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California Back in Big Oil's Crosshairs as Feds Quietly OK Offshore Fracking

2016-05-29 06:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Common Dreams: Two federal agencies on Friday quietly finalized two reports, set for release next week, that found offshore fracking in California poses no "significant" risk to the environment--paving the way for oil and gas companies to resume the controversial extraction method in the Santa Barbara Channel and imperiling the region's wildlife in the process, opponents said. The announcement Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (OEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement...

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Fracking go-ahead: What happens next?

2016-05-27 22:31:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Now plans for fracking have been given the go-ahead in North Yorkshire, the BBC's John Moylan looks at whether old industrial sites be used for future fracking applications.

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Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Fracking Wastewater

2016-05-27 03:30:36| oilandgasonline Home Page

Fracking continues to be a growing problem around certain parts of the U.S., with environmental groups recently bringing their concerns to court.

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Third Energy gets fracking approval

2016-05-26 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Wingatewire: North Yorkshire County Councillors approved a shale gas fracking application from Third Energy yesterday - marking the first time that a fracking bid has been greenlighted in the United Kingdom since 2011. People living close to a proposed fracking operation in North Yorkshire have told councillors they do not want to be the first community in the United Kingdom to allow the controversial gas extraction technique. Hundreds of anti-fracking protestors are expected to gather outside the council...

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Fracking: Ministers 'Sitting On' Climate Change Report On Shale Industry

2016-05-25 14:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: Ministers have been accused of 'sitting on' a long-awaited report on fracking and climate change in a bid to help the oil industry. HuffPost UK has learned that the independent Climate Change Committee's (CCC) study of the environmental impact of the shale gas technology has still not been published despite a legal requirement to do so. Protestors were furious this week when North Yorkshire County Council made the landmark decision to approve Third Energy's application to frack on a site near...

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