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Voters Weigh In on Fracking, Water Measures
2014-11-05 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Election Day on Tuesday in many parts of the country wasn't just about having a say on candidates for Congress and local government. Climate, environment and energy issues were prominent on ballots, too, in some states. Voters in Denton, Texas, banned fracking. Louisiana voters approved money for an artificial coral reef development fund. In Alaska, voters restricted mining in Bristol Bay. But in North Dakota, a measure to provide millions of dollars in oil and gas tax revenue for conservation...
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Texas city bans fracking in its birthplace, court battles loom
2014-11-05 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Voters approved a ban on hydraulic fracturing in the north Texas town of Denton on Tuesday, making it the first city in the Lone Star State to outlaw the oil and gas extraction technique behind the U.S. energy boom. The vote in the city of 123,000 was highly symbolic because hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is widely used in Texas, the top crude producer in the United States. Green groups said the result served as a wake-up call to the industry, but several similar measures failed...
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Texas town where fracking was invented votes to ban it: 'If...
2014-11-05 18:52:55| Energy - Topix.net
Voters approved a ban on hydraulic fracturing in the North Texas town of Denton on Tuesday, making it the first city in the Lone Star State to outlaw the oil and gas extraction technique behind the U.S. energy boom. The vote in the city of 123,000 was highly symbolic because hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is widely used in Texas, the top crude producer in the United States.
Texas town where fracking was invented votes to ban it: 'If...
2014-11-05 18:23:10| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Voters approved a ban on hydraulic fracturing in the North Texas town of Denton on Tuesday, making it the first city in the Lone Star State to outlaw the oil and gas extraction technique behind the U.S. energy boom. The vote in the city of 123,000 was highly symbolic because hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is widely used in Texas, the top crude producer in the United States.
Birthplace America fracking boom votes to ban practice
2014-11-05 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Texas town where Americas oil and natural gas boom began has voted to ban fracking, in a stunning rebuke to the industry. Denton, a college town on the edge of the Barnett Shale, voted by 59% to ban fracking inside the city limits, a first for any locality in Texas. Organisers said they hoped it would give a boost to anti-fracking activists in other states. More than 15 million Americans now live within a mile of an oil or gas well. It should send a signal to industry that if the people...
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