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Fracking decision changes N.Y. lives
Posted by Poughkeepsie Journal: Jon Campbell on March 1st, 2015
Poughkeepsie Journal: Without hesitation, Kirkwood resident Marchie Diffendorf can recall the exact date of the phone call: Dec. 7, 2007.
It was a landman with a natural-gas company: Would he be interested in leasing the natural-gas rights to his 60-acre property in the rural Broome County town he's lived in his whole life?
Around that same time, someone knocked on the door of Eileen Hamlin's blue-sided, one-story Kirkwood home -- 2 ½ miles from Diffendorf's -- with a similar offer. Take the deal today, the man...
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Bells toll for Europe’s largest gas field
Posted by Reuters: Toby Sterling on March 1st, 2015
Reuters: Dutch church bells that for centuries have tolled to warn of floods across the low-lying countryside are sounding the alarm for a new threat: earthquakes linked to Europe's largest natural gas field.
"Money can buy a lot of things, but a building like this cannot be replaced," said Jur Bekooy, a civil engineer with the Groningen Old Churches Association, pointing to cracks in the ceiling and walls of the 13th-century Maria Church in the village of Westerwijtwerd.
Long ignored, voices like Bekooy's...
Dow Bets $6 Billion That U.S. Fracking Boom Will Last Another Decade
Posted by Forbes: None Given on March 1st, 2015
Forbes: Dow Chemical is investing $6 billion to enlarge its manufacturing facilities in the United States by 40 percent, based on a wager that low natural gas prices here will persist into the middle of the next decade, a Dow executive said in Chicago this week. The investment reverses Dow’s vocal exodus from manufacturing in the United States, said Doug May, Dow’s business president of olefins, aromatics, and alternatives, during the Kellogg Energy Conference Wednesday at Northwestern University. “We’re...
Fracking Opponents Feel Police Pressure In Some Drilling Hotspots
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 1st, 2015
National Public Radio: Wendy Lee, an anti-fracking activist and philosophy professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, has always protested peacefully. So she was stunned last winter when a state trooper came to her home to ask her about eco-terrorism and pipe bombs.
The trooper was investigating an alleged trespassing incident that involved Lee and two other activists visiting a gas compressor in Pennsylvania's Lycoming County in June 2013. Lee says they stayed on a public road and left when security guards...