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Shell Karoo fracking an eco example
News24
However, in April, Cabinet endorsed the department of mineral resources' moratorium on licences in the Karoo, saying more research was needed before hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – can go ahead. Fracturing, also known as fracking, involves pumping ...
Shale gas exploration needs academic involvementBusinessLIVE
Shell wants Karoo fracking to set paceFin24

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Colbert exterminates the 'frack-osaurus' Talisman Terry
The Washington Independent
In the case of the loveable frack-osaurus “Talisman Terry,” there's no question. It was Stephen Colbert. The satirical Comedy Central host of “The Colbert Report” took the 24-page coloring book character's adventure to its disturbing but hilarious ...
Energy company blunders with “fracking” bookMarketWatch
Natural Gas Co. Dumps 'Friendly Fracosaurus' Coloring Book After Widespread ...propane.pro

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Environmental Advocates' Top (bottom) Ten frack flaws
Albany Times Union (blog)
This means fracking waste could be sent to treatment facilities unable to properly treat it, putting the health and safety of our waters and communities at grave risk. The state proposes allowing sewage plants to treat drilling wastes, even though such ...

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Colbert Report makes Talisman Terry 'frack-osaurus' extinct
The Colorado Independent
In the case of the loveable frack-osaurus “Talisman Terry,” there's no question. It was Stephen Colbert. The satirical Comedy Central host of “The Colbert Report” took the 24-page coloring book character's adventure to its disturbing but hilarious ...
Energy company blunders with “fracking” bookMarketWatch
Natural Gas Co. Dumps 'Friendly Fracosaurus' Coloring Book After Widespread ...propane.pro

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Groups Flag Top 10 Flaws in NY's Revised Fracking Review
ReadMedia (press release)
Unless addressed in the state's final fracking review, these flaws jeopardize the health and safety of New York's waters and communities. The groups stressed that the document is still preliminary and subsequent versions may be adjusted. ...

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Shell wants Karoo fracking to set pace
Fin24
However, in April, the cabinet endorsed the department of mineral resources' moratorium on exploration licences in the Karoo, saying more research was needed before hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – can go ahead. Fracking involves pumping a high ...
Shale gas exploration needs academic involvementBusinessLIVE

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Shale gas exploration needs academic involvement
BusinessLIVE
After the exploration phase, we then make a decision on development," he said, adding that "no one is going to just go down to the Karoo, drill a hole and and frack it." "Fracking is part of the consideration going forward and part of exploration ...
Shell: Make Karoo fracking an 'ecological example'DailyNews.co.za (subscription)

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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - 07/19/11) - Arsenal Energy Inc. ("Arsenal") (TSX: AEI - News ) is pleased to release the flow test results of the Brenlee Bakken well at Stanley, North Dakota. The well has been completed and stimulated with an 11 stage frack. Over a 24 hour test period the well flowed at a rate of 1325 bbls/d of 42 API crude on a 1/2" choke with a flowing pressure of 690 psi ...

CALGARY, ALBERTA-- - Arsenal Energy Inc. is pleased to release the flow test results of the Brenlee Bakken well at Stanley, North Dakota. The well has been completed and stimulated with an 11 stage frack.

State Sen. Kris Jordan says 'fracking' has been used more than 60 years in Ohio
PolitiFact
During a recent debate in the Ohio Senate over a proposed law to allow drilling at state parks, some lawmakers focused on fracking, an increasingly controversial technique used to extract oil and gas from underground. Republican Sen. ...

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Chesapeake planning to build 'regional' recycling facility for frack water in ...
Towanda Daily Review
Review Photo/JAMES LOEWENSTEIN Joe Shervinski of Terry Township, center, criticizes the way Chesapeake Energy has been operating its recycling facilities for flowback water from hydraulic fracturing. ...

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Energy company blunders with “fracking” book
MarketWatch
Being held up to public ridicule probably wasn't the idea when a Calgary-based natural gas drilling company put out a children's coloring book recently extolling the virtues of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. It backfired big-time when popular ...
Natural Gas Co. Dumps 'Friendly Fracosaurus' Coloring Book After Widespread ...propane.pro

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TERRY TOWNSHIP - Chesapeake Energy Corp. is planning to construct a facility in Asylum Township that would consolidate its area operations for recycling flow-back water from hydraulic fracturing, Chesapeake officials said at a public hearing Monday condu

Natural Gas Co. Dumps 'Friendly Fracosaurus' Coloring Book After Widespread ...
propane.pro
That's a problem because, Markey stated, “Unless you are a 'Frack-a-saurus' named 'Talisman Terry,” this world doesn't exist.” Talisman spokesperson Natalie Cox said the coloring book received “more attention than it should have,” and “there's two ...

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Global Warming (blog)
NTY Revisits June Frack-Attack
Global Warming (blog)
I also asked why The Times didn't include input from the energy giants, like Exxon Mobil, that have invested billions in natural gas recently. If shale gas is a Ponzi scheme, I wondered, why would the nation's energy ...

Laboratory Equipment
What the Frack?
Laboratory Equipment
He did not speak to the environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the method used to drill for the gas. And, in all honesty, why should he have? His research was about the possible socioeconomic benefits of having such a huge natural ...

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Premier to examine mine cancer report
Herald Sun
The US and other countries have used BTEX to frack but Queensland has banned the use of these chemicals in the process. But fracking could in itself release the chemicals, the submission says. "The fracking process itself can release BTEX from natural ...

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New Republic
Shale Gas Isn't Actually Evil. But the Shale Gas Industry is Behaving Stupidly.
New Republic
(Flowing gas is under much higher pressure than frack fluids are, which explains why gas can migrate, while the chemicals won't.) Industry will be quick to point out that gas in water is not hazardous, and that gas has been found in water supplies well ...

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CSG mining causes cancer, experts warn
Sydney Morning Herald
The United States and other countries have used BTEX to frack but Queensland has banned the use of these chemicals in the process. But fracking could in itself release the chemicals, the submission says. "The fracking process itself can release BTEX ...

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Fracking issue could cause rise in civil disobedience
Steuben Courier
By Anonymous Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will only protect the NYC and Syracuse watersheds banning them from hydrofrack (frack), while upstate aquifers will soon be open season for gas companies. Gov. ...