Shale Gas Issues from Various Jurisdictions
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Shale Gas Issues From Various Jurisdictions .......................................................................................... 7 Foreword ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Calls for Moratoriums and Bans ........................................................................................................... 9 Fracking moratorium recommendation applauded - PEI .................................................................. 9 Dallas — yes, Dallas — bans fracking in most of the city ................................................................ 9 BC/Yukon First Nation bans fracking, finds impacts outweigh benefits ............................................ 9 South Portland, Maine, Passes Oilsands Moratorium .................................................................... 10 First County in U.S. Bans Oil and Gas Extraction .......................................................................... 10 Contamination and Science ............................................................................................................... 11 Amazing Bird’s Eye View Of Texas Fracking ................................................................................. 11 Fracking with Propane - GasFrac Energy Services ........................................................................ 11 Fracking with liquified propane, or butane (LPG): FROM TONY INGRAFFEA. .............................. 11 Propane Fracking vs. Water Fracking: Which is better (worse)? .................................................... 12 New York’s Fracking Waste Problem ............................................................................................. 12 Martin Sheen Exposé on Fracking to Air on Public TV Embedded video ....................................... 13 Natural Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania - Wells and Violations .......................................................... 13 West Virginia Landfills Will Now Accept Unlimited Amounts Of Often Radioactive Fracking Waste ...................................................................................................................................................... 13 Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s Underground Water Supply .. 14 The Moral and Criminal Case Against Canada's Climate Negligence ............................................ 14 Second leak reported at east Fort Worth gas well site ................................................................... 14 Greenpeace launch of "live" fracking report ................................................................................... 15 Newly discovered greenhouse gas '7,000 times more powerful than CO2' .................................... 15 Fracking FAQ: The science and technology behind the natural gas boom .................................... 15 What A Year: 45 Fossil Fuel Disasters The Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know About ............... 16 Applying Creativity to a Byproduct of Oil Drilling ............................................................................ 16 Impacts of Fracking Spread Across New York and New England .................................................. 17 New perspectives on the effects of natural gas extraction on groundwater quality ........................ 17 The Science Is Deafening - Industry's Gas Migration .................................................................... 17 What the shale gas industry doesn't want you to know about fracking - Embedded video ............ 17 The Passionate Eye - Burning Water ............................................................................................. 18 Questionable Science ........................................................................................................................ 19 CADAVER COSMETICS: Penn State's "Marcellus by Design," .................................................... 19 Louis LaPierre had no role in P.E.I. bridge studies, say feds ........................................................ 19 Renewable Energy ............................................................................................................................ 20 U.S. Will Top Germany In Solar Installation For The First Time In 15 Years .................................. 20 13 MaJor Clean Energy Breakthroughs Of 2013 ............................................................................ 20 Science and Health ........................................................................................................................... 21 Bad news for pregnant women near fracking. Study shows toxins linked to heart defects. ............ 21 Health Dept. Concerned About Benzene Emissions Near Local Gas Drilling Sites ........................ 21 Fort Worth Shows Why So Many Towns Are Banning Fracking .................................................... 21 Out of hours working banned by German labour ministry .............................................................. 22 Contaminated Tribe: Hormone-Blocking Chemicals Found in First Nation Families - Ontario ....... 22 Study Links Fracking Chemicals and Hormone Disruption ............................................................ 22 MU Researchers Find Fracking Chemicals Disrupt Hormone Function ......................................... 23 Estrogen and Androgen Receptor Activities of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals and Surface and Ground Water in a Drilling-Dense Region ..................................................................................... 23 Health Dept. Concerned About Benzene Emissions Near Local Gas Drilling Sites ........................ 23 Fracking Waste Linked To City's Toxic Drinking Water, Class-Action Suit Alleges Embedded video ...................................................................................................................................................... 24 Economics, Legal, and Investigations ................................................................................................ 25 1 Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) ........................................................................ 25 Fredericton reaches settlement with Occupy protesters ................................................................ 25 (Willi Nolan) “Jane Doe” SLAPPs Back! Defending Lawsuit to Silence & Intimidate Anti-Fracking Protests ......................................................................................................................................... 25 Bloomberg LP Launches First Tool That Measures Risk of 'Unburnable Carbon' Assets .............. 26 Students push for fossil fuel endowment divestment ..................................................................... 26 Where Your Money Goes: Billions of Tax Dollars are Subsidizing Eco-Terrorism .......................... 26 US Energy Independence: Another Pipe Dream, Says Analyst ..................................................... 27 Oil Company Caught Illegally Dumping Fracking Discharge In Central Valley Embedded video ... 27 Gladue re aboriginal sentencing and bail ....................................................................................... 27 Top 5 resource impediments for 2013 ........................................................................................... 28 In Pennsylvania, shale Job numbers are hard to pin down ............................................................. 28 170 legal victories empower First Nations in fight over resource development .............................. 29 Treaties: Negotiations and Rights .................................................................................................. 29 Gas Drilling Is Killing Property Values For Some Americans ......................................................... 29 Students Escalate Divestment Campaign After Universities Refuse to Sell Fossil Fuel Stocks ..... 30 Southwestern Energy faces fracking lawsuit - May 2011 .............................................................. 30 Peter Voser says he regrets Shell’s huge bet on US shale ............................................................ 30 Fracking Boom Gives Banks Mortgage Headaches ....................................................................... 31 Alberta has failed on the economic diversification front ................................................................. 31 The fracking/real estate conundrum ............................................................................................... 31 NavaJo Nation Prevails in Bankruptcy Case: May Gain Over a Billion Dollars for Uranium Cleanup ...................................................................................................................................................... 32 Chesapeake fined $3.2 million for West Virginia water violations .................................................. 32 Shale Grab in U.S. Stalls as Falling Values Repel Buyers ............................................................. 32 Regulations ........................................................................................................................................ 33 Considerations for Responsible Gas Development of the Frederick Brook Shale in New Brunswick ...................................................................................................................................................... 33 Environment and EnJoyment of Property ..........................................................................................