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Judge Strikes Down Plan to Open One Million Acres of California Public Lands to Drilling
U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald ruled that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had failed to analyze the risks of fracking and other extreme oil and gas extraction techniques when preparing a resource management plan that would have allowed drilling on more than one million acres of land in California’s […]
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Fracking-Quakes Liability Fight Rumbles on in NY
MANHATTAN (CN) — Shaken by five lawsuits over fracking-linked earthquakes, an Oklahoma energy company stumbled in its attempt to have its insurance company steady the aftershocks.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/09/08/fracking-quakes-liability-fight-rumbles-on-in-n-y.htm
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Judge blocks Central California oil development over fracking
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from opening more than 1 million acres in Central California to oil drilling because the agency did not properly explore the potential dangers of fracking. San Francisco Chronicle, California. Sep 08 2016
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US judge halts fracking plan for federal lands in California
A U.S. judge on Wednesday halted a plan to allow fracking on public lands in central California, saying a federal agency’s environmental plan should have taken a “hard look” at the potential impact of the process.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-fracking-idUSKCN11D2N6
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Fracking operations might’ve caused one of Oklahoma’s biggest earthquakes yet
Fracking operations might’ve caused one of Oklahoma’s biggest earthquakes yet.
The state’s last record-setting earthquake was in 2011, when it topped 5.6 magnitude. A new one on Saturday matched that record.
http://grist.org/briefly/__trashed-6/
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Legal Victory Overturns Federal Plan to Open 1 Million Acres of California Public Land to Drilling, Fracking
LOS ANGELES— Citing potential threats to water supplies and endangered wildlife, a U.S. district judge today overturned a federal plan to open more than 1 million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to drilling and fracking. Today’s ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought […]
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Some Media Outlets Still Ignoring Science by Blaming Fracking for Oklahoma Earthquakes
Experts really could not be clearer: They have said over and over that the fracking process is not the cause of earthquakes in Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma Earthquake Spurs Emergency Action On Oil & Gas Wastewater
In the wake of a major, record-tying 5.6 magnitude Oklahoma earthquake that struck last Saturday morning, Governor Mary Fallin did not wait around to hear any more evidence about the link between seismic activity and the practice of disposing oil and gas wastewater into wells. She just went right ahead […]
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In Light Of The Oklahoma Earthquake, Here’s What Fracking Is and Isn’t
Days after an earthquake rattled Oklahoma and several bordering states, officials closed a number of wastewater wells. To many, that meant fracking was to blame for the natural disaster.
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Did Fracking Cause the Recent Earthquake in the Midwest?
A 5.6 magnitude quake rattled much of the midwest early Saturday morning. The epicenter was just outside of Pawnee, Oklahoma, but it was felt from Iowa to Texas. The debate over what’s causing these quakes has been increasing in the last decade.
http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/did-fracking-cause-the-recent-earthquake-in-the-midwest/
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