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truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 10:27 PM Sep 2014

Best Overview of Fracking Updates I Have Seen Recently:

KateCa has posted an amazing diary over at firedoglake.com that really is a complete tell-all on what is going on inside the world of fracking.

It mentions the Big Players in California, and Iowa,and Illinois and PA.
As well as giving details relating to the settlement that Halliburton was forced into down Louisiana way, due to that llttle eensy-teensie bit of destruction that BP and Halliburton are blamed for. (That is, the destruction of the eco- system formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico and now affectionately known as "The Big Sludgy," or "Dead Fishey.&quot

http://my.firedoglake.com/kateca/2014/09/04/a-quick-whirl-around-the-fracking-world-4-sep-2014/#at_pco=cfd-1.0&at_ab=-&at_pos=6&at_tot=8&at_si=540a6ce147e5e697

Quick Whirl Around The Fracking World

*US. Our Environmental Protection Agency is now “accepting public comments on whether or not to require fracking companies to disclose the toxic chemicals they use.” Hard to believe, isn’t it, that they are not required to list each and every one, to say nothing of in what amounts, in what combinations and where they are being used? You can add your support to such a requirement here. https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1535&s_src=sl&s_subsrc=0814#_ga=1.183394150.1770911334.1409532241

*CA. So, the feds plan to “resume oil and gas leasing in California” since a report has “found little scientific evidence that fracking and similar extraction techniques are dangerous.” What the scientist in charge of the research said is quite a bit different: “researchers . . . had no data on the quality of water near fracking sites [so] We can’t tell you what we don’t know.” Doesn’t seem the US Bureau of Land Management is too interested in what we don’t know, does it? That could change. (URL for LA TImes article on the Feds leasing the land and water ways for fracking: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-fracking-report-20140829-story.html

*CA. It’s cleared the Legislature and is on its way to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk for signature. That would be a bill “requiring more disclosure about crude oil shipments” rolling through California cities, hills and dales on the way to refineries. The order requires railroads to “provide state and local emergency officials with information about oil and hazardous materials” on trains, and concentrates specifically on “the volume of oil and timing of the shipment beforehand” when it’s Bakken crude.

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Very much worth the read. And all of it can be found by clicking the link at the top.

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Best Overview of Fracking Updates I Have Seen Recently: (Original Post) truedelphi Sep 2014 OP
I think people are finally starting to think that fracking could be responsible... NaturalHigh Sep 2014 #1
in Texas too justabob Sep 2014 #2

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
1. I think people are finally starting to think that fracking could be responsible...
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 02:33 PM
Sep 2014

for a lot of the earthquakes here in Oklahoma.

justabob

(3,069 posts)
2. in Texas too
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 02:39 PM
Sep 2014

We've had a few around the DFW area, none too big but still very unusual and unwanted. It is finally starting to be an issue that city governments and county governments are starting to take more seriously, Denton especially.

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