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When fracking and free speech collide
2014-09-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: What started as a short YouTube video and a couple of local news interviews about a Texas landowner being able to light his water on fire has ballooned into a free speech fight thats being closely watched by anti-fracking activists across the country. Steve Lipsky has complained for years that fracking company Range Resources polluted his drinking water and streams that run through his property. The company sued him in 2011 for defaming its reputation for environmental stewardship. Now Lipsky...
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The Pros and Cons of Fracking
2014-09-13 02:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," has gained popularity over recent years, and given the controversy over this practice, new research decided to lay out some of its environmental pros as well as cons. Fracking involves blasting huge amounts of water, sand and chemicals deep into underground rock formations to access valuable oil and natural gas. While this is a form of alternative energy, it also has harmful environmental implications, influencing local air pollution, earthquakes and, especially,...
Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking Assessed in New Study
2014-09-13 00:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Med India: Research has shown that advances in hydraulic fracturing put trillions of dollars' worth of previously unreachable oil and natural gas within grasp. Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking Assessed in New Study The environmental costs - and benefits - from "fracking," which requires blasting huge amounts of water, sand and chemicals deep into underground rock formations, are the subject of new research that synthesizes 165 academic studies and government databases. The survey covers not...
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SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water
2014-09-10 19:30:46| Green Car Congress
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How Hillary Clinton's State Department sold fracking to the world
2014-09-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: One icy morning in February 2012, Hillary Clinton's plane touched down in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which was just digging out from a fierce blizzard. Wrapped in a thick coat, the secretary of state descended the stairs to the snow-covered tarmac, where she and her aides piled into a motorcade bound for the presidential palace. That afternoon, they huddled with Bulgarian leaders, including Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, discussing everything from Syria's bloody civil war to their joint search...
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