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Extent of Stealth Fracking in Gulf of Mexico Revealed
2015-02-17 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: While a debate rages over the use of hydraulic fracturing to exploit fossil fuel reserves inland, the practice has quietly taken hold offshore, in the Gulf of Mexico. Documents obtained by Fault Lines reveal that the worlds largest oil firms are now fracking in some of the Gulfs deepest waters -- raising questions about how it is being regulated. A list of about 100 well sites offers one of the first snapshots of the practice, which until just a couple years ago was unknown to the public....
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Is fracking causing small earthquakes?
2015-02-14 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Small earthquakes shaking Oklahoma and southern Kansas daily and linked to energy drilling dramatically are increasing the chance of bigger and dangerous quakes, federal research indicates. This once-stable region now is just as likely to see serious damaging and potentially harmful earthquakes as the highest risk places east of the Rockies such as New Madrid, Missouri, and Charleston, South Carolina, which had major quakes in the last two centuries. Still, its a low risk, about a 1 in 2,500...
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Germany moves to legalise fracking
2015-02-14 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Germany has proposed a draft law that would allow commercial shale gas fracking at depths of over 3,000 metres, overturning a de facto moratorium that has been in place since the start of the decade. A new six-person expert panel would also be empowered to allow fracks at shallower levels Shale gas industry groups welcomed the proposal for its potential to crack open the German shale gas market, but it has sparked outrage among environmentalists who view it as the thin edge of a fossil fuel wedge....
Fracking Will Be Allowed under U.K. National Parks, MPs Decide
2015-02-12 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Fracking companies will be allowed to drill horizontally under national parks and other protected areas if the wells start just outside their boundaries, after the government rowed back on its earlier acceptance of new environmental protections. Ministers were forced to accept a series of new regulations from Labour on 26 January after facing defeat by concerned backbenchers, but the final amendments passed by MPs on Monday unpicked many of them. Green Party MP Caroline Lucas accusing ministers...
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Activists Want Fracking Ban in Denver, CO; Oil Backers Ready to Fight
2015-02-12 14:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Business Journal: Colorado's fracking wars arrived at Denver city hall Tuesday, with a coalition of 25 groups that included some of the standard bearers of the anti-fracking movement in the state delivering a statement calling for Mayor Michael Hancock and the City Council to ban the use of hydraulic fracturing within the city limits. "We think it's just a matter of time before they start fracking in Denver," Sam Schabacker, the western region director for Food & Water Watch, who's been working on the fracking...
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