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"Bloody crazy": River near fracking site bursts into flames in Australia
2016-04-23 17:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kabylie: A GREENS politician has set the Condamine River in Queensland on fire in a coal seam gas protest. 'I was shocked by force of the explosion when I tested whether gas boiling through the Condamine River, Qld was flammable, ' Mr Buckingham posted on Facebook. "This river for kilometres is bubbling with gas and now it's on fire", he said. A video has been released showing huge flames erupting from methane gas on the surface of the Condamine River in Queensland, Australia. "So much gas is bubbling...
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Condamine River fire Greens MP lights bubbling methane gas blames fracking
2016-04-23 00:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Part of a Queensland river bubbling with methane gas has burst into flames after being ignited by a Greens MP, who blames nearby coal seam gas (CSG) operations for the "tragedy in the Murray-Darling Basin". Key points: Methane gas has been bubbling in the Condamine River since 2012 Vision shows Jeremy Buckingham setting the bubbling methane alight Origin Energy says it is monitoring the river New South Wales Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham has released vision of himself on a boat sparking...
Cuomos Next Step Against Fracking: Reject the Constitution Pipeline
2016-04-21 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Its been over a year since New York banned fracking and we find ourselves at a crossroads. We can take the next logical step and reject the dangerous fracked gas infrastructure that increasingly threatens our wellbeing. Or we can continue to rely on fracked gas and accept the myriad risks that come with that choice. Like fracking itself, a maze of proposed gas pipelines, compressor stations and subterranean storage caves pose grave threats to New Yorks most precious resource--our abundant supply...
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Fracking wells released over 5 billion pounds of methane in one year
2016-04-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Being in close proximity to fracking operations could screw up your sexual health, cause developmental defects and cancer, induce seismic activity around you, and the list goes on. Does all that doom and gloom seem, well, a little vague? An Environment America report released Thursday offers raw numbers, based on a set of industry-reported data going back for more than decade. Frackers, the report concludes, have used billions of pounds of cancer-causing chemicals in at least 137,000 wells...
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Democratic Debate Brings Fiercest Exchange Yet on Climate Change, Fracking
2016-04-15 14:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: During last nights Democratic debate at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a site that was flooded by Hurricane Sandy, presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton displayed the fiercest exchange around climate change yet. 2nd most-Tweeted moment for #DemDebate: Clinton & Sanders disagree on environmental policy plans https://t.co/XMkmrvpApI -- Twitter Government (@gov) April 15, 2016 The movement has pushed climate change to the forefront of this presidential election, said Yong Jung...
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