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In Fracking Hot Spots, Police And Gas Industry Share Intelligence On Activists
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StateImpact Pennsylvania |In fracking hot spots, police and gas industry share intelligence on activists.
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Where Can We Say ‘Yes’ To Oil And Gas?
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High Country News | Where Can We Say ‘Yes’ to Oil and Gas? What we give up in so-called sacrifice zones.
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Adventures In Mapmaking: Mapping A Fracking Boom In North Dakota
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Wired | A new map of Bakken oil field drill sites attempts to show where drilling is concentrated as oil prices slide and the economics of the boom change dramatically.
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Housing Shortages In The Boom: A Tale Of Two Wyoming Towns
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When hydraulic fracturing opened up thousands of natural gas wells around Pinedale in the mid-2000s, hundreds of energy workers descended upon the area — all looking for a place stay. The demand for housing was just too much for the area to handle.
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Citing Health Risks, Cuomo Bans Fracking In New York State
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The New York Times | New York Governor Cuomo will institute a state-wide ban on hydraulic fracturing.
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“STIM” Center Attempts To Lower Fracking Impact
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Oil and gas companies are working on new techniques to lower their on the ground impact. They hope this will help the public feel more at ease as drilling continues to move closer to homes and communities. Inside Energy Reporter Dan Boyce examines one new strategy for consolidating fracking operations.
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Pink Drill Bits?
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Everything is tinged pink this month to raise breast cancer awareness, and the color is popping up in some unexpected places–like oil rigs. For the second year in a row, Baker Hughes is showing support for Susan G. Komen Foundation by painting its drill bits pink.
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Millions Of Tons Oil And Gas Waste: Hazardous Or Not?
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The United States is on the verge of becoming the world’s top producer of oil – that’s according to the International Energy Agency. But the oil boom is also leading to a boom in toxic oil field waste that can end up in open pit disposal sites. There are increasing concerns over the dangers these disposal sites pose for air quality.
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Basin Boom Means More Spills
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Horizontal drilling and fracking have prompted an oil boom in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, Alisa Barba reported earlier this week. But an increase in drilling — 590 oil wells have been drilled and completed in the Powder River Basin since January of 2009 — has its consequences. Mead Gruver from Associated Press reported yesterday that 2014 has already been the state’s worst year for oil spills since 2009.
