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Beverly Hills just banned fracking
2014-05-07 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: There`s no shortage of strange chemicals in the bodies of Beverly Hills` surgically enhanced, Botoxed residents. But leaders of the Southern California city on Tuesday took a major step toward keeping mystery chemicals out of the ground beneath them. The city council unanimously approved a ban on fracking, making 90210 among the first zip codes in California where frackng operations are legally unwelcome. Reuters reports: Beverly Hills is one of the nation`s most affluent cities and is home...
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Weir and MTU to develop purpose-built power systems for fracking
2014-05-07 12:30:38| Green Car Congress
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Technical problems turn film screening into fracking debate
2014-05-05 15:32:06| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
But because of one technical problem after another, and a few restive oil and gas industry people in the audience, there was almost no avoiding it.
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Fracking wont ensure greenhouse gas emissions reduction
2014-05-05 12:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A new study has argued that while there may be benefits brought by shale gas as a transition fuel, its usage would also lead to an increase in overall energy use and little or no greenhouse gas emissions reduction. The study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, acknowledges that shale gas development in the US has contributed to keeping energy prices down at the expense of other energy sources such as coal, oil, nuclear and renewables. However, it also says that the...
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Fracking ban coming to Santa Barbara?
2014-05-04 15:37:21| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Santa Barbara Independent: The Water Guardians, a new Santa Barbara-based anti-fracking group that started gathering real momentum in March, have become even more recognizable in recent weeks. Wearing bright blue shirts, the diverse group of about 300 volunteers has flocked to grocery stores, farmers markets, and college campuses to gather 20,000 signatures for an initiative that would ban fracking, acid well stimulation treatments, cyclic steam injection, and other enhanced oil extraction techniques for future projects...
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