BREAKING: UK Government backtracks on fracking - Green Living - Environment - The Independent

A welcome reflection about the full-steam-ahead race to frack wherever and as soon as possible may be the sign that this hopelessly water contaminating process to drill for shale gas is finally pausing.

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Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Frigging Fecking Fracking Gag Rule on Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking

Fracking exposes citizens to a wild mix of highly toxic chemicals and carcinogens. So when patients show up at their doctors' offices, the doctors need to figure out which chemicals are the likely culprits. The doctors of sick patients can, with great effort, access the names of …

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Ordinary citizens protest fracking because it contaminates drinking water and spews carcinogens while President Obama cheers the frackers on

Fracking can provide massive amounts of methane gas to be used domestically and millions of gallons of wastewater containing carcinogens. There are roughly 400,000 of these wells across America and they have created a lot of committed opponents. During Obama's State of the Un …

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How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania

The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …

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USGS Details Effects of Climate Change on Water Availability in 14 US Water Basins

Climate change projections indicate a steady increase in temperature progressing through the 21st century .....  .......generally resulting in snowpack reductions, changes to the timing of snowmelt, altered streamflows, and reductions in soil moisture, all of which could af …

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Why is China Investing $3.7 Billion in Direct Current Transmission Lines? | The Energy Collective

I’ve got to hand it to China, they don’t do anything by halves it seems, and announced on Sunday the 13th of May 2012, that construction had started on the worlds largest Ultra High Voltage Direct Current (UHVDC) power line. Oh, and they started on an second 75 …

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BREAKING: The Third Party National Group "Americans Elect" drops out: Is this a Sign of the Demise of Democracy in America?

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How Obama Gave Rise to the Occupy Wall Street Movement

Obama is twice over responsible for Occupy Wall Street's existence. On the one hand, the failures and disappointments of his administration have been well documented and have totally undercut his campaign promises of hope and change, leaving former supporters completely disil …

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120 Giants Found Living With 86-Year-Old Man : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR

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