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Is Fracking About to Arrive on Your Doorstep?
2014-01-31 14:37:20| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tom Dispatch: What kind of world is this? In China, an almost 1,350 square mile freshwater lake -- thats more than four times the size of New York City -- recently dried up due to an ongoing drought. In the high Sierra of Americas West, bears have forgone hibernating as a result of (what were once, at least) unseasonably warm conditions. Across the continent in Maine, increasing ocean acidity is thought to be behind the spread of coastal dead mud which may have disastrous implications for clammers, lobstermen,...
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Is Fracking About to Arrive Your Doorstep?
2014-01-31 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: For the past several years, I've been writing about what happens when big oil and gas corporations drill where people live. "Fracking"-- high-volume hydraulic fracturing, which extracts oil and methane from deep shale--has become my beat. My interviewees live in Pennsylvania's shale-gas fields; among Wisconsin's hills, where corporations have been mining silica, an essential fracking ingredient; and in New York, where one of the most powerful grassroots movements in the state's long history of dissent...
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New Study Shows Proximity to Fracking Sites Increases Risk of Birth Defects
2014-01-30 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The dangers of fracking are no secret, but a study released this week shows the devastating impact the process can have on babies before they even have a chance to live their lives. The unborn children of pregnant women who live within a 10-mile radius of fracking sites are far more susceptible to congenital heart defects (CHD), according to Birth Outcomes and Maternal Residential Proximity to Natural Gas Development in Rural Colorado, the latest study from the National Institute of Environmental...
Cuadrilla Fracking Delays Over Radioactive Waste Water
2014-01-29 07:37:35| oilandgasonline News Articles
Energy company Cuadrilla has withdrawn applications for permits to frack in Lancashire after issues with radioactive waste.
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Glass Bob Sensor Measures Silica Levels in Fracking Sand
2014-01-28 13:40:00| Chemical Processing
Sensor takes measurements at predetermined time intervals or on demand.
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