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PM promises council 'fracking' boost
2014-01-13 04:56:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Councils that back "fracking" will get to keep more money in tax revenue as part of an "all-out" drive to promote drilling, Prime Minister David Cameron says.
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Tax breaks fracking firms as UK goes 'all out for shale'
2014-01-12 17:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday promised tax breaks worth millions of pounds to local councils who encourage shale gas development, declaring the country was going "all out for shale". Cameron announced that local authorities in England will collect all of the tax collected from shale gas sites -â?? double the current 50 percent figure. The government calculates that this could be worth up to 1.7 million ($2.8 million, 2 million euros) a year for a typical site. "We're going...
Fracking for an energy renaissance that will not come
2014-01-12 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Last week when I laid out seven misconceptions about energy shared by the public and policymakers, the pushback I received had little to do with the actual data I used to demonstrate my point. This is probably because the data are from official public sources and available to anyone with an Internet connection to inspect and verify. Most of the pushback bore the sentiment, "Well, you are right about the data. But, just you wait. There are big things that are going to happen in the future with (fill...
Dems have some good 'fracking' ideas
2014-01-12 11:43:11| Waste Management - Topix.net
Now, if we can set aside the perpetual war between Dems and the GOP, there may be some ideas worth considering here.
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Spirit of cooperation frays in fracking debate
2014-01-12 11:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: After environmentalists, lawmakers and the oil industry got together last year to draft Illinois' first regulations for hydraulic fracturing, the rest was supposed to be easy. The unusual collaboration was praised as a potential model for other states and a rare example of political foes finding common ground on a complex issue. But six months after the regulations were signed into law, the spirit of cooperation is fraying: Environmentalists worry that state regulators are weakening the rules...
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