs
The Daily Jeffersonian
The study is the latest that attempts to put some specific dollar and job creation totals to the state's emerging horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, industry, which involves pumping large volumes of water, sand and chemicals into deep ...
Fracking Town Hall Next Tuesday In Brooklyn
WKHM
The topic will be fracking in the Irish Hills. State Representative Earl Poleski. Your browser does not support the audio element. Representative Mike Shirkey recognizes this to me an environmental issue. Your browser does not support the audio element ...
Video: Anti-fracking protest billboard launched at Brighton Station
The Argus
Campaigners unveiled a 22 square metre banner at Brighton Station opposing the controversial technique of fracking yesterday (February 29). The group – dubbed fractivists – want to raise awareness about the technique to extract shale gas from under the ...
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Environmental Groups Call For Analysis Of LNG Fracking Effects
Newsroom America
"Exporting liquefied natural gas means more dangerous fracking, a secretive and toxic part of the production process that the Sierra Club has no confidence in," said Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club.
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Video: Gas experts talk fracking science
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Representatives of the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York shared their views on “fracking” with the Editorial Board. The panelists included Nancy Schmitt of Taum Sauk Capital Management and John Conrad of Conrad Geoscience.
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Many questions, but no answers about fracking
Mansfield News Journal
One would think that both sides of the fracking issue would be given -- not so. The only side given was oil barons telling people all is OK. At both meetings, if you wanted to know something, you didn't ask a question, you wrote your question on a ...
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Public meeting held over fracking concerns for Canonbie
Dumfries and Galloway Standard
AN ANTI-fracking public meeting is to be held at 7.30pm in Canonbie Village Hall tonight. It has been called as concerns rise in the community over the prospect of hydraulic fracturing being used to access underground methane gas.
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Study may flush out risks over fracking
Hawke's Bay Today
Cr Liz Remmerswaal Hawke's Bay Regional Council has requested the Parliamentary Commission for the Environment undertake a study into the likely risks and benefits of fracking, with the motion passing unanimously at the council's meeting yesterday.
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Rolling Stone Takes On the Man Behind the Fracking Fight
D Magazine
Fracking has been a pretty hot topic around these parts over the last year. One of the companies going door to door locally, snatching up as many leases as possible, was Chesapeake Energy. Now Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell has taken aim at billionaire ...
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White House Urged To Consolidate Federal Fracking Oversight Efforts
AOL Energy
By Peter Gardett Men with Cabot Oil and Gas work on a natural gas valve at a hydraulic fracturing site on January 18, 2012 in South Montrose, Pennsylvania. The oil and gas industry is facing a traffic jam of federal regulators rushing to regulate ...
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Rick Perry says there's no proven instance of groundwater polluted by fracking
PolitiFact
Rick Perry gave a spirited defense of fracking, a process that extracts natural gas from thousands of feet underground. "You cannot show me one place where there is a proven – not one – where there is a proven pollution of groundwater by hydraulic ...