Tag: North Dakota
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Big Oil Rakes in Huge First Quarter Profits
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — The five biggest oil companies are making tens of billions of dollars in profits, while paying artificially low, ineffective federal tax rates and low royalties for taking and producing oil and gas owned by all Americans …
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Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania
TOMDISPATCH — Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology—in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches …
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VIDEO: A Boom With No Boundaries—How Oil and Gas Drilling is Damaging Our Public Lands
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — A Boom With No Boundaries explores how one of America’s 59 national parks is already being affected by the pollution, traffic and noise associated with oil and gas drilling. And this is only the beginning of the problems, as …
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A Must Read Account of Fracking Colorado
BE THE CHANGE — Surely, someone, maybe even the governor, should want to know how this staggering transfer of ownership, for that is effectively what an oil lease is, will impact the state’s land, water, wildlife and recreation base. This knowledge is particularly important …
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Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families
ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION — With hundreds of thousands of fracking wells and waste injection sites in the U.S., it’s likely that our food supply already contains water, plants and animals contaminated with fracking chemicals. While we hear a lot about …