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Tribe sues US Department of Interior over fracking
2015-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Durango Herald: The Southern Ute Indian Tribe filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior on Thursday, challenging the Bureau of Land Managements new hydraulic fracturing rule. The rule, which is set to go into effect Wednesday, also is the subject of suits filed earlier this month, including a joint suit by the states of Colorado, Wyoming and North Dakota, as well as another filed by the Western Energy Alliance and Independent Petroleum Producers on behalf of 46 trade associations and royalty-owners...
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Fracking poses 'significant' risk to humans and should be temporarily banned across EU
2015-06-20 22:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A major new scientific study has concluded that the controversial gas extraction technique known as fracking poses a significant risk to human health and British wildlife, and that an EU-wide moratorium should be implemented until widespread regulatory reform is undertaken. The damning report by the CHEM Trust, the British charity that investigates the harm chemicals cause humans and wildlife, highlights serious shortcomings in the UKs regulatory regime, which the report says will only get...
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This Land Was Made for You and Me And Fracking?
2015-06-19 15:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This week in Colorado, the BLM launched a scoping processa big picture project evaluation designed to inform the public and solicit feedback before the agency drafts the RMP for Colorados Front Range. Sadly, BLMs public process seems fatally flawed from the start. The seven scheduled hearings are far removed from the majority of Coloradans who will be affected by the new plans. For example, the BLM failed to schedule a scoping hearing in Denver, the states most populous city, which gets 40...
Lawsuit Forces Federal Transparency On Subsea Fracking
2015-06-19 04:30:01| oilandgasonline Home Page
The U.S. government has settled a lawsuit with a nonprofit group over data on subsea fracking in the Gulf of Mexico, which critics say poses a major threat to groundwater.
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Texas Forces City to Repeal Fracking Ban
2015-06-18 15:51:20| Waste Management - Topix.net
Threatened with litigation and intervention by the Texas Legislature, the Denton City Council repealed its first-of-its kind fracking ban, and drillers have already gone back to work. Voters in Denton, a city of 120,000 just northwest of Dallas, approved an ordinance banning fracking in the city in the November 2014 general election.
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