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On fracking, cana t California get half a loaf? Thomas Elias
2014-04-22 02:04:58| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
When a city like Carson, home to one large oil refinery and next-door neighbor to another, hard by the junction of two major freeways and site of both a Cal State campus and a Major League Soccer stadium, slaps a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing because of environmental questions, you know fracking of California's vast oil and gas reserves is no ... (more)
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Students stage silent demonstration against fracking
2014-04-21 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Californian: A human oil spill spread across Dwinelle Plaza on Monday -- a silent demonstration against fracking that is the first in a series of events to kick-start Earth Week 2014. The day after the four-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, about 20 students, clad entirely in black, circled and sprawled around a miniature wooden oil rig covered with protest signs. Protesters wanted to illustrate the environmental effects of fracking by using human bodies as symbols of the devastation. An oil spill...
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Fracking foes cringe as unions back drilling boom
2014-04-20 19:50:01| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
After early complaints that out-of-state firms got the most jobs, some local construction trade workers and union members in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia say they're now benefiting in a big way from the Marcellus and Utica Shale oil and gas boom.
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Fracking foes cringe as unions back drilling boom
2014-04-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Perss: After early complaints that out-of-state firms got the most jobs, some local construction trade workers and union members in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia say they're now benefiting in a big way from the Marcellus and Utica Shale oil and gas boom. That vocal support from blue-collar workers complicates efforts by environmentalists to limit the drilling process known as fracking. "The shale became a lifesaver and a lifeline for a lot of working families," said Dennis Martire, the mid-Atlantic...
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Climate One: Overselling the Fracking Boom
2014-04-20 06:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: In the Climate One video clip Trevor Houser, a partner in the Rhodium Group and climate negotiator at the 2009 COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen discusses a middle road for natural gas. Despite the good news that at the end of 2012 US carbon emissions were down 12 percent relative to 2005, there remains a long road to sustainable and sufficient emissions reductions to meet the goals scientists increasingly warn is required to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. The main reason...
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