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Natural Gas Export Plan Unites Oregon Landowners Against It
2013-05-29 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A radical shift in the world energy picture is raising environmental concerns in the United States. Until recently, the U.S. had been expected to import more natural gas. But now, because of controversial technologies like "fracking," drillers are producing a lot more domestic natural gas; so much that prices are down along with industry profits. And drillers are looking overseas for new customers. Whether the United States should export some of its newly abundant supplies of natural gas is a controversial...
Ark. Landowners File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Exxon
2013-04-19 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KARK: Little Rock's Duncan Law Firm has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all property owners with a contractual easement on their property for ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline. This is the second lawsuit in two weeks filed against the company over the oil spill that occurred March 29 in Mayflower. In the first suit, filed April 5, two homeowners are seeking monetary relief for themselves and "all others similarly situated." That suit lists two damage amounts: one asking for individual damages...
Keystone fought by Nebraska landowners vowing to block
2013-04-17 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Bob Allpress describes himself as a redneck Republican. Standing on the pasture behind his Nebraska home, the burly former Marine Corps sergeant with a Fu Manchu mustache explains what made him an environmental activist. The Keystone XL pipeline, which TransCanada Corp. (TRP) wants to build to bring Albertas oil sands to refineries on the U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico, would cut across the 900 acres near Naper, Nebraska, that Allpresss grandfather acquired by homestead in 1886. He is vowing...
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Landowners Threaten to Sue if New York Misses Fracking Deadline
2013-02-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: A statewide group of pro-drilling landowners says it will sue New York state if the Department of Environmental Conservation misses a fast-approaching deadline for its proposed hydraulic fracturing rules. In a newsletter distributed to its members Friday, the head of the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York said the group is laying the ground work for a lawsuit against New York State if the state doesnt finalize its fracking regulations by Feb. 27. If not finished by then, the regulations...
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Energy Companies and Landowners are Clashing over Property Rights
2013-02-03 02:22:30| Energy - Topix.net
A small town just east of Atlanta has a big battle on its hands. It is taking on the Georgia Transmission Corp., which is the local delivery arm for Southern Co .
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