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Environmentalists not surprised, just disappointed to hear Cuomo meddled with fracking report
2014-10-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Village Voice: On Monday morning, Capital New York published an eye-popping report that suggests a federal fracking study commissioned by the Cuomo administration was edited, and later delayed, by the same administration when it became clear that study was going to "result in a number of politically inconvenient conclusions for Governor Andrew Cuomo." To environmentalists who have observed the Cuomo Administration over the past four years, the news that wasn't particularly shocking. "It's not surprising," Chris...
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Naomi Klein: UK fracking trespass law flouts democratic rights
2014-10-07 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ministers rewriting of the law to allow fracking to happen beneath peoples homes without their permission flouts basic democratic rights, according to Naomi Klein. The author and activist said that UK governments changes to trespass laws, to speed up the ability for shale gas companies to frack beneath landowners property, was energising resistance to fracking in Britain. What is animating the anti-fracking movement? Yes, its water. Its also a defence of democracy. The fact the government...
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10.08.14 -- Recycled Water Becoming More Cost-Effective For Fracking
2014-10-07 07:22:50| oilandgasonline Home Page
10/08/14 Oil and Gas Online Newsletter
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Gov. Cuomos Office Tilts Study to Downplay Fracking Risks
2014-10-06 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A federal study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), commissioned by New York state to assess the impact of fracking on well water, was edited and delayed by state officials when they found some of its conclusions apparently not to their liking, according to Capital New York, which covers state politics. "The study, originally commissioned by the state in 2011, when the administration was reportedly considering approving fracking on a limited basis, was going to result in a number of politically...
More fracking means more sand
2014-10-06 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: The white sand beaches in Pennsylvania are a mile underground, where salt water and fine mesh sand luxuriate in the fracks of the Marcellus Shale. The volume of frack sand used at each well to prop open newly created fissures and allow gas to flow to the wellbore has been on the rise over the past year. By some estimates, the increase has been dramatic. "Most customers are pumping as much as they can," said Iain McIntosh, vice president at Baker Hughes, a Texas-based oil and gas service firm...
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