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us/Shale Gas Outrage Rally And Freedom From Fracking Conference In Philadelphia
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On Wednesday, September 7th, opponents of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and unconventional gas exploitation are invited to come to Philadelphia for the Shale Gas Outrage rally. The next day, all ...
us/Canada Right On Target, To Miss 2020 Emissions Targets
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According to Environment Canada’s peer-reviewed July report on Canada’s Emissions Trends [pdf], government action to date is not putting the country on track to meet the carbon emissions reductions...
us/Fracking’s ‘Ominous’ Cost To New York’s Roads
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A draft discussion paper [pdf] from the New York State Department Of Transportation (NYSDOT) projects costs that unconventional gas and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) will have on state transporta...
us/Delaware River Basin Commission and Army Corps Sued Over Fracking Regulations
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Last week, environmental watchdog groups including the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), Riverkeeper, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and the Columbia Environmental Law Clinic filed ...
us/Digging Deeper Into New Brunswick’s Fracking Controversy
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In ever greater numbers, New Brunswickers are speaking out against hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the exploitation of the densely packed unconventional gas sitting below ground. Until now, opp...
us/U.N. Report On Niger Delta Calls For Billion Dollar Shell Oil Spill Clean-Up Fund
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A new United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report [pdf] discussing the environmental destruction in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta wetlands calls out Shell, and says that the contamin...
us/Shell Agrees To Pay Nigerians For 2008 and 2009 Oil Spills
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In a historic move, oil giant Shell has agreed to take responsibility and to compensate Bodo fishing communities in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta wetlands after their homes and livelihood...
us/Canadians Embarrassed (Again) After Government Overestimates Its Carbon Reductions
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The Canadian government is again being called out for providing misleading information about its commitment to reducing carbon emissions. The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy...
us/In Gas Driller’s Canadian East Coast Heartland, A Day Of FRACtion
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On August 1st and 2nd, a Day of FRACtion involving marches and protests is taking place across most of Canada’s Atlantic provinces in order to bring attention to unconventional gas extraction and i...
us/Independent Panel Tells Alberta To Clean Up Tar Sands Impacts On Water
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The much anticipated findings [pdf] from the Alberta Environmental Monitoring Panel, appointed to make recommendations on how to fix Alberta’s failing tar sands pollution monitoring system, were re...
us/A Pan-European Approach To Banning Unconventional Gas?
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A German member in the European parliament (MEP) is proposing a straightforward way to prevent (or outlaw) exploration and drilling for unconventional gas in the European Union (EU). His plan, bypa...
us/France Becomes First Country To Ban Fracking; Gas Drilling Still A Go
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In a major setback for the oil and gas industry, the French Senate last week voted 176 to 151 to ban hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking), the controversial gas industry drilling method facing sc...
us/Americans For Prosperity Sues New York For Participating In Regional Climate Pact
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The Koch brothers’ corporate front group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) filed a lawsuit on Monday in New York’s State Supreme Court seeking to reverse a core piece of state action on climate chang...
us/President Obama’s Fracking Panel Unmoved By Pennsylvanians’ Water Concerns
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On Monday, the Natural Gas Subcommittee, from Energy Department Secretary Stephen Chu’s Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), held its second public meeting.  Around 400 people packed a cramped auditorium ...
us/Interior Dept Okays Thousands Of New Unconventional Gas Wells In Utah
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Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that his department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are fast-tracking unconventional gas drilling permits in Utah’s Uintah Basin. T...
us/Canada Hiding Its Carbon Emissions Growth Amidst Rapid Tar Sands Boom
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Each year, in advance of United Nations (U.N.) climate discussions, governments around the world submit an inventory of their carbon emissions. This year, Canada is taking a unique approach to lowe...
us/Arkansas Families Launch Lawsuits Against Southwestern For Polluting Their Water; New Brunswick Is Open For Drilling
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Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. is facing more lawsuits because of destructive hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) practices. Southwestern is already accused of contaminating a dozen Penns...
us/Apache Corp Pulls Out Of New Brunswick Gas Fracking Project
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Halifax’s Corridor Resources Ltd. has announced that Apache Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of Houston’s Apache Corporation, is giving up on unconventional gas exploration southwest of Moncton, in New Br...
us/ExxonMobil Drilling Plan Threatens Drinking Water In Delaware River Basin
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The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) held a public hearing today to review a proposal from ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy to remove massive amounts of water from the Delaware River Basin fo...
us/French Vote To Ban Fracking: The End Of The Story Or Just The Beginning?
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Earlier this month, members of the French national assembly voted to ban hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) by an overwhelming 287 to 186. While the vote had significant support across party li...

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