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One more heave! Ministers' pre-election fracking drive
2014-09-09 11:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Ministers are determined to get fracking under way in the UK as fast as possible, so it's a 'fait accompli' in time for the election, writes Alex Stevenson. With a firm pro-fracking concensus in Parliament, only one thing can frustrate their plans - strong local campaigns to turn around MPs desperate for re-election in 2015. It even has a name: democracy. It's a question of fear. What secretly worries pro-fracking Conservative ministers, The Ecologist has learned, is that a Labour administration...
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Amid Ukraine crisis, Europe weighs fracking
2014-09-09 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Fracking has transformed the United States into the worlds largest producer of natural gas, and now Europe is weighing the pros and cons of the controversial technique as it seeks greater energy independence from its chief gas supplier, Russia. The move comes amid the unprecedented crisis in relations between Russia and Ukraine that began when Moscow annexed Crimea earlier this year and then threw its support to pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists battling Kiev. An estimated 16 percent of Russian...
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09.10.14 -- Fracking Operator Sentenced To Jail For Water Violation
2014-09-09 06:28:59| oilandgasonline Home Page
09/10/14 Oil and Gas Online Newsletter
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Canada: Fracking ban makes future study really hard: Wheeler panel member
2014-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald: Energy Minister Andrew Younger's plan to ban hydraulic fracturing demonstrates an incomplete reading of the Wheeler report, said a member of the panel that studied the controversial method of extracting onshore natural gas in Nova Scotia. Younger's comments about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and his quick move to ban the practice show that he doesn't understand the report or the subject, said Brad Hayes, head of the Calgary firm of Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd. Hayes, whose company...
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Nova Scotia to ban fracking
2014-09-06 19:50:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines
Nova Scotia has said no to fracking.
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