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Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Dumping Toxic Fracking Wastewater Into River
2013-08-30 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Last year, more than 14 million gallons of radioactive toxic fracking wastewater was injected into Ohio`s Class II disposal wells, with more than half of the wastewater coming from out-of-state. While some toxic fracking wastewater is injected into wells, it has also been dumped illegally into streams and rivers, contaminating Ohio`s waterways. According to The Plain Dealer, Michael Guesman, an employee of Hardrock Excavating--a company that stored, treated and disposed of oil and gas drilling...
Proposal Weakens Endangered Species Protections From Fracking on Public Lands
2013-08-30 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Center for Biological Diversity: The Obama administration has proposed a new rule that would scale back the requirement that federal agencies fully track the harms inflicted on endangered species when large-scale plans are developed and carried out on federal public lands. As a result, the cumulative impacts on rare species from actions like oil and gas drilling will be discounted in the decision-making process--putting hundreds of plants and animals at greater risk of extinction. The change is being proposed by the U.S. Fish and...
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Fracking Wastewater Spill Kills Rare Fish in KY, Puts Entire Species at Risk
2013-08-30 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently published a peer-reviewed journal article that discusses the results of the investigation into a 2007 fracking wastewater spill in Kentucky. Fracking wastewater that was being stored in open air pits (a practice that can lead to toxic spills) overflowed into Kentucky`s Acorn Fork Creek and left an orange-red substance, contaminating the creek with hydrochloric acid, dissolved minerals and metals, and...
United Kingdom: Fracking debate brings climate change closer to home
2013-08-30 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Many of those who deny that climate change is taking place reached that position as a result of their opposition to windfarms. This, for example, was the route taken by David Bellamy, who stumbled disastrously into the debate a decade ago. During one of our discussions, he set me the following challenge: "Why are the so-called greens backing a cartel of multinational companies which are hell bent on covering some of the best of our countryside with so-called windfarms, which can neither provide...
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Balcombe residents complain about continuing fracking protests
2013-08-29 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Residents of the West Sussex village at the heart of a battle over whether the UK should go ahead with fracking have complained at the ongoing protests against the controversial technique. Earlier this month, hundreds of protesters blockaded the site outside Balcombe where Cuadrilla is undertaking exploratory drilling for oil, leading to 29 arrests including that of green MP, Caroline Lucas. Although a camp of activists in a nearby field has now left, around fifty people remain at a 'gate camp',...
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