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United Kingdom: Fracking firm's drilling plan unnerves West Sussex villagers
2013-05-09 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The only company to have fracked for shale gas in the UK, Cuadrilla, is to drill for oil in a West Sussex village from next month. The energy firm has said the eight-week exploratory drill near Balcombe will not involve fracking, the process of blasting liquid into rock to free natural gas trapped inside, but nonetheless the planned 3,000ft well in the local woodland of Lower Stumble, near Ardingly reservoir, looks set to hit a wall of opposition in this Conservative heartland. "It seems such...
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United Kingdom: Fracking fears in the Home Counties
2013-05-09 11:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Cuadrilla Resources plans to drill an exploratory well in the village of Balcombe in West Sussex to find out if there is enough oil to drill, or if that fails, gas to extract by fracking. The company is the only one to have fracked for shale gas in the UK, prompting concerns. However Cuadrilla told a meeting of Balcombe Parish Council it expects to find oil at the site, and the possibility of finding gas and therefore fracking was "unlikely" and it had no immediate plans to frack. Rodney Saunders,...
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Two firms quit fracking in Poland
2013-05-09 00:19:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Two North American companies, Talisman Energy and Marathon, have quit fracking for shale gas in Poland, after disappointing drilling results.
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New Yorkers Call on Gov. Cuomo to Protect Thriving Tourism Industry from Fracking
2013-05-08 23:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Outside the summit, New York state residents handed out literature to participants. On the day of Governor Cuomos tourism summit, New York bed-and-breakfasts, wineries and other tourism-related businesses highlighted frackings incompatibility with upstate tourism and called on the governor to protect the states tourism industry by banning fracking. New Yorkers Against Fracking also announced a radio ad running in Albany, emphasizing the risks that fracking poses to the states rural tourism...
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Interior Secretary: Fracking Regulations Will Be Based on Best Science
2013-05-08 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Obama administration's second attempt at writing regulations for hydraulic fracturing on public lands is not intended to appease either environmentalists or oil and gas drillers, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said on Tuesday. Jewell told lawmakers at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing that the department was "very close" to unveiling the rules and reiterated a recent comment that the rules would be out in "weeks, not months." Jewell was also pressed about the department's plans...
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