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The secret, dirty cost of Obama green power push
2013-11-12 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply. Even the cemetery that disappeared like an apparition into a cornfield. It wasn't supposed to be this way. With the Iowa political caucuses on the horizon in 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama made homegrown corn a centerpiece of his plan to slow global warming. And when President George...
Phosphorus: Farming's dirty secret
2013-11-06 01:00:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Agriculture's insatiable demand for phosphates
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Analysis: Fracking water's dirty little secret - recycling
2013-07-16 13:15:59| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The oil and gas industry is finding that less is more in the push to recycle water used in hydraulic fracturing.
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Fracking water's dirty little secret - recycling
2013-07-15 11:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The oil and gas industry is finding that less is more in the push to recycle water used in hydraulic fracturing. Slightly dirty water, it seems, does just as good a job as crystal clear when it comes to making an oil or gas well work. Exploration and production companies are under pressure to reduce the amount of freshwater used in dry areas like Texas and to cut the high costs of hauling millions of barrels of water to oil and gas wells and later to underground disposal wells. To attack those...
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The dirty little secret to tackling climate change
2013-04-18 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Crikey: Forget the carbon price, forget the opposition`s Direct Action climate plan. Australia could probably meet its targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without either, provided we did one thing. But you won`t hear the politicians talk about it. A statistical analysis by Crikey, based on data released this week, indicates that if Australia`s high population growth rate were reined in, the country would already be meeting its targets to cut pollution. In fact, we`d probably be under those targets....
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