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State Lawmakers Want A Crackdown On Fracking
2013-07-12 01:50:50| Waste Management - Topix.net
A group of Democrats in Michigan's Republican-controlled House introduced a package of bills Thursday that would tighten state regulation of hydraulic fracturing, which releases natural gas trapped in deep underground rock formations.
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Distant seismic activity can trigger quakes at 'fracking' sites
2013-07-11 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles (km) away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on Thursday, sometimes followed months later by quakes big enough to destroy buildings. The discovery, published in the journal Science by one of the world's leading seismology labs, threatens to make hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," which involves injecting fluid deep underground, even more controversial. It comes...
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Fracking Pushes U.S. Oil Output to Highest Since 1992
2013-07-11 06:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: U.S. oil production jumped last week to the highest level since January 1992, cutting consumption of foreign fuel and putting the U.S. closer to energy independence. Drilling techniques including hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pushed crude output up by 134,000 barrels, or 1.8 percent, to 7.401 million barrels a day in the seven days ended July 5, the Energy Information Administration said today. Rising crude supplies from oilfields including North Dakotas Bakken shale and the Eagle Ford...
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Explosion at West Virginia fracking site seriously injures four
2013-07-09 22:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Federal investigators are trying to figure out what caused an explosion at a West Virginia fracking site over the weekend. The blast injured at least seven people, including four workers who were sent to a hospital with life-threatening burns. Residents and activists have long complained about safety practices by frackers operating in the state, where they draw natural gas from the Marcellus shale formation. Traffic accidents involving trucks traveling to and from frack sites in the state are...
Explosion at West Virginia Gas Fracking Site Injures at Least 5
2013-07-09 08:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An explosion over the weekend at a natural gas well site in West Virginia operated by Antero Resources injured at least five people, prompting state and federal investigations, local officials and Antero said on Monday. A spark triggered a flash explosion and a fire after a problem during the "flow back" process when drilling fluids are pumped into storage tanks, according to Pat Heaster, director of emergency services in Doddridge County, about 100 miles north of Charleston. The "flow back"...
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