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Surrounding States Mull Fracking Waste Bans Leaving NY No Room for Dirty Drilling
2013-06-28 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Opening a new front in the battle over fracking in New York State, citizens in yet another neighboring state--Massachusetts--called on their legislators to ban the processing of fracking wastewater. More than 11,000 Massachusetts residents call for fracking ban, June 26. "Laced with cancer-causing and even radioactive materials, the millions of gallons of toxic wastewater generated by fracking are among the most compelling reasons for New York to abandon the path of dirty drilling." said Eric...
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Fracking the nation: the dash for gas beneath rural Britain
2013-06-28 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Compton Martin is not the most obvious place to have a conversation about drilling for gas, and what's already happening in US states such as Texas, Oklahoma and Ohio. It sits on the northern edge of the Mendip Hills, in the famously picturesque Chew Valley. It may say something about the place that it still has a functioning village water pump. At a bus stop, I meet two local mums: Chloe Mann, 35, and Sarah Kirwan, 39. "It's quiet little village," says Mann, a mother of two who works part-time...
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EPA tells Ohio to stop keeping fracking secrets from first responders
2013-06-27 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Ohio firefighters, cops, and local officials might soon learn a little bit more about the poisons that frackers are storing and injecting into the ground beneath their feet. The U.S. EPA told the state that a 12-year-old Ohio law that lets the fracking industry conceal information from emergency-management officials and first responders violates federal law. From The Columbus Dispatch: The state law, passed in 2001, requires that drilling companies share information about hazardous chemicals...
UK Earmarked for Fracking, Massive Public Backlash on Horizon
2013-06-27 20:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace UK: According to Greenpeace research almost two-thirds of England has been earmarked for potential fracking, and local opposition, particularly in Conservative constituencies, is expected to be fierce. Local hostility in Balcombe, West Sussex is already delaying the fracking process, with the Campaign to Protect Rural England warning of a massive backlash if large areas of countryside are "transformed into industrial sites." Commenting on todays announcement, Lawrence Carter, energy campaigner at...
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Halliburton and ALEC Push Industry-Friendly Fracking Legislation in North Carolina
2013-06-27 18:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mint Press: North Carolina senators are taking an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) style approach in their efforts to push through legislation that allows oil companies a loophole in regulations requiring disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations. This week, a state Senate committee approved a version of what is normally an annual environmental housecleaning bill, according to the Associated Press. While the House version of the bill was a mere four pages,...
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