Tag: shale gas
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EU Climate Chief Adds Voice to Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
Connie Hedegaard has urged the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank to take a lead role in eliminating public finance support for fossil fuels …
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Fracking Industry’s Faulty Claims Cast Doubt on Shale Investments
The way that oil and gas companies describe their prospects in their financial statements matters because investors—and not just the uber-wealthy ones but also pension funds, university endowments, average folks with retirement savings …
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Fracking Independence Day
The fracking rush in the heartland may have been unleashed by ill-conceived regulatory measures last month, but frontline organizations and citizen groups in southern Illinois are not throwing in the towel …
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UK Earmarked for Fracking, Massive Public Backlash On Horizon
According to Greenpeace research almost two thirds of England has been earmarked for potential fracking, and local opposition, particularly in Conservative constituencies, is expected to be fierce …
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Pennsylvanians Demand Clean Water and Moratorium on Fracking
Clean water activists and representatives gathered in the Capitol Wednesday to call on Gov. Corbett to speak publicly on the extent of water contamination from fracking for natural gas …