Tag: fracking
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Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting With Disaster
THE REV. LEAH SCHADE — Brasch is one of the grown-ups who is trying to tell us the truth about this racket and reveal the ugly underside of fracking-roulette. Whether anyone will listen, only time will tell …
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Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Topped $620 Billion in 2011
EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE — The energy game is rigged in favor of fossil fuels because we omit the environmental and health costs of burning coal, oil and natural gas from their prices. Subsidies manipulate the game even further. According to …
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Colorado’s Bully Governor Says He Will Sue Fort Collins to Overturn Fracking Ban
GARY WOCKNER — Now seven days later in a televised interview, the Democratic Governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, also says he will direct the State of Colorado to sue Fort Collins to …
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The Hagy Story: Loopholes Shield Fracking Industry While Families Pay the Price
LAUREL PELTIER — The Hagys’ water contamination lawsuit demonstrates how the natural gas industry has built a near-perfect “federal legal exemption’s framework” that when combined with lax or absent state regulations and the legal system’s high costs, inherently approves of citizen collateral damage with no restitution …
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Millions of Acres of Land—Larger Than California and Florida Combined—Already Leased to Oil and Gas Industry
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — Since it has been reported that more than ninety percent of oil and gas wells are fracked, there is a lot of new fracking slated for our future—tens of millions of acres of new fracking. Clean air, clean water, healthy communities, wildlands and wildlife habitat are …