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No, the IPCC climate report doesnt call for a fracking boom
2014-04-16 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: You might have heard that the latest installment of the big new U.N. climate report endorses fracking, urging a "dash for gas" as a bridge fuel to put us on a path to a more renewable energy future. These interpretations of the report are exaggerated, lack context, and are just plain wrong. They appear to have been based on interviews and on a censored summary of the report, which was published two days before the full document became available. The energy chapter from the full report of the Intergovernmental...
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Fracking methane leaks at least 100 times larger than EPA estimated, say researchers
2014-04-16 10:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Gas methane emissions from some shale gas wells in the eastern US could be orders of magnitude larger than the EPA has estimated, according to a report released this week. In a paper entitled Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development, scientists suggest that gas pads in southwestern Pennsylvania were releasing methane at a rate between 100 and 1,000 times greater than the EPA had suggested. "Large emissions averaging 34 g CH4/s per well...
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Fracking Sites Release Way More Methane than Estimated, Study Finds
2014-04-16 09:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Study finds fracking sites cause more damage to the environment than previously assumed Earlier this week, researchers with the Purdue and Cornell universities released a new study bound to further fuel already widespread opposition against the practice of hydraulic fracturing. The study, published in Monday's edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, says that, according to evidence at hand, fracking sites cough out way more methane emissions than estimated. This...
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Futuristic walking, 'talking' drilling rigs aim to modernize fracking
2014-04-16 03:28:22| Energy - Topix.net
Schramm Inc, which built the drilling rig that four years ago helped rescue 33 trapped Chilean copper miners, has designed a 500,000-pound rig for the oil and natural gas industry that can walk, rotate 360 degrees, be operated with a remote control, and load pipe automatically.
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Fracking sand mines credited rising, dropping property values
2014-04-16 00:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Great Lakes Echo: Perry Schmitt describes himself as pro-mining but blames the frac sand mine across the highway from his home for driving down the asking price by more than $25,000, to $189,000. His neighbors made out better. Kari Curran and her husband sold 130 acres for $1.5 million to a company affiliated with Unimin Mining Corp., operator of the mine. The property was previously valued at about $225,000. It was kind of bittersweet, Curran said. That was the house we raised our kids in. In the three years since...
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