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Green alert flares after McCarthy's comments on Keystone XL, fracking
2013-11-06 14:37:54| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A Boston Globe reporter yesterday alarmed environmentalists with a preview of his interview with U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy that indicated she has an open attitude about the Keystone XL pipeline and hydraulic fracturing. The McCarthy quotes tweeted by the Globe's David Abel at 1 p.m. -- she "didn't buy the argument that blocking the Keystone pipeline would prevent the extraction of tar sands oil," he wrote -- caused a conflagration big enough that EPA spokeswoman Alisha Johnson threw cold water...
Colorado an energy battleground as towns ban fracking
2013-11-06 13:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three Colorado cities have rejected oil and gas production work that relies on so-called fracking, unofficial election returns showed on Wednesday in a setback for an industry that won other battles this year in Democratic strongholds like California. Boulder, Lafayette and Fort Collins passed measures with solid margins to suspend or ban the technique formally known as hydraulic fracturing. But a fourth community, Broomfield, about 12 miles (19 km) east of Boulder, narrowly rejected a fracking...
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Fracking Is the Biggest Boom Since the Housing Bubble: Will It End the Same Way?
2013-11-06 09:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Ticker: Forty years after the Arab oil embargo, the U.S. has become the world's largest oil and gas producer. This is largely the result of fracking, the shortened name for hydraulic fracturing, which uses water and chemicals injected into rock at very high pressures to release the oil and gas embedded within. Recent advances in this decades-old method of drilling have produced more oil and gas in the U.S. than most thought possible. "Fracking is the biggest boom since the housing bubble...and even maybe...
Could fracking boom peter out sooner than DOE expects?
2013-11-03 17:57:21| Energy - Topix.net
The U.S. fracking boom has brought a surge in oil and gas production, nudging the nation closer to its decades-old goal of energy independence.
United Kingdom: Brent council seeks to ban fracking
2013-11-01 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A local council is seeking to ban fracking in its area in what it claims is the first such move by a local authority in the UK against the controversial gas extraction procedure. Brent, in north London, said it was seeking to use any legal avenues available to prevent energy firms from being able to drill within its boundaries. The Government firmly backs action to exploit what are believed to be large reserves of shale gas in rocks beneath the UK, which it claims could help bring down energy...
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