Scientists: Fracking Linked to Groundwater Contamination
EcoWatch
June 9, 2014
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Last week a Texas TV station broke the news that new independent scientific analysis refutes the claim by the oil and gas industry that “there’s never been a confirmed case of fracking polluting drinking water.”
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Jewelry gets eco-friendly
Poughkeepsie Journal | Karen Shan
June 8, 2014
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David Walton buys goods made in America. He bicycles to destinations when possible and eats a vegetarian diet.
Plus, Walton, a designer and crafter of fine jewelry and owner/goldsmith of Hudson Valley Goldsmith in New Paltz, uses recycled precious metals, reclaimed stones and conflict-free gems in the design and fabrication of his bracelets, necklaces and rings.
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Scientists: Fracking Polluted Texas Family’s Drinking Water
June 6, 2014
Last night a Texas TV station broke the news that new independent analysis refutes the oft-repeated claim by the oil and gas industry that “there’s never been a confirmed case of fracking polluting drinking water”.
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Cracks in the Frack Wall
Ft. Worth Weekly | Sharon Wilson and Cathy McMullen
May 28, 2014
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If it’s a blessing to live in interesting times, those of us affected by the fracking debate — that is, all Texans — are well and truly blessed right about now.
Within the past month, North Texas has seen:
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California Oil Deposit Is Far Smaller Than Predicted
Wall Street Journal | Russel Gold
May 21, 2014
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The U.S. government slashed its estimate of how much crude oil could be extracted from California's Monterey Shale, confirming widespread industry suspicion that developing the massive resource would be difficult.
The Energy Information Administration said there are 600 million barrels of technically recoverable oil, down 96% from its estimate a year ago of 13.7 billion barrels.
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Illegal Dumping of Texas Frack Waste Caught on Video
InsideClimate News | David Hasemyer
May 19, 2014
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Under the cover of early-morning darkness in South Texas last March, a tanker truck ferrying fluids from an oil and gas drilling site rumbled down a country road spewing its toxic load all over the place.
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PA. Dems Fight to Prove they can Milk Fracking for all it’s Worth
AlJazeera America | Peter Moskowitz
May 16, 2014
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Lycoming County looks like a lot of the rest of Pennsylvania: Pothole-marked roads snake through mountains and farmland, leading to little one-street towns that often contain little more than a coffee shop, a bank, a gas station and a bar.
But ever since companies like Anadarko, EXCO Resources, XTO Energy and Range Resources came to town, everyday life has had a little more buzz around here.
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Texas Mayor Appeals for Fracking Data after Earthquakes Jolt Town
AlJazeera America | Renee Lewis
May 13, 2014
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The state agency responsible for regulating the oil and gas industry in Texas has requested that fracking companies report data related to wastewater disposal wells daily — instead of yearly — after hundreds of earthquakes hit an area with no history of seismic activity, said the mayor of a small Texas town on Tuesday.
At least 300 small earthquakes have hit North Texas — home to the heavily drilled Barnett Shale region — since January, according to United States Geological Survey (USGS) data. Critics say the state has acted too slowly in investigating the unusual seismic activity and its possible links to fracking activities.
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As Denton Voters Come Out Against Fracking, City Council Passes Surprise Temporary Fracking Ban
Dallas Observer | Amy Silverstein
May 9, 2014
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After the Denton City Council had its butt handed to it in court by oil company EagleRidge last Fall, Denton civic leaders decided to pretty much stop fighting EagleRidge altogether and let it drill close to a few residential neighborhoods. Residents complained, but the city said it had no choice, blaming it on the state law and its bias toward oil companies.
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Fracking ban ballot initiative submitted to Denton City Council
Earthworks
May 7, 2014
Ban garners almost as many signatures as voted in last election
EagleRidge response to evidence of their pollution exemplifies need for a ban
Denton, Texas, May 7 -- Today the Denton Drilling Awareness Group submitted for certification to the City Council 1,871 signatures in support of a fracking ban within Denton city limits. 2,200 people voted in the last municipal election.
“These signatures represent Denton citizens of every political stripe coming together to protect their homes and families from the fracking industry,” said Denton Drilling Awareness Group president Cathy McMullen. She continued, “I worked with the City for years to improve fracking oversight, to no avail. It’s clear this industry will do whatever it can get away with, and the City is paralyzed by the fear of the political consequences of reining it in. A fracking ban is our last and only option.”
Upon receipt of the petition, the City Secretary has twenty days to validate the signatures. Then the City Council must call a public hearing and within sixty days vote on the petition. If approved, it becomes law. If rejected, Denton registered voters consider it as a ballot initiative – likely during the November general election.
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Peru’s Conga Mine Conflict: Cajamarca Won’t Capitulate
Upsidedown World | Lynda Sullivan
May 1, 2014
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The fight over the Conga mining project is one of Peru’s largest current social conflicts. Today, the local population continues resisting the imposition of one of Latin America`s largest gold mining projects – Minas Conga. The situation remains tense, and the resistance continues, but with an intensified sense of urgency because as the battles are won and lost, many feel that the conflict is nearing its conclusion.
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Are lab-grown gems the key to a sustainable diamond trade?
The Guardian | Leigh Stringer
April 29, 2014
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Long a staple of the industrial diamond industry, laboratory-created diamonds only represent about 2% of the jewelry market. Increasingly, however, they are becoming a force to be reckoned with: some producers have achieved "type IIa" quality, the purest form produced in nature. Only 2% of the global production of mined diamonds qualify for this rating.
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New legislation would undo state laws on fracking toxics
Earthworks and Environment America
April 28, 2014
Washington, D.C., Apr 28 -- The current draft of the Chemicals in Commerce Act (CICA), made public today, would add another special oil and gas industry loophole to federal environmental law. CICA, legislation that aims to “reform” the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), would block states and localities from requiring the oil and gas industry to reveal the toxics they inject through the water table during hydraulic fracturing. The legislation would also prohibit states or localities from regulating or banning toxic chemicals used in the drilling and fracking process, such as benzene and diesel fuel.
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Texas: When fracking comes to town
AlJazeera America | Alex Halperin
April 27, 2014
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Barnett Shale Fracking Victims Win First Round in Court Battle With Gas Industry
DeSmogBlog | Julie Dermansky
April 27, 2014
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Legal tremors are reverberating in the Barnett Shale region in Texas after yesterday's $2.925 million dollar verdict in favor of the plaintiffs Bob and Lisa Parr, who sued Aruba Petroleum for damages to their health and the devaluation of their home in afracking nuisance case.
Earthworks energy program director Bruce Baizel stated in a press release that the jury’s decision is important for two reasons:
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Time To Update the 1872 Mining Law?
Jefferson Public Radio | Liam Moriarty
April 27, 2014
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The federal legislation that regulates mining for copper, zinc, gold and many other minerals was originally signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. In ways, the law reflects a 19th century view of natural resources: limitless and there for the taking.
Now, a legacy of pollution at tens of thousands of abandoned mines across the West is prompting an Oregon Congressmember to head a new effort to revise the General Mining Act of 1872.
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A golden opportunity
Corporate Knights | Stephanie Boyd
April 27, 2014
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Raul Chavez has spent nearly 30 years toiling for gold in the parched rocky hills of Peru’s southern desert highlands. He is small, muscular and deeply bronzed from years of tough physical labour under the hot sun, but he laughs and jokes about the hardships of his early years as a miner.
In the 1980s, thousands of indigenous peasants like Chavez were forced to leave their homes and farms because of Peru’s civil war, coupled with an agricultural crisis and job shortages. Some of these internal refugees set up shop in abandoned mines, or areas where gold had already been discovered. Their equipment was rudimentary and conditions were precarious.
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Fracking: In apparent first, family gets courtroom victory in health case
Christian Science Monitor | Gloria Goodale
April 24, 2014
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In what is being hailed as a landmark victory for opponents of hydraulic fracturing, a Texas family has won a $2.95 million verdict against a Plano oil and gas firm.
Robert and Lisa Parr and their daughter claimed that airborne toxins from the 22 wells run by Aruba Petroleum near their 40-acre Decatur ranch affected their health and poisoned their livestock and drinking water. The process that the firm used, also known as fracking, involves water and chemicals being injected deep underground to release natural gas trapped in rock formations.
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Plano company loses $3 million verdict in Wise County fracking case
Dallas Morning News | James Osborne
April 23, 2014
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A Wise County couple has been awarded $3 million by a Dallas jury in their suit against a Plano gas drilling company.
Bob and Lisa Parr sued Aruba Petroleum of Plano in 2011, claiming spills and emissions from the company’s hydraulic fracturing operations had contaminated their 40-acre ranch in Decatur. They argued the pollution made them sick, as well as their pets and livestock. At times they were forced to evacuate the property, they said.
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$3 Million Fracking Damages Jury Award Shows Why Industry Avoids Trials
April 23, 2014
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Political Battle Lines Blurred By Fracking, Keystone Debates
AP | Nicholas Riccardi
April 19, 2014
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DENVER (AP) — The U.S. energy boom is blurring the traditional political battle lines across the country.
Democrats are split between environmentalists and business and labor groups, with the proposed Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline a major wedge.
Some deeply conservative areas are allying with conservationists against fracking, the drilling technique that's largely responsible for the boom.
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Smith River depends on our vigilance
Great Falls Tribune | Gloria Flora and Steve Gilbert
April 17, 2014
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First the Blackfoot and now the Smith?
You’d think after the tens of millions we have had to spend cleaning up after mining companies that they’d stop targeting our finest rivers with their experiments.
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EPA methane research welcome, but no substitute for renewables
Earthworks
April 15, 2014
While we encourage the EPA to do everything within its power to stop methane emissions from oil and gas production, that is no substitute for dropping dirty fossil fuels replacing them with truly clean alternatives like conservation and renewable energy.
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Following EPA Action, Rio Tinto Exits Alaska Pebble Mine Project
Circle of Blue | Codi Kozacek
April 11, 2014
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Six weeks after the Obama administration said it would act to protect one of North America’s last wild salmon fisheries in Bristol Bay, Alaska, one of the world’s largest mining companiesannounced on Monday that it is withdrawing from the Pebble copper mine development project there. The company, Rio Tinto, also said it was gifting its shares in the project to two Alaska public interest foundations.
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Copper mine project backer drops plans for tunnel
Businessweek | Matt Volz
April 7, 2014
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A mining company dropped plans to dig a mile-long tunnel for a copper development project near the Smith River after two environmental organizations filed a lawsuit challenging the proposal, state environmental regulators said Monday.
Tintina Alaska Corp. sent the state Department of Environmental Quality a letter withdrawing its request to amend an exploration license to build the tunnel at the Big Butte Copper Project in central Montana, DEQ spokesman Chris Saeger said.
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Rio Tinto pulls out of polemic mine project
Cordova Times | Margaret Bauman
April 7, 2014
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Global mining giant Rio Tinto is bailing out of the controversial Pebble mine project in Southwest Alaska, and donating its 19.1 percent share in the project to two Alaska charities that support educational programs.
The international mining group said April 7 that a strategic review of Rio Tinto's interest in Northern Dynasty, the Canadian mining firm behind the Pebble project, concluded that the Pebble project does not fit with Rio Tinto's strategy.
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Rio Tinto pulls out of controversial Alaska mine
Salt Lake Tribune | Mike Gorrell
April 7, 2014
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Kennecott’s parent company, Rio Tinto, is pulling out of a proposed copper mine in southwest Alaska that sparked strong opposition because of the environmental harm it could cause in salmon-rich Bristol Bay.
The London-based multinational company announced Monday it will donate its majority interest in the Pebble Project — a 19.1 percent shareholding — to two charitable organizations in Alaska.
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Earthworks applauds Rio Tinto's withdrawal from Pebble Mine proposal in Alaska's Bristol Bay
Earthworks
April 7, 2014
Earthworks applauds Rio Tinto’s decision to withdraw from the Pebble Mine proposal that threatens Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon fishery.
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In another blow to Pebble Mine, Rio Tinto pulls out
Washington Post | Juliet Eilperin
April 7, 2014
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The global mining firm Rio Tinto announced Monday that it will divest its 19 percent stake in the controversialPebble Mine project in Alaska, donating its shares to two state charities.
The decision is the latest blow to the proposed gold, copper and molybdenum mine, which is under federal scrutiny for how it could affect the nearby Bristol Bay watershed, which supports nearly half the world’s sockeye salmon. In late February the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would invoke its authority under the Clean Water Act and consider blocking the mine, effectively halting the project.
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Residents Concerned About ‘Fracking in Our Backyard’
Connection Newspapers | Janelle Germanos
April 3, 2014
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At a town hall meeting in Burke, area residents, along with members of the Great Falls chapter of the Sierra Club, learned about fracking that could take place nearby in the George Washington National Forest.
Dustin Horwitt, a senior analyst at Earthworks, showed the audience the proposal for drilling in the George Washington National Forest, which has led to a number of environmental concerns.
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Congress Calls on EPA to Help Fracking-Affected Communities
Earthworks et. al.
April 1, 2014
Washington D.C., Apr 1 - For the first time, members of Congress today called upon EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to “investigate and address the water contamination” in Dimock, Pennsylvania; Parker County, Texas; and Pavillion, Wyoming. In all three communities, EPA has previously withdrawn investigations into water contamination and stopped providing affected residents with clean drinking water. Eight Representatives, led by Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-17), made the request in a letter to Administrator McCarthy.
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Obama’s Methane Emissions Plan Puts Oil, Coal and Gas Industries on Notice
EcoWatch | Brandon Baker
March 28, 2014
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Methane emissions have decreased by 11 percent in the past 24 years, but they could pick back up by 2030 if actions aren’t taken to combat them. That’s why the powerful greenhouse gas is the center of a newly announced strategy by the White House.
Released Friday as a new layer to President Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the methane emissions strategy aims to bring economic and health benefits to the country while fighting climate change by removing a gas from the atmosphere that, by the ton, has about 20 times the global warming effect of carbon dioxide.
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Statement of Lauren Pagel Earthworks Policy Director On the Obama Administration’s Methane Strategy
Earthworks
March 28, 2014
"We applaud the White House for taking a first step to curb methane emissions, a climate pollutant that is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
The administration must follow Colorado’s lead and require the Environmental Protection Agency to directly regulate methane pollution from hydraulic fracturing and related drilling. The consequences, both globally and locally, are too dire to allow for self regulation.
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Colorado’s Tough New Drilling Rules Make an Impact in Texas
Inside Climate News | Zahra Hirji, Lisa Song and Jim Morris
March 20, 2014
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DEQ, Tintina sued over exploration permit
Independent Record | Tom Kuglin
March 18, 2014
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Environmental groups filed suit in a Meagher County district court Monday challenging mining exploration near the headwaters of the Smith River.
The Montana Environmental Information Center and Earthworks, represented by Earthjustice, filed the complaint against the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and Tintina Alaska Exploration Inc. based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. The complaint alleges that DEQ failed to conduct an adequate environmental analysis of the Black Butte Copper Project near Sheep Creek, a tributary of the Smith.
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Conservation Groups File Suit to Protect Montana’s Smith River
Earthworks, Montana Environmental Information Center and Earthjustice
March 17, 2014
HELENA – Proposed mining exploration activities at the headwaters of Montana’s famed Smith River threaten to degrade water and further strain already low stream flows, according to a formal legal complaint filed in Montana District Court.
Conservation advocates, supported by Smith River outfitters, filed the formal complaint on Friday, March 14th against the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Tintina Alaska Exploration, Inc., alleging that DEQ failed to conduct an adequate analysis of the many environmental impacts associated with the Black Butte Copper Project, a copper exploration mine proposed by a subsidiary of Canada-based Tintina Resources, Inc.
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Wastewater Injection By Energy Companies Increases Risk Of California Earthquakes: Report
Huffington Post | Hunter Stuart
March 15, 2014
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Many of California's oil industry wastewater injection wells are near recently active fault lines, posing a risk of earthquakes that could damage crucial infrastructure in the state, according to a report by three environmental groups.
The report, released on Thursday, maps the proximity of California's active wastewater disposal wells to the state's fault lines and heavily populated areas, such as Los Angeles, Kern and Ventura counties.
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Fracking ban exceeds signature requirement to get on november ballot
Denton Drilling Awareness Group and Earthworks
March 14, 2014
Denton, TX (Mar 14) – Frack Free Denton today announced they have gathered substantially more than the required signatures to put their fracking ban initiative on the November ballot. Denton City charter requires signatures equal to 25% of votes cast in the most recent general election for an initiative to get on the ballot.
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Will frackers cause California’s next big earthquake?
Grist | John Upton
March 14, 2014
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The Ring of Fire, an earthquake-prone area around the edges of the Pacific Ocean, might not be the best spot for earth-rumbling fracking practices. But fracking is exploding in the ringside state of California, raising fears that the industry could trigger the next “big one.”
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California Shakin’: ‘We’ve Got a Lot of Earthquakes Ahead of Us’
KQED | Craig Miller
March 14, 2014
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This is not exactly a news flash for long-time Californians. But scientists are starting to put more numbers on the inevitability that we all live with.
David Schwartz, U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, told listeners to KQED’s Forum program that there’s a 63 percent chance of a major quake on the San Andreas Fault sometime in the next 22 years.
Apparently that’s not enough to worry about, so Schwartz was joined on the program by John Dvorak, author of “Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault.”
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Fracking Boom Would Increase California’s Earthquake Danger, Report Finds
March 13, 2014
Hundreds of Oil Wastewater Wells Near Active Faults and Major Cities Already Raising Quake Risk for Millions of Californians
SAN FRANCISCO— Oil companies are increasing California’s earthquake risk by injecting billions of gallons of oil and gas wastewater a year into hundreds of disposal wells near active faults around Los Angeles, Bakersfield and other major cities, according to a new report from Earthworks, the Center for Biological Diversity and Clean Water Action.
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Pandora’s Box - March 11th, 2014
KSJE | Lyn Patrick
March 11, 2014
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Oil and gas development within the shale deposits in Montezuma and La Plata counties could employ the practice of hydraulic fracturing, the controversial drilling practice that has been linked to environmental issues in other parts of the U.S. Host Lyn Patrick talks with Pete Dronkers from Earthworks, a national and local environmental nonprofit that is working on issues related to the potential hazards of fracking in southwest Colorado.
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Shaken and stirred: How Azle in Texas decided enough was enough with fracking
The Independent | Erica Grieder
March 9, 2014
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Drilling for Certainty: The Latest in Fracking Health Studies
ProPublica | Naveena Sadasivam
March 5, 2014
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For years, environmentalists and the gas drilling industry have been in a pitched battle over the possible health implications of hydro fracking. But to a great extent, the debate — as well as the emerging lawsuits and the various proposed regulations in numerous states — has been hampered by a shortage of science.
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Washington, D.C. City Council opposes fracking in George Washington National Forest
Earthworks
March 5, 2014
Council resolution passes due to concerns controversial practice threatens DC water supply
Washington, D.C. -- The DC City Council yesterday passed a resolution opposing hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling for natural gas in the George Washington National Forest due to concerns that such development might contaminate drinking water supplies. The 1.1 million-acre forest, located in Virginia and West Virginia, contains headwaters of the Potomac River, the sole source of drinking water for the nation’s capital.
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Proposed EU law will not keep conflict resources out of Europe, campaigners warn
Earthworks, Global Witness, et al
March 5, 2014
A law proposed by the European Commission on responsible sourcing of minerals is not strong enough to prevent European companies’ mineral purchases from financing conflict or human rights abuses, and falls far short of expectations, campaigners said today.
Instead of putting forward robust legislation that would require a wide range of EU-based companies to do checks on their supply chains – known as due diligence – the Commission today announced voluntary measures that will only apply to companies importing processed and unprocessed minerals into the European market. The proposal covers companies involved in the tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold sectors. The campaigners warned that the Commission’s proposal – an opt-in self-certification scheme available to a limited number of companies – is likely to have minimal impact on the way that the majority of European companies source natural resources.
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Feds, miners, Alaska natives: What they’re saying about Pebble Mine
LA Times | Maria L. La Ganga
March 2, 2014
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SEATTLE -- Now that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has begun the yearlong process that could lead to halting construction on the controversial Pebble Mine, stakeholders in Alaska’s bountiful Bristol Bay are weighing in.
There is celebration over what could be possible protection for the world’s most productive sockeye salmon fishery. There is wariness about a process that could impede progress on the largest open pit mine in North America.
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EPA Acts to Protect World’s Largest Wild Salmon Fishery from Pebble Mine
Earthworks
February 28, 2014
Dillingham, AK & Washington, D.C.: Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it is invoking its Clean Water Act authority to assess permanently prohibiting or restricting mine waste disposal into Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. This decision puts on hold attempts to build the Pebble Mine, which would be North America’s largest open pit gold-copper mine.
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PEBBLE MINE Action initiated to protect Bristol Bay watershed
Cordova Times | Margaret Bauman
February 28, 2014
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Federal environmental officials on Feb. 28 initiated action under the Clean Water Act to identify appropriate options to protect the Bristol Bay salmon fishery in Southwest Alaska, a move that could potentially halt the Pebble mine.
The announcement came from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, who said that extensive scientific study "has given us ample reason to believe that the Pebble mine would likely have significant and irreversible negative impacts on the Bristol Bay watershed and its abundant salmon fisheries."
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Earthquakes Rattle Texas Towns in the Barnett Shale
DeSmogBlog | Julie Dermansky
February 23, 2014
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Daniel Hogan thought he heard a sonic boom when a magnitude 3.6 earthquake hit Azle, Texas, last November. His home sustained damage — broken windows, cracked walls, damaged plumbing and foundation — but he did not have earthquake insurance to cover the repairs. He never imagined he'd need such protection in Texas.
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