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Fracking Comes to Ireland
2014-08-07 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Knockmore Road was a small potholed country road for as long as anyone can remember, but suddenly it was paved with two layers of tarmac. Heavy trucks are rolling in with police protection. Hydro-fracking for natural gas is coming to Ireland. Opposition is mounting, but many of the protesters are not local. Daniel Graham, a local resident, says that the local people are resigned to the inevitability. He marveled at the number of police at the drill site, and wondered how much of his tax money was...
The Next Frontier: Deep Water Fracking
2014-08-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Energy companies are taking their controversial fracking operations from the land to the sea -- to deep waters off the U.S., South American and African coasts. Cracking rocks underground to allow oil and gas to flow more freely into wells has grown into one of the most lucrative industry practices of the past century. The technique is also widely condemned as a source of groundwater contamination. The question now is how will that debate play out as the equipment moves out into the deep blue....
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North Carolina: The Next Big Fracking State?
2014-08-06 20:01:25| oilandgasonline Home Page
Fracking is not practiced in North Carolina, but that has not kept a heated debate on the issue from breaking out in this state.
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Fracking operation must rework application
2014-08-06 19:32:28| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Louisiana Geological Survey has rendered invalid Helis Oil & Gas Co.' s application for an Army Corps of Engineers' wetlands permit for its proposed oil drilling and fracking project near Mandeville.
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UPDATE 1-Colorado governor unveils plan to head off fracking bans; oil shares rise
2014-08-05 11:46:36| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper said on Monday he has brokered a deal between environmentalists and the energy industry that could avoid two ballot initiatives that would have curtailed oil and gas drilling.
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