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Lightning strike causes release of flammable gas from Port Allen plant
2013-08-13 11:42:08| Waste Management - Topix.net
Lightning struck a vacuum release valve at Intercontinental middle terminal on River Road, causing the release of a small vapor cloud of a flammable gas, State Police reported.
Fears of quakes and flammable tap water hit Britain as fracking looms
2013-08-07 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The fear of fracking has come to Britain, replete with worries about potential earthquakes and tap water tainted with natural gas that bursts into flames at the strike of a match.. Since a ban on the method of extracting natural gas was lifted in May, a company has begun exploratory drilling in the southern town of Balcombe to see what reserves may lie locked up in rock strata far beneath its rolling hills and green meadows. Read more: 'Fracking' protesters say drilling jobs not worth environmental...
An energy coup for Japan: Flammable ice
2013-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Japan said Tuesday that it had extracted gas from offshore deposits of methane hydrate sometimes called flammable ice a breakthrough that officials and experts said could be a step toward tapping a promising but still little-understood energy source. The gas, whose extraction from the undersea hydrate reservoir was thought to be a world first, could provide an alternative source of energy to known oil and gas reserves. That could be crucial especially for Japan, which is the worlds biggest...