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Former Shell Oil President: Everybody Knows Some Fracking Wells Go Bad
2013-07-29 00:48:48| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
President of Shell Oil Company John Hofmeister is joined by Chairman and President of BP America Inc. Robert Malone , and Vice Chairman of the Board of Chevron Corporation Peter Robertson as he testifies about the rising cost of gas prices before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, May 21, 2008.
Chevron betting on fracking over Russian energy
2013-07-28 16:03:03| Energy - Topix.net
Bringing shale drilling to Europe from North America promises to help the region ease years of dependence on Russian fuel and hurts the Kremlin's ambition to secure the country's future as an energy superpower.
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George Mitchell, father of fracking, dies at 94
2013-07-27 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: George Phydias Mitchell, a petroleum engineer who transformed the natural gas industry by using hydraulic fracturing to pull the fuel out of shale formations, died of natural causes at the age of 94 on Friday. A native of Galveston, Texas, who rose from modest means to become a billionaire philanthropist, he was the chairman and chief executive officer of Mitchell Energy & Development, which was sold to Devon Energy Corp for $3.5bn in 2002. His death was announced on the website of his foundation....
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United Kingdom: Villagers' fracking revolt leads to arrests
2013-07-26 22:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The protest against plans by the fracking company Cuadrilla to explore for oil and gas at a site just outside the sleepy village of Balcombe, East Sussex, began on Thursday. Local people, including mothers and children, set up gazebos and bunting by the roadside. Tea and cakes were handed out and there was even a singalong. Activists included Natalie Hynde, the daughter of Chrissie Hynde and Ray Davies of The Kinks. But the mood turned at midday yesterday as a hard core of activists refused...
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HS2, fracking & planning have given rise to mutiny in Middle England
2013-07-26 21:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: I guess it's the Shire effect. Tolkein tells us that the inhabitants of that green and pleasant corner of Middle Earth are "slow to quarrel' but "doughty at bay'. Much the same could be said of the people of our own shires: it takes a lot to anger them, but once roused they form a formidable, almost unstoppable, force. And as Tory and Lib Dem MPs are discovering -- on returning to their constituencies for the summer recess -- the patience of rural Britain is now wearing thin. More and more local...
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