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Mining sand for fracking is turning Wisconsin farmland owners against each other
Several months ago I posted Let’s get the truth about fracking, and if you haven't watched Gasland yet, please do that asap. Fracking is causing even more problems these days, this time in Wisconsin,...
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Fracking could lead to demand for more potentially explosive ammonia factories
So much madness, so little time. The last safety “inspection of the West fertilizer plant happened in– 1985.” Because, you know, fertilizer components aren't flammable and dangerous and don't require...
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VIDEO: What the frack? Pennsylvania "butt-naked worker greets" citizen journo
Yesterday I posted: VIDEO- #Keystone tar sands pipeline’s toxicity gets personal: “One of them just stood and urinated facing my house.” Lovely. In that post I included some reporting by Public...
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Cartoonaroony-- A toast: "To fracking!"
Clay Bennett is one of my all-time favorite editorial cartoonists. He says so much with so few, if any, words, and his drawing style is fantastic. I say this as a cartoonist myself, a discerning one...
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Fracking linked to methane risk: "When methane concentrations are that high,...
Via Clay Bennett Regular readers know that fracking (which is when water mixed with sand and chemicals is injected deep underground at high pressure to shatter rock formations to unlock oil and gas...
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Here we go again: Natural gas spews "uncontrolled" into Gulf after blowout
"Rupture caused by failed attempt to expand well..." Here we go again. Luckily, there were no injuries... if you don't count how lives (plant, animal, human) are affected by environmental disasters...
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"Natural gas fire continues to burn after well blowout." But, hey, no...
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Yesterday I posted Here we go again: Natural gas spews “uncontrolled” into Gulf after blowout. I am grateful to Rachel...
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EPA report: Methane, arsenic from fracking are contaminating wells in Pa.
This was my most recent post on hydraulic fracturing: Fracking linked to methane risk: “When methane concentrations are that high, water can bubble like champagne.” Regular readers know that fracking...
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We're "throwing water down oil wells to get money now.""It's time to get off...
One of my previous posts on hydraulic fracturing: Fracking linked to methane risk: “When methane concentrations are that high, water can bubble like champagne.” Regular readers know that fracking...
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Britain joins the anti-fracking club: "Welcome to the desolate North. Now...
Regular readers know that fracking (which is when water mixed with sand and chemicals is injected deep underground at high pressure to shatter rock formations to unlock oil and gas trapped inside) is...
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Frackers are guzzling water supplies in drought states the way John Boehner...
Yesterday I posted one of my eleventy thousand posts on frackers (which is when water mixed with sand and chemicals is injected deep underground at high pressure to shatter rock formations to unlock...
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Frack Water ad snarkage exposes motives behind Gov. Brown's fracking push
What the frack, Gov. Jerry Brown? First he's in a panic about the "evil weed", and now he supports the evil deed, as you can see in the following press release. Both issues affect my home state of...
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No, Rand Paul, "drilling in every possible conceivable place" is not the...
Rand Paul cutout at CPAC 2014 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) won the CPAC straw poll yesterday. That poll is as meaningless as Rand's plagiarism denials. Now he's compounding his consistently puzzling behavior...
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Frackers set sights on largest oil shale reservoir in US... near CA's San...
California is trying to solve a riddle: how to tap into the largest oil shale reservoir in the United States, one that covers 1,750 square miles, roughly from Bakersfield to Fresno. I'm trying to...
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Told ya so, frackers: Ohio geologists see link between fracking, sudden burst...
In a previous post, Frackers set sights on largest oil shale reservoir in US... near CA's San Andreas fault, I couldn't help but wonder how greedy Big Oil could ignore the terrorizing prospect of...
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One for the good guys! Family wins nearly $3 million in fracking case.
Finally, a victory for the good guys. That's the good news. The bad news is that the good guys got sick as hell from fracking and drilling done near their home. Climate change is one of the horrible...
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Hey Big Oil "pro-lifers": Fossil fuels may be killing babies!
Screen grab from "Fracking hurts Californians, Governor Brown" video below. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Melissa Harris-Perry took a disturbing look at a...
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Radioactive waste a toxic byproduct of fracking, drilling in N. Dakota
Back in May I wrote, Hey Big Oil "pro-lifers": Fossil fuels may be killing babies! Today's Los Angeles Times has an extensive report about how, in North Dakota, fracking may very well be producing...
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Quickie: Surprise! Fracking a risk to drinking water, per research
Today's Quickie: Via the Los Angeles Times, a study of fracking in Wyoming came up with this: Energy companies are fracking for oil and gas at far shallower depths than widely believed, sometimes...
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Watchdog: Energy companies use diesel in fracking without permits
What the frack? Via the Los Angeles Times, Diesel is used in fracking without permits, report says: Energy companies have used thousands of gallons of diesel to frack for oil and gas without obtaining...
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