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US seeks data on fracking business from companies
2013-07-26 16:38:03| Energy - Topix.net
Federal officials have contacted Halliburton Co. and Baker Hughes Inc. as part of an antitrust investigation into an oil and gas drilling process used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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Chevron Anticipates Europeans Prefer Fracking to Putin
2013-07-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Chevron Corp. (CVX) is betting it can win over eastern Europeans with the idea of energy independence even after dry wells and government delays led Exxon Mobil Corp. and Talisman Energy Inc. (TLM) to scrap efforts to tap natural gas deposits in Polish shale. Bringing shale drilling to Europe from North America promises to help the region ease years of dependence on Russian fuel and hurts the Kremlins ambition to secure the countrys future as an energy superpower. Use of hydraulic fracturing, or...
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ExxonMobil subsidiary, with arm twisted behind back, agrees to treat fracking wastewater
2013-07-23 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: XTO Energy, an ExxonMobil subsidiary, will reluctantly shell out $20 million to properly treat and dispose of fracking wastewater in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. It will also pay a $100,000 EPA fine as part of a settlement agreement [PDF] over water-pollution charges [PDF]. From PennLive: The company is accused of violating the Clean Water Act by releasing over approximately 65 days between 6,300 and 57,373 gallons of fluids that contained barium, calcium, iron, manganese, potassium, sodium,...
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Sequoia's Michael Moritz explains how technology is like fracking
2013-07-23 02:25:41| CNET News.com
Thirty years ago technology was in niches and crevasses of the economy, and now it has seeped into every sector. [Read more]
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ExxonMobil Fined for Fracking Wastewater Spill into Pennsylvania River
2013-07-22 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Obama administration has fined an ExxonMobil subsidiary $100,000 and ordered the company to spend $20 million to improve its hydraulic fracturing wastewater management system in the wake of a 2010 leak that contaminated a tributary of the Susquehanna River. This photo taken from a plane above Hickory, PA, shows pits containing fracking wastewater. Photo credit: Marcellus Protest via Flickr. The U.S Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) handed the fine down...
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