Tag: fracking
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Fracking Chemicals Found to Disrupt Hormone Function
University of Missouri researchers have found that 11 chemicals commonly used in fracking for oil and natural gas are endocrine disruptors, while water near hydraulic fracturing drilling sites had greater hormone-disrupting properties than in areas without drilling. Endocrine disruptors interfere with the body’s endocrine system, which controls numerous body functions with hormones such as the…
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Protestors Block Fracking Site With Giant Wind Turbine Blade
At 5.30 this morning, fifty people blocked the entrance to IGas’s exploratory drilling site in Barton Moss with a giant wind turbine blade. The campaigners arrived at the site in Salford in Greater Manchester, proceeded to unload and assemble the 17-meter blade from its three component segments. They were spotted by a security guard who…
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Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Is Back to Frack Ohio With Investment of $1.7B
By Steve Horn Former Chesapeake Energy CEO and Founder Aubrey McClendon is back in the fracking game in Ohio’s Utica Shale in a big way, receiving a permit to frack five wells from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources on Nov. 26. [caption id="attachment_315318" align="alignnone" width="500"] Aubrey McClendon, the former CEO of fracking giant Chesapeake Energy has just received permits for fracking wells…
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Live Forum: Economics is the Achilles Heel of Fracking
On Monday, Dec. 16 at 5 p.m. Pacific/8 p.m. Eastern, EcoWatch will feature a live briefing and conversation with Richard Heinberg and Deborah Rogers as they explore how the anti-fracking community can turn the fracking industry’s biggest weapon into their greatest vulnerability. Hosted by Americans Against Fracking, Energy Policy Forum, Post Carbon Institute and Stop the Frack Attack,…
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Fracking Bonanza Threatens Texas Suburbs
By Julie Dermansky When a representative from Chesapeake Energy knocked on Phyllis Allen’s door in 2003 and offered $300 for her mineral rights and an invitation to a lease-signing pizza party, she turned them down. [caption id="attachment_314914" align="alignnone" width="500"] Phyllis Allen in front of a compressor station near her home. The first major city in…