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Online Database of Well Permits in Illinois
The Illinois State Geological Survey maintains an online database of well permits in Illinois (link below). The codes for the type of...
Dec 9, 20121 min read
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Saline County
Harrisburg, IL supports fracking Harrisburg City Council passed a resolution in support of high volume hydraulic fracturing as a method...
Dec 9, 20121 min read
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Bayou Frack-Out: The Massive Oil and Gas Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of
Thursday, 06 December 2012 10:21 By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report Located about 45 miles south of Baton Rouge, Assumption Parish...
Dec 7, 201210 min read
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We can’t say we haven’t been warned
The latest alarms about fracking come from Pennsylvania residents who joined Delegate Heather Mizeur and others at a press conference in...
Dec 5, 20125 min read
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An uncontrolled health experiment on an enormous scale
An uncontrolled health experiment on an enormous scale Those words are not the fired-up, angry rhetoric of a fracking activist but rather...
Dec 5, 20128 min read
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Water Fight: Drought, Farming, Fracking And The Midwest’s Tense Shipping Situation
Barge workers on the Mississippi River near St. Louis on Dec. 2, 2012 (Credit (via Flickr/pasa47). Low river levels have caused...
Dec 4, 20123 min read
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BIG OIL TELLS BIG LIES ABOUT FRACKING
In a recent guest column in the Southern Illinoisan, I argued that: Water for Oil is a Fool’s Trade. Kyna Legner, identified as “field...
Dec 4, 20127 min read
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Get the Frack out of Illinois – Chicago Independent | Examiner.com
“Get the Frack out of Illinois!” That was the title of Monday’s announcement by the consumer and environmental advocacy group Food &...
Dec 4, 20125 min read
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Fracking regulations back on the agenda in Illinois | Midwest Energy News
The debate over hydraulic fracturing regulation in Illinois will return to the front burner in coming weeks. Fracking regulations will...
Dec 4, 20125 min read
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