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Growing Doubts on the Numbers from Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy
Growing Doubts on the Numbers from Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy (via Desmogblog) America is in the midst of the biggest onshore oil...
Jul 7, 20131 min read
Fracking Independence Day: Frontline Group SAFE Appeals for Support and Action
Posted in Huffington Post by Jeff Biggers on 07/03/2013 The fracking rush in the heartland may have been unleashed by ill-conceived...
Jul 3, 201312 min read
Conservation groups say Tennessee’s fracking rules don’t go far enough
CLICK HERE to read this story from the Chattanooga Times Free Press published on May 28, 2013.
Jun 14, 20131 min read
Residents Deliver Giant Check to ‘Buy Back’ NY Senator’s Support from Fracking Interests
From EcoWatch June 14, 2013 Southern Tier Residents Southern Tier residents delivered a $202,000 giant eight by three foot fake check to...
Jun 14, 20133 min read
Toxic Fracking Waste Entering Food Supply?
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 4:38 pm Press Release: Organic NZ Thursday, June 6, 2013 ”The practice of dumping toxic oil drilling and...
Jun 12, 20132 min read
Missouri Lawyer Brings Nuisance Claims to Fracking Arena
By Jim Efstathiou Jr., Andrew Harris & Sophia Pearson – Jun 10, 2013 11:00 PM CT Orlin Wagner/AP A file photo from 2009...
Jun 12, 20132 min read
Activists protest Starved Rock fracking
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?id=9191392
Jun 8, 20131 min read
Fracking Southern Illinois: Faithful Opposition
Fracking Southern Illinois: Faithful Opposition from Tim Frakes on Vimeo.
Jun 2, 20131 min read
Oil Pollution a Bitter Harvest for Illinois Farmers – Los Angeles Times
Environment: State has more than 4,000 abandoned wells, many of whose leaks have harmed soil, water supplies. January 22, 1997|MATT...
Jun 2, 20134 min read
Illinois is caving…the game is rigged on fracking and Democrats are leading the cave-in
READ HERE a fantastic blog by Tracy Fox
Jun 1, 20131 min read
“We Can Light Our Water on Fire,” Says Fracking Victim
Carroll County, OH: Joe and Dawn live in a part of Ohio that has seen a boom in the gas, oil and shale industry. And with it has come a...
May 31, 20133 min read
Following Meetings, Illinoisans Press Release: Dismayed by Governor Quinn’s, Attorney General Lisa M
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 30, 2013 Contact: Annette McMichael/SAFE Communications Director/217-273-1000/am@greenmediaservice....
May 30, 20134 min read
Live at Historic Vote in Illinois: Steingraber and Citizens Bust Fracking Bill (Video)
GO TO POST in huffingtonpost.com
May 30, 20131 min read
Fracking “Shock Doctrine” Unveiled as 2013 Illinois Legislative Session Nears End
DeSmogBlog Thu, 2013-05-30 11:45Steve Horn The shale gas industry has performed the “shock doctrine” at the 11th hour of the 2013...
May 30, 20135 min read
Fracking opponents meet with Quinn aide
Quad-City Times L.E. Hlavach Times Bureau May 29, 2013 SPRINGFIELD — Several opponents of hydraulic fracturing Wednesday visited the...
May 29, 20132 min read
Anti-fracking Movement Pushes for Moratorium (Photos)
Just BloNo Posted by coreymattson ⋅ May 29, 2013 As a sit-in against fracking continues at the Illinois state capitol, movement activists...
May 29, 20131 min read
New Mexico county first in nation to ban fracking to safeguard water
By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times May 28, 2013, 9:36 p.m. OCATE, N.M. — Sitting in the tidy living room of the home they built themselves,...
May 29, 20135 min read
Illinois Fracking Fight Continues
EcoWatch May 28, 2013 Will Reynolds Graphic courtesy of Food & Water Watch After lengthy private negotiations, a pro-fracking regulatory...
May 28, 20134 min read
Illinois Fracking Bill: A Worst Case Scenario
EcoWatch May 28, 2013 William C. Rau The Illinois Fracking Regulatory Bill (SB1715) has been praised as a “national model.” It is a model...
May 28, 20133 min read
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