The Scottish Government is set to announce a ban on fracking, ending six years of fierce controversy. Ministers are putting the finishing touches to a permanent ban, replacing the moratorium they started in January 2015. This will spell the end of plans by the energy industry to frack for shale gas under swathes of central Scotland.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15568712.Revealed__SNP_will_ban_fracking_in_Scotland/
Maryland on Sunday will become the third U.S. state to permanently ban hydraulic fracturing, ending several years of debate over whether to allow the gas-extraction method.
“Kirby Misperton is in the fracking front line and I am full of admiration for all the people who are peacefully protesting to protect local communities.
https://www.minsterfm.com/news/local/2392161/green-party-co-leader-to-visit-kirby-misperton-site/
Law360, Philadelphia (September 29, 2017, 6:10 PM EDT) — A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday gutted a municipality’s “community bill of rights” that aimed to restrict a number of activities connected to fracking, finding that the measure’s provisions were preempted by both federal and state law.
https://www.law360.com/articles/969778/judge-shoots-down-pa-town-s-ban-on-fracking-activities
A Schlumberger Oil Field Services employee works on a Crestone Peak Resources Woolley Becky Sosa location in Erie in June.
When it comes to climate change, we know where the most important warming agent – carbon dioxide – is coming from. Most of it is coming from the burning of fossil fuels, with some additional contributions from deforestation and other causes.
A topic of significant discussion in society and politics over the past few years is hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. This is the practice of using highly pressurized water for the purpose of fracturing sub-surface rocks to get easier access to the fluids within the rock at incredibly fast rates. Using his research award from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program, University of Wyoming Ph.D. candidate Ryan James Herz-Thyhsen, seeks to shed a little bit of light on the subject not just for industrial professionals, but for politicians and the general public.
http://www.uwbrandingiron.com/2017/09/29/ph-d-candidate-researches-effects-of-fracking/
States that fail to permit coal seam gas mining would be penalised under a fresh proposal from the Grants Commission to change the method of distributing goods and services tax revenue.
Fracking as a technology has been a spectacular success in transforming the energy landscape in the U.S., Elsewhere, however, it has failed to catch on, largely due to concerns about the environmental consequences of ground water pollution or sometimes, as in the U.K., by illogical worries about fracking causing tremors or earthquakes, concerns that environmental groups are only too keen to stoke up.
https://agmetalminer.com/2017/09/29/bp-natural-gas-fracking-oman-uk-khazzan/
Schlumberger Oil Field Services employees work on a Crestone Peak Resources Woolley Becky Sosa location in Erie in June.