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Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Discharges of treated produced-water to surface waters are eligible for coverage under this general permit. There are two types of facilities generating these discharges. Exploration and Production (E&P) Waste Management Facilities are generally within an oil gas field; Commercial Disposal Facilities are generally offsite, receives E&P wastes and other types of waste waters.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is directed to use a risk-based strategy to inspect oil and gas facilities. The Commissions risk-based strategy prioritizes the phases of oil and gas operations that are most likely to experience spills, excess emissions, and other types of violations for inspections. The purposes of a risk-based inspection strategy are to protect public health, minimize environmental contamination, detect spills before...
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Pub. Date
2013.
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"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at...
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Pub. Date
c2014
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"The revolution has already begun. The fracking revolution, that is. The Fracking Truth is a primer on America's ongoing energy revolution, but it's also a call to action. The oil and gas industry has failed itself and failed the American public by doing a poor job of educating the public on fracking and related technologies that have created the American energy revolution. Readers will learn about the myths and the truths of the controversial practice...
7) The real cost of fracking: how America's shale gas boom is threatening our families, pets, and food
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Presents a cautionary assessment of the consequences of hydraulic fracturing that documents numerous cases of drilling-site contamination linked to human and animal illnesses.
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