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650,000 Comments Call on Obama Administration to Ban Fracking on Public Lands
2013-08-23 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Yesterday, a coalition of 276 environmental and consumer organizations including Americans Against Fracking, 350.org, Berks Gas Truth, Center for Biological Diversity, CREDO Action, Democracy for America, Environmental Action, Daily Kos, Food & Water Watch, MoveOn, Progressive Democrats of America, The Post Carbon Institute and United For Action delivered to President Obama and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) nearly 650,000 public comments asking the federal government to ban hydraulic fracturing--fracking--on...
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Battles Escalate Over Community Efforts to Ban Fracking
2013-08-23 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: As President Obama visits upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania this week to discuss his education agenda, a separate issue looms large in the background: fracking, a practice that has transformed Pennsylvania's economy and divided New York, where a moratorium is in place. Protesters on both sides of the issue are expected to greet the President. And while his trip highlights many unresolved issues related to America's new wealth of natural gas and oil, a growing number of communities...
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Fight Over Proposed Federal Fracking Rules Flares Up
2013-08-23 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: A voluminous file of public comments shows how high the stakes are for President Barack Obama's Interior Department as it prepares to decide the fate of proposed rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal lands. Mr. Obama, who has said he supports greater production of natural gas along with environmental protections, is navigating between industry groups that oppose any federal regulation of fracking and some environmental groups that want to ban the practice. The Bureau of Land Management, part...
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Fracking complaint by Boulder Rep. Jared Polis triggers proposed $26,000 state penalty
2013-08-23 00:46:12| Energy - Topix.net
State regulators have proposed $26,000 in penalties against the company that launched a drilling and extraction operation directly across the road from a Weld County property owned by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, and used as his weekend getaway.
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United Kingdom: Fracking: police reduce operation in Balcombe as protest slackens
2013-08-22 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Police have begun to scale down their operation at an anti-fracking protest site in west Sussex after four weeks of demonstrations. Many of the activists who descended on Balcombe to protest against an exploratory drilling site recently opened by energy company Cuadrilla have now left the area, Sussex Police said. A spokesman said about 120 people are estimated to still be at the roadside camp on London Road at the entrance to the location, while most people had left the Reclaim the Power camp...
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