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Can Ohio avoid North Dakota's fracking problems?
2016-01-09 23:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sandusky Register: The extensive Bakken oil play in North Dakota has been underway for about 10 years. Their small towns have experienced a variety of well-documented incidents and ongoing problems. While our states certainly differ with respect to geography, number of towns and population, will we be spared the same social and environmental problems as horizontal fracking operations expand here? While nuisance littering, pollution, animal poisonings and poaching are transient, other actions could leave permanent...
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Racism Captured At A Fracking Protest
2016-01-02 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: MMC Land Management employee John Pisone took it upon himself to confront anti-fracking protesters at the fracking site in Mars, Pennsylvania, where he was working. His dismay towards the protesters turned into flat-out racism as he hurled harsh words towards the black photo journalist, Tom Jefferson. Jefferson captured all of the racist landscaper`s words on a video that has now gone viral during the fracking protest. Pisone insulted all of the protesters in general. According to him, they`re...
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Fracking foes unveil 11 proposed ballot initiatives including ban
2015-12-23 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: A Boulder County-based citizens group opposed to fracking filed a package of ballot initiatives Tuesday that would circumvent a compromise sought by Gov. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder. Coloradans Resisting Extreme Energy Development submitted paperwork for 11 potential ballot questions to provide mandatory setbacks for wells from homes and schools, more local control on drilling decisions or an outright ban on the process of hydraulic fracturing. Eight of the 11 are...
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Fracking, Methane and Paris
2015-12-20 15:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The newly-minted Paris climate agreement calls for limiting global temperature increase to 2°C, and leaves in the preamble the more aspirational goal shared by many countries of 1.5°C. Its clear to observers around the world that meeting this goal is going to require steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and leaving most of the worlds remaining fossil fuels in the ground. And that includes natural gas, particularly fracked natural gas. This target is particularly important for anti-fracking...
New Yorkers Celebrate One-Year Anniversary of Fracking Ban
2015-12-18 19:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the announcement by Gov. Cuomo, the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Conservation that New York would ban high-volume fracking given its serious public health and environmental risks. New Yorkers and the many organizations that worked to ban fracking are reflecting on the ban that occurred one year ago and the anti-fracking movement overall, noting its importance nationally and internationally. I will always remember this...
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