je.st
news
Tag: fracking
Sit In Continues Demanding a Moratorium on Fracking in Illinois
2013-05-24 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: What happens in Illinois, doesn`t stay in Illinois--especially when you`re dealing with the national ramifications of a combined fracking and coal mining rush unparalleled in recent memory. As a sit in movement continues at the office of Gov. Quinn in Springfield, IL, besieged southern Illinois residents who have been left out of backroom legislative negotiations over a controversial and admittedly flawed regulatory fracking bill are calling on the nation to contact Gov. Quinn and Lt. Gov. Madigan...
Tags: in
continues
sit
illinois
Nearly 70 Groups: Environmental Defense Fund Does Not Speak For Us On Fracking
2013-05-24 03:05:19| oilandgasonline News Articles
A total of 67 leading grassroots organizations focused on citizen and environmental issues today released a joint letter to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) disapproving of the group's willingness to be coopted by industry interests on the issue of hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") for shale gas.
Tags: on
us
groups
environmental
New Fracking Rules Leave Drought-Ridden States High and Dry
2013-05-23 20:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Proposed standards that the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) announced last week for hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands are hugely important, especially in the arid West where water is gold. Unfortunately, water protection gets short shrift in the rules that, once finalized, will apply to 750 million acres of public lands. To provide a bit of context, oil and gas wells on public lands account for about 13 percent of the nations natural gas production and five percent of its oil...
German Beer Purity Threatened by Fracking Say Brewers
2013-05-23 20:34:37| Beverages - Topix.net
German brewers called on Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to block the tapping of shale gas by means of hydraulic fracturing, citing industry concerns that fracking could taint the purity of the country's beer.
Tags: german
beer
threatened
purity
Fracking Economics Revealed as Shale Gas Bubble, Not Silver Bullet
2013-05-23 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: With several bills pending in the New York legislature related to natural gas development in the state, elected officials were briefed today on research revealing its economic limitations. Hosted by Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Earthworks, Energy Policy Forum, Environmental Advocates of New York, Frack Action and the Post Carbon Institute, the briefing focused on two groundbreaking reports released this spring. In sum, scientific and financial analyses show that the medium- to long-term...
Tags: silver
gas
economics
revealed
Sites : [297] [298] [299] [300] [301] [302] [303] [304] [305] [306] [307] [308] [309] [310] [311] [312] [313] [314] [315] [316] next »