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The Independent Weekly
"The bill is a giant step forward to all of us who demand environmental protection and certainty to the people willing to spend tens of millions of dollars in the hydraulic fracturing process," Skvarla said. Not so, according to environmental opponents ...

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San Francisco Chronicle
Interior pumps brakes on 'fracking' regs
The Hill (blog)
The proposed rules require energy companies to disclose chemicals that are used in hydraulic fracturing or fracking, a drilling method that has resulted in a U.S. oil and gas production boom but has also raised fears of water and air pollution. The ...
Interior Department Fracking Rule: Comment Period Extended For 60 DaysHuffington Post
DOI Extends Fracking Rule Feedback By 60 DaysLaw360 (subscription)
US Interior extends comment period on federal fracking rule by 60 daysPlatts
U.S. News & World Report -Upstream Online
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PennEnergy
French Fracking Ban Should Be Eased to Assess Shale Reserves
Bloomberg
French Fracking Ban Should Be Eased to Assess Shale Reserves. By Tara Patel - 2013-06-06T09:42:23Z. France's ban on hydraulic fracturing should be eased to estimate the size of its shale oil and gas reserves, according to a parliamentary report. Dozens ...
UK Minister Says Spurring Shale Gas Exploration Is ResponsibleBusinessweek
Gasland South Australia gets ready to fireThe Flinders News
Keep shale gas protests peaceful, energy minister urgesCBC.ca

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Drillers Silence Fracking Claims With Sealed Settlements
Bloomberg
In cases from Wyoming to Arkansas, Pennsylvania to Texas, drillers have agreed to cash settlements or property buyouts with people who say hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, ruined their water, according to a review by Bloomberg News of ...

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Boulder Approves One-Year Fracking Moratorium
Huffington Post
Hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- involves pumping pressurized water, chemicals and sand down well bores to crack rocks and let loose petroleum and natural gas for easier extraction. Roughly 40 people spoke during the public comment period, and ...

New research suggests that fracking is not a significant cause of earthquakes ...
Chickasha Express Star
In recent years, hydraulic fracturing has become a significant means of recovering oil and gas that is too tightly bound into rock formations to be recovered by normal drilling. Fracking, as it is called, utilises a mixture of water, sand and chemicals ...

abc11.com
NC House panel OKs more cautious 'fracking' bill
abc11.com
Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as "fracking," involves injecting an underground well with chemicals, water and sand at high pressure in order to crack shale rock and release natural gas. Studies show the greatest potential for fracking in North ...
NC House releases more cautious 'fracking' billWCNC
Today @NCCapitol (June 5): Wake County school district redraw bill is on ...WRAL.com

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Watchdog group says 'fracking' operation in Kalkaska County is forced to buy ...
MLive.com
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is an operation in which large amounts of water, sand and chemicals are pumped into an oil or gas well in an attempt to “fracture” the underlying rock formations and improve the production of an oil or gas well.
A Fracking ShameNews24
Fracked Karoo Anyone?eNCA (blog)

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The Denver Channel
Fracking moratorium looks unlikely in Broomfield
Broomfield Enterprise
Council held a study session Tuesday night to discuss the feedback it received from a May 22 town hall meeting on hydraulic fracturing. More than 50 people spoke at the meeting in May, and the majority asked the council to place a moratorium on ...
Boulder County fracking foes seek formation of county advisory panelLongmont Daily Times-Call
Boulder considering fracking moratoriumDenver Business Journal
Boulder approves fracking moratoriumWRAL.com
The Denver Channel
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Ravenna Township fracking forum attended by more than 100 residents, protestors
MLive.com
The Michigan Oil and Gas Association, Michigan Environmental Council and Michigan DEQ's office of oil, gas and minerals answered questions during the two-hour forum. Fracking, also called hydraulic fracturing, is used by the energy industry to extract ...
Fracking Forum planned for June 12 in Van Buren CountyKalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com

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WBEZ
Environmental Groups Split on Illinois Fracking Bill
PR Watch
The Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation Act (SB1715), which passed the Senate on June 1 as one of the final votes of the session, reins in unrestricted fracking to create a legal framework to permit and regulate fracking in the state. The bill has divided ...
California's Anti-Fracking Ideologues Look A Gift Horse In The MouthForbes
California Democrats experience anti-fracking setbackDaily Caller
With bill passage, Illinois on a fast track to frackingWBEZ
CleanTechnica -Fox Business -Santa Fe New Mexican.com
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French Fracking Ban Endorsed on US Environmental Repercussions
Bloomberg
France's ban on hydraulic fracturing should not be eased because the oil and gas drilling technique is causing “considerable” environmental damage in the U.S., according to a government minister. “We have to have our eyes wide open about what is going ...

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Hauler illegally dumped fracking waste, state says
Columbus Dispatch
The waste fluids, which officials call brine, are the byproduct of fracking, in which water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to shatter shale and free trapped oil and gas. An oil-based mud is used during drilling as a lubricant and to send ...

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New York Daily News
Readers sound off on fracking, baseball and abortion
New York Daily News
Most, if not all, of the gas they use to prepare meals is extracted using hydraulic fracturing. If it carries with it the threats they suggest, why haven't they stopped using it? Brad Gill, executive director, Independent Oil & Gas Assoc. of N.Y.. Say ...

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The Denver Channel
Boulder approves one-year fracking moratorium
The Daily Camera
Hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- involves pumping pressurized water, chemicals and sand down well bores to crack rocks and let loose petroleum and natural gas for easier extraction. Roughly 40 people spoke during the public comment period, and ...
Fracking moratorium looks unlikely in BroomfieldBroomfield Enterprise
Boulder County fracking foes seek formation of county advisory panelLongmont Daily Times-Call
Boulder considering fracking moratoriumDenver Business Journal
WRAL.com -The Denver Channel -NGI's Shale Daily (subscription)
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Phys.Org
Germany shelves 'fracking' draft law for now
Phys.Org
Conservative deputies decided at a meeting that no draft legislation on the process, which is the subject of fierce debate in Germany, would be presented before September 22 general elections, participants said. Hydraulic fracturing or fracking, where ...
Germany drops fracking law until after September's electionReuters
Fracking evokes 'angst' in GermanyDeutsche Welle

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Britain looking to Colorado for fracking help
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a gas drilling process that blasts chemical-laden water deep into the ground. Supporters say the process is safe, while opponents say the technique pollutes groundwater. According to the Grand Junction ...

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Popular Science
The Energy Fix : How To Clean Up Fracking's Bad Rep
Popular Science
Hydraulic Fracturing 1. Drillers inject a fluid (almost always water) carrying sand and other additives into a well at high pressures. This fractures the rock and frees natural gas to flow back to the surface—along with some of the drilling fluid and ...

Fort Collins police investigate fracking petition
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The city of Longmont is being sued by the state for its strict regulation of drilling, while the oil and gas association is suing Longmont over its fracking ban. Hydraulic fracturing involves blasting a mix of water, chemicals and sand deep into the ...
Police probe Fort Collins fracking petitionDenver Post
Fort Collins police investigating fracking petitionDenver Business Journal (blog)

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Boulder considering fracking moratorium
Denver Business Journal
The Boulder City Council on Tuesday will decide whether to enact a year-long moratorium on granting permits for oil and gas drilling, the Daily Camera reports. The city also will be looking at an ordinance that would ban the use, sale or supply of city ...
Broomfield unlikely to pursue fracking moratoriumThe Daily Camera
Boulder, CO, City Council to Consider Drilling MoratoriumNGI's Shale Daily (subscription)

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