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Fracking Can Strain US Water Supplies
Center For American Progress
As the level of hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in the United States has intensified in recent years, much of the mounting public concern has centered on fears that underground water supplies could be contaminated with the toxic chemicals ...
Group kicks off campaign to get fracking ban on Broomfield ballotBroomfield Enterprise
Oil Experts: Increase in US Oil Production Due to FrackingWSIL TV
Oakland Social: An anti-fracking movement for the massesOakland Local
Austin Business Journal (blog) -The Coloradoan -Agri News
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Renewable Energy Threatens the Fracking Boom
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- If you've perceived a hint of desperation in anti-renewable energy arguments lately, there's a reason. The Philadelphia Fed regularly surveys each state's economy and delivers a handy chart showing how it expects each state to ...

Marcellus Shale drillers to pay $202.47M in per-well impact fees for 2012
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The state will pay out slightly less in Marcellus Shale impact funds to counties and municipalities this year, tied to a mandated drop in per-well drilling fees. The state Public Utility Commission announced natural gas drillers would pay $202.5 ...
Energy Companies Look for Help When Fracking Operations Degrade RoadwaysForConstructionPros.com
Marcellus Shale Fee Revenue Having Positive Impact on Pennsylvania ...NorthcentralPa.com
Royalties up more than 1000% in top Marcellus counties, NGI's shale daily reportsFairfield Sun Times
Akron Beacon Journal (blog) -Business Wire (press release)
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City Bans "Fracking"
WTHI
Their main questions have been regarding the drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” Back in April, Adler energy presented their plan for drilling in the Terre town area. However, when asked about what precautions they would have ...

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Missouri lawyer brings nuisance-suit strategy to Pennsylvania fracking case
Allentown Morning Call
Advances in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and horizontal drilling have spurred rapid development in states such as Pennsylvania. With that have come complaints that drilling has spoiled water and air, damaged roads, and altered the rural character ...

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Officials Close Door On More Fracking On State Land
NewsChannel5.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn -- State officials closed the door Thursday on widespread drilling for natural gas -- also known as fracking -- on state-owned land, at least for now. But NewsChannel 5 Investigates discovered the state is not ruling out other kinds of ...

Colorado city wants more than just a ban on fracking
Grist
Residents of Lafayette, Colo., which has a population of 25,000, are collecting signatures in an effort to place a charter amendment on an upcoming ballot that would ban all new oil and gas extraction and establish a far-reaching community bill of rights.
Lafayette activists petition for fracking banBoulder Weekly

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Conoco given go-ahead for fracking exploration in northern Canada
Alaska Dispatch
... assessment that doesn't mean environmental assessments are off the table. He said each project is judged on its own merits so future exploration projects and development involving fracking could have to go through the environmental assessment process.

Philadelphia's share of 2012 Marcellus Shale impact fees: $1.3M
Philly.com
Philadelphia will receive nearly $1.3 million of the $202.5 million collected last year from the Marcellus Shale impact fee. Disbursements to counties and municipalities are based on a combination of population and well-drilling activity. The fees were ...
Lehigh, Northampton counties receive $545000 in Marcellus Shale feesAllentown Morning Call
State calcualtes Act 13 Impact Fee paymentsUniontown Herald Standard
State collects more than $400 million in impact fees over two yearsTimesonline.com
NGI's Shale Daily (subscription)
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Independent Voter Network
Single fracking bill remains before California Legislature
Sacramento Bee
The drive to regulate the contentious extraction process called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," has narrowed in focus: lawmakers have winnowed the file of fracking-related bills to a single piece of legislation. Senate Bill 4 by Sen. Fran Pavley ...
California Fracking Bill Could Bring Accountability to Oil CompaniesIndependent Voter Network
City Council backs bill on frackingMoorpark Acorn
California Senate Adopts Critical Fracking RulesTopanga Messenger
Capital Public Radio News
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Chevron CEO admits fracking raises "legitimate" safety concerns
Grist
Energy producers must deal with the “legitimate concerns” that gas development associated with hydraulic fracturing is unsafe by adopting tougher standards, Chevron Corp. Chief Executive Officer John Watson said. … “Public expectations are very high ...

Web Essay: No to fracking, yes to renewable energy
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
23, 2012 file photo, Gillie Waddington of Enfield, N.Y., raises a fist during rally against hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. President Barack Obama the f- word during his recent State of the ...
Fracking's Costs Are Too High... Why I Am Taking A Stand Up In AlbanyShawangunk Journal
Let's build a sustainable economyThe Riverdale Press (subscription)

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Christian Science Monitor
In Amish country, trading fracking rights for a pittance
Christian Science Monitor
I don't think it would come of a surprise to anyone if I were to state that fracking companies have been known to use underhand tactics to get access to shale formations, but an article written in New Republic, shows a new low for fracking companies.

Frackademia: University of Tennessee Set to Lease Forest For Fracking ...
Truth-Out
But UT-Knoxville has taken the game to a whole new level, leasing off land it owns so that it can study "best practices" for fracking in the Volunteer State. "It would create a rare, controlled environment in which experts could study the environmental ...

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Residents push Broomfield council to reconsider fracking moratorium
Broomfield Enterprise
Residents on Tuesday expressed disappointment that Broomfield likely will not seek a moratorium on fracking. Fracking was not on the agenda for Tuesday's City Council meeting, but members of the Don't Frack Broomfield group and other residents spoke ...
What is fracking fluid made of?Westword

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Rockland Legislature Bans Radioactive Fracking Waste
NyackNewsAndViews
“While New York State is contemplating allowing high volume hydraulic fracturing, it already has existing gas drilling operations with some 6500 low volume vertical hydraulic wells. The drilling process has the same hazardous contents as does the high ...

Tax-free fracking on campus question makes a point
Albany Times Union
Albany. Could Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to let new businesses enjoy a 10-year tax holiday if they locate on State University land mean that someone could start fracking tax free for natural gas on a campus? One of the opponents of the proposed ...

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Lafayette anti - fracking effort draws canvassers
The Daily Camera
Dubbed the Lafayette Community Rights Act, the measure would go much further than simply banning hydraulic fracturing, its authors said. "Primarily, it would establish a community bill of rights. The rights to clean air, clean water and self ...

Latest approach to fracking regulations fizzles [Poll]
Ventura County Star
The board of the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District split 4-4 over whether to direct managers to develop a rule on the practice formally called hydraulic fracturing. For proponents, the rule was attractive because it could have required ...

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Smithsonian (blog)
Fracking Russia: Country Rules On Shale Oil, If They Can Pull It Out Of The ...
Forbes
The U.S. is seeing a fossil fuel revival thanks to fracking technologies allowing for shale oil and gas recovery. But Russia is the kingpin when it comes to shale oil, if they can develop the technologies required to pull it out of the ground that is ...
Where in the World Will the Fracking Boom Visit Next?Smithsonian (blog)
Commentary: Fracking energy mess — Deconstructing the green agendaFuelFix
UK's shale could fuel the country for up to a decade but fracking got off to ...Daily Mail
The Australian -H&V News -Legalbrief (subscription)
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