IN AUSTRALIA, landholders are responding to the country’s rush to exploit massive reserves of unconventional coal seam gas with a simple but defiant gesture.
They’re locking their gates.
More than 100 environmental and land groups have join…
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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Delaware River Basin Commission and Army Corps Sued Over Fracking Regulations
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Last week, environmental watchdog groups including the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), Riverkeeper, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and th…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Scientists Say Obama Fracking Panel is Financially Tied to Gas Industry
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The Natural Gas Subcommittee of the Secretary of the Energy Advisory Board released their draft report today, which outlines immediate actions to imp…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: New York Comptroller DiNapoli Introduces Frack Fund To Cover Industry Damage
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Although New York State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has yet to take a stance on the issue of hydraulic fracturing within his state, he introduced legislation on Tuesday that will re…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Communities At Risk from Gas Industry Air Pollution – Interview with NRDC’s Amy Mall
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The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is busy trying to figure out why communities near gas production facilities are experiencing life-threatening levels of hydrogen sul…
Continue readingLeDaro: Shale gas protests in New Brunswick
Some interesting signs included:
“No fracking way”
“What the frack?”
Another good sign will be “Mr. Alward (the Premier of NB) Frack off.”
And many more. It would look that fracking is deadly on the environment. It pollutes the enviro…
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Digging Deeper Into New Brunswick’s Fracking Controversy
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In ever greater numbers, New Brunswickers are speaking out against hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the exploitation of the densely packed unconventional gas sitting be…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Mysterious Fracking Memo Encourages Employees To Deceive Landowners
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The Associated Press is reporting some new details about the mysterious memo that surfaced earlier this year which encourages buyers of oil and gas leases to lie to landowners abou…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Environmental Working Group Reveals EPA Knowledge of Water Contamination From Fracking
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Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been known by the EPA to contaminate underground sources of drinking water since 1987. In a 25-year old investigat…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission Bans Fracking Disposal Wells Due to Earthquakes
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The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission has voted unanimously to ban disposal wells for unconventional gas drilling wastes in a region that has been inundated…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Federal Government Asks Judge To Dismiss New York State Fracking Lawsuit
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The U.S. government is asking a federal judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the state of New York against the government that was seeking to demand a complete rev…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: EPA Proposes First-Ever Federal Fracking Rules
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The U.S. EPA is poised to enact the first ever rules on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with a proposal that would allow the agency to regulate the practice under the Cle…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: In Gas Driller’s Canadian East Coast Heartland, A Day Of FRACtion
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On August 1st and 2nd, a Day of FRACtion involving marches and protests is taking place across most of Canada’s Atlantic provinces in…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Free Water for Fracking: B.C. Government Gives 20-Year Withdrawal Permit to Talisman
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British Columbia is providing the gas industry with 78 million cubic meters of free water each year, according to a recent CBC article. That water,…
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Promises and Problems: EnergyNOW! Releases Special Video Report on Fracking in the Marcellus
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Energy politics tend to have a socially galvanizing effect. In production zones, big industrial producers promise massive social incentives to locals who …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Frack Attack Music Video Warns of Gas Drilling Dangers in South Africa
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The anti-frack movement just got a bit cooler thanks to Treasure the Karoo Action Group (TKAG). Today, the citizen-led environmental organization release…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Shell Forced to Retract "Misleading" Fracking Adverts in South Africa
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The gas industry has finally received the slap on the hand it deserves for parroting the outdated refrain: “there are no instances of documented wat…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Post Carbon Institute Analysis Suggests Shale Gas (Still) Worse Than Coal For Climate
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Shale gas cannot provide a low carbon “interim” fuel for the transition to a clean energy future, according to David Hughes, fellow at the Pos…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Talisman Energy Shelves "Friendly Fracosaurus" Coloring Book After Colbert Smackdown
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Talisman Terry, the Friendly Fracosaurus, has been officially suspended from his duties as an unconventional gas mascot. The cartoon dinosaur was used to …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Fracking Wastes Devastate Research Forest in Virginia
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Wastewater from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations poses a serious threat to national forests, according to a researcher from the U.S. Forest Serv…
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