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Organic Farmers Struggle to Protect Land from Encroaching Fracking Industry
2013-04-01 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Many farmers in Pennsylvania welcomed the natural gas industry with open arms, letting companies set up operations on their land to drill wells and fracture the shale rock thousands of feet under the surface. Pennsylvania would not have become one of the top gas producing states in the U.S. in such a short period without the acquiescence of the state`s farming community. Not every landowner, though, believed in the promise of riches or bought into the gas industry`s image of family farms coexisting...
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In Dry Texas, Waterless Fracking Makes Headway
2013-04-01 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Texas Tribune: Call it hydraulic fracturing -- without the hydro. In most hydraulic fracturing operations, several million gallons of water, together with sand and chemicals, get pumped down a hole to blast apart rock that encases oil or gas. But with water increasingly scarce and expensive around Texas, a few companies have begun fracking with propane or other alternatives. We dont use any water, said Eric Tudor, a Houston-based official with GasFrac, a Canadian company that fracks with propane gel...
Democracy in Action as Fracking is Voted Down in Colorado Springs
2013-03-29 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them. --Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772 Colorado Springs is Colorado`s second largest city. Perhaps unfairly, it is also known nationally as a bastion of conservative politics. Yet, a little over a week ago, on March 12, conservative and liberal--indeed people from every shade in the political spectrum--found common cause. They stood united...
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California must put environment before fracking
2013-03-29 15:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's new fracking regulations for the oil and gas industry have been hailed as a model for other states. The Colorado Democrat is so convinced that drilling will be safe that he actually drank fracking fluid. It wasn't "tasty," he said, "but I'm still alive." Colorado's model may work along the geologically stable Rocky Mountains, but California's seismic issues set it apart from Midwest and East Coast states where oil companies use fracking -- shorthand for hydraulic...
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Campaign Kicks Off to Ban Fracking in Michigan
2013-03-27 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Committee to Ban Fracking in Michigan, a citizen-led ballot initiative group seeking to ban fracking announces its campaign kick off events in communities around the state. Volunteer circulators begin collecting signatures starting April 12 for a six-month period to qualify for the 2014 ballot. The kick off events are for volunteers and people interested in volunteering for the campaign to obtain petitions and campaign literature, learn about the ballot initiative process and how to circulate...
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