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Fracking does cause earthquakes - but you'll hardly feel them
2013-04-10 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The controversial technique blasts water into rocks to open up cracks and free up the shale gas, an energy source supporters say heat homes in Britain for 100 years. Opponents say the process can open up faultlines and cause earthquakes. But a new study, published in Marine and Petroleum Geology, found only three earthquakes that people can actually feel have been caused so far, out of hundreds of thousands of wells drilled since 1929. Most of the tremors caused by fracking will be undetectable...
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California court ruling gives hope to foes of fracking
2013-04-10 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A court ruling that the U.S. government must consider the environmental impact of "fracking" on federal lands leased to oil companies offers opponents of the technique a useful weapon in the fierce public debate in California and other parts of the country. In a regulatory setback for hydraulic fracturing on public lands, a federal magistrate judge in San Jose, California, on Monday ruled that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) failed to analyze its impact on 2,500 acres in Monterey County. ...
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Quake risk from fracking 'minimal'
2013-04-10 02:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: New research suggests that fracking is not a significant cause of earthquakes that can be felt on the surface. UK scientists looked at quakes caused by human activity ranging from mining to oil drilling; only three could be attributed to hydraulic fracturing. Most fracking events released the same amount of energy as jumping off a ladder, the Durham-based team said. They argue that the integrity of well bores drilled for fracking is of much greater concern. The research is published in...
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Obama Admin. Overlooked Fracking Risks in California Leases, Judge Rules
2013-04-09 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A federal judge has ruled the Obama administration broke the law when it issued oil leases in central California without fully weighing the environmental impact of "fracking," a setback for companies seeking to exploit the region's enormous energy resources. The decision, made public on Monday, effectively bars for the time being any drilling on two tracts of land comprising 2,500 acres leased for oil and gas development in 2011 by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management in Monterey...
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Scientists Use Crowdfunding to Pay for Fracking Research
2013-04-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: You`ve heard of Kickstarter, the website that allows everyone from budding filmmakers to student dancers, to nail polish designers, search for individual funders over the internet. Now, there are crowdfunding websites popping up that focus on scientific research. Two Juniata College professors are turning to one of these to fund their fracking research. Micro-biology professor Regina Lamendella and ecologist Christopher Grant, want to find out how fracking for Marcellus Shale gas impacts stream life...
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