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United Kingdom: Fracking is no answer to 'immediate dilemma' of energy security
2014-03-10 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Fracking might be a controversial proposition, but there is no need to panic just yet. It may be that shale is indeed the solution to our energy crisis, but many are unaware of the complex and tangled web of legal issues to be picked through before anyone puts a drill in the ground. Fracking involves the extraction of methane gas from layers of shale by pumping high pressure water down a well. But shale gas stocks are legally owned by the Crown, and it is the Crown (via the Department for Energy...
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How Azle in Texas decided enough was enough with fracking
2014-03-09 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The point of the 13 January town hall meeting was to organise the locals. And since the locale was a smallish town in Texas Azle, population roughly 11,000, just far enough from Fort Worth that it doesnt quite feel like a suburb that meant the first task, for the handful of fracking critics who led the meeting, was to gently address any reservations that attendees may have had about the purpose of the gathering. We were never activists, says Sharon Wilson, a North Texas resident and organiser...
Fracking foes make a racket as Brown addresses California Democrats
2014-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Anti-fracking advocates repeatedly interrupted Gov. Jerry Browns speech at the California Democratic Convention in Los Angeles on Saturday, chanting and waving signs as he gave his first major speech since declaring his intention to run for reelection. Chanting No fracking! and waving signs that said Another Democrat Against Fracking, scores of protesters repeatedly drowned out Brown as he tried to deliver a speech arguing that California has prospered while politicians in Washington, D.C.,...
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California Democrats call for marijuana legalization, fracking ban
2014-03-09 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: California Democrats on Sunday unanimously approved a platform that calls for the legalization of marijuana and an immediate ban on the oil-and-gas industry practice known as fracking. There was no debate on the proposals, only cheers and then a voice vote at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where a few hundred delegates gathered on the final day of the state Democratic Party's annual convention. On the marijuana issue, state Democrats "support the legalization, regulation and taxation of...
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Next fracking controversy: In Midwest, a storm brews over 'frac sand'
2014-03-09 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: Kyle Slaby bounds up the slope behind his house, stopping at the sandstone outcrop he hopes will save his family's farm. The Slabys grow corn and soybeans on the ridgeline above. But these days there's more money a lot more in mining the sand below. "A lot of people look on it as an extension of farming," Mr. Slaby says. "It's another crop you're harvesting." Sand has become a valuable and deeply divisive commodity in the upper Midwest. Hydraulic fracturing, a method of extraction also...
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