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Radioactive Waste From Bakken Oil Fields Raises Concerns About Local Water Contamination
By Katie Rucke Editor’s note: Some names have been changed in this article to protect the identities of certain individuals who came to...
Mar 12, 20141 min read
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6 Reasons to Celebrate the Growth of the Ban Fracking Movement
Wenonah Hauter | March 3, 2014 4:04 pm | Comments These developments show that the movement to ban fracking grows stronger by the day....
Mar 4, 20141 min read
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Risks of Fracking Boom Draw Renewed Attention from Investors
A coalition of investors called out five oil and gas companies for failing to measure or reduce risks associated with fracking on...
Feb 20, 20141 min read
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No Pipe Dream: Is Fracking About to Arrive on Your Doorstep?
Daniel Foster / Flickr)For the past several years, I’ve been writing about what happens when big oil and gas corporations drill where...
Jan 30, 20141 min read
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Groups Petition BLM to Protect Fragile Wyoming Habitat From Oil and Gas Drilling
Drilling in the Douglas Core Area undermines the efforts of local residents and ranchers to protect sage grouse habitat. The male sage...
Oct 29, 20131 min read
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A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water
Fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirsty Suzanne...
Sep 26, 20131 min read
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Setting the Record Straight on Tar Sands and Water Use
Environmental Defence Big Oil is spending millions of dollars to try to greenwash the tar sands, Canada’s fastest growing source of...
Sep 24, 20131 min read
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Proposal Weakens Endangered Species Protections From Fracking on Public Lands
Center for Biological Diversity The Obama administration has proposed a new rule that would scale back the requirement that federal...
Sep 3, 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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Reuters: Pennsylvania lawsuit says drilling polluted water
Reuters By Jon Hurdle AVELLA, Pennsylvania | Mon Nov 9, 2009 9:37am EST (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company...
Feb 18, 20134 min read
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Natural Gas Flowback: How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety
Natural Gas Flowback: the Dark Side of the Boom How the Texas gas boom affects community health and safety Published: April 14, 2011 By:...
Feb 1, 20132 min read
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Former Gas Field Worker Blows the Whistle
Published on Dec 20, 2012 Williamsport native and formal gas worker David Bean describes what life on the job used to be like: spills,...
Dec 26, 20121 min read
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“Impacts of gas drilling on human and animal health.” New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and
Documents animal and owner health problems with potential links to shale gas drilling. Describes the expansion of drilling and fracking...
Nov 15, 20121 min read
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