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Farming association welcomes ban on fracking
ICSA president Patrick Kent has welcomed news that the Bill banning fracking in Ireland has now passed through all stages of the Dáil. Commenting on the impending ban, Mr Kent said: “Fracking offers no tangible benefits to landowners or rural communities. It provides no upside for farmers but potentially a […]
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Enviro groups sue EPA for trying to repeal fracking rules
Environmental advocacy group Earthworks has taken the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to court over its move to repeal methane and fracking rules, Kallanish Energy learns.
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Texas Fracking Legal Challenge Includes Water-pollution Risks
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas— Citing new records showing the potential for drinking water contamination around Corpus Christi, the Center for Biological Diversity today supplemented its legal protest to a federal oil and gas lease sale planned for Thursday.
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/oil-and-gas-06-06-2017.php
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The Epic Battle Between Big Oil & the People of California
On Thirteenth Street in front of the Sacramento Convention Center where the Democratic Convention was being held on May 20, a group of activists held a mock “tug of war” between the people of California and the oil industry for the loyalty of Governor Jerry Brown. The skit depicted the […]
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Environmental groups urge Scottish Government to ban fracking
ENVIRONMENTAL groups have called on the Scottish Government to ban fracking and unconventional oil and gas extraction because of risks to our climate, environment and public health.
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Legal Protest Targets Massive Nevada Fracking Plan
LAS VEGAS— Five conservation groups today challenged a U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan to auction nearly 200,000 acres of public lands next month for fossil fuel development.
The administrative protest asserts that the BLM failed to adequately analyze the impacts of fracking and related industrialization on public lands ecosystems, surface and […]
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Controversial sand mine moved further from residents
A controversial frac sand mine slated for Atascosa County in Texas will move its plant and shift some of its heaviest operations away from immediate neighbors in the face of community opposition to the project.
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8th Circ. Revives Underground Fracking Pollution Case
Law360, New York (May 22, 2017, 5:05 PM EDT) — The Eighth Circuit on Monday revived a fracking pollution lawsuit against Southwestern Energy Co. brought by property owners who allege that the company’s waste migrated onto their land from a nearby well.
8th Circ. Revives Underground Fracking Pollution Case
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Virginia’s ONLY No Fracking Petition
Please sign the petition now to send the message to Virginia Outdoors Foundation that Fracking is an industrial activity with irreversible environmental risks and should be explicitly prohibited in future VOF conservation easements.
https://frackingisnotconservation.bandzoogle.com/home
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Maryland’s fracking ban is fodder for campaigns against industry in Pa., Va.
When Gov. Larry Hogan signed a state fracking ban into law Tuesday, the stroke of his pen might have sent ripples beyond Maryland’s borders.
Environmentalists in Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere are hoping that the action spurs decisionmakers in those states to give the controversial gas-harvesting practice a […]
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