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Botswana accused of allowing fracking in national parks
2013-12-03 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The government of Botswana has quietly allowed international companies to explore for natural gas in some of the country's most sensitive national parks using the controversial drilling method of hydraulic fracturing, according to a new documentary released in South Africa. American filmmaker Jeffrey Barbee obtained a government map that appears to show that authorities in Botswana allocated vast exploration concessions in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park...
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Massachusetts Might Become the Second State in the US to Ban Fracking
2013-12-02 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: Massachusetts moves to impose 10-year moratorium on fracking The state of Massachusetts in the US has high chances to become the country's second ever to ban the practice of fracking, otherwise known as hydraulic fracturing. For those unaware, fracking boils down to injecting high-pressurized water, sand, and chemicals in the underground in order to split open rocks and make it easier to access oil and gas. Last week, the state's Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture...
Greener than ‘Green’: Fracking is friendly to...
2013-11-30 08:29:56| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
That was my chief observation when I returned to Anadarko Petroleum's Landon Pad A, a natural-gas site in Lycoming County, Pa.
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Hickenloopera s new oil and gas regulations: Real substance or fracking greenwash?
2013-11-27 21:10:54| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The oil and gas industry and Gov. John Hickenlooper's "plan A" was easy enough to spot when it came to their shared desire to increase oil and gas development in Colorado.
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Fracking opponents take their fight to Chicago
2013-11-27 20:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Tribune: Hundreds of miles from the shale oil of southern Illinois, nearly 300 people jammed into a hearing room in Chicago this week in an attempt to turn the tide against horizontal hydraulic fracturing. "This is where the majority of the people are. This is where the majority of the legislators are. There is a lot of political weight in this area," said Tabitha Tripp, who drove six hours from southern Illinois to speak for two minutes at a pre-hearing news conference. Though the law regulating fracking...
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