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New Drilling Rules Fall Short of Fracking Ban
2015-02-10 18:25:53| Waste Management - Topix.net
After a drilling rig popped up overnight, Shelby Township residents brought the drilling to a halt until the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality could adopt new rules. Due to take effect immediately, the rules don't resolve their concerns, activists say.
The Future Of Fracking: Evaluating Emerging Technologies
2015-02-10 16:36:37| oilandgasonline Downloads
How can the U.S. and other countries profit from hydraulic fracturing AND protect water resources? New technologies hold the key to environmentally responsible shale-gas production.
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Low Oil Prices Threaten U.S. Fracking Industry
2015-02-08 22:09:25| Electronics - Topix.net
Some North Dakota companies have shut down 40 percent of their operations as plummeting oil prices render the industry far less viable than during the boom of the past five years. Rigs across the US are being deactivated at a rate of nearly 100 a week.
River Fracking Debated
2015-02-08 06:53:56| Logistics - Topix.net
Although a potential $40 million windfall awaits West Virginia's coffers if Gastar Exploration drills and fracks for natural gas under the Ohio River, at least one legislator does not believe the money outweighs the potential environmental risk such a plan could bring to the region's drinking water supply. More than 100 concerned students, residents, community leaders and elected officials turned out Saturday for a public discussion at Wheeling Jesuit University regarding Gastar's plans to draw natural gas from beneath the river in Marshall County.
Protesters march in Oakland, push Jerry Brown to ban fracking
2015-02-07 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chronicle: Thousands of antifracking activists took to Oakland's streets Saturday to call for Gov. Jerry Brown to change his stance and ban the controversial practice, which uses large amounts of a pressurized water mixture to crack subterranean rocks and release oil or natural gas. Chanting, playing music and waving signs reading "Don't Frack Your Mother" and "There's No Planet B," demonstrators wove their way along an almost two-mile route, starting at Oakland's City Hall and then moving through downtown...
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