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22/5/2013
Today a coalition led by Americans Against
Fracking, 350.org, Democracy for America and Food & Water Watch, among others marched at the Spring Policy Conference of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) calling for a ban on
fracking and ...
22/5/2013
Critics of silica sand mining had hoped the Minnesota Legislature would adopt aggressive statewide rules to protect people and the environment. What finally emerged from the just-completed session, however, was a compromise that still leaves key ...
16/5/2013
The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as it sought to ease concerns the rules would be too burdensome for ...
16/5/2013
Oil and gas industry representatives offered qualified support for a U.S. proposal to govern hydraulic fracturing on public lands that establishes federal oversight while deferring to state standards in some cases.In the proposal released ...
11/5/2013
A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects ...
26/4/2013
Government watchdog Common Cause and 11 environmental groups raised more questions about the role of gas industry-associated consultants in the state’s environmental impact study of shale gas drilling and
fracking.A
review of Department ...
23/4/2013
Cuadrilla, the only shale
fracking company operating in the UK, has been slapped down by the advertising watchdog for claiming that it uses "proven, safe technologies".
The censure by the Advertising Standards Authority will force a ...
23/4/2013
B.C. New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix's criticism Monday of Kinder Morgan's proposed $5.4-billion oil pipeline marks the latest twist in an election campaign that, for the first time in B.C.'s modern history, has the oil-and-gas industry ...
19/4/2013
Earlier this month, when a burst pipe spilled thousands of gallons of heavy oil into an Arkansas suburb, the message from the White House went something like: "Everybody chill, the EPA has it under control." But reporters on the scene found the ...
18/4/2013
In the wake of a landmark legal victory against
fracking on public lands last week, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club filed a new lawsuit today challenging the Obama Administration’s auction of an additional 17,000 acres in ...
8/4/2013
Today, the Sierra Club and a list of environmental coalition partners have filed a petition with the Department of Energy (DOE) to revise the nearly 30-year-old policy guidelines for approving natural gas exports. The petition urges the DOE to ...
4/4/2013
It’s an existential question in France: When is
fracking not
fracking?The country is pushing ahead with plans to harness geothermal energy from smoldering rock deep in the earth’s crust using drilling methods the oil industry says are ...
1/4/2013
New York State's
review of high-volume hydraulic fracturing has taken more than four years-and it's not over yet.
Right now, all eyes are on the state's
health commissioner, Nirav Shah, who has said that he will tell Governor Andrew ...
29/3/2013
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them. --Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Colorado Springs is Colorado`s second ...
25/3/2013
Three California assembly members have introduced bills to halt hydraulic fracturing in the state and mandate
review of the threats the practice poses to the environment and public
health.
Fracking uses huge volumes of water mixed with sand and ...
18/3/2013
Sandra Steingraber PhD., biologist, author and Trumansburg, NY resident, was arrested alongside residents of Seneca Lake and local college students to oppose Kansas City, MO based Inergy, natural gas and liquid petroleum gas storage facility, ...
11/3/2013
Dean Skelos, a Long Island Republican and co-leader of the New York Senate, said he will block a vote on a bill to extend a ban on
fracking.
“It’s unnecessary,” Skelos said today in an interview in Albany. “The governor has a process ...
10/3/2013
The growing concern over hydraulic fracturing, the technology that has led to an oil and gas boom in many parts of the country, has caught the attention of California lawmakers as companies seek to expand production in the San Joaquin Valley oil ...
9/3/2013
A
health study cited by leading environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as pivotal in helping persuade Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hold off on plans for limited gas drilling is likely years away from conclusions about whether the technology involved is ...
6/3/2013
New York’s Assembly approved a two- year ban on the natural-gas drilling method known as
fracking, after two previous attempts to block the practice failed and with the state Senate taking a different approach.
The state has been ...
5/3/2013
Assembly Democrats are expected Wednesday to pass a two-year hydrofracking moratorium, the second time in two years that the chamber has sought to block the controversial drilling practice.
A hydrofracking moratorium has not moved ...
5/3/2013
I went to a meeting earlier this winter in the Colorado Governor`s Office. I’m not a regular.
The Governor, John Hickenlooper, Hick to his friends, had called the meeting with Boulder County Commissioners to discuss the county’s draft ...
3/3/2013
While opponents of
fracking are pleased at a report that Gov. Andrew Cuomo will wait for a Pennsylvania
health study before deciding whether to allow drilling, landowners are preparing to sue New York over lost gas-leasing opportunities and an ...
28/2/2013
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s recent decision to hit the reset button on
fracking proves that participatory democracy is alive and well in New York.
Last week, Cuomo’s State
Health Commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, announced that he needs more ...
28/2/2013
Book
review:
Fracking Pennsylvania:
Fracking With Disaster by Walter M. Brasch, Greeley and Stone Publishers, LLC, Carmichael, CA; 2013; 274 pages, $14.95
As an anti-fracking activist, one of the most important things I`ve learned in ...