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EPA Funds for Fracking Impact Study Rejected by North Carolina Officials
2013-10-03 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mint Press News: North Carolinas mining and energy commissioners are in the midst of a fracking battleand theyre winning. Theyre arguing that the states regulations for clean water protection are over-the-top and unnecessary, all while corralling anti-fracking advocates into the same category as Bigfoot believers. We all know this, commissioner George Howard said, referring to his belief that there is a lack of proof connecting groundwater contamination with fracking. A lot of this stuff is like Bigfoot regulationhe...
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Dangerous levels of radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania
2013-10-03 10:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scientists have for the first time found dangerous levels of radioactivity and salinity at a shale gas waste disposal site that could contaminate drinking water. If the UK follows in the steps of the US "shale gas revolution", it should impose regulations to stop such radioactive buildup, they said. The Duke University study, published on Wednesday, examined the water discharged from Josephine Brine Treatment Facility into Blacklick Creek, which feeds into a water source for western Pennsylvania...
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Fracking May Be Polluting River With Radioactive Waste
2013-10-03 08:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Fracking may be contaminating a Pennsylvania river with radioactive waste, a Duke University study to be published this week shows. Scientists found elevated levels of radioactivity in river water at a site where treated fracking wastewater from oil and gas production sites in western Pennsylvanias Marcellus shale is released into a creek. The natural gas-rich Marcellus shale is seeing a drilling boom, part of a nationwide rush to use hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, techniques to extract...
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Fracking protests hit UK public support for shale gas
2013-10-02 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Protests against fracking by thousands of people in Sussex over the summer appear to have reversed the growth in British public support for shale gas for the first time. Polling by the University of Nottingham has shown support for shale gas extraction in the UK steadily rising for more than a year, peaking at 61% in favour in July. But that number fell in September, to 55%. In August, more than 2,000 people marched against fracking at an oil drilling site run by Cuadrilla near the village...
Radiation in Pennsylvania Creek Seen as Legacy of Fracking
2013-10-02 14:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Naturally occurring radiation brought to the surface by gas drillers has been detected in a Pennsylvania creek that flows into the Allegheny River, illustrating the risks of wastewater disposal from the boom in hydraulic fracturing. Sediment in Blacklick Creek contained radium in concentrations 200 times above normal, or background levels, according to the study, published today in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. The radium, along with salts such as bromide, came from the Josephine...
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