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Energy and Earthquakes: A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Energy, Oil Production, Fracking, Earthquake, U.S. Department of the Interior, Shale Gas, Oil Drilling, Oil, Gas Production, Hydrofracking, Shale, U.S. Geological Survey, Hydraulic Fracturing, Geology, Wastewater, Natural Gas, Green News
Bill Chameides

Could it be that the increase in earthquakes is specifically tied to the growing practice of using hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to release oil and gas from shale and other tight formations?

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Minds Meet on Shale Gas/Fracking

Bill Chameides | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Fracking, Cornell University, Exxonmobil, Oil, Hydrofracking, Shale, Duke University, Avner Vengosh, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas, Robert Howarth, Coal, Methane, Natural Gas, Green News
Bill Chameides

A group of the nation's leading experts on energy and the environment are at Duke this week attending a workshop to try to ferret out the facts (and tamp down the hype) around shale gas and fracking.

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Let's Not Fracture the Future of the West With Fracking

Sam Schabacker | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Environment, Jobs, Hydrofracking, Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracking, Water, Colorado, Denver News
Sam Schabacker

The industry claims that gas is the answer to our nation's need for new energy sources, but the growing evidence of air and water pollution from fracking can't be ignored.

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Natural Gas Debate Makes Its Way To Washington

Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Lisa Murkowski, Congress, Jeff Bingaman, Fracking, Green News, Natural Gas, Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green Energy, Future of Natural Gas, Mit, Green News

Soaring energy costs and demand have prompted providers and consumers across the globe to look more toward accessible sources. For the United State...

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An epic struggle between water and energy is unfolding across the nation -- Choke Point: U.S.

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, California, Solar, Hydrocarbon, Clean Coal, Clean Energy, China, Freshwater Scarcity, Natural Gas Fracturing, Coal, Fresh Water, Wilson Center, Circle of Blue, Environment, Solar Energy, Water, Oil, Keith Schneider, Shale, Natural Gas, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
J. Carl Ganter

Without sharp changes in investment and direction, the current U.S. strategy to produce sufficient energy -- including energy generated from clean sou...

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Water | Energy = Collision Course: DOE Blocks Disclosure of Road Map to Relieve Critical U.S. Energy-Water Choke Point

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Economy, Climate Change, Water, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Shale, Oil Shale, Circle of Blue, Green News
J. Carl Ganter

We have a new national narrative of resource urgency unfolding before our eyes -- the impending collision between water and energy. None of the big en...

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HBO Documentary: It's a Gas

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water Quality, Josh Fox, Gasland, Energy, Fracking, Water Pollution, Fossil Fuels, Water, Environmentalism and Film, Hydrofracking, Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Movie Trailer, Green News
Bill Chameides

On Monday night I watched a fascinating and disturbing documentary. Gasland chronicles the experience of filmmaker Josh Fox as he travels the nation, discovering and chronicling the ugly side of hydraulic fracturing.

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Holy Gas Seep, Batman

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Natural Resources, Louisiana, Water Pollution, Fossil Fuels, Caddo Parish, Water, Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, New York, Kern Valley State Prison Water Quality, Natural Gas, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with www.theGreenGrok.While the world watches a volcano plume, Louisianans in Caddo Parish are fleeing a gas seep. Technological Advances ...

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New Technology Upens Vast Stores Of Natural Gas: Land Rush Begins

washingtonpost.com | Steven Mufson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natural Gas Shales, Natural Gas Drilling, Natural Gas, Shale, Natural Gas Reserves, Natural Gas Stores, Natural Gas Extraction, Technology News

This corner of the state is at the forefront of an old-fashioned land rush that has implications far beyond Conklin, N.Y. Oil and gas companies are vy...

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