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Fracking foes cringe as unions back drilling boom
2014-04-20 19:50:01| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
After early complaints that out-of-state firms got the most jobs, some local construction trade workers and union members in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia say they're now benefiting in a big way from the Marcellus and Utica Shale oil and gas boom.
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Drilling holes in ice sheds light on future
2014-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
U-T San Diego: For nearly two decades, Jeff Severinghaus has unearthed time capsules buried in polar ice. They chronicle past epochs of Earths history, record ice ages and act as thermometers of the prehistoric sea. The objects of Severinghaus exploration are tiny vaults of fresh air, preserved for thousands of years in some of the oldest ice on the planet. Scientists extract these time-stamped bubbles of ancient air from ice cores drilled thousands of meters below the surface. What we get is, ultimately,...
Fracking foes cringe as unions back drilling boom
2014-04-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Perss: After early complaints that out-of-state firms got the most jobs, some local construction trade workers and union members in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia say they're now benefiting in a big way from the Marcellus and Utica Shale oil and gas boom. That vocal support from blue-collar workers complicates efforts by environmentalists to limit the drilling process known as fracking. "The shale became a lifesaver and a lifeline for a lot of working families," said Dennis Martire, the mid-Atlantic...
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Wisconsin debates fracking as sand mining for drilling booms
2014-04-18 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: In Wisconsin, residents are having an emotional debate over fracking. The state is rich in a special kind of sand used in that controversial gas drilling technique, and mining companies are lining up to get to it. That means jobs, and lots of them. But some residents fear the sand mining boom is ruining their farmland -- not to mention their health. Dean Reynolds reports.
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Purdue/Cornell airborne study finds unexpected levels of methane from shale gas pads in drilling stage
2014-04-16 11:30:12| Green Car Congress
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