Shale Gas Issues from Various Jurisdictions
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Shale Gas Issues From Various Jurisdictions .......................................................................................... 7 Foreword ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Calls for Moratoriums and Bans ........................................................................................................... 8 First County in US Bans Oil and Gas Extraction .............................................................................. 8 Fracking Ban Stands in New York Town; Victory for Local Communities ......................................... 8 Inverness County bans fracking ....................................................................................................... 8 Three Fracking Moratorium Bills Win Key Vote in California Legislature .......................................... 8 Quebec tables bill to block shale gas fracking ................................................................................. 9 Woodstock town board asks New York State to criminalize fracking ............................................... 9 Mora County, NM passes ordinance banning all oil and gas extraction ........................................... 9 Senate Democratic Conference Calls For Moratorium OnHydraulic Fracturing ............................... 9 National Farmers Union - Alberta, Call for Moratorium Contamination, Confidentiality Agreements ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 Contamination and Science ............................................................................................................... 11 Is Range Resources Spokesman Lobbying or Lying? You Decide ................................................ 11 Gas Drilling May Be Leaking Twice as Much Gas as Previously Thought, Study Finds ................. 11 DEP: Spill at well site seeps into house, miniature horse farm ....................................................... 11 5 Facts about Fracking Every Family Needs to Know - Leah Zerbe .............................................. 12 Leaking Gas Well Capped in Denton ............................................................................................. 12 Drilling fluids spill into Cadron Creek ............................................................................................. 12 Fracking in Nova Scotia -- the real story ........................................................................................ 12 PA DEP Determination Letters - damascus citizens for sustainability ............................................ 13 DEBERT — About 100 people gathered in Debert on Tuesday night, .......................................... 13 Guidelines for the management of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) ................. 13 Unreported Emissions from Natural Gas Blow Up British Columbia's Climate Action Plan ............ 14 BC LNG Exports Blow Climate Targets Way, Way Out of the Water ............................................. 15 Stop Fracking and Save Our Water, Air, and Land ........................................................................ 15 Brewer Lake Arkansas - Radioactive device abandoned in gas well ............................................. 15 Energy future may be swamped in fracking wastewater, scientists warn ....................................... 15 Deteriorating Oil and Gas Wells Threaten Drinking Water Across the Country .............................. 16 Drilling and Fracking and the Environment - Scientists Versus Industry ........................................ 16 Radioactive Gas Drilling Waste Sets Off More Radioactivity Alarms ............................................. 16 Fracking clean-up now a $30 billion business ................................................................................ 17 Renewable Energy ............................................................................................................................ 18 Canada is ready for a transformative energy experience - David Suzuki ....................................... 18 Scotland Well On-Track To Reach 500 MW Community Renewable Energy Goal ........................ 18 Massachusetts Crushes Solar Goals, Aims Much Higher .............................................................. 18 Solar–Wind Hybrid Power Plants Approximately Twice As Efficient .............................................. 18 For Some Wind Turbines, Batteries Are Now Included! ................................................................. 19 REN21 Renewables Global Futures Report (GFR) ........................................................................ 19 Aquamarine Power gets approval for Western Isles wave farm ..................................................... 19 Science and Health ........................................................................................................................... 21 Many Stressors Associated With Fracking Due to Perceived Lack of Trust ................................... 21 Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania ................................................................................ 21 The Downwinders: Fracking Ourselves to Death in America by Ellen Cantarow ............................ 21 Fracking Industry Cited By Prominent Medical Journal For Infringing Upon Patient–Physician Relationship ................................................................................................................................... 22 Gulf doctor warns Mayflower ......................................................................................................... 22 Sand From Fracking Could Pose Lung Disease Risk To Workers ................................................. 23 Damning evidence on health impacts of coal & CSG ..................................................................... 23 Wilma Subra & Health Effects of Gas Drilling ................................................................................ 23 1 A Human Rights Assessment of Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas ........................................... 24 Depleted Uranium as a Catalyst for Hydrocracking Shale Oil - Argonne National Laboratory ........ 24 Is depleted uranium charges used for fracturing oil and gas wells? ............................................... 24 Radon in New Brunswick ............................................................................................................... 25 Pa. Rep. Pushes Bill To Track Fracking Health Effects ................................................................. 25 Economics, Legal, and Investigations ................................................................................................ 26 Natural Gas Revolution Is Overblown, Study Says ........................................................................ 26 3 Natural Gas Myths Debunked ..................................................................................................... 26 The Shale Boom Has Added Almost Nothing To US Economic Growth ........................................ 26 Shell Makes Big Bet on Boom in Natural Gas ................................................................................ 26 Is the shale gas bubble poised to burst? ........................................................................................ 27 What boom? Industry pundits claim thousands of jobs will be created, but numbers don’t quite add up .................................................................................................................................................. 27 Debating economic impact of Marcellus Shale in Pa. .................................................................... 27 Fracking Nonsense: The Job Myth of Gas Drilling ......................................................................... 28 The Economic Value of Shale Natural Gas in Ohio ........................................................................ 28 Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble .............................. 28 Fracking update: The bad news is gaining legs ............................................................................. 29 Marcellus shale gas production boom stirs debate over taxes ....................................................... 29 Deborah Rogers’ March 2012 Presentation – PA and NY ............................................................. 29 Reported waste dumping results in federal charges against fracking company owner .................. 30 BP, Shell, Statoil accused of fixing oil prices ................................................................................. 30 Increased Federal Criminal Enforcement Against Oil and Gas Fracking Companies ..................... 30 Texas Driller Guilty of Clean Water Act Violations ......................................................................... 31 Gas boom called hype ................................................................................................................... 31 In North Dakota, The Dreams And Dark Side Of Shale Gas "Black Gold Rush" ............................ 31 Regulations ........................................................................................................................................ 33 Fracking giant Halliburton nixes NC's chemical disclosure rule ..................................................... 33 NDP