je.st
news
Tag: fracking
Skelos Says Republicans Will Block a Vote on N.Y. Fracking Ban
2013-03-11 14:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Dean Skelos, a Long Island Republican and co-leader of the New York Senate, said he will block a vote on a bill to extend a ban on fracking. Its unnecessary, Skelos said today in an interview in Albany. The governor has a process thats been going on and I think thats where we should leave it. Governor Andrew Cuomo has kept in place a four-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas until an environmental review is complete. That review hinges on an analysis by Health Commissioner...
Tags: vote
block
ban
republicans
Bills seek more disclosure, oversight of fracking
2013-03-10 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The growing concern over hydraulic fracturing, the technology that has led to an oil and gas boom in many parts of the country, has caught the attention of California lawmakers as companies seek to expand production in the San Joaquin Valley oil fields. At least eight bills proposing to regulate or tax the industry's expansion are under consideration in this year's legislative session. They include proposals that would require disclosure of the ingredients used in fracking, which uses a high-pressure...
Tags: seek
disclosure
bills
oversight
No state money for fracking bans
2013-03-10 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: The governor seems to think there's a role for the state to play in helping compensate mineral rights owners who are denied royalties due to local fracking bans. We disagree, and strenuously so. It's a bad idea from both practical and philosophical standpoints. Last week, just after the Fort Collins City Council voted to ban fracking, Gov. John Hickenlooper visited with the city's newspaper, The Coloradoan. He acknowledged the oil and gas extraction technique known as fracking was troubling...
Tags: state
money
bans
state money
Fracking health study results likely years off
2013-03-09 09:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A health study cited by leading environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as pivotal in helping persuade Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hold off on plans for limited gas drilling is likely years away from conclusions about whether the technology involved is safe, according to the project's leaders. With New York entering the fifth year of review of the process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, growing calls to wait for the Geisinger Health System study to be finished could push a final decision back...
Tags: results
years
off
health
Across U.S., Health Concerns Vie with Fracking Profits
2013-03-08 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Peter "Pete" Seeger is a 93-year old U.S. folk legend who resides near Wappingers Falls in southern New York. He can be spotted occasionally on the traffic-heavy Route 9, flanked by world peace signs and armed with a banjo. Activists behind a New York Police Department vehicle at an anti-fracking demonstration in Manhattan, New York City organized by CREDO Action and New Yorkers Against Fracking. The demonstration was aimed at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was holding a policy summit in...
Tags: health
vie
concerns
profits
Sites : [325] [326] [327] [328] [329] [330] [331] [332] [333] [334] [335] [336] [337] [338] [339] [340] [341] [342] [343] [344] next »