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Sierra Club blasts new plan to improve fracking
2013-03-22 03:37:06| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The Sierra Club and some other environmental groups are harshly criticizing a new partnership that aims to create tough new standards for fracking.
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Sierra Club blasts new plan to improve fracking
2013-03-22 02:58:01| Energy - Topix.net
The Sierra Club and some other environmental groups are harshly criticizing a new partnership that aims to create tough new standards for fracking.
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Drilling Companies Hope Fracking 'Truce' Will Ease Relationship With Environmentalists
2013-03-21 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: 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. Four major drilling companies and several environmental groups have agreed on 15 voluntary standards for cleaner drilling practices. The practices of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing - when companies inject water laced with chemicals deep underground to split open rock formations and get the gas to flow faster - are transforming...
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United Kingdom: After bribes for wind farms communities are offered money for fracking
2013-03-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: George Osborne, the Chancellor, announced a number of incentives to encourage companies to start hydraulic fracturing -- or 'fracking' -- to extract the valuable fossil fuel. He said companies will receive tax breaks on the profits from shale gas fields, especially at the beginning to encourage them to drill. He also said communities should receive 'benefits' to encourage them to allow planning, but failed to say if the money will come from the company profits or the Government. "Shale gas...
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California bills could delay fracking
2013-03-21 14:38:17| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Fracking for oil and natural gas in California could slam to a halt, at least temporarily, under legislation circulating in Sacramento. One bill calls for a moratorium on the practice until the state conducts a sweeping study of fracking's benefits and risks, including the potential for groundwater contamination. Another piece of legislation would allow fracking while the state conducts such a study. But the same bill, from Sen. Fran Pavley, would slap a moratorium on fracking if the study...
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