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New Fracking Standards Not Supported by Environmental Organizations
2013-03-23 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Environmental organizations are objecting to a misleading announcement coming from the oil and gas industry that says they have made peace with environmentalists by agreeing to voluntary fracking standards. According to the announcement made, the oil and gas industry believes the new standards could ease or avert some of the ferocious battles over fracking that have been waged in statehouses and city halls. Theyre wrong. In fact, the anti-fracking movement is large and getting larger as evidence...
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Missouri mining could benefit from Illinois fracking
2013-03-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Southeast Missourian: This image from the Illinois State Geological survey shows the area believed to hold concentrations of oil and natural gas in Southern Illinois. The area believed to contain the best deposits for extraction is highlighted in red. A bill currently being negotiated in the Illinois House of Representatives would regulate large-scale hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- in the state, and the Missouri mining industry stands to gain from an increased need for silica sand, which is used in the process....
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Whistleblower Bill Would Criminalize Exposing Wrongdoing at Factory Farms and Fracking Sites in PA
2013-03-22 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Chickens crammed into wire cages next to the rotting carcasses of other chickens. The floor of a barn coated with flies. Hens with their heads jammed between cages and feeding machines. The Humane Society conducted an undercover investigation in 2012 at Kreider Farms in Manheim, Pa. Kreider cages about seven million egg-laying hens at its four Pennsylvania facilities. Photo by The Humane Society of the U.S. The Humane Society of the U.S. released a video last year depicting those conditions...
Environmentalists, Drillers Reach 'Truce' For Fracking Standards
2013-03-22 07:51:37| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A group of environmentalists and drilling companies has crafted a truce of sorts over the rapid spread of natural gas production in the Appalachian Basin.
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Sierra Club blasts plan to improve fracking in the Northeast
2013-03-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Sierra Club and some other environmental groups are harshly criticizing a new partnership that aims to create tough new standards for fracking. The criticism Thursday came a day after two of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies made peace with some national and regional environmental groups, agreeing to go through an independent review of their shale oil and gas drilling operations in the Northeast. If Shell Oil, Chevron Appalachia and other companies are found to be abiding by a...
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