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$Baker Hughes to disclose fracking chemicals$

Baker Hughes to disclose fracking chemicals

The drilling services company Baker Hughes on Wednesday implemented a policy of disclosing all of the chemicals used in its fracking operations. Environmental groups and local communities have for years been pushing for full disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, a drilling technique also known as fracking. In response, the oil and gas industry set up an online database that ...

Oct. 1, 2014

By Associated Press

U.S. Silica, Gov. Kemp Cut Ribbon on New Facility in Millen, Ga.

U.S. Silica was joined today by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Millen Mayor King Rocker for the grand opening and ribbon-cutting of a state-of-the art facility that will produce high-end industrial products to be sold across the United States and internationally. “The opening of this facility represents how businesses see unlimited opportunity in our state, and how our jobs-friendly economic ...

Sep. 12, 2019

By EP Minerals, LLC.

Fracking accident kills 1, injures 2 in Colorado

An accident at a hydraulic fracturing site in northern Colorado killed one worker and seriously injured two othersThursday, authorities said. The three men were trying to heat a frozen high-pressure water line at the oil or gas well site when it ruptured, Weld County sheriff's Sgt. Sean Standridge said. One man was hit by a stream of water and died from the impact. The injured men - Thomas ...

Nov. 13, 2014

By Associated Press

$Ohio communities stand with Munroe Falls on importance of local control over community character in face of fracking$

Ohio communities stand with Munroe Falls on importance of local control over community character in face of fracking

A group of Ohio municipalities have weighed in on behalf of home rule protections against fracking operations in a controversial Ohio Supreme Court Case pitting communities against unfettered oil and gas development. The cities of Broadview Heights, Euclid, Mansfield, and North Royalton, and the Village of Amesville, today submitted a “friends of the court” brief in a case regarding ...

Sep. 6, 2013

By Natural Resources Defense Council

Comments sought on recommendations from independent experts on shale gas and fracking

DECC will today publish an independent expert report recommending measures to mitigate the risks of seismic tremors from hydraulic fracturing - and is inviting public comment on its recommendations. An effective monitoring system and a traffic light control regime are among measures recommended by the report, which has reviewed a series of studies commissioned by Cuadrilla, and confirms that ...

Apr. 17, 2012

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Shale gas health review by Public Health England

In response to the release of the draft Public Health England Review of the ‘Potential public health impacts of exposures to chemical and radioactive pollutants as a result of shale gas’ on Thursday 31 October; Energy Minister Michael Fallon welcomed the report’s findings saying: “I welcome this report which shows that the potential risk to public health from shale gas ...

Oct. 31, 2013

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

$Park Service withdraws comments on fracking rule$

Park Service withdraws comments on fracking rule

The National Park Service has withdrawn "inappropriate" comments about a proposed rule regulating hydraulic fracturing operations on public lands. Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis says no one in management reviewed the staff comments, which he said were submitted erroneously to the federal Bureau of Land Management. Both agencies are part of the Interior Department. In a letter to Rep. ...

Nov. 27, 2013

By Associated Press

Fracking’s future is in doubt as oil price plummets

There’s no doubt that US-based fracking – the process through which oil and gas deposits are blasted from shale deposits deep underground – has caused a revolution in worldwide energy supplies. Yet now the alarm bells are ringing about the financial health of the fracking industry, with talk of a mighty monetary bubble bursting − leading to turmoil on the international ...

Jan. 6, 2015

By Climate News Network

Fracking bill clears Illinois General Assembly

In the waning hours of the Illinois General Assembly’s 2013 session, legislators passed a bill that would impose new regulations on high volume hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) in the state. The Natural Resources Defense Council continues to support a fracking moratorium. The bill, however, provides several important protections that residents would not otherwise have in ...

May 31, 2013

By Natural Resources Defense Council

Ecologix Environmental Systems Introduces New Standard in Chemical Treatment for Hydraulic Fracking

Ecologix Environmental Systems, an Atlanta-based wastewater treatment company specializing in oil and gas, has enhanced their mobile Integrated Treatment System (ITS) for hydraulic fracturing. The combination of the Mobile Chemical Treatment (MCT) and Mobile DAF (MD) systems gives the ITS the capability to treat 900 gallons of flow back water per minute, from ...

May 8, 2012

By Ecologix Environmental Systems, LLC

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

$Major oil and gas firm to list fracking chemicals$

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

New controls announced for shale gas exploration in the UK

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey today announced that exploratory hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas can resume in the UK, subject to new controls to mitigate the risks of seismic activity. Mr Davey said: “Shale gas represents a promising new potential energy resource for the UK. It could contribute significantly to our energy security, reducing our reliance on ...

Dec. 13, 2012

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Fracking research needs to consider the bigger picture

Studies on fracking too often focus on its technical aspects, and not the wider environmental, economic and regulatory context needed for political decision-making, according to a review of existing research by a US researcher. The review provides a framework for understanding these complex issues that could benefit the fracking debate and decision-making about fracking more widely. High volume ...

Jan. 9, 2014

By European Commission, Environment DG

Shale Gas Boom Creates Opportunity for Environmental Firms

The U.S. fracking market, believed to be worth around $30billion, is generating $1.5 billion-$2 billion in annual sales for environmental service companies, according to Environmental Business Journal's recent edition on exploration and production (E&P) in the unconventional oil & gas industry. Purchase EBJ Vol XXVI No 02 - The Future of Fracking (14 charts, 26,000 words) for $150 One ...

Mar. 25, 2013

By Environmental Business International (EBI)

Oklahoma is Latest State to prevent Local Fracking Bans

Oklahoma cities and counties would no longer be able to ban hydraulic fracturing - a process commonly called fracking - or other oil and gas operations within their boundaries under a bill signed into law on Friday by Gov. Mary Fallin. Pushed hard by the oil and gas industry, but fiercely opposed by municipalities and environmental groups, the bill specifically prohibits cities or towns from ...

Jun. 1, 2015

By Associated Press

$Judge temporarily halts fracking approvals in North Carolina$

Judge temporarily halts fracking approvals in North Carolina

A judge has halted the approval of fracking operations in North Carolina until a higher court weighs in on the legality of the appointment of several boards that manage state resources and the environment. Wake County Superior Court Judge Donald W. Stephens' decision earlier this month prevents the Mining and Energy Commission from approving drilling units for hydraulic fracturing until the ...

May 21, 2015

By Associated Press

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

AbTech Named 2012 Technology Innovator at Third Annual World Shale Oil & Gas Awards

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AbTech Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: ABHD) ("AbTech" or the "Company"), a developer and manufacturer of patented innovative environmental technologies addressing issues of water pollution and contamination, announced today that it has been honored with the Third Annual World Shale Oil & Gas Award for Technological Innovator of 2012. ...

Sep. 20, 2012

By AbTech Industries Inc

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