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Fracking in Alberta: daily quakes and thirsty residents
2016-01-15 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: One earthquake is recorded on average each day in a western Canadian region where companies extract oil by fracking, according to statistics published by the Canadian province's energy regulatory agency. The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) said Friday that in the last year alone, there were 363 tremors in and around Fox Creek, a small town of 2,000 inhabitants located 260 kilometers (160 miles) northwest of Edmonton. Some days, seismic activity is higher, such as on September 11, 2015, when...
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Banning Fracking Isnt Enough: Fight to Stop Pipelines, Compressor Stations and Gas Plants
2016-01-15 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: [Editors note: Hundreds of climate activists and renewable energy advocates gathered for a State of the Climate rally and march outside of Gov. Cuomos State of the State address in Albany Wednesday. Here below are the prepared remarks from Sandra Steingrabers speech. Shortly after, from the top of a stairway in the Capitol building, fracking infrastructure opponents unscrolled a 40-foot petition, bearing 1,000 signatures, that urgently calls on the governor to oppose the storage of dangerous,...
Fracking site fire causes significant damage to Grady County firefighter gear
2016-01-15 03:28:27| Electronics - Topix.net
Multiple fire departments in Grady County sustained thousands of dollars in fire equipment damage during Wednesday evening's fracking fire near Chickasha. Six fire departments under Grady County Emergency Management and the Amber Fire Department responded to the fire at the fracking site on Highway 39 run by Continental Resources.
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Toxins Found In Fracking Fluids And Wastewater, Study Shows
2016-01-13 04:51:24| oilandgasonline Home Page
In an analysis of more than 1,000 chemicals in fluids used in and created by hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Yale School of Public Health researchers found that many of the substances have been linked to reproductive and developmental health problems, and the majority had undetermined toxicity due to insufficient information. By Michael Greenwood
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Fracking shakes American west: a millenniums worth of earthquakes
2016-01-10 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Increasingly tied to tremors shaking the west, fracking for natural gas is creating alarm and division around western states that until recently enjoyed a boom in jobs and revenue. In Oklahoma, seismologists have warned that significant temblors last week could signal a larger, more dangerous earthquake to come in a state where drilling is destabilizing the bedrock. Last Wednesday night two earthquakes, measuring 4.7 and 4.8 on the Richter scale, struck rural northern Oklahoma, beneath a major...
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