February 20, 2013
Published by Damascus Citizens at February 20, 2013
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The Shale Gas Boom and Market Manipulation

Two Groundbreaking Reports from ShaleBubble.org

For Release: 19 February 2013
CONTACT: T. Brilliant, POST CARBON INSTITUTE, tod@postcarbon.org, 707-823-8700 x105
Energy Policy Forum & Post Carbon Institute have released two groundbreaking reports that belie energy industry claims of U.S. energy independence …

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February 19, 2013
Published by Damascus Citizens at February 19, 2013
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50,000 Rally in DC AGAINST the Keystone XL Pipeline and FOR Action on Climate Change

A message from Bill McKibben of 350.org:
Friends,
Today was the day. Finally, powerfully, decisively — the movement to stop climate change has come together.
This was the biggest climate change rally in US history. By our count, 50,000 people …

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February 15, 2013
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Fracking: NY Reprieve for Health?

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By Alison Rose Levy, Connect the Dots, Feb. 13, 2013

Alison Rose Levy speaks with two guests: Dr. Larysa Dyrszka, MD of Concerned Health Professionals of New York, a group that calls for a …

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February 13, 2013
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NY Health 'Review' is Incomplete, Causing a Pause in NY Approval of Fracking

NYS Fracking Deadline Expected to be Missed – Health Review Needs “Additional Time”
By Jon Campbell, Politics on the Hudson, Feb. 12, 2013

The state’s top health regulator on Tuesday signaled he would need more time to complete his review …

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February 13, 2013
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Stop Gas Drilling — Sue Your Neighbor

Basic real estate law could stop gas drilling in the Northeast.
By Andrew Reinbach, Huffingtonpost, November 24, 2010

Basic real estate law could stop gas drilling in the Northeast.
Here’s the idea. When you bought your house you didn’t buy …

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February 13, 2013
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NYS DEC Continues to Shut the Public Out of Fracking Review

Refuses to Release Scientific Reports that Proposed HVHF Regulations are Premised Upon

As the DEC  and Governor Cuomo contemplate their next step in the ongoing sham of a fracking review process, the DEC continues to refuse to release the scientific …

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February 11, 2013
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Why 'Safe' Regulation of Fracking of New York Is a Fiction

When industry has blocked the EPA from studying or regulating 70,000 chemicals, (from BPA and flame retardants to potent neurotoxins), since 1975, why would regulating fracking be possible?
Posing a safety debate tempts people to ignore the unsavory thirty-year history …

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February 11, 2013
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Fracking Review Consultant Says in Depth, National Study Needed

Posted by: Jon Campbell- Posted on Feb 11, 2013

One of three outside consultants tapped to assist with New York’s health review of hydraulic fracturing said it’s “absurd” that there hasn’t been an in-depth, national review of the gas-extraction process’ …

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February 11, 2013
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Boosted By Methane Releases, Oil And Gas Sector Is Number Two in Global Warming Pollution

By Tom Kenworthy
By Public Lands Team on Feb 8, 2013 at 10:43 am

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/08/1561571/oil-gas-number-two/
Reporting for the first time on GHGs from petroleum and natural gas systems, the EPA this week said that the oil and gas sector ranked …

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January 31, 2013
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Alarming Questions about EPA’s Oversight of Oil and Gas Drillers

Joint statement by Bruce Baizel, Director of Earthworks’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project, and Dusty Horwitt, Senior Counsel for Environmental Working Group, EWG

WASHINGTON – January 17 – A report yesterday by the Associated Press that the U.S. Environmental Protection …

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January 31, 2013
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An Oil Boom Takes a Toll on Health Care

By JOHN ELIGON
Published: January 27, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/us/boom-in-north-dakota-weighs-heavily-on-health-care.html?_r=0

Dr. Gary Ramage treating a patient at McKenzie County Hospital in Watford City, N.D. The hospital now averages 400 emergency room visits per month. –Matthew Staver for The New York Times
WATFORD …

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January 29, 2013
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Radiation in Fracking Wastewater

Its contents remain mostly a mystery. But fracking wastewater has revealed one of its secrets: It can be highly radioactive. And yet no agency really regulates its handling, transport or disposal. A four-part series on radiation in fracking wastewater …

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