Tag: fracking
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Celebrities Ask ‘What the Frack?’
Today, celebrities and environmental advocates—including Malin Akerman, Lance Bass, Julie Bowen, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Darren Criss, Daryl Hannah, Hayden Panettiere, Amy Smart, Marisa Tomei, Wilmer Valderrama, Constance Zimmer and others—are featured in a series of new videos, which aim to educate Americans about the dangers that fracking poses to the nation, and to put pressure on…
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Anti-Fracking Groups Call on NC Governor to Protect Homeowners’ Property Rights
Today the No Toxic Trespass—No Fracking Way tour rolled into Sanford, NC. At a press conference at the Lee County Courthouse, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League called upon Gov. McCrory (R-NC) to defend the state’s rural and suburban communities from the fracking industry’s seizure of landowners’ rights. [caption id="attachment_312575" align="alignnone" width="500"] Homeowners face forced pooling, split estates…
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Fracking Boom Creates Mortgage Headaches for Banks
The natural gas extraction method of fracking has many critics—mostly among environmentalists. But banks in the Eastern U.S. have recently sprung up as opponents too. Banks that lent mortgages to homeowners that then sell their property rights to energy companies find themselves in a tricky situation. In the video below, the editors of American Banker discuss how some banks are…
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Does Homeland Security Think Fracktivists are Terrorists?
According to comments made by Mark Grawe, chief operating officer at EagleRidge Energy, Denton, TX residents who object to his company’s reckless operations way too close to their homes, schools and parks are terrorists worthy of inclusion on the Department of Homeland Security’s watch list. Wednesday night Grawe attended a home owners association meeting in Mansfield, TX where EagleRidge has…
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Analysis Finds Offshore Fracking Industry Pumping Toxic Wastewater Into Coastal Waters
Citing the use of hazardous hydraulic fracturing chemicals and the release of oil industry wastewater off California’s coast, the Center for Biological Diversity yesterday called on the Coastal Commission to halt fracking for oil and gas in state waters and press for tighter regulation of fracking in federal waters. [caption id="attachment_312278" align="alignnone" width="500"] Approximately half…