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Fracking controls 'removed in dash for unconventional energy resources'
2013-07-22 18:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Local communities are set to lose control over key environmental decisions affecting whether fracking can go ahead within their midst, it is claimed. Campaigners opposing the industrial-scale exploitation of shale gas reserves in the British countryside said the Government has removed key democratic controls in its dash to bring unconventional energy resources on stream. Under planning guidelines published last week, councils will no longer be able to investigate issues such as seismic activity,...
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Fracking Chemicals Didn't Contaminate Water, Study Finds
2013-07-22 06:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press. After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the surface stayed thousands of feet below the shallower areas that supply drinking water, geologist Richard...
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Welcome to Portage County, the Fracking Waste Disposal Capital of Ohio
2013-07-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Welcome to Portage County, Ohio, the biggest dumping ground for fracking waste in a state that is fast becoming the go-to destination for the byproducts of America's latest energy boom. As frackingpumping a briny solution of water, lubricants, anti-bacterial agents, and a cocktail of other chemicals into underground shale formations at high pressure to fracture the rock and extract trapped natural gashas expanded in the Midwest, so has the need for disposing of used fracking fluid. That fracking...
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Fracking films reflect twists in drilling debate
2013-07-21 21:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The boom in natural gas drilling has cast two opposing documentary filmmakers in unlikely roles. Josh Fox, a liberal environmental activist, finds himself at odds with President Barack Obama. Phelim McAleer, a free-market conservative, is echoing the Democratic president's support for natural gas. The two don't see eye-to-eye on much of anything, especially each other. "He's a very skillful filmmaker," McAleer said of Fox. "He's one of the most trusted scientists in America at the moment,...
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Global power brokers 'alarmed' as US has a fracking good time
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: A few years ago when you headed from Bismarck in central North Dakota up towards Williston in the state's north-west it might have seemed you were heading from nowhere to nothing. You'd drive on empty roads by the badlands of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park and if you missed the farming town of 14,000 you would hit Canada a few hours later. Not any more. Williston is at the epicentre of a US oil and gas boom sparked by fracking technology that some economists believe will arrest America's...
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