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- Fracking Fluids Could Contaminate Freshwater Aquifers, Says Study (63 comments)
- Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Frigging Fecking Fracking Gag Rule on Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking (50 comments)
- BREAKING: UK Government backtracks on fracking - Green Living - Environment - The Independent (10 comments)
- Ordinary citizens protest fracking because it contaminates drinking water and spews carcinogens while President Obama cheers the frackers on (8 comments)
- How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania (19 comments)
Solar News Roundup
Seeded on Sun May 20, 2012 8:18 AM EDT (CleanTechnica - By Zachary Shahan)
Some more solar energy news from around the net to wrap up the week: SolarCity & Clean Currents have teamed up to offer fixed-price Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for solar power with as little as $0 down and long-term electricity discounts/savings.
27 Solar Projects Planned by Walmart
Seeded on Sun May 20, 2012 8:12 AM EDT (CleanTechnica - By Jake Richardson)
Twenty-seven Walmart stores in Massachusetts will receive photovoltaic installations before the summer is over, if all goes according to plan.
BREAKING: UK Government backtracks on fracking - Green Living - Environment - The Independent
Seeded on Sun May 20, 2012 12:51 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
A welcome reflection about the full-steam-ahead race to frack wherever and as soon as possible may be the sign that this hopelessly water contaminating process to drill for shale gas is finally pausing.
TXU is First to Offer Free Night-Time Electricity Rate Plan
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 5:12 PM EDT (CleanTechnica - By Susan Kraemer)
TXU Energy in Texas is offering the first free energy rates in the nation, between 10 PM and 6 AM. Its daytime rates are 11 cents. Wind power tends to be greatest in the wee hours. Texas wind power sometimes has to be curtailed or wasted because there’s no one to use i …
Fracking Fluids Could Contaminate Freshwater Aquifers, Says Study
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 4:01 PM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
The chemical-laced water used in hydraulic fracturing can migrate through fractures and faults up to overlying aquifers in as little as tens of years.
Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Frigging Fecking Fracking Gag Rule on Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 5:04 AM EDT (NPR)
Fracking exposes citizens to a wild mix of highly toxic chemicals and carcinogens. So when patients show up at their doctors' offices, the doctors need to figure out which chemicals are the likely culprits. The doctors of sick patients can, with great effort, access the names of …
One Million Homes Can Be Powered by Mid-Atlantic Solar (Today)
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 3:27 PM EDT (CleanTechnica - By Jake Richardson)
The solar power capacity of installations in Mid-Atlantic states has expanded to over one gigawatt, or enough to power up to one million homes. Solar capacity has doubled in the region for each of the past two years.
Ordinary citizens protest fracking because it contaminates drinking water and spews carcinogens while President Obama cheers the frackers on
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 1:52 PM EDT ()
Fracking can provide massive amounts of methane gas to be used domestically and millions of gallons of wastewater containing carcinogens. There are roughly 400,000 of these wells across America and they have created a lot of committed opponents. During Obama's State of the Un …
How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:59 PM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)
The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …
USGS Details Effects of Climate Change on Water Availability in 14 US Water Basins
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 5:26 PM EDT (Phys.or)
Climate change projections indicate a steady increase in temperature progressing through the 21st century ..... .......generally resulting in snowpack reductions, changes to the timing of snowmelt, altered streamflows, and reductions in soil moisture, all of which could af …
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