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Bill McKibben upends widely held assumptions about the "natural gas revolution" that was once considered a "savior" in the fight against global warming. 
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Once you’ve mined the earth and milked the service industries, what is there left to frack? Us, that’s what – with everything from admin charges and estate agent fees to blockbuster premiums and ‘cakeage’
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In what could well be the death blow to fracking, Lancashire has voted NO to fracking. The fracking industry had hoped to get approval in Lancashire, then use that to gain leverage across the count...
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California's oil and gas industry is estimated to use more than 2 million gallons of fresh water per day
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Fracking industry claims about job creation in the UK are wildly over-optimistic and any jobs boom would be short-lived, according to a new research report.
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It is bad enough David Cameron is in the pocket of the fracking industry, that our rights to object to fracking are being taken away. Now we have a report on fracking the ConDem government are refu...
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Anti-fracking activists protesting a natural-gas conference in Philadelphia last fall were being monitored by a private security company that sent a photo of a demonstrator to the Pennsylvania State Police, according to an email obtained by Pittsburgh City Paper.
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America’s status as the world’s leading producer of oil and natural gas is delivering major benefits to U.S. families and businesses.
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An application to start fracking at a site in Lancashire is rejected by county councillors.
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This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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The war over hydraulic fracturing (fracking), like most environmental issues, is more focused on propaganda than fact. Yet, unlike other fossil fuel debates, fracking is the first in which the health of everyday Amerians must be considered as a direct trade-off. Despite numerous industry assurances about its safety, the first retrospective reports on the health effects of fracking paint a grim picture for the future of Americans living near unconventional gas operations.
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Book Authors: Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald Reviewed by Allison Wilson (The Bioscience Resource Project) The first researchers to systematically document ill health in livestock, pets, and people living near fracking drill sites were Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald. Bamberger, a veterinarian, and Oswald, a professor of molecular medicine at ...
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October 3, 2016 1:29 PM
Flooding the feeds with the Fracking wastewater topic. After much critical thinking, I realize biomass cannot flow through pipelines, therefore I choose biomass over liquid and gas hydrocarbon. Did you know it is economically feasible for every home in California to have a bio-digester to supply natural gas for heating and cooking by just composting?
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Tom Heap visits communities living with the shale gas industry, from Texas to Lancashire.
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