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Permit denied to use Amite River water for fracking
2015-01-05 15:19:52| Energy - 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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Heavyweight Response to Local Fracking Bans
2015-01-03 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: This northern Colorado city vaulted onto the front lines of the battle over oil and gas drilling two years ago, when residents voted to ban hydraulic fracturing from their grassy open spaces and a snow-fed reservoir where anglers catch smallmouth bass. But these days, Longmont has become a cautionary tale of what can happen when cities decide to confront the oil and gas industry. In an aggressive response to a wave of citizen-led drilling bans, state officials, energy companies and industry groups...
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Plunging Oil Prices Trigger Economic Downturn in Fracking Boom Town
2015-01-03 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: When fracking and horizontal drilling made the oil embedded in North Dakotas underground Bakken shale formation accessible for extraction, it touched off something akin to a gold rush in the state. Oil production has grown 600 percent in the last decade. Small towns, called man camps, have sprouted with growing populations of oil field workers, bringing both increased economic activity and employment and increased crime and social problems such as sexual assaults. But plummeting oil prices...
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Interior Secretary criticizes fracking bans
2015-01-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Interior Secretary Sally Jewell criticized local and state bans on hydraulic fracturing, saying they create confusion for the oil and natural gas industries. Jewell, who oversees the federal governments various public land agencies, also said fracking bans often come as a result of what she sees as bad scientific decisions that incorrectly find safety or health problems associated with fracking, radio station KQED reported. I would say that is the wrong way to go, Jewell told KQED Friday...
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New Yorks ban on high-volume fracking rocks the foundations of 'shale revolution.'
2015-01-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DC Bureau: Emboldened by mounting scientific evidence and shifting poll data, Gov. Andrew Cuomo veered sharply away from Americas conventional wisdom about the wonders of high-volume hydraulic fracturing of shale formations when he banned the practice in New York State on Dec. 17. While the oil and gas titans hope to contain the uprising to one state, the environmental advocates who masterminded it are quietly optimistic that it represents a tipping point, signaling impending decline for fossil fuels decades-long...
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