Natural Gas Drilling

State Could See Fracking In Two Years

AP | EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 06.01.2012

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers are adding protections for neighbors and landowners in a new proposal to legalize a form of undergroun...

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How Rural America Got Fracked

Ellen Cantarow | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Hydropower, Hydrofracking, EPA Fracking, Fracking Water, Fracking, Natural Gas Fracking, Natural Gas Drilling, Natural Gas, Fracking Wisconsin, U.S. Fracking, Green News

Food or frac-sand: it's a decision of vital importance across the country, but one most Americans don't even realize is being made -- largely by multinational corporations and dwindling numbers of yeoman farmers in what some in this country would call "the real America."

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Salazar Gives Natural Gas Project A Go

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 05.08.2012

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SALT LAKE CITY -- U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday announced the approval of a major natural gas drilling project in Utah that the Obama...

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First Statewide Fracking Ban May Soon Pass

AP | Posted 05.04.2012

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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont appears on the verge of enacting the nation's first statewide ban of a hotly debated natural gas drilling technique c...

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Doctors Ask Gas Drilling Companies What They Have To Hide

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Stephanie Hallowich, Video, Pennsylvania, Gas Companies, Fracking, Chris Hallowich, Pennsylvania Drilling, Gas Drilling, Hydrofracking, Natural Gas Drilling, Natural Gas Industry, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Pennsylvania Fracking, Business News

The pressure is mounting on gas companies to reveal what they know about the possible health side effects of their activities. More voices are cal...

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Pipe Dreams: The Case Against Keystone and the Gasoducto

Melissa Mark-Viverito | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Puerto Rico, Gas Prices, Keystone XL Pipeline, President Obama, Elections 2012, Natural Gas Drilling, Luis Fortuno, New York City Council Progressive Caucus, Energy, Koch Brothers, Green Energy, Latino Voices News

Between the combination of more efficient use and green energy, we can chart a course for a cleaner future without oil pipelines that destroy our environment and put our health at risk.

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Obama Announces New Fracking Oversight Group

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 04.14.2012

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Friday it is creating a high-level working group to coordinate federal oversight of natural gas prod...

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To Protect Americans' Health, Oppose Expanded Fracking Until Stronger Safeguards Are in Place

Frances Beinecke | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Oil and Gas, Leukemia, Fracking, Department of Interior, Asthma, Natural Gas Drilling, Natural Gas, Cancer, Air Pollution, Green News

While no energy development can be completely safe, drilling and fracking can be made safer than current operations. But this is only possible if the state and federal governments adopt and enforce much stronger laws and standards.

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Unwelcome Wells: Is Natural Gas Drilling Poisoning Our Children's Air?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Fracking, Voc, Volatile Organic Compounds, Hydrofracturing, Hydrofracking, Natural Gas Drilling, Red Hawk, Erie Rising, Benzene-Contamination, Green News

If everything goes as planned, Angie Nordstrum's son may look out the window of his second-grade classroom at Red Hawk Elementary this fall and see a ...

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"All of the Above" Can't Deliver All the Benefits the Clean Energy Economy Can

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Wind Power, Gas Prices, Oil Industry, Fuel-Efficient Cars, Fuel Efficiency, Clean Cars, Oil Prices, Natural Gas Drilling, Clean Energy, Natural Gas, Solar Power, Clean Economy, Green News

Instead of offering targeted policies, many leaders are suggesting an "all of the above" approach to energy development. The idea is that we should throw everything we have at the problem and see what sticks. It's a misguided strategy that would do more harm than good.

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Officials Say Drilling Wastewater 'Almost Certainly' Caused Earthquakes

AP | JULIE CARR SMYTH | Posted 05.09.2012

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, ...

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House Dems: Drilling Fines Are 'Pocket Change' For Oil & Gas Companies

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 04.09.2012

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal policing of oil and natural gas drilling on public lands is lax and inconsistent, with only 6 percent of violations result...

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The Sierra Club and Natural Gas

Michael Brune | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Beyond Coal Campaign, Natural Gas Drilling, Natural Gas, Sierra Club, Chesapeake Energy, Green News

It's time to stop thinking of natural gas as a "kinder, gentler" energy source. What's more, we do not have an effective regulatory system in this country to address the risks that gas drilling poses on our health and communities.

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After the Gas Rush (Part 2)

Rocky Kistner | Posted 03.19.2012

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The natural gas industry uses millions of gallons of fresh water for its hydraulic fracturing process, water that becomes contaminated with a witches brew of assorted toxins, carcinogens and low-level radioactive materials.

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EPA Report On Wyoming Water Doesn't End Fracking Debate

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 02.08.2012

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China Shale Gas Discoveries Major Boost To Supply

AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 02.07.2012

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SHANGHAI (AP) -- China is reporting discoveries of major shale gas reserves in its western Sichuan region, a development that could drastically boost ...

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Activists Deliver Water To Pennsylvania Town Affected By Fracking

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Dimock Pennsylvania Water, Video, Marcellus Shale, Dimock Pennsylvania Fracking, Fracking, Dimock Pennsylvania, Natural Gas Drilling, Hyrdaulic Fracturing, Green News

Environmentalists are setting their sights on a small village in northeastern Pennsylvania and the impact hydraulic fracturing has had on the town. ...

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An Open Letter to Gov. Cuomo and DEC Commissioner Martens

Dave Colavito | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: New York Fracking, Conflicts of Interest, Fracking, Human Health Fracking, Natural Gas Drilling, Fracking Water Contamination, Hydraulic Fracturing, Cuomo Fracking, Governor Andrew Cuomo Health Fracking, Cuomo New York, New York News

I've read your report on hydraulic fracturing, and I couldn't find anything that proposes requiring compensation for people who might experience damage to their property, contamination of their water, or adverse health affects.

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Natural Gas Drilling Near Nuke Site?

Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Nuclear Device Used for Natural Gas Production, Nuclear Site, Video, Nuclear Radiation, Parachute Colorado, Gas Drilling, Project Rulison, Natural Gas Drilling, Encana Oil & Gas, Colorado Drilling, Grand Valley Citizens Alliance, Colorado, Denver News

The Colorado Supreme Court is considering whether or not residents have the right to demand a hearing on a proposal to drill for natural gas near a nu...

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Iraq Takes Major Step Toward Developing Natural Gas

AP | By SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 11.27.2011

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BAGHDAD -- Iraq on Sunday signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. to tap natural gas in the south, o...

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Delaware River Basin Fracking Decision Delayed For Now

HuffingtonPost.com | James Gerken | Posted 11.23.2011

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Environmentalists are cheering after a meeting on the future of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas in the Northeast has been postponed...

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Americans Favor One Energy Option Above Others

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 01.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A majority of the public still supports government funding for alternative energy research, although the degree of enthusiasm has decrea...

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Panel Warns Of 'Excessive Environmental Impacts' From Fracking

AP | By DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A federal advisory panel is warning that "serious environmental consequences" could result from the gas drilling technique known as hydr...

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Lawyers Say Water Still Tainted By Fracking In Pennsylvania, Replacements Needed

AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 01.04.2012

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SCRANTON, Pa. — A law firm has demanded that Pennsylvania environmental regulators force a natural-gas driller to continue delivering replacemen...

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EPA Will Regulate Fracking Wastewater

AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Energy, Video, Fracking, Epa, Hydraulic Fracturing Wastewater, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracking Wastewater, Envrionmental Protection Agency, Green News

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Federal environmental regulators signaled Thursday they want to increase oversight of the natural gas extraction industry, anno...

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