je.st
news
Tag: fracking
United Kingdom: There's no room for wind farms but plenty for fracking, says PM
2013-08-08 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: In comments that will delight rural communities opposed to wind farms, the Prime Minister said that "there is a limited potential for onshore wind' in the UK. Mr Cameron instead said that he wants the UK to focus on shale gas exploration, nuclear power and offshore wind. With anti-fracking protests continuing in parts of the countryside, the Prime Minister said he wanted to "dispel myths' about the controversial technique and said that there is "no question of having earthquakes and fire coming...
United Kingdom: Fracking Boss Faces Growing Tremors of Resistance from Public, Press and Tories
2013-08-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: He knew it would be a tough job when he took it on last year, but Francis Egan, chief executive of fracking firm Cuadrilla Resources, could not have imagined the role would bring with it death threats and reporters turning up at his house trying to "frack" his garden. Environmentalists have been campaigning against fracking for years, but Egan's attempt to drill in the pretty West Sussex village of Balcombe has turned hydraulic fracturing (to give it is proper name) into a highly emotive subject...
Tags: public
united
press
kingdom
US lawmakers demand fracking investigation offshore of California
2013-08-08 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
California state assembly member Das Williams, along with seven other state legislators, has asked the federal government to investigate reports of oil companies engaging in hydraulic fracturing on California's coastal seabed.
Tags: california
demand
investigation
offshore
Govt, Energy Industry Accused of Suppressing Fracking Dangers
2013-08-07 23:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: New signs have emerged in recent days which indicate that extreme measures are being taken in order to suppress evidence of the pernicious effects of the energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. At the beginning of this month, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette revealed that, in 2011, a Pennsylvania family reached an unprecedented settlement with an energy company fracking near their property. It included gag orders on the familys two children, ages seven and 10 at the time...
Tags: industry
energy
accused
dangers
Fracking could accelerate global warming
2013-08-07 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: THE row over fracking for natural gas has hit the UK, with protests over plans in the village of Balcombe. Could they have a point? Studies are suggesting fracking could accelerate climate change, rather than slow it. The case for fracking rests on its reputed ability to stem global warming. Burning gas emits half as much planet-warming carbon dioxide as an equivalent amount of coal. That is why, after embracing fracking, CO2 emissions have fallen in the US. But leading climate scientists are warning...
Tags: global
warming
accelerate
fracking
Sites : [269] [270] [271] [272] [273] [274] [275] [276] [277] [278] [279] [280] [281] [282] [283] [284] [285] [286] [287] [288] next »