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Remote Wyoming site could help shape fracking’s future
Posted by Houston Chronicle: Brett Clanton on September 26th, 2011
Houston Chronicle: Natural gas development in the U.S. will depend not only on what happens in Washington and in statehouses across the country. It could be shaped in part by what happens in a big antelope-dotted field south of this remote valley town.
Here, Shell Oil Co. and others are taking steps - some required and others voluntary - that soon may be the norm for reducing the environmental impact of gas drilling and the extraction process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Shell, for instance, now...
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The Big Payback from Bringing Back Peat Bogs
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Fred Pearce on September 26th, 2011
Yale Environment 360: Wild fires that swept across Russia during the record heat wave last summer wrecked crops, triggered a global surge in wheat prices, caused pitch-black smogs that killed thousands of people and -- though not much noted at the time -- poured huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The gas came mainly from burning peat in wide areas of drained bogs around Moscow.
The world had seen nothing like it since peat bogs burned in Indonesia in 1998, shrouding neighboring countries in smoke for...