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Shale Drillers Pull Ahead of Global Oil Giants in Profit: Energy
2013-08-05 15:41:15| Energy - Topix.net
Oil explorers focused on high-margin shale drilling from Texas to North Dakota are set to outperform Big Oil this year.
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energy
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United Kingdom: Fracking boss Francis Egan receives bomb threat over shale gas exploration
2013-08-04 06:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Francis Egan, the chief executive of Cuadrilla, has send he was send an email threatening to bomb his company headquarters if he did not cease activities in the UK. Cuadrilla announced that it has started as exploratory drilling began at a site in Balcombe, West Sussex, despite anti-fracking protests by local people and activists from across the UK. Villages across the UK have said that they will block any attempts to drill in the wake of the Balcombe protests. Writing in the Mail on Sunday...
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Water wells near gas drilling more likely to have heavy metals, Barnett Shale study finds
2013-08-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: Private water wells near natural gas drilling in North Texas Barnett Shale gas field are more likely to be contaminated with heavy metals than those farther from gas operations, a study at the University of Texas at Arlington has found. Contamination occurred more often and in greater amounts when water wells were closer to gas wells, scientists said. Water wells outside gas-producing areas showed no such problems. Researchers could not pinpoint the sources, but they ruled out the upward movement...
The Silent Partner Behind the Shale Energy Boom
2013-07-31 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Since 2011, Alex Trembath, a tireless and talented energy analyst at nonprofit The Breakthrough Institute, has been digging into the complicated history of public and private initiatives and investments that unlocked the vast gas and oil resource contained in layers of shale rock. He charted evidence that investments in basic research, testing and development by the federal government lay behind the private-sector initiatives that have since fundamentally reshaped global forecasts for energy, economies...
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energy
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boom
Anti-fracking campaigners protest against Cuadrillas shale gas drilling
2013-07-29 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Anti-fracking campaigners staged a protest in the UK last week, successfully blockading a Cuadrilla Resources drill site near the village of Balcombe in Sussex.
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