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Focus On Fracking Diverts Attention From Horizontal Drilling
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 27th, 2013
National Public Radio: Mention the recent surge in oil and natural gas production in the U.S. and one word comes to mind for a lot of people: "fracking." Hydraulic fracturing is a controversial technique that uses water, sand and potentially hazardous chemicals to break up rock deep underground to release oil and natural gas.
But there's another technology that is just as responsible for drilling booms happening across the country: horizontal drilling.
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UK on flood alert as heavy rain mixes with melting snow
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 27th, 2013
Press Association: More than 200 flood alerts are in place across the UK as heavy rain has mixed with melting snow.
There have been more reports of flooding in south Wales overnight as the downpours replace almost two weeks of snow. Norfolk police have reported flooding caused by melting snow and ice, which has closed a number of roads in the area.
Wales, central England, and the south-west will be the worst-hit areas, with at least 2.5cm (1in) of rain expected by mid-morning on Sunday, while the rest of the...
United Kingdom: Now we await the floodwaters, this time with a peppering of pipes and carrots
Posted by Guardian: David Mitchell on January 27th, 2013
Guardian: Around the middle of last week, I noticed that something was missing from my life. Something I'd grown accustomed to, started to take for granted and found comforting as I leafed through the newspaper each morning. I'm talking, of course, about flooding.
Flooding had become a constant in modern Britain. News of killings and currency collapses, of terrible things happening in the Middle East or Africa, of pointless and anodyne political speeches, of endless rape allegations against the dead were...