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As Scientists Warn About Climate Change, Russia Eyes Vast Frack Reserves
Oil Change International By Andy Rowell So tomorrow is the day. The report will be met with a frothing load of bile from the usual...
Sep 27, 20131 min read
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Eco-Investigators Say Fracking Air Pollution Is Poisoning Families in Texas
Monday, 23 September 2013 10:00 Chiot’s Run)Cameron Cerny moved with his mother and father to Karnes County in southern Texas 10 years...
Sep 23, 20131 min read
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Beyond Clean Coal/Fracking Awards: IL Environmental Council Should Honor These Five Environmental Le
Jeff Biggers Posted: 09/19/2013 3:30 pm in Huffington Post As the nation watches the unfolding crisis of flooded fracking sites in...
Sep 20, 20134 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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Granville Co. votes no to fracking
Posted: Sep 03, 2013 10:46 PM CST Updated: Sep 04, 2013 6:34 AM CST by Eileen Park – bio | email OXFORD, N.C. – Hydraulic fracturing, or...
Sep 11, 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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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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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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The Flip Side Of Obama’s Keystone XL Delay
Even as President Obama cast a veneer of caution over the Keystone pipeline’s northern half, he quietly expedited dozens of similar...
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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UK’s Fracking Dilemma Continues
EcoWatch By Laura Beans “It’s little wonder communities don’t trust the Government over fracking when their rights are so clearly being...
Sep 4, 20131 min read
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“Frackademia” By Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed
With the school year starting for many this week, it’s another year of academia for professors across the United States – and another...
Sep 4, 20131 min read
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Drill next door: Here’s what it looks like when fracking moves in
By Erik Hoffner Grist guest contributorWhen my wife and I pulled into a relative’s subdivision in Frederick, Colo., after a wedding on a...
Aug 30, 20131 min read
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Great Ohio River Relay Highlights Impacts of Fracking on Water Resources
EcoWatch August 25, 2013 Wheeling Water Warriors The relay is designed to attract national attention to the environmental issue of...
Aug 25, 20132 min read
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Five Ways to Stop President Obama’s Plan to Frack America
From Ecowatch: When President Obama delivered his speech on climate change in June, we all welcomed his renewed focus on this crisis....
Aug 23, 20131 min read
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650,000 Comments Call on Obama Administration to Ban Fracking on Public Lands
Americans Against Fracking Yesterday, a coalition of 276 environmental and consumer organizations including Americans Against Fracking,...
Aug 23, 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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