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Fracking Support Plummets Among Americans
2014-11-13 18:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As more stories emerge about the dangers posed by the toxic fallout from the aggressive drilling process to communities near the operations, support for fracking tilts negative for the first time, with 41 percent favoring increased use of fracking and 47 percent opposing it. Thats a huge swing from 20 months ago. In Pews March 2013 poll 48 percent supported more fracking while only 38 percent opposed it. Support for fracking has dropped most steeply among women and people under 50, whose opinions...
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Frac Pack: the offshore fracking debate heats up
2014-11-13 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Fracking has become a hugely controversial operation onshore, but at sea it has been in use for 20 years with little argument. But as offshore 'frac pack' operations continue to grow in scope and scale as a means of boosting production at mature well
Industry Responds to Denton, Texas Fracking Ban
2014-11-12 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This may be the shortest blog Ive ever written. On Election Day, voters in a number of cities and counties voted on whether to severely restrict or ban oil and gas developmentthe oil industry poured millions of dollars in an effort to avoid these restrictions. In Richmond, California Chevron spent $3 million to gain control of the city council; this overreach backfired and Chevrons slate was trounced. In San Benito County, $2 million wasnt enough to stop a ban on fracking and other intensive...
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College to be fracking training hub
2014-11-12 11:41:40| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The development of shale gas in the UK could create a A 33 billion investment opportunity for British business, a report claims Blackpool and The Fylde College has been named as the UK hub for the National College for Onshore Oil and Gas. The college is being set up by United Kingdom Onshore Oil and Gas , the body which represents the onshore oil and gas industry.
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California County Bans Fracking, Despite Deluge Of Oil Industry Cash
2014-11-12 06:38:40| oilandgasonline Home Page
Voters in San Benito County approved a ballot measure Tuesday that will ban fracking and other extreme oil-extraction techniques, despite a massive ad campaign funded by the oil industry.
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