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Silica sand – in the air, water, lungs and frac drills
Thomas and Diane Skomski moved to Wedron in rural LaSalle County in 2003 to recuperate close to nature after Thomas suffered a massive stroke. They purchased a beautiful 23-acre property bordered by Indian Creek with sheer limestone cliffs and bluffs like those at nearby Starved Rock and Matthiessen state […]
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Interior Department repeals regulations on hydraulic fracturing
The Obama administration’s 2015 fracking rule was never actually implemented, thanks to an ongoing court battle, and it apparently never will be. The Interior Department published a final rule Friday in the Federal Register repealing immediately the hydraulic-fracturing regulation on federal lands, saying that “we believe it imposes administrative burdens […]
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Offshore-rig rule cuts proposed
Companies would have had to disclose the chemicals used in the process, often called fracking, which pumps pressurized water underground to break open hydrocarbon deposits. The rules were supposed to take effect in 2015, but a federal judge in Wyoming blocked them at the last minute. The industry doesn’t want […]
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Trump’s BLM revokes chemical disclosure rules for fracking
“The Trump administration is proceeding with revoking a 2015 rule requiring chemical disclosures and otherwise regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands,” reports The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. “According to a Bureau of Land Management document released Thursday and scheduled to be published today in the Federal Register, the BLM is […]
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Documenting EPA fracking concerns
A new set of documents from the Environmental Protection Agency shared with Marketplace by the Partnership for Policy Integrity shows the agency had (previously undisclosed) health concerns that fracking chemicals might cause some diagnoses of liver poisoning and cancers.
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Oilfield minerals – Increased Demand as Oil Prices Increase
This article is another scary look at the future. As oil prices rise, so does the demand for chemicals and other materials used in fracking. Frac sand demand rises and both drilling and sand intensity increase, leading drive to the Permian. After an extremely bearish two years in […]
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Fracking’s Impact on Public Health – Not good.
The technology to recover natural gas depends on undisclosed types and amounts of toxic chemicals. A list of 944 products containing 632 chemicals used during natural gas operations was compiled. Literature searches were conducted to determine potential health effects of the 353 chemicals identified by Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) […]
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Frac sand boom hits the Permian Basin
PERMIAN BASIN — Frac sand mining is the latest boom to hit the Permian Basin and it’s an operation that started about six months ago. “Creates a tremendous number of new jobs, high paying jobs, the plants are longterm,” Monahans Mayor David Cutbirth said.
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Westmoreland County and Fracking Restrictions
When southern Kenai Peninsula residents heard BlueCrest’s plans for the Cosmopolitan project just north of Anchor Point, it brought two new words into our vocabulary: hydraulic fracturing, or, simply, fracking.
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Study-Modeling the effects of wastewater injection
This article discusses the link between earthquakes and injection wells. In work that offers insight into the magnitude of the hazards posed by earthquake faults in general, seismologists have developed a model to determine the size of an earthquake that could be triggered by the underground injection of fluids […]
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