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40 Gallons a Pint: Fracking’s threat to beer in Illinois
Revolution&Beer.com Posted on October 2, 2013 by WC Turck It takes almost 40 gallons of water to produce a single pint of beer. In 1516...
Oct 3, 20135 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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IKEA: Residential Solar Panels To Go On Sale At Stores In Britain
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/ikea-solar-panels-britain_n_4016087.html?ref=topbar Follow: IKEA Pv Solar Panels, IKEA...
Sep 30, 20132 min read
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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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New research: more than half of landowners report problems with shale gas development on their land
Amy Mall’s Blog Posted September 12, 2013 in Health and the Environment Earlier this year, researchers from West Virginia University...
Sep 15, 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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Extraction Frontlines Organizing: Interview With Illinois South Founder Dave Ostendorf on Coal, Frac
Jeff Biggers Author of ‘State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream’ Posted: 09/06/2013 10:12 am at...
Sep 8, 20131 min read
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I just decreased my Arlington TX homesteads value 31% citing fracking nearby
Posted on August 23, 2013 in Arlington TX Barnett Shale Blogger “I protested the value of my home last month with the Tarrant County...
Sep 5, 20131 min read
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Record-Breaking Renewable Energy Capacity Pushes Fossil Fuel Plants to Close in Germany
EcoWatch August 23, 2013 Germany’s renewable energy industry has again shown its strength, shattering through another solar power record,...
Aug 25, 20132 min read
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Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Aug. 13, 2013, 10:20 a.m. Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre slice of northern Pennsylvania...
Aug 25, 201311 min read
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Fracking boom could lead to housing bust
By Roger Drouin for Grist When it comes to the real estate market in Bradford County, Pa., where 62,600 residents live above the...
Aug 18, 20131 min read
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How the Fracking Industry Avoids Paying Royalties to Landowners
ProPublica By Abrahm Lustgarten Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre slice of northern Pennsylvania until he could no longer turn...
Aug 15, 20131 min read
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Is The Bakken Profitable?
http://energypolicyforum.org/2013/04/07/is-the-bakken-profitable/ By Deborah Rogers When the price of natural gas tanked due to severe...
Jul 27, 20133 min read
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How Fracking Decreases Property Value
Earthworks Water Source a Deciding Factor in Property Value A Duke University and Resources for the Future study found that the most...
Jul 23, 20131 min read
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Disposable workers of the oil and gas fields
If you don’t have a college degree, it’s the best job in the West. Unless you die, unnoticed. Feature story – From the April 02, 2007...
Jul 21, 20131 min read
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Fracking’s dangers for workers
Number of workers employed by the U.S. oil and gas extraction industry: 435,000 Percent of those workers employed by well servicing...
Jul 21, 20132 min read
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Couple denied mortgage because of gas drilling
Brian Smith lives near Marcellus Shale well in Daisytown UPDATED 6:49 PM EDT May 08, 2012 WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. —Brian and Amy Smith...
Jul 21, 20132 min read
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Shale oil Ponzi scheme: Harvard study confirms shale is a fracking treadmill
by TXsharon, texassharon.com, June 27, 2013 Harvard has released a new study with a hyped up headline about America becoming a No. 1 oil...
Jul 12, 20132 min read
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Growing Doubts on the Numbers from Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy
Growing Doubts on the Numbers from Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy (via Desmogblog) America is in the midst of the biggest onshore oil...
Jul 7, 20131 min read
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The Price of Sand
Thursday, 13 June 2013 15:54 By Ellen Cantarow, Truthout | Movie Review YouTube) In the gorgeous countryside of western Wisconsin, along...
Jun 24, 20131 min read
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