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Wyoming Judge Hears Fracking Disclosure Case
2013-01-23 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A judge heard arguments Tuesday over whether Wyoming regulators should empower the public to look up the ingredients in the chemical products used for hydraulic fracturing, the petroleum industry practice that splits open oil and gas deposits with pressurized water. The Powder River Basin Resource Council and others say landowners need to know what those chemicals are in case a gas or oil well rupture or some other mishap released pollutants into their well water. The council sued last year after...
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Groups Demand Fracking Chemical Info
2013-01-22 23:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In an effort to help protect the public from exposure to toxic chemicals, the Powder River Basin Resource Council, Wyoming Outdoor Council, Earthworks and Center for Effective Government (formerly OMB Watch) went to court today to ask a judge to require the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC) to disclose information about chemicals used during the controversial oil and gas development process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Under regulations approved in 2010, Wyoming...
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Cancer-Causing Chemicals Used in 34 Percent of Reported Fracking Operations
2013-01-22 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Recognized carcinogens are used in one of every three hydraulic fracturing operations across the nation--according to industry self-reporting. Independent analysis of the SkyTruth Fracking Chemical Database by IT professional David Darling found that 9,310 individual fracking operations conducted between January 2011 and September 2012 disclosed the use of at least one known carcinogen. While not all hydraulic fracturing operations or all chemicals used in the process are disclosed by the drilling...
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Taking a Harder Look at Fracking and Health
2013-01-21 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A coalition of academic researchers in the United States is preparing to shine a rigorous scientific light on the polarized and often emotional debate over whether fracking for natural gas is hazardous to human health. Some five years after the controversial combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and surrounding states got under way, a team of toxicologists from the University of Pennsylvania is leading a national effort to study...
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Fracking for natural gas being powered by it, too
2013-01-20 12:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Advances in hydraulic fracturing technology have powered the American natural gas boom. And now hydraulic fracturing could be increasingly powered by the very fuel it has been so successful in coaxing up from the depths. Oil- and gas-field companies from Pennsylvania to Texas are experimenting with converting the huge diesel pump engines that propel millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals thousands of feet down well bores to break apart rock or tight sands and release the natural gas trapped...
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