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Dow Bets $6 Billion That U.S. Fracking Boom Will Last Another Decade
2015-03-01 07:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Dow Chemical is investing $6 billion to enlarge its manufacturing facilities in the United States by 40 percent, based on a wager that low natural gas prices here will persist into the middle of the next decade, a Dow executive said in Chicago this week. The investment reverses Dows vocal exodus from manufacturing in the United States, said Doug May, Dows business president of olefins, aromatics, and alternatives, during the Kellogg Energy Conference Wednesday at Northwestern University. Were...
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Fracking Opponents Feel Police Pressure In Some Drilling Hotspots
2015-03-01 05:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Wendy Lee, an anti-fracking activist and philosophy professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, has always protested peacefully. So she was stunned last winter when a state trooper came to her home to ask her about eco-terrorism and pipe bombs. The trooper was investigating an alleged trespassing incident that involved Lee and two other activists visiting a gas compressor in Pennsylvania's Lycoming County in June 2013. Lee says they stayed on a public road and left when security guards...
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Fracking ban forcing some New York towns consider redrawing state line
2015-02-28 17:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Plenty of people leave New York state but in a job-hungry stretch of upstate, folks talk about staying put and seceding to Pennsylvania. Local officials stung by a recent decision to ban natural gas fracking have raised the idea of redrawing the Keystone States border. Even though they dont expect it to happen, members of the Upstate New York Towns Association hope the spectre of secession will result in something anything good for a struggling part of the state peering enviously over...
Fracking banned for five years by Tasmanian Government
2015-02-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Tasmanian Government will ban the controversial mining practice known as fracking for another five years. Fracking involves injecting liquid at high pressure into underground rocks to extract oil or gas, and the practice has sparked controversy in New South Wales and Queensland. Tasmanian Primary Industries Minister Jeremy Rockliff, who declared a one-year fracking moratorium in March 2014, considered 155 submissions on the subject. Mr Rockliff said there was uncertainty around fracking,...
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Call for wider fracking moratorium in Scotland
2015-02-22 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: AN alliance of community and environmental groups has called for the Scottish Government`s moratorium on fracking to be extended to cover underground coal gasification. Almost 30 organisations and individuals, including residents associations, academics, Friends of the Earth and Unison Scotland, have made the plea in a letter to energy minister Fergus Ewing. Campaigners welcomed the moratorium on unconventional oil and gas developments announced by Mr Ewing last month but say it does not go...
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