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France Upholds Fracking Ban
2013-10-11 14:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: France's highest court on Friday upheld a government ban on a controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, in a defeat for a method that has revolutionized the oil and natural gas industry in the United States. The Constitutional Council ruled against a challenge by Schuepbach Energy, an American company, whose exploration permits were revoked after the French Parliament banned the practice. The method, known informally as fracking, pumps water, sand and chemicals under high...
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United Kingdom: Fracking firm was barred from using chemical, Balcombe meeting told
2013-10-10 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK's fracking pioneer Cuadrilla was prevented by the Environment Agency from using a hazardous chemical at its drilling site in Sussex, local residents have been told. But permission was granted for another chemical despite concerns over its safety. Chris Wick, of the Environment Agency, told a packed meeting of residents in Balcombe's church on Wednesday night that "we stopped Cuadrilla using one or two things". The chemical that was banned was antimony trioxide. The Environment Agency told...
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Talk before issuing 'fracking' permits
2013-10-09 16:57:56| 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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Fracking the US trade deficit
2013-10-08 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Over the past decade, oil and gas production has surged at vast shale formations in Texas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere across the US. That has led to a rise in exports of petroleum products and a reduction in the amount of oil and gas the US imports from abroad. It's one benefit of the domestic hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling revolution that has stirred passion on all sides of the debate over America's energy future. The costs are damage to local environments, critics...
VIDEO: Fracking 'cleaner than other fossils fuels'
2013-10-08 16:50:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Fracking sites takes up a "miniscule" area compared with wind farms, said the chief executive of IGAS, a firm wanting to extract shale gas using the fracking technique.
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