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United Kingdom: Labour seeks fracking restrictions to protect drinking water
2015-01-08 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Labour Party is seeking to ban fracking for shale gas on land that collects Britains drinking water in proposed amendments to the governments infrastructure bill. A campaign group has said such a move is basic common sense. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is gradually becoming more widespread in the UK although the method of extracting shale gas remains controversial. Those supporting fracking claim it can be used as a transition fuel towards a low-carbon economy and that with the...
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Plummeting oil price casts shadow over fracking future
2015-01-06 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Theres no doubt that US-based fracking the process through which oil and gas deposits are blasted from shale deposits deep underground has caused a revolution in worldwide energy supplies. Yet now the alarm bells are ringing about the financial health of the fracking industry, with talk of a mighty monetary bubble bursting - leading to turmoil on the international markets similar to that in 2008. In many ways, its a straightforward case of supply and demand. Due to the US fracking boom,...
West Virginia judge denies chemical company's second challenge to fracking operations
2015-01-06 04:52:08| Logistics - Topix.net
A West Virginia judge has rejected a second legal challenge from a chemical manufacturer saying that hydraulic fracturing operations near its facility in Marshall County would negatively affect its operations. In a Christmas Eve order, Marshall County Circuit Judge David Hummel denied the challenge from Eagle Natrium LLC, a New Martinsville-based subsidiary of Axiall Corp., a manufacturer of chlorovinyl and aromatic chemicals and formerly owned by PPG Industries.
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01.07.15 -- Fracking Chemicals May Harm Human Reproduction, Development
2015-01-06 01:01:51| oilandgasonline Home Page
01/07/15 Oil and Gas Online Newsletter
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Permit denied to use Amite River water for fracking
2015-01-05 15:45:57| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Louisiana officials have denied a permit that would have allowed an oil company to use water from a scenic river to perform hydraulic fracturing, or fracking for a well in East Feliciana Parish. However, it was a limited, technical victory for the environmentalists who opposed the permit.
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