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‘Fracking triggered a 4.4-magnitude earthquake in northeastern B.C. last year, CBC News has learned, making it one of world’s largest earthquakes ever triggered by the controversial process. B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission confirmed the cause of the earthquake in an email statement to CBC this week, saying it was “triggered by fluid injection during hydraulic […]

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‘With the oil and gas industry already reveling in a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision stripping local control on fracking and other extraction activities away from communities, the Secretary of State has now handed the industry another victory, opening the door for fracking infrastructure projects to spread even faster across Ohio. In a decision issued […]

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‘The Government has been accused of protecting Conservative-voting southern constituencies from fracking, announcing that the next wave of shale-gas sites would all be in the North and Midlands. Of the 27 oil and gas licences awarded by the oil and gas regulator, not one covered land south of Leicester. The new licences opened up 1,000 […]

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‘Households across an estimated 6,000 square miles of England – an area the size of Yorkshire – are expected to learn within days that their areas have been earmarked for possible fracking. Ministers are preparing to award energy companies licences to explore for shale gas and oil, in an attempt to kick-start the fledgling UK […]

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‘The health risks associated with unconventional oil and gas drilling (UGOD), i.e. hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” have been of concern to many since the practice became widespread, but until now there has been a shortage of conclusive evidence that such risks actually exist. A recent study, however, has shown a direct link between fracking activities […]

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‘Local communities may be stripped of the chance to decide on fracking in their area, under sweeping new rules allowing ministers to bypass councils entirely. Under controversial plans to encourage the faltering fracking industry, Greg Clark, the communities secretary, will now consider ‘calling in’ any planning application for shale gas exploration as soon as it […]

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‘Fracking sites could be fast-tracked through the planning system under new rules to be announced this week. Ministers will be given new powers to push through shale gas applications if they are being held up by councils. It is a response to concerns from ministers that Britain will have to rely on unstable imports and […]

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‘As we reported previously by 21WIRE, the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘Fracking’, has some very ugly environmental side-affects. One of the worst Fracking-related issues is the problem of earthquakes – a problem which, despite shale industry, lobbyist and FOX News denials, has already been admitted by US government officials. At the heart of this […]

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‘Oklahoma is requiring energy companies to greatly reduce the amount of wastewater they inject below ground in an earthquake-prone part of the state to determine whether this step could reduce the number of quakes that have plagued the state in the past few years. Under new rules announced the night of Aug. 3 by the […]

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‘A series of shocking new reports reveal that 45,000 acres of California crops are being irrigated with recycled fracking water, with some samples showing levels of petrochemicals higher than those found at oil spill sites. Even more shocking, the practice of using recycled oil water on crops (which has become a lucrative side business for […]

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‘Government plans to roll out fracking across Britain face delays of up to two years following a surprise decision to reject exploration for shale gas in Lancashire. Ministers are concerned by the implications of the decision by Lancashire County Council last month to reject planning applications from the shale gas company Cuadrilla to drill eight […]

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‘Yesterday Oklahoma recorded five earthquakes centered near Crescent, Oklahoma, some of which were felt in at least five states—Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Arkansas. Three of the quakes measured above 4.0-magnitude and the biggest of these was a 4.5-magnitude earthquake, the strongest earthquake in the region since a magnitude-4.9 near Conway Springs, Kansas, on Nov. […]

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‘On Thursday, the Center for Biological Diversity urged California officials to release results from an investigation into thousands of oil industry injection wells in the Los Angeles area that may be contaminating water and threatening public health. “State oil officials need to come clean about this dirty threat to L.A.’s water supplies,” said Hollin Kretzmann, […]

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‘Anti-fracking campaigners have reacted with anger and frustration at a Government decision to allow a controversial gas storage facility on the Fylde Coast. Energy minister Lord Bourne has, on appeal, granted permission to Halite to create a huge underground gas store in salt caverns at Preesall despite three rejections of the plan and massive public […]

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‘People who live in fracking zones appear to suffer a higher rate of heart conditions and neurological illnesses, according to new research. Although the U.S. study was unable to determine a specific reason, it suggests there may be a link between drilling and ill health, scientists said. Residents in high-density areas of fracking made 27 […]

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