Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Fracking

  • WASHINGTON — A first round of tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in a small town in Pennsylvania near natural gas drilling operations had been polluted to unhealthy levels, U.S. environmental regulators said on Thursday.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Last year, Blackpool and other parts of Lancashires Fylde coast were rocked by two earthquakes. The tremors were only small, and geologists will tell you quakes of this size happen quite naturally about 10 times a month.
  • (BBC News)
  • Forget Al Gore and the Internet: House oversight Chairman Darrell Issa on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of "taking credit" for the creation of fracking. Except Obama has said no such thing.
  • (Politico.com)
  • The biggest meeting on the issue of fracking for shale gas to be held in the UK will take place in Manchester on Saturday in an attempt to set up a broad nationwide coalition to stop the controversial practice.
  • (The Guardian)
  • Greensboro, NC -- The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources has released a study that says hydraulic fracturing can be done safely in North Carolina if the right protections are in place.
  • (digtriad.com)
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  • (YAHOO!)
  • The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which is drafting rules for natural gas production by hydraulic fracturing on federal property, said it will use industry standards for cementing.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • Average quality rating by the Stockhouse community. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Collapsing natural gas prices have yielded an unexpected boon for North Dakotas shale oil bonanza, easing a shortage of fracking crews that had tempered the biggest U.S.
  • (Stockhouse)
  • South Africas Karoo region is a pristine wilderness of red hills and wildflowers. It is beautiful, desperately poor and is now the new frontline in the global battle over a hugely controversial drilling practice called fracking.
  • (BBC News)
  • Complaints about the potential bad environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing have centered on water contamination. But fracking can also affect the air -- particularly during the period when the wells are being built.
  • (Bloomberg)

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