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Follow the sand to the real fracking boom
2014-11-26 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Merco Press: When it takes up to four million pounds of sand to frack a single well, it's no wonder that demand is outpacing supply and frack sand producers are becoming the biggest behind-the-scenes beneficiaries of the American oil and gas boom. This all puts frac sand in the drivers' seat of the next phase of the American oil boom, and it has already seen its price increase up to 20% over the past year Demand is exploding for "frac-sand'--a durable, high-purity quartz sand used to help produce petroleum...
Monster Fracking Wells Guzzle Water Drought-Stricken Regions
2014-11-24 19:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The fracking industry likes to minimize the sectors bottomless thirst for often-scarce water resources, saying it takes about 2-4 million gallons of water to frack the average well, an amount the American Petroleum Institute describes as the equivalent of three to six Olympic swimming pools. Thats close to the figure cited by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well. But a new report released by Environmental Working Group (EWG) located 261 monster wells that consumed between...
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Small quake shakes Dallas area, stirring fracking critics
2014-11-23 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A light earthquake shook the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of North Texas on Saturday night, leaving no known damage or casualties but stirring concern about the potential of the area's oil and gas fracking industry to generate seismic activity. The magnitude 3.3 earthquake struck about 9:15 p.m. Central time on Saturday, said Dale Grant, an geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter was near the border of the cities of Dallas and Irving, near the site of the former Texas Stadium,...
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United Kingdom: Taxpayers to fund hundreds of fracking boreholes across country
2014-11-22 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Hundreds of government-funded boreholes are set to be drilled across Britain to try to persuade the public that a looming shale gas boom can be developed safely, the Observer has learned. Sensors in the boreholes would detect possible water pollution or earthquakes caused by fracking and the information would be made public. We will be taking the pulse of the sub-surface environment and will reveal if things are going wrong, but also if they are going right, said Professor Mike Stephenson, director...
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Fracking fracture: Abita Springs pulls out of St. Tammany West Chamber of Commerce
2014-11-22 13:30:01| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A fracking fracture of sorts occurred as the town of Abita Springs pulled out of the St. Tammany West Chamber of Commerce earlier this week. The town's mayor is at odds with the chamber over what he calls the chamber's apparent support of hydraulic fracturing.
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