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House Dems to Interior: Fracking Rule is Too Weak
2013-08-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Senior Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee say the Interior Departments draft plan to regulate oil and gas fracking is too weak and even worse than an earlier proposal. Ranking Democrat Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and five colleagues, in a letter, say the rule gives industry too much leeway to avoid chemical disclosure requirements by claiming trade secrets. The lawmakers also say the rule would allow many wells in a given oil and gas field to escape oversight, alleging it assumes...
Arkansas homeowners settle suit charging fracking wastewater caused quakes
2013-08-28 22:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Five Arkansas residents who sued two oil companies claiming wastewater disposal wells from fracking caused earthquakes that damaged their homes settled with the companies for an undisclosed sum on Wednesday, according to U.S. court documents and the plaintiffs' lawyers. Several similar suits against the two companies, Chesapeake Energy's operating subsidiary and BHP Billiton, remain active in federal court in eastern Arkansas, though those may also be settled, the lawyers said. The residents...
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Coalition asks Gov. Jerry Brown to halt fracking in California
2013-08-28 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: A coalition of more than 100 environmental and political activist groups is denouncing oil fracking legislation as too weak and calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to order an immediate halt to the controversial drilling practice. "The truth is that there is no proven way to protect California from fracking besides prohibiting this inherently dangerous practice," said the letter delivered to the governor's office Wednesday. Fracking, formally known as hydraulic fracturing, is a drilling technique that...
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Drill next door: Heres what it looks like when a fracking rig moves in
2013-08-28 19:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When my wife and I pulled into a relatives subdivision in Frederick, Colo., after a wedding on a recent weekend, it was a surprise to suddenly find a 142-foot-tall drill rig in the backyard, parked in the narrow strip of land between there and the next subdivision to the east. It had appeared in the two days we`d been gone. This couple hundred grassy acres, thick with meadowlarks and bisected by a creek crowded with cattail, bulrush, willow, and raccoon tracks, sits atop the DJ Basin shale deposit....
Fracking fears expose confusion about risk
2013-08-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Should oil and gas producers be allowed to hydraulically fracture wells even if there is a small but hard-to-quantify risk to the environment, property and human life? That is the question politicians, environmentalists, local residents and the media are all grappling with across large parts of the United States, Britain and other countries. For some environmental campaigners and local residents, the answer is No. Fracking should not be allowed unless and until it can be shown to pose no threat...
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