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New Jersey Senate Passes Fracking Waste Ban
2014-05-12 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The New Jersey Senate`s members are on the same page when it comes to the disposal and treatment of fracking waste. Now, it`s time to see where the state`s general assembly stands. The senate on Monday passed a ban on the disposal, treatment and discharge of toxic waste from fracking by a 33-4 count. The state Assembly Environment Committee needs to act on the bill before the general assembly gets a chance. Time is running thin, as the legislature goes on recess in late June. Still, it`s a veto-proof...
Look Back at the Town That Didnt Back Down to Fracking
2014-05-12 21:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A small-town fracking ban took place nearly three years ago in upstate New York, but that doesn`t make it any less monumental. That`s why Earthjustice produced a new video examining how Dryden, NY`s ban happened and why it remains as an inspiration to cities across the country hoping to fight fracking. "My voice, by itself, carries very little weight," said Marie McRae, a resident who galvanized the community to support a ban, "but when I join my voice with my immediate neighbors, with the...
United Kingdom: Energy company abandons South Downs fracking plans
2014-05-12 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Anti-fracking campaigners have claimed victory after an energy company abandoned its plans to drill beneath their homes in the South Downs national park. Celtique Energy has told residents it will not drill horizontally under their land, though it will push ahead with a vertical well at its own site. The development, which followed a "legal blockade" by the local landowners around the site, is the latest in a growing controversy over underground drilling for shale gas. However the landowners'...
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The Fracking of Academic Integrity in American Colleges
2014-05-11 14:34:35| Electronics - Topix.net
Part 2: Problems with academic integrity in other Pennsylvania colleges.] Among the mission statements of the University of North Dakota Department of Geology and Geological Engineering is that it "strives to develop in its engineering graduates keen insight and abilities to design an environmentally sound and sustainable future for humanity."
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Lords: Fracking 'national priority'
2014-05-08 01:22:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Regulated fracking should be an "urgent national priority", a group of Lords has said, but green campaigners say the UK must embrace renewables.
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