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Fracking and Flooding in Colorado: The More We Know the Worse It Gets
2013-09-24 23:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) reported three new spills today from damaged oil and gas wells caused by the torrential rains and subsequent flooding that continues to batter the state of Colorado. Oil workers try to lift a storage tank for condensate that was knocked over by floodwaters from the Platte River at an oil well site near LaSalle, CO, on Friday, Sept. 20. Condensate is the mix of oil and water that is pumped out of the ground. The tank was intact and had not...
Report Exposes Social Costs of Fracking on Rural America
2013-09-24 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Whats it like living in a small town thats gone from rust belt farmland to fracking boomtown? First, residents often say, theres the traffic. Communities have been unexpectedly flooded with heavy tractor trailers that locals say turn 10 minute commutes into hour-long ordeals, choke back roads and decimate pavement so badly that in some areas, drilling companies are barred from entering until they agree to pay for road repairs. The traffic here is horrendous, Towanda, PA, resident Joe Benjamin...
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Alaska fracking rules would boost public notice, disclosure
2013-09-24 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: New regulations to oversee hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in Alaska could be issued later this year by state regulators, officials said at a public hearing on Monday. The regulations, proposed by the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, would require the approval of regulators before fracturing is conducted, notification of landowners and testing of water wells within a half-mile radius, and the full disclosure of chemicals in the hydraulic-fracturing liquids. While "fracking"...
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United Kingdom: Fracking protests restart after Cuadrilla seeks new drilling rights
2013-09-23 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The company at the heart of the anti-fracking protests in West Sussex on Monday confirmed that its exploratory drilling outside a village had discovered the presence of hydrocarbons, which can be used for fuel, and said further testing would be needed to ascertain flow rates. After more than two months of operations at Balcombe, Cuadrilla said that it would be clearing the site by the weekend and would be closing it off for the next few months while it applies for planning permission to measure...
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Horizontal drilling, fracking begins in old, shallow oil and gas fields
2013-09-21 23:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post-Gazette: If we could take a tiny glass elevator down the trajectory of a Marcellus Shale well, we would see slabs of coal, sandstone, shale and siltstone alternating and colliding with one another for thousands of feet until we finally reach the target rock. Today, half a dozen local oil and gas companies are forgoing the full ride. They're getting off the elevator halfway down, before the Elk Sandstone formation that separates the conventional oil and gas reservoirs from the deeper, unconventional plays...
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