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Fracking foes may key drive Michigan ballot campaign underway as project looms in Livingston County
2013-10-16 08:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Free Press: Livingston County opposition to hydraulic fracturing could be instrumental in getting a proposal to ban fracking on the November 2014 ballot, the head of the ballot effort said. Many of the 965 county residents who signed the petition to put the question to voters did so after a high-volume hydraulic fracturing permit was issued in Conway Township, near Fowlerville, said LuAnne Kozma, campaign director for the Committee to Ban Fracking in Michigan. The committee failed in its first attempt...
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Wisconsins sand-mining boom could fuel fracking abroad
2013-10-14 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When most people think about Wisconsin, cheese, breweries, and cornfields spring to mind. But the fracking industry is interested in something else the Badger State has to offer: sand. A sand-mining boom has gotten rolling in Wisconsin over the last three years. The states quartz-based sand is strong and spherical, nicely suited for injecting underground with water and chemicals to prop open cracks in fractured shale, allowing natural gas and oil to be fracked. The spoils of Wisconsins $1 billion...
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United Kingdom: Fracking faces legal challenge from Lancashire farmer & Greenpeace
2013-10-14 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Lancashire dairy farmer has joined forces with Greenpeace to launch a challenge to fracking in England. The environmental charity is working with people in Lancashire and the West Sussex village of Balcombe whose homes are near sites where the energy company Cuadrilla is looking at using hydraulic fracturing to extract shale gas and oil. Andrew Pemberton, who supplies milk to 3,000 households in Lytham on the Lancashire coast, said he had joined the campaign because he would lose his livelihood...
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Greenpeace launches legal bid ban UK fracking
2013-10-14 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Greenpeace has launched a landmark legal challenge to halt fracking in England, claiming drilling under people's homes without permission is unlawful. The campaign group made the announcement at a press conference in Lancashire, which has been the front line of the UK's nascent shale gas industry. Greenpeace now hopes thousands of people will join the legal challenge, creating a patchwork of "no go" areas for shale oil and gas developers across the country. "Under English law, if you own...
State roundup: More 'fracking' regulation needed
2013-10-14 11:37:14| Waste Management - Topix.net
For one, notification to the public and local governments should be made before the MDEQ issues a permit for high-volume hydraulic fracturing.
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