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Last Month was the Hottest April Ever—by a Record Margin


MAY 16, 2016HEADLINES

And in the latest sign of human-induced climate change driven by the fossil fuel industry, last month marked the hottest April on record worldwide, crushing the previous high by the widest margin to date. It was the seventh month in a row to break global temperature records.

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Washington State: 52 Arrested Blockading Tracks to Oil Refineries

MAY 16, 2016HEADLINES


Protests against the oil, gas and coal industries erupted across multiple continents over the weekend as part of the global campaign to "break free from fossil fuels." In Washington state, 52 people were arrested after blockading railroad tracks leading to two oil refineries. Protesters pitched their tents on the tracks and occupied the BNSF Railway tracks from Friday afternoon until police broke up the encampment early Sunday. Ahmed Gaya spoke out on Saturday.

 


 

 

 

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New research from Environmental Florida unveiled during the event says “fracking laws created as much global warming pollution as 22 coal fired power plants in a single year, and at least 14 billion gallons of wastewater in 2014,” said Jennifer Rubiello, director of the advocacy group.


Rubiello also criticized new methane regulations introduced by the Obama administration this week as not enough, because it doesn’t apply to existing facilities.

Dr Les Cole spoke at the event about the harm fracking causes to public health, with its wastewater linked to cancer, hormone disruption, and immune system dysfunction.

Efforts in the Florida State Senate to “preempt” the local laws was rejected earlier this year, but Vice President Joe Biden still celebrated the profitable polluting process during a speech in nearby Tampa on Wednesday.


The Democrat credited fracking with the increase in domestic gas production in the US, helping to cut the country’s trade deficit.

 

St Petersburg City Council member Karl Nurse rejected these claims, asking the VP to take a look at the price of wind power in the US which “has dropped by two thirds in the last six years, and power use has actually peaked.”


Nurse said the US was moving towards renewable energy sources despite ”the fossil fuel industry kicking and screaming.”

Florida Governor Rick Scott may be one of those “kicking and screaming” as he clings to oil and gas.

The Republican’s support for fracking may be driven by personal greed since his blind trust reportedly owns $135,000 worth of stock in Schlumberger, the “world's largest oilfield services company” which promotes a “frack now and pay later” strategy.



https://www.rt.com/usa/343050-fracking-fight-back-florida/




A new study has revealed significant contamination of soil and water in North Dakota from radioactive materials, heavy metals and corrosive salts as a result of oil and gas wastewater spills.

The Duke University research, published in Environmental Science and Technology, highlights the possible health implications for humans and wildlife from the 3,900 reported brine spills in the region since the rise of fracking in 2007.

 

Some 9,700 wells have been drilled in North Dakota's Bakken shale and Bottineu oilfield region in the last 10 years, Truthout reports.

Unlike other areas in the U.S. where decades of conventional oil and gas exploration have generated a legacy of contamination, the exploration rates of conventional oil and gas in North Dakota were significantly lower than recent unconventional operations,” the Duke study says.

Therefore, recent OGW [oil and gas wastewater] spills are directly associated with recent unconventional oil extraction.”

 

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Meanwhile the French are considering rejecting gas from America because it comes from shale and fracking — illegal methods of extraction in France.

 La loi de 2011 interdisant la fracturation hydraulique

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Just before dawn Monday morning, Chuck Belczyk thought a jet had crashed near his home roughly 25 miles outside Pittsburgh — until he heard the sound of hissing gas.

“And that’s when it all hit us what was happening,” Belczyk told NPR’s State Impact. “You knew the pipeline went.”

A column of fire shot 150 feet in the air and destroyed a home, a barn, and several cars. Residents of over two dozen homes, including Belczyk, were evacuated, with one family barely escaping the flames that engulfed their home, neighbors said.

Interstate 376 was shut down amid concern over falling power lines, including a half-dozen high tension towers, which left 1,500 people temporarily without electricity. No one was injured or killed by the blast, authorities said, and because of recent rains, the possibility of a forest fire was averted.

The 24-inch diameter pipeline responsible for the blast had gone into service just seven days earlier. It’s owned by Energy Transfer Partners, the same pipeline company behind the Dakota Access pipeline project and the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has said it suspects that the blast was caused by heavy rainfall, which they believe may have caused the pipeline to slip on the saturated ground, break, and then explode.

Energy Transfer Partners dubbed its new “gathering” line the Revolution pipeline. Revolution was built to connect individual gas wells to a new cryogenic plant, the Revolution gas processing plant, where so-called “wet gas” from Marcellus wells would be separated into natural gas liquids and dry gas.

From the Revolution plant, that dry natural gas, a fossil fuel made of methane that’s used for electricity and heat, would be shipped west direction on the 725 mile Rover pipeline. Natural gas liquids like ethane, which is used to make plastics and petrochemicals, would head out on the Mariner East 2 pipeline to a shipping terminal near the Atlantic Coast, where it could be shipped to the Gulf Coast or abroad.

Read more:

https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/09/12/pipeline-exploded-pennsylvania-par...

 

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