UK - Fracking Village’ Gets Green Light to Go 100% Solar

The UK’s clean energy sector got a boost yesterday, as Repower Balcombe, the local energy cooperative born of the 2013 fracking protests, was given the go ahead with its proposed 5 megawatt (MW) solar park in West Sussex.

Read the full article fro Eco Watch here: http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/02/fracking-village-goes-solar/

New Report Exposes the Polluters Making Millions Drilling Public Lands Report adds to growing demand for President Obama to end federal leasing program

Amid the growing call for President Barack Obama to end the leasing of federal lands for fossil fuel development, a new report published Monday exposes the energy corporations profiting most from this public pillaging.

Read the full report here: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/28/new-report-exposes-polluters-making-millions-drilling-public-lands?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email

Link courtesy of www.commondreams.org.
 

Fracking banned in Northern Ireland for the first time

Read the full report here: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/fracking-banned-in-northern-ireland-for-the-first-time-31564424.html

Fracking industry will be minimally regulated in UK, letters reveal

UK regulatory framework a bit confused over precisely who will be responsible for what when the fracking begins. That's just how ministers and oily/gassy people prefer it. Ed.

Read the full article here:  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/sep/23/fracking-industry-minimal-regulation-uk?CMP=share_btn_link

Junk-Debt Investors Fight for Scraps as U.S. Shale Rout Deepens

Oh dear : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-25/junk-debt-investors-fight-for-scraps-as-u-s-shale-rout-deepens

We wonder if someone could tell David 'Call Me Dave' Cameron. Ed

US - Environmental officers disguised drinking water contamination related to fracking.

According to www.talkfracking.org, after a two-year analysis, investigative journalists Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman have uncovered 9 ways that officials at the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) have kept drinking water contamination across Pennsylvania “off the books” since fracking began in 2004.

Read exactly how here:  http://www.talkfracking.org/news/how-us-authorities-mishandled-and-downplayed-complaints-of-water-contamination-from-fracking/

Why are we not surprised? Why not write a comment and ask us. Could never happen over here of course. Ed.

Oaklahoma - EARTHQUAKES: Shaken more than 580 times, Okla. is top state for quakes in 2014

Oklahoma had a fivefold surge in earthquakes last year, making it by far the most seismically active state in the Lower 48.
The Sooner State was shaken by 585 quakes of magnitude 3 and larger, compared with only 100 in 2013, according to an EnergyWire analysis of federal earthquake data. California, which is twice the size of Oklahoma, had fewer than one-third that number.
Researchers and many people in the state believe the quakes are linked to oil and gas activity, namely deep-underground disposal of drilling waste fluid.

Source:  http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060011066