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Southern Illinois Unprepared for Social Costs of Fracking Boom
Will Reynolds Posted: 11/27/2013 3:32 pm The Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence is concerned southern Illinois is unprepared...
Dec 2, 20131 min read
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Fracking Causes Democratic Outbreaks Across the US
A funny thing happened on the way to the shale revolution – an outbreak of democracy that will send tremors through the oil and gas...
Nov 26, 20132 min read
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Setting the Record Straight on Fracking
By Sandra Steingraber and Wenonah Hauter Speaking before youth conservation leaders in California, Jewell cited what she called...
Nov 20, 20131 min read
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Does Homeland Security Think Fracktivists are Terrorists?
Sharon Wilson | November 15, 2013 3:22 pm | Comments According to comments made by Mark Grawe, chief operating officer at EagleRidge...
Nov 18, 20131 min read
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Fracking the American Dream: Drilling Decreases Property Value
Drilling conflicts are almost always described in the context of their impacts on air, water and health. But increasingly, as the...
Nov 14, 20131 min read
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Oil and Gas Regulations Fail to Protect Communities’ Water
A report was released today identifying and examining the dangers to water quality posed by oil and gas production in the states of...
Nov 8, 20131 min read
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Fracking Victim Sued for Defamation After Proving Drinking Water Flammable
By Julie Dermansky Weatherford, TX, homeowner Steve Lipsky has nothing to hide. He is not trying to take down Range Resources, a large...
Nov 7, 20131 min read
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David V. Goliath: Colorado Towns Take On Gas Giants To Rein In Fracking
Read the entire story at http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/30/2854001/colorado-fracking-battle/ By Tom Kenworthy on October 30,...
Nov 5, 20133 min read
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North Dakota Fails to Disclose Hundreds of Oil Spills to the Public
A September oil pipeline spill is calling into question North Dakota’s lack of disclosure laws, which have allowed nearly 300 spills in...
Oct 30, 20131 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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Proposed Fracked-Gas Export Facility from Maryland to Asia Vehemently Opposed
Ted Glick |October 24, 2013 3:43 pm The first town hall meeting concerning the risks of the proposed Cove Point Liquified Natural Gas...
Oct 25, 20131 min read
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Internal Documents Reveal Coverup in North Dakota Oil Spill
By Jesse Coleman North Dakota, long known for its cattle ranches and open spaces, has recently become one of the oil and gas industry’s...
Oct 25, 20131 min read
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Hundreds Protest Tar Sands Pipeline as Expert Warns of 90 Percent Probability of Line 9 Rupture
By Derek Leahy The international pipeline safety expert who last August described Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline as “high risk for a rupture”...
Oct 24, 20131 min read
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Canadian Police Use Military Tactics to Disperse Indigenous Anti-Fracking Blockade
Friday, 18 October 2013 13:12 By Oscar Leon, The Real News Network | Video Report Click http://truth-out.org/news/item/19496-canadian-pol...
Oct 21, 20131 min read
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Drugs, crime rings follow US oil boom
http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/drugs-crime-rings-follow-us-oil-boom A new front is emerging in the fight against drug trafficking as...
Oct 15, 20132 min read
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Voters in four Colorado cities may call timeout on fracking
By Bruce Finley The Denver Post Posted: 10/13/2013 12:01:00 AM MDT Front Range residents are forcing faceoffs over oil and gas drilling...
Oct 15, 20131 min read
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Groups Send List of Requirements for Fracking Regulations to Illinois Officials
Jeff Biggers In a letter sent this week to the key legislative committee and state IDNR agency officials, the groups representing rural...
Oct 9, 20131 min read
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Global Frackdown 2 Calls for a Worldwide Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing
EcoWatch On Oct. 19, people from around the world will unite for a day of action to protest fracking. A project of Food & Water Watch,...
Oct 8, 20131 min read
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SIU grad Rendleman talks about experience with fracking
The Southern http://thesouthern.com/news/local/siu-grad-rendleman-talks-about-experience-with-fracking/article_b0ca0cb4-2cad-11e3-a4e0-00...
Oct 6, 20132 min read
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Illinois Hosts Nation’s Worst Website for Kids
October 2, 2013 Jeff Biggers Calling on statewide and national citizens groups and education organizations to join their efforts, the...
Oct 3, 20131 min read
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