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New technology propels 'old energy' boom
2013-05-05 06:01:43| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In this March 29, 2013 photo, a worker uses a headset and microphone to communicate with coworkers over the din of pump trucks, at the site of a natural gas hydraulic fracturing and extraction operation run by the Encana Oil & Gas Inc., outside Rifle, in western Colorado.
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Fracing's Water-Management Boom
2013-05-03 09:10:00| OGI
Hydraulic fracturing of shales gives rise to a skyrocketing related business water management.
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Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people
2013-04-28 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia's "premier tourist destination". This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked, for me, Robben Island in South Africa. Empires are never short of devil's islands; what makes Rottnest different indeed, what makes Australia different is silence and denial on an epic scale. "Five awesome reasons to visit!" the brochure says. These range from "family fun" to "historical Rottnest". The island is described as "a guiding...
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Time for Texas to Get Ready for the Shale Boom
2013-04-28 00:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: About a year ago, talk began circulating in this West Texas town about a huge oil-producing formation called the Cline Shale, east of the traditional drilling areas around Midland. Then the oilmen and their rigs arrived. Now homes and hotels are sprouting, help wanted signs have multiplied, and a major drilling company has cleared land to build an office and equipment yard. It is coming, and it is big, said Greg Wortham, the mayor of Sweetwater, who also serves as executive director of the...
US shale gas boom "unlikely" to be repeated in UK, warn MPs
2013-04-26 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: MPs will today highlight the role domestic shale gas could play in boosting tax revenue and enhancing energy security, but will also warn that its effect on energy prices remains far less certain. A report to be published today by the Energy and Climate Change Committee will warn a repeat of the dramatic fall in domestic gas prices seen in the US as a result of a shale gas boom is "unlikely" to be replicated in the UK due to "differences in geology, public attitudes, regulations and technological...
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