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Supporters from all over the word attend Leitrim frackdown party
They came from New York & Newtownmanor, Brussels and Belcoo, Thousand Islands and Tawley, Alberta and Aughawillan, Dublin and Dromod, Germany and Glenfarne and all for a great community party to celebrate Ireland’s ban on fracking.
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Sustainability Column: Too Much Friction
Many people like to think that earthquakes, the one natural hazard that is not directly influenced by climate change, will not increase in number as the Earth becomes hotter. While these people are right in that the temperature will not cause the number of earthquakes to rise, they do […]
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Mark Ruffalo covers the bases. One day, he’s talking sex. The next day, it’s fracking
As his fans already know, Mark Ruffalo is on the vocal side. He was recently praised on social media for what he said about sexual harassment in an interview with UK’s Channel 4 News.
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Many benefits to fracking in Delaware River Basin | Guest column
There is no overstating the importance of allowing fracking for natural gas in the Delaware River Basin. It could produce as much as $435 million worth of natural gas annually, bringing huge economic benefits and creating manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to a study done by Gerald Kauffman, […]
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OP-ED: Trucks and roads for fracking
Fracking requires the heavy industrial trucking transportation of massive amounts of water, sand and chemicals to and from well sites. If fracking comes to North Carolina, much of it would occur in rural areas, where roadsare not designed to support heavy industrial trucks.
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Tampa Bay lawmakers file bills that would ban fracking
A pair of Tampa Bay Republicans filed bills in the House and Senate over the past week that would slap Florida with a full-on fracking ban come.
Tampa Bay lawmakers file bills that would ban fracking
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Change political climate to address environment
The arrival of record-shattering hurricanes, forest fires in the West the size of Maryland, and collapsing glaciers makes something clear to anyone not in a state of ideological denial: Humanity is in a fight for its survival, and if we have any hope of saving ourselves from endless climate disasters, […]
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YP Letters: Follow Maryland and Scots example and ban fracking here in Yorkshire
THIS week the Scottish government has announced a ban on fracking. Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse told MSPs that the practice “cannot and will not take place in Scotland”.
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Fracking = Pipelines = Eminent Domain
Time to think about all the things that occur when fracking begins. Fracking doesn’t just mean pulling gas from the ground, bringing radioactive materials to the surface, increasing the number and severity of earthquakes a relatively short distance from a nuclear power plant, overuse and pollution of scarce water resources, […]
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Fracking Leases in the Taylorsville Basin
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