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Fracking laws could be loosened
2014-01-27 17:01:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Ministers are considering changing trespass laws to make it easier for energy companies to carry out fracking beneath people's homes without permission.
United Kingdom: Ttruth about David Cameron fracking fairytale
2014-01-26 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Davos tends to turn the hardest of heads. During the annual meetings, where businesses pay big bucks to rub shoulders with political leaders and thinkers, a contagious aura of smugness fills this Alpine valley like a fog, killing much sense of reality. Politicians need a quick corridor story to sell their country's virtues, and David Cameron has landed on a peculiarly ill-informed one. Most narratives are falsifiable only with the passage of time, but Cameron's story is demonstrably a fairytale...
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United Kingdom: Fracking firms 'should pay 6bn year tax to compensate for climate change'
2014-01-26 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Shale frackers operating in Britain should be paying 6bn a year in taxes by the middle of the 2020s to compensate for the damage wreaked on the environment, according to a study from Cambridge University. The government has made clear drillers such as Cuadrilla Resources and IGas should provide sweeteners to local communities affected by their activities but it would also be right for shale gas producers to pay for contributing to global warming, argues Chris Hope, a parliamentary adviser and...
Fracking in Western North Carolina? Unlikely but still unsettling
2014-01-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Citizen-Times: Just the mere mention of the word gets people riled up. Fracking. Technically called hydraulic fracturing, the chemical-intense method of extracting natural gas from deep rock grabs peoples attention, especially here in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. And especially when a high-ranking N.C. Department of Environment & Natural Resources official mentions at a public meeting a possible basin, including natural gas, in WNC. Several of you good readers have asked me why...
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Nash plans 'fracking' town hall in Farmington Hills this year
2014-01-24 15:20:56| Waste Management - Topix.net
Farmington Hills is expected to be among a group of planned town halls on oil drilling and fracking hosted by Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner Jim Nash in 2014.
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