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Accident leads to scrutiny of oil sand production
2014-05-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In the annals of oil well blowouts and pipeline disasters, the 7,400 barrels of oily slush that oozed out of the mossy bogs of the boreal forest in northeast Alberta last summer may seem like a trivial matter. No one was hurt in the accident, which spread across at least 17 acres in the Primrose oil sands field, and the most damage to wildlife came from the killing of about 70 frogs in a lake contaminated by the leak. It has since been drained. But while the accident has so far been overshadowed...
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Transparency, good regulation needed as Wisconsin sand mines multiply, expert says
2014-04-20 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wisconsin State Journal: Wisconsin can protect its place as the leading supplier of sand for the nations fracking boom provided it has good regulations in place and promptly addresses any nuisance concerns raised by neighbors of the states fast-multiplying sand-mining facilities, according to a former EPA administrator who spoke to a business convention Tuesday in Middleton. J. Winston Porter, now a Savannah, Ga.-based energy consultant and fracking proponent, also said maximum transparency by state regulators and the...
Wisconsin debates fracking as sand mining for drilling booms
2014-04-18 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: In Wisconsin, residents are having an emotional debate over fracking. The state is rich in a special kind of sand used in that controversial gas drilling technique, and mining companies are lining up to get to it. That means jobs, and lots of them. But some residents fear the sand mining boom is ruining their farmland -- not to mention their health. Dean Reynolds reports.
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Fracking sand mines credited rising, dropping property values
2014-04-16 00:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Great Lakes Echo: Perry Schmitt describes himself as pro-mining but blames the frac sand mine across the highway from his home for driving down the asking price by more than $25,000, to $189,000. His neighbors made out better. Kari Curran and her husband sold 130 acres for $1.5 million to a company affiliated with Unimin Mining Corp., operator of the mine. The property was previously valued at about $225,000. It was kind of bittersweet, Curran said. That was the house we raised our kids in. In the three years since...
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Group: Install Air Monitors To Study Frack Sand
2014-04-12 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A Winona environmental group is recommending that air monitors be installed around the city to measure the effect that the processing and shipping of sand used in fracking has on air quality. The Winona Citizen`s Environmental Quality Committee recommends installing four or five air-quality monitors along truck routes in the city, the Winona Daily News reported Saturday. The committee also suggests placing monitors near places where frack sand is loaded, transported and processed. Oil- and...
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