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Drilling boom brings rising number of harmful waste spills
2015-09-08 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Carl Johnson and son Justin are third- and fourth-generation ranchers who for decades have battled oilfield companies that left a patchwork of barren earth where the men graze cattle in the high plains of New Mexico. Blunt and profane, they stroll across a 1 1/2-acre patch of sandy soil lifeless, save for a scattering of stunted weeds. Five years ago, a broken pipe soaked the land with as much as 420,000 gallons of oilfield wastewater a salty and potentially toxic drilling byproduct that can...
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Fracking boom UT West Texas lands linked spills, air pollution
2015-09-08 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
American-Statesman: The hydraulic fracturing boom on University of Texas System lands in West Texas has polluted soil, groundwater and air, according to a report to be released Tuesday by an environmental group and a think tank. At least 1.6 million gallons of oil, saltwater and other pollutants have spilled from wells and associated equipment on UT System-owned land since 2008, said the report, which drew from system and Texas Railroad Commission records. In addition, the report said, vast quantities of methane,...
Ford survey in Europe finds SUVs highly desired by Millenials; projected acceleration of SUV boom
2015-09-08 10:55:34| Green Car Congress
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Oil Market Bust Yields Unexpected Boom For Texas Repo Men
2015-09-01 00:19:13| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Ryan Peck repossesses vehicles in Corpus Christi, Texas. His business is seeing the upside of the downturn in oil prices: a spike in the number of expensive trucks bought by oilfield workers during an earlier boom.
Q&A: Commercial realtor Jim Ellis, on the office-space boom
2015-08-29 00:10:48| Real Estate - Topix.net
These days, Jim Ellis and the realty firm he heads, Ellis Partners, seem to be everywhere, key players in the most robust development markets of the Bay Area. Jack London Square in Oakland, which is undergoing a $400 million revival and renovation; The Pruneyard complex in Campbell; Town & Country Village in Palo Alto; and a big North San Jose office project where tech titan Apple has just leased a huge chunk of space, are all projects being guided by Ellis Partners, whose principal executives are Jim Ellis and his sister, Melinda Ellis Evers.
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