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What Happy Feet Two Star Matt Damon Taught Me About Fracking
2013-01-04 16:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Promised Land Focus Features 106 minutes If Matt Damon & Co. really wanted to make a movie that would scare American audiences off of fracking for good, they should have just made a movie dramatizing fracking's potential threat to America's beer. Instead, what we get is a quaint love story wrapped in a conspiracy movie, draped in a toothless political polemic, festooned with mawkish aimlessness. It didn't have to be this way. Promised Land's script was originally developed with Dave...
Fracking can be done safely in New York state: dept report
2013-01-04 00:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The natural gas drilling process known as fracking would not be a danger to public health in New York state so long as proper safeguards were put into place, according to a health department report that environmentalists fear could help lift a moratorium on the controversial technique. Governor Andrew Cuomo is weighing the economic benefits of hydraulic fracturing - commonly known as fracking - against the environmental risks from a technology that could unlock a vast domestic energy supply but...
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Meet Anthony IngraffeaFrom Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent
2013-01-03 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Why, exactly, is high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing such a devastating industry? How best to describe its singularity--its vastness, its difference from other industries and its threat to the planet? When I interviewed Dr. Anthony Ingraffea--Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering, Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University and president of Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Inc., I realized that his comments were perhaps the clearest, most compactly...
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