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Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law a bill banning natural gas fracking saying said “In the coming generation or two, drinking water will be more valuable than oil or natural gas.” Vermont is the the first state to ban fracking. Several countries, including France, Switzerland, and Bulgaria have also banned this noxious and dangerous [...] Despite offering a wealth of job opportunities and a better-than-living wage, there are very few places to live. Most workers strive to get into one of the many "Man Camps." (Photo: Robert Johnson, Business Insider) Yes, there are a lot of jobs there, the majority of them requiring no more than a high school [...] Who could have ever imagined that injecting high pressure water deep underground to fracture rocks could cause earthquakes? A spate of earthquakes across the middle of the U.S. is “almost certainly” man-made, and may be caused by wastewater from oil or gas drilling injected into the ground, U.S. government scientists said in a study. [...] Companies that supply water to fracking drilling in Colorado bid higher for water in auctions than farmers did. “How do we continue to sustain agriculture when there’s just more and more demand on our water resources in this state?” said Bill Midcap, director of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. Bizarrely, fracking is considered a beneficial [...] Hydraulic fracturing: How it works (Source: Times Reporting, LA Times) It’s happening in California right now and has been for years, although apparently the state’s own regulatory agency doesn’t know about it. In the past, the state’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) has said that it “does not believe that fracking is widely [...] The EPA just reneged on delivering water to rural Dimock Township so they now have no potable water. This after the drilling company was allowed to stop delivering water by state regulators. We’re on our own, folks. It’s clear that state and federal agencies charged with protecting the population are worse than useless. Fracking protest, Occupy Youngstown (WYTV news photo) The Ohio Department of Natural Resources placed a moratorium on further pumping of waste liquids in an area five miles around a disposal well located near Youngstown after the 10th earthquake hit the region on December 24th. In response, the owner of the well, D&L Energy Group of Youngstown, [...] After a Wyoming community complained to the E.P.A. a while back that their well water “reeked of chemicals” the agency analyzed the water and found hydrocarbons. So the residents have been advised not to drink the water. And today a draft report was published that I’m sure made neither the residents nor the oil and [...] Topics last night included: Triumphalist liberals proclaim mission accomplished in Libya even as battles still continue in Tripoli and the National Transitional Council draws up a constitution for a strict Islamist state under sharia law. And then there’s the problem of 1000x more loose weapons than under Saddam. Libya is nowhere near being stable [...] Libya: Assuming the rebels take Tripoli, what comes next? Let’s not forget Dubya’s “mission accomplished” statement on the aircraft carrier when in fact, not much had been accomplished at all. Financial crisis: BofA is in dire shape as are some countries. Bailing out the big banks has made things worse, not better. Hurricane Irene: She [...] |  | ||||
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