{"id":18775,"date":"2013-11-15T21:36:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=312283"},"modified":"2013-11-15T21:36:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T21:36:47","slug":"fracking-boom-creates-mortgage-headaches-for-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/fracking-boom-creates-mortgage-headaches-for-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracking Boom Creates Mortgage Headaches for Banks"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/frackingstorm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"frackingstorm\"><\/p>\n<p>The natural gas extraction method of <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">fracking<\/a> has many critics&mdash;mostly among environmentalists. But banks in the Eastern U.S. have recently sprung up as opponents too.<\/p>\n<p>Banks that lent mortgages&nbsp;to homeowners that then sell their property rights to energy companies&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/issues\/178_218\/fracking-boom-may-cause-mortgage-headaches-for-banks-1063561-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">find themselves in a tricky situation<\/a>. In the video below, the editors of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Banker<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>discuss&nbsp;how some banks are dealing with these issues.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">FRACKING<\/a>&nbsp;page for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-312170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner1\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/topnewsbanner11.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[2644,2906],"class_list":["post-18775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-fracking","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}