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Government energy adviser recommends targeting fracking in 'desolate' North East
2013-07-30 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: A former senior energy adviser to the government has argued that fracking in the UK should be focused on the "large, desolate and uninhabited areas" of the north east, contrasting the region with the "beautiful rural areas" where concerns over the environmental impact of shale gas exploration are justified. The Conservative Peer Lord Howell, who advised Foreign Secretary William Hague on energy and resource security and is also father-in-law to George Osborne, argued in the House of Lords today that...
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Dangers of Fracking: Public Asks Tough Questions of Hastings Panel
2013-07-30 09:59:13| Waste Management - Topix.net
The public was invited here by Rep. Mike Callton, Nashville, to ask a panel of experts "tough" questions about fracking.
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Leaked EPA document raises questions about fracking pollution
2013-07-30 03:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The EPA doesn`t seem very interested in finding out whether fracking pollutes groundwater. The latest indication of this emerged over the weekend in the Los Angeles Times. Residents of the small town of Dimock in northeastern Pennsylvania have long been convinced that Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. was poisoning their drinking water by fracking the land around them. In July of last year, the EPA announced that although water from some local wells contained naturally occurring arsenic, barium, and manganese,...
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Up to 500 wells could be drilled in northern Michigan under fracking proposal
2013-07-29 19:22:05| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A proposal to drill as many as 500 wells in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula by using hydraulic fracturing is attracting attention and criticism from environmentalists.
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Jobs and education needed to win British over to fracking: survey
2013-07-29 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Government incentives for affected communities must be followed up by education and job creation to convince a skeptical British public that fracking for shale oil and gas is right, according to a survey of industry professionals. Some 70 per cent of almost 200 respondents to the survey by data provider Rigzone believe the British government was right to offer incentives to communities where hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, and horizontal drilling will be used. But 51 per cent believed...
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