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Will fracking in the Gulf of Mexico lead to the next Deepwater Horizon?
2014-08-08 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: If you read the financial papers, you may be aware that the Gulf of Mexico is looking like a giant, underwater piggybank. New advances in seismic technology, and more powerful equipment developed for fracking operations, have turned oil fields that were thought to be extinct into gold rush territory again. The same dynamic that has led to oil booms in previously quiet regions of the Great Plains and Appalachia is now moving to the less-populated - but at least equally ecologically fragile - offshore...
Austin fracking tech developer raises more investment capital
2014-08-08 21:33:04| Electronics - Topix.net
Omni Water Solutions Inc., a fracking technology developer, has reported raising $1.8 million of a planned $3.2 million financing.
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Austin fracking tech developer raises more investment capital
2014-08-08 21:21:12| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Omni Water Solutions Inc., a fracking technology developer, has reported raising $1.8 million of a planned $3.2 million financing.
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Judge Overturns Fort Collins Five-Year Fracking Ban
2014-08-08 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A judge overturned Fort Collins` five-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing Thursday, making it the third big blow to efforts by grassroots groups and politicians working to ban fracking in communities throughout the state. District Judge Gregory M. Lammons ruled on the lawsuit filed in late 2013 by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association challenging the bans passed by voters in Fort Collins and Longmont stating that the Fort Collins moratorium is preempted by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation...
Judge strikes down another Colorado towns ban fracking
2014-08-07 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Business Journal: A Larimer County district judge on Thursday struck down a voter-approved, 5-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, and the storage of waste produced by the technique, within the borders of Fort Collins. Larimer County District Judge Gregory Lammons on Thursday ruled in favor of the summary judgment requested by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA), which had sued the city of Fort Collins after voters approved a ban on fracking in November 2013. The judge also denied a request for summary...
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