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Tesoro Documents Reveal Oil Spill in North Dakota
Posted by EcoWatch: Jesse Coleman on October 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: North Dakota, long known for its cattle ranches and open spaces, has recently become one of the oil and gas industry’s most prized—and profitable—possessions, thanks to the advent of fracking. However, the price of oil and gas industry development is paid in destruction to the environment and strains to the regulatory framework meant to protect the public from a reckless industry, as Tesoro’s massive oil spill attests. Documents from an open records request by Greenpeace have uncovered that Tesoro,...
Lessons From the U.S. for Countries About to be Fracked
Posted by EcoWatch: Jesse Coleman on August 15th, 2013
EcoWatch: The U.S. has blessed the world with many wondrous things. Atomic bombs and peanut butter. Assembly lines and CocaCola. And now there is another American invention posed to spread past our borders and into your water supply: Fracking. Fracking is a technique used by the oil industry to blast apart underground shale rock layers using liquids at high pressure. The process has allowed the oil and gas industry to reach deposits of fossil fuels that were previously unreachable, and has ignited a massive...
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