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$AWWA comments address fracking fluids rulemaking$

AWWA comments address fracking fluids rulemaking

In recent comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency, AWWA detailed its interests in an Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics rulemaking regarding the use of the Toxic Substances Control Act for collecting information on hydraulic fracturing chemicals and their use. There are numerous questions answered in the comments, but most connect with these central themes: Water utilities ...

Aug. 25, 2014

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

$Wyoming high court remands fracking secrets case$

Wyoming high court remands fracking secrets case

A Wyoming Supreme Court ruling Wednesday will give environmentalists another chance to argue in favor of public disclosure of the ingredients in the chemical products used in hydraulic fracturing in the state. The high court sent their case back to a lower court on a technicality, but noted that Wyoming didn't offer enough evidence that the state oil and gas supervisor was correct to withhold ...

Mar. 12, 2014

By Associated Press

$Major oil and gas firm to list fracking chemicals$

Major oil and gas firm to list fracking chemicals

A major supplier to the oil and gas industry says it will begin disclosing 100 percent of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluid, with no exemptions for trade secrets. The move by Baker Hughes of Houston is a shift for a major firm; it's unclear if others will follow suit. The oil and gas industry has said the fracking chemicals are disclosed at tens of thousands of wells, but ...

Apr. 25, 2014

By Associated Press

Chemical Makers, Energy Companies Tell EPA Not to Mandate Fracking Fluid Disclosure

Chemical makers and energy companies have told the Environmental Protection Agency there is no need for it to require them to report information about the chemicals used for hydraulic fracturing fluids. “The American Petroleum Institute does not think that this Toxic Substances Control Act rulemaking is necessary in light of the extensive information already available to EPA and the ...

Sep. 25, 2014

By Bloomberg BNA

Shale Gas and Hydraulic Fracturing – Framing the Water Issue

SIWI Report no. 24 “Shale Gas and Hydraulic Fracturing – Framing the Water Issue” by Andreas Lindström, SIWI, Prof. Allan Hoffman, US Department of Energy, and Prof. Gustaf Olsson, Lund University. The emergence of shale gas and shale oil has quickly changed the landscape of opportunities for energy provision and security in different regions of the world. Difficulties in ...

Aug. 26, 2014

By Stockholm International Water Institute

DOE study: Fracking chemicals didn`t taint water

A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press. After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the ...

Jul. 22, 2013

By Associated Press

$California lawmakers ask for offshore fracking probe$

California lawmakers ask for offshore fracking probe

A group of state lawmakers has asked the federal government to investigate hydraulic fracturing off the California coast where new oil leases have been banned since a disastrous oil spill in 1969. Fracking has occurred in the Santa Barbara Channel at least 12 times since the late 1990s, and regulators earlier this year approved a new project, according to a recent report by The Associated ...

Aug. 11, 2013

By Associated Press

$Shale gas: independent planning is key to reducing environmental impacts of fracking$

Shale gas: independent planning is key to reducing environmental impacts of fracking

Funding for scientists, planners and inspectors should be available before any shale gas development begins, a new review recommends. As revenue for such staff is often provided by the development itself, planning, which is vital to provide immediate environmental protection as well as monitoring long-term impacts, is neglected. The researchers also advocate the use of ‘adaptive ...

Sep. 4, 2014

By European Commission, Environment DG

$EPA to require Southern California offshore fracking reports$

EPA to require Southern California offshore fracking reports

Oil and gas companies that are fracking off the Southern California coast must report chemicals discharged into the ocean under a new rule released Thursday by federal environmental regulators. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published the requirement in the Federal Register, and it will become effectiveMarch 1. The move comes after a series of stories by The Associated Press last ...

Jan. 9, 2014

By Associated Press

As Shale Gas Booms, Effects and Sustainability Remain Unclear

Currently, only three countries are producing shale gas through hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on a commercial scale: the United States, Canada, and China. But as several other countries undertake shale resource exploration efforts, a key question remains: What are the impacts of shale gas mining on local economies and the environment? In the Worldwatch Institute’s latest Vital Sign, ...

Apr. 21, 2015

By Worldwatch Institute

As Shale Gas Booms, Effects and Sustainability Remain Unclear

Currently, only three countries are producing shale gas through hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on a commercial scale: the United States, Canada, and China. But as several other countries undertake shale resource exploration efforts, a key question remains: What are the impacts of shale gas mining on local economies and the environment? In the Worldwatch Institute’s latest Vital Sign, ...

Apr. 27, 2015

By GLOBE SERIES

$Leaky wells, not fracking, taint water$

Leaky wells, not fracking, taint water

The drilling procedure called fracking didn't cause much-publicized cases of tainted groundwater in areas of Pennsylvania and Texas, a new study finds. Instead, it blames the contamination on problems in pipes and seals in natural gas wells. After looking at dozens of cases of suspected contamination, the scientists focused on eight hydraulically fractured wells in those states, where they ...

Sep. 15, 2014

By Associated Press

HyperSolar’s “No Fracking” Renewable Natural Gas Technology

HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCBB: HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to make renewable natural gas using solar power, today announced that its technology can help reduce the need for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) used to access underground natural gas resources. The company’s renewable natural gas is a clean, carbon neutral methane gas that can be ...

Dec. 12, 2011

By HyperSolar, Inc.

California finds more instances of offshore fracking

The oil production technique known as fracking is more widespread and frequently used in the offshore platforms and man-made islands near some of California's most populous and famous coastal communities than state officials believed. In waters off Long Beach, Seal Beach and Huntington Beach - some of the region's most popular surfing strands and tourist attractions - oil companies have used ...

Oct. 19, 2013

By Associated Press

Laboratory study cuts fracking waste`s radioactivity

Researchers believe they have found an unlikely way to decrease the radioactivity of some hydraulic fracturing wastewater: Mix it with the hazardous drainage from mining operations. The wastewater is created when some of the chemical-laced water used to fracture thick underground rocks flows back out of the wellbore. The water is tainted with chemicals, toxins and in some parts of the country - ...

Jan. 14, 2014

By Associated Press

Investors challenge nine oil and gas companies on hydraulic fracturing practices

Leading U.S. investors today announced they have filed shareholder resolutions with nine oil and gas companies, pressing them to disclose their plans for managing water pollution, litigation and regulatory risks that are increasingly associated with ever-expanding natural gas hydraulic fracturing operations (also known as “fracking”) in the United States. Resolutions were filed with ...

Jan. 21, 2011

By 3BL Media

Written Ministerial Statement by Edward Davey: Exploration for shale gas

Edward Davey, Secretary of State for energy and climate change Shale gas development has been of increasing importance in the US for some years, but exploration has only just begun in the UK. The potential of producing shale gas from a suitable formation can only be established by fracturing the rock, and it happens that the fracturing of the first shale gas well in the UK, at Preese Hall near ...

Dec. 13, 2012

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

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