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New Brunswick government wont lift fracking moratorium until conditions met: report

2016-03-29 21:12:17| Canadian Plastics Headlines

The province of New Brunswick wont lift a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing until all the governments conditions are met, New Brunswicks energy and mines minister says. As reported by The Canadian Press, energy and mines minister Donald Arseneault says the… The post New Brunswick government wont lift fracking moratorium until conditions met: report appeared first on Canadian Plastics.

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Nebraska Law Aims to Control Fracking Waste

2016-03-28 16:26:00| Waste Age

UPI The bill requires monitoring of waste fluids and notification distribution to areas where applications for injection are targeted. read more

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Bill McKibben: Fracking Has Turned Out to Be a Costly Detour

2016-03-24 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: With a new piece in The Nation, environmental leader Bill McKibben upends widely held assumptions not just about President Barack Obama`s climate legacy, but about the so-called "natural gas revolution" that was once considered a "savior" in the fight against global warming. The author and 350.org co-founder points to "an explosive paper" published last month in Geophysical Research Letters, in which Harvard researchers "concluded that the nation as a whole is leaking methane in massive quantities."...

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Feds Defend Fracking Rule Against Judicial Hold

2016-03-23 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hill: The Obama administration is fighting in federal court to defend its hydraulic fracturing (fracking) rule, saying a lower court committed a legal error when it put the regulation on hold. Lawyers representing the Interior Departments Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are asking the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver to overturn a Wyoming-based courts decision last year to halt the rule and allow regulators to enforce it. That judicial injunction stemmed from the arguments from various...

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