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Fracking Company Sues Man For Lighting His Water On Fire
Steve Lipsky’s tainted water well had already stirred national debate about the impacts of oil and gas production. Now it stars in a free speech dispute that has landed in Texas’ highest court –
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North Carolina law would make discussing fracking chemicals illegal
North Carolina legislators are considering a bill that would make it a crime to publicly disclose toxic chemicals that energy companies use in the hydraulic fracturing process, with offenders on the hook for fines
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5 Videos Showing How Fracking Can Make Water Flammable
Public awareness of the risks and dangers of hydraulic gas-fracturing, or Fracking, is growing daily, but not nearly as fast as the practice itself is. Across the world, fracking is creating a massive new
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Fracking Waste is Being Dumped Into the Ocean Off California’s Coast
ReWire has reported previously on a form of oil well enhancement in California that doesn't get much attention from the press, namely, offshore fracking. At least 12 rigs off the coast of California inject
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1000 Health Professionals in Open Letter to Obama Calling for Ban on Fracking
There is a PR war going on. The energy and shale gas industry has been going all out to paint their process of Fracking (hydraulic fracturing and gas extraction) as completely safe and non-threatening
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Nobody Knows How Much Fracking is Happening Off California’s Coast
The modern environmental movement was born when a drilling platform blew out and some 100,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Santa Barbara Channel in 1969, polluting California’s famous coastline. Yet as the race
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Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist
Over the last year, a mass of shocking evidence has emerged on the close ties between Western government spy agencies and giant energy companies, and their mutual interests in criminalising anti-fracking activists
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Emails reveal UK helped shale gas industry manage fracking opposition
Government officials accused of cheerleading for fracking by sharing 'lines to take' and meeting for post-dinner drinks Shale gas executives and government officials collaborated in private to manage the British public's hostility to fracking, emails
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Frack Attack on Lethbridge Alberta Canada
Governments in the so-called developed world have become almost completely subordinate to the agendas of parasiticalStop+Fracking+448X corporations that regularly undermine public health with the deregulated spewing of huge arrays of toxins into our air,
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US House approves $5,000 fee for official drilling protests, less federal authority over fracking
The US House passed Wednesday two bills that would demand a $5,000 filing fee for any individual that wanted to hold an official protest of a drilling project, and that would give the feds
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