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Pennsylvania State Senator Announces Fracking Moratorium Legislation
EcoWatch By Laura Beans announced the introduction of the Natural Gas Drilling Moratorium Act, Senate Bill 1100, that would place a...
Sep 20, 20132 min read
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Breaking: 5,250 Gallons of Oil Spill into Colorado’s South Platte River
EcoWatch September 19, 2013 A damaged oil tank has dumped 5,250 gallons of oil into the South Platte River south of Milliken, CO,...
Sep 19, 20132 min read
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Oil and fracking chemicals spill into Colorado’s floodwaters
By John Upton TXsharon Fracking equipment overwhelmed by floodwaters in Weld County, Colo, northeast of Denver. Heavy rains returned to...
Sep 18, 20131 min read
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Stopping Tar Sand Oil In Central Illinois
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Sep 17, 20131 min read
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East Boulder County United
Click https://www.facebook.com/EastBoulderCountyUnited to visit the facebook page of East Boulder County United, highlighting the damage...
Sep 17, 20131 min read
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Colorado flooding: Evacuations, broken oil pipeline in Weld County
By Bruce Finley The Denver Post Posted: 09/14/2013 11:47:25 AM MDT23 comments | Updated: 3 days ago GREELEY — As Front Range...
Sep 17, 20131 min read
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Grandparents Tell Gov. Hickenlooper Not to Frack Their Grandchildren’s Future
Food & Water Watch Concerned grandparents from across Colorado delivered a letter yesterday to tell Gov. Hickenlooper (D-CO) and other...
Sep 10, 20131 min read
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WORKER SAFETY: Oil and gas deaths reached record high in 2012
EnergyWire: Friday, August 23, 2013 The oil and gas industry lost a record number of workers on the job last year, according to new...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
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Petition: Don’t let energy corporations silence kids about fracking with gag orders!
“Stop silencing children. Take immediate legal action to remove the Hallowich children from the gag order placed on their family, and...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
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In the Path of Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline Across Arkansas: People, Water, Farms (Part 1)
The burst pipeline runs through a golf course, a berry farm, a daycare center, rivers. People along the route wonder, What if it had...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
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In the Path of Exxon’s Pegasus Pipeline Across Arkansas: People, Water, Farms (Part 2)
The broken pipe snakes through a crucial Ark. watershed where there’s only one shut-off valve for the line, a fact that is making state...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
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Oil sands pipeline avoids Keystone XL scrutiny
St. Louis Post-Dispatch By JEFFREY TOMICH jtomich@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8320 SHELBINA, Mo. •The most valuable piece of farmland in...
Aug 25, 20131 min read
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UK Direct Action Shuts Down Fracking Company Headquarters, PR Firm and Well Site
No Dash For Gas By Emma Hughes Today, anti-fracking protestors from Reclaim the Power have targeted Cuadrilla at locations across the...
Aug 20, 20131 min read
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Colbert Calls Out Fracking Company for Lifetime Gag Order on Children
EcoWatch By Lauren Berlekamp For years, the fracking industry and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have repeated the talking...
Aug 19, 20131 min read
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Water Contamination from Fracking: Jessica Ernst Releases Groundbreaking Report
Written by Damien Gillis Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:53 Jessica Ernst, a high-profile, Alberta-based environmental consultant, has released...
Aug 13, 20131 min read
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City not privy to pipeline locations inside own borders
By Kathy Antoniotti Beacon Journal staff writer Published: August 3, 2013 – 11:12 PM Steven Leslie, Fire Chief of the City of New...
Aug 5, 20131 min read
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LA Times: EPA Censored Key Pennsylvania Fracking Water Contamination Study
A must-read Los Angeles Times story by Neela Banerjee demonstrates that – once again – the Obama administration put the kibosh on a key...
Jul 30, 20131 min read
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Special Investigation: Fracking in the Ocean Off the California Coast
The Pacific Ocean may be the next frontier for fracking technology. A Truthout investigation has confirmed that federal regulators...
Jul 25, 20131 min read
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Uncappable underground blowout spills thousands of barrels of tar sands oil in Cold Lake, Alberta
At the microphone, Crystal Lameman of the Beaver Cree First Nation of Canada, speaking against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington,...
Jul 25, 20133 min read
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The Tar Sands Oil Spill That Can’t Be Stopped
Oil Change International By Andy Rowell This disaster has been years in the making, but finally the reality of tar sands mining may be...
Jul 23, 20133 min read
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