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Fracking: No shale gas wells to be drilled in UK this year
2016-09-26 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Labour party has strengthened its opposition to fracking, saying it would ban the controversial technique for extracting shale gas if it came to power. Speaking at the Labour conference in Liverpool, shadow energy and climate secretary Barry Gardiner is to announce the party will be going further than its previous policy of a moratorium until environment conditions are met. The stance leaves the party even more strongly opposed to fracking than the Scottish government, which has a moratorium...
N.Y. Legislators Look to Close Fracking Waste Loophole
2016-09-16 13:04:30| Waste Age
A loophole in the states rules exempts waste from oil and gas operations from being classified as "hazardous."
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U.S. judge halts fracking plan for federal lands in California
2016-09-07 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A U.S. judge on Wednesday halted a plan to allow fracking on public lands in central California, saying a federal agency's environmental plan should have taken a "hard look" at the potential impact of the process. The ruling, by U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald, was at least the second setback in three years for fracking in California and came as the Obama administration's rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal lands have been tied up in another court. The U.S. Department of the Interior's...
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Corbyn pledges to ban fracking as part of Labour's new green agenda
2016-09-07 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn would ban fracking, ditch all coal-fired power stations and massively increase renewable energy, his leadership campaign has announced. In the clearest signal yet that the party intends to embrace an ambitious environmental agenda and break its traditional strong links to mining and fossil fuel extraction, the Labour leader has pledged to phase out all coal power stations by the early 2020s and invest heavily in energy-saving to avoid building many new...
Judge Puts Hold on Plan to Open California Lands to Fracking
2016-09-07 03:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: A federal judge on Tuesday tentatively rejected a plan by the federal Bureau of Land Management to open more than 1,500 square miles of lands in central California to oil drilling and fracking. The BLM failed to take a "hard look" at the environmental effects of the estimated 25 percent of new wells that would be devoted to fracking, U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald wrote in the ruling. The process, formally known as hydraulic fracturing, uses high-pressure mixtures of water, sand and chemicals...
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