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Fracking Comeback in U.K. as Browne Seeks Shale Bonanza: Energy
2013-01-28 02:54:58| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Two U.K. drillers are taking the lead in exploring for the country's first shale gas after a moratorium ended, with one of them backed by ex- BP Plc chief John Browne and the other soon to count China as an investor.
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Sandra Steingraber: Next 12 Steps to Stop Fracking in New York
2013-01-28 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: 1. I am writing you from an airport in Wisconsin. People here, and across the river in Minnesota, are trying desperately to halt the strip mining of their communities for frac-sand. Trucks are rolling. Silica dust is flying. Hill by hill, bluff by bluff--the land itself is shoveled into railcars and shipped off to the gas fields of America where grains of silica sand are shot into the cracks of fractured bedrock so methane can flow out of it. Whats left behind in Wisconsin and Minnesota are...
Fracking Comeback in U.K. as Browne Seeks Shale Bonanza: Energy
2013-01-28 01:45:52| Energy - Topix.net
Two U.K. drillers are taking the lead in exploring for the country's first shale gas after a moratorium ended, with one of them backed by ex- BP Plc chief John Browne and the other soon to count China as an investor.
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Blockade at PA Fracking Site Highlights Risks to Farms and Food
2013-01-27 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Residents of Western Pennsylvania and friends of Lawrence County farmer Maggie Henry locked themselves to a giant paper-mache pig today in the entrance to a Shell natural gas well site in order to protest the companys threat to local agriculture and food safety. The newly-constructed gas well is located at 1545 PA Route 108, Bessemer, PA , 16102, less than 4,000 feet from Henrys organic pig farm. The farm has been in the Henry family for generations and has been maintained as a small business...
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Focus On Fracking Diverts Attention From Horizontal Drilling
2013-01-27 11:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Mention the recent surge in oil and natural gas production in the U.S. and one word comes to mind for a lot of people: "fracking." Hydraulic fracturing is a controversial technique that uses water, sand and potentially hazardous chemicals to break up rock deep underground to release oil and natural gas. But there's another technology that is just as responsible for drilling booms happening across the country: horizontal drilling. Environmental Consequences Horizontal drilling and fracking...
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