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Aberdeen Evening Express
April 19, 2018
The group is trying to “open a dialogue” with RTH Lubbers about its involvement in the controversial energy practice. The firm transports equipment to fracking sites in Yorkshire and Lancashire. Protesters walked slowly in front of lorries, impe ding them from leaving the depot at Peterseat Drive in Altens.
Hyperallergic
April 19, 2018
A Film Foregrounds the First Nations Fight Against Fracking. On Saturday, Fractured Lands, a documentary about the Dene activist and lawyer Caleb Behn, will screen at the National Museum of the American Indian. Daniel A. Gross10 hours ago Ãâ÷ Share Ãâ÷ Tweet Ãâ÷ EmailÃâà...
Zip06.com
April 18, 2018
After a few months of consideration and some heated public debate, on April 9 the Madison Board of Selectmen (BOS) passed the anti-fracking ordinance, using the language originally proposed. Fracking waste, as the name suggests, is a byproduct of fracking, which uses high-pressure water to extractÃâà...
Energy Voice
April 17, 2018
Protesters caused disruption at a north-east transport company yesterday amid claims trucks were delivering fracking equipment to firms in England. The group lay on the ground at the entrance of ARR Craib in Aberdeen holding placards reading “Fracking is a dirty business” and “Stop the chain.” Vans andÃâà...
Anglicannews
April 10, 2018
Archbishop Ron Cutler has given his support to a campaign against the lifting of a moratorium on fracking in Nova Scotia. Bishop Ron added his weight to a letter signed by representatives of 40 different community groups who oppose any lifting on the ban. Fracking is the extraction of oil or gas fromÃâà...
KEYT
April 6, 2018
A San Luis Obispo county organization says the county's water, agricultural lands, and environmental quality could be threatened. The coalition is currently gathering signatures for an initiative aimed at protecting those resources. “We overlie an oil reserve that's in the Monterey shell. And to get oil out of thatÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
April 4, 2018
A Susquehanna County family can proceed with a lawsuit against an energy company that extracted natural gas from beneath their land using wells on an adjacent property, the state Superior Court ruled in a potentially precedent-setting decision. The ruling in the suit Adam Briggs and his two siblings filedÃâà...
The Sun
March 29, 2018
EX-PM DAVID CAMERON last night blasted green groups for the “painfully slow” fracking revolution in Britain. Speaking in the US to oil execs, he hit out at campaigners for being “absolutely obsessed” with blocking the extraction of fossil fuels. Former Prime Minister David Cameron last night blastedÃâà...
Blackpool Gazette
March 28, 2018
Anti-fracking protester banned from Cuadrilla site for TWO years after lorry demo. The fracking site on ... A defiant anti-fracking protester said he would not obey a judge's order to do unpaid work for the community. But the judge hit ... “I have been involved in the battle against fracking for four years. It is anÃâà...
Blackpool Gazette
March 28, 2018
Anti-fracking protester banned from Preston New Road site for TWO years after lorry demo. The fracking ... A defiant anti-fracking protester said he would not obey a judge's order to do unpaid work for the community. But the judge hit ... “I have been involved in the battle against fracking for four years. It is anÃâà...
Zip06.com
March 27, 2018
Joining numerous other towns across the state of Connecticut, at a special meeting on March 13, the Guilford Board of Selectmen (BOS) unanimously approved the proposed Hydraulic Fracturing and Extraction Waste Prohibition Ordinance, formally banning the use of products that contain fracking waste inÃâà...
Police Oracle
March 23, 2018
Protesters, including actress Emma Thompson, at an anti-fracking walk and silent protest at the Cuadrilla site in Preston on March 21. ... Lancashire Constabulary has set-up a separate command structure to deal with anti-fracking protests using officers working rest days - despite “growing concerns” overÃâà...
Olean Times Herald
March 22, 2018
SALAMANCA (AP) — The Seneca Nation of Indians is speaking out against a proposal for a wastewater treatment project on the Allegheny River. The president of the Nation, Todd Gates, is scheduled to detail his concerns at a news conference with elected officials from New York and Pennsylvania onÃâà...
Boulder Daily Camera
March 21, 2018
During public comment, several citizens implored the council to put the direct action clause back into the bill of rights, fight against fracking in Lafayette and deny oil and gas company applications to drill inside city limits. The general consensus among those who spoke appeared to be that regulating oil andÃâà...
Spectator.co.uk (blog)
March 15, 2018
Who stands between the government and a proper, effective sanctions regime against Russia? Not Jeremy Corbyn, though he might wish he could. Putin is going to get away with the Salisbury attack, suffering little more than a token expulsion of diplomats, thanks to anti-fracking protesters. They didn'tÃâà...
Frontera
March 14, 2018
With officials in Colombia grappling with the reality of dwindling oil reserves, fracking has become central to the energy conversation. A balance needs to be struck between environmental and economic needs as a path to energy self-sufficiency is drawn out. Compared to conventional oil drilling, frackingÃâà...
Youngstown Vindicator
March 13, 2018
After the Mahoning County Board of Elections voted to keep an initiative to ban fracking in Youngstown off the May 8 ballot, supporters of the measure said they'd again take the matter to the Ohio Supreme Court. Board members said Tuesday nothing has changed since they decided in September 2017 toÃâà...
WYTV
March 13, 2018
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WYTV) – The Mahoning County Board of Elections voted unanimously not to allow an anti-fracking amendment on the May ballot. Frack Free Mahoning Valley was trying to get an initiative on the ballot once again to ban fracking in Youngstown. This happened once before in 2017,Ãâà...
Westword
March 9, 2018
A 23-year-old anti-fracking activist and student at Colorado State University was arrested Thursday on two charges of tampering with oil and gas equipment and second-degree criminal trespassing after protesting at a drilling site near Bella Romero Academy, a middle school in Greeley. Cullen Lobe wasÃâà...
The Border Watch
March 7, 2018
MORATORIUM SUPPORT: Independent candidate for Mount Gambier Richard Sage told the audience he backed the imposition of a moratorium on fracking. MOUNT Gambier's political aspirants were unanimous in backing a moratorium on fracking in the South East at the Limestone Coast ProtectionÃâà...
Youngstown Vindicator
March 6, 2018
YOUNGSTOWN — A citizens committee is trying yet again to get an initiative on the ballot to ban fracking in Youngstown. The Youngstown Community Bill of Rights Committee submitted petitions with about 2,000 signatures on them. The petitions need 1,216 to be valid. The Mahoning County Board ofÃâà...
Tsarizm (blog)
March 3, 2018
The U.S. House of Representatives released a report yesterday which shows the Russian troll farms used social media to incite Left-wing activists against the U.S. fossil fuel industry, prompting demonstrations against pipeline projects and fracking efforts. Russia is a hydrocarbon powerhouse, a nationÃâà...
ITV News
March 3, 2018
Campaigners protesting against plans to frack for shale gas in North Yorkshire have announced they are leaving the area. The Kirby Misperton Protection Camp pitched up on farmland in an attempt to prevent company Third Energy beginning tests at a site in the village more than a year ago. The groupÃâà...
Yorkshire Post
March 3, 2018
Anti-fracking camp to close in Kirby Misperton as campaigners declare victory over 'impossible' odds. The Kirby ... An anti-fracking protest camp that has been in place for over a year in North Yorkshire is shutting down voluntarily after campaigners declared "victory" in their fight against a shale gas firm.
The Press, York
March 2, 2018
Nicholas Howard, Jake Duncombe, Lord Middleton, Lady Clarissa Collin and former television presenter Selina Scott are among those who have written a letter rejecting the fracking industry and claiming they would be left with the liability if something were to go wrong in the future. In a letter they say: “We would like toÃâà...
Zip06.com
March 1, 2018
Guilford officials took a step toward banning the use of fracking waste in town. On Feb. 20, the Board of Selectmen (BOS) discussed details of a proposed anti-fracking waste transport and storage ordinance and set out a path to a public hearing for resident approval. Fracking waste, as the name suggests,Ãâà...
Gazette & Herald
February 27, 2018
Nicholas Howard, Jake Duncombe, Lord Middleton, Lady Clarissa Collin and former television presenter Selina Scott are among those who have written a letter rejecting the fracking industry and claiming they would be left with the liability if something were to go wrong in the future. In a letter sent to theÃâà...
CleanTechnica
February 12, 2018
For all intents and purposes, the Republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries. So it is somewhat surprising to learn that a bill in the Florida Senate that would ban fracking in the Sunshine State has been endorsed by all ten members — Republicans and Democrats alike — of theÃâà...
WJXT News4JAX
February 3, 2018
Currently, 90 counties and cities across the state have passed resolutions against fracking -- excluding the city of Jacksonville. Jacksonville City Councilman Jim Love participated in Saturday's rally. Love said he's concerned that fracking could taint the city's water." “We don't want to start (fracking) becauseÃâà...
Boulder Daily Camera
December 31, 1999
A Schlumberger Oil Field Services employee works at an Erie oil and gas site at the Woolley Becky Sosa location in June. (Jeremy Papasso / Staff Photographer). If you go. What: Lafayette City Council meeting. When: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Where: 1290 S. Public Road. More info: cityoflafayette.com.
Great Yarmouth Mercury
December 31, 1999
The peacful anti-fracking on the industrial estate outside Lubbers Logistics Group. Picture: Anthony Carroll. The peaceful protest outside the Lubbers Logistics Group site on Thamesfield Way on Yarmouth Industrial Park saw two women carry out what they called a slow walk demonstration in front of lorriesÃâà...
The Heartland Institute
December 31, 1999
A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres was retracted in January after an “error in wind measurement” led the writers to overstate methane leakage rates. A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, the journal of the AmericanÃâà...
WTRF
December 31, 1999
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