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Colorado Springs Citizens for Community Rights (CSCCR) is issuing this release to add clarity and offer a response to Tuesday’s Colorado Springs City Council vote to defeat proposed oil and gas regulations.

This Tuesday between noon and 1 p.m., a coalition of social and environmental groups will rally on the front steps of the Colorado Springs City Hall in opposition to city council plans to legalize hydraulic fracturing within city limits.

Dates for the second Global Water: Oil & Gas Summit announced

National Coaltion for Healthier Schools' state of the states report finds all children should be considered at risk for extra health problems due solely to environmental conditions of schools. Letter to Congress from 78 groups supports EPA budget.

"Towards Healthy Schools 2015" state by state data and policy report from Coalition for Healthier Schools urges swifter federal and state actions to address environmental hazards that impact kids health and learning.

With a fierce debate raging in the UK about fracking’s value – extracting gas from shale rock layers deep within the earth – Ecobuild 2013 is putting the controversial technique under the spotlight.

New book untangles the economics, science, and the politics of fracking for the curious and concerned layman. Author beautifully lays out both sides of the argument and depends upon the scientific research to outline the facts.

Greeley & Stone, Publishers, in co-operation with Amazon.com, is giving away award-winning journalist Walter Brasch's latest book, Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting With Disaster, Jan. 6-7

Celeritas Chemicals Announces Availability of a New High-Performance Grade of Carboxymethyl Hydroxypropyl Guar Gum (CMHPG) that provides unique benefits in fracturing applications with high performance requirements.

The guar gum market has experienced unprecedented demand during the last 24 months, with prices increasing as much as 1,600%. To address the demand, Celeritas Chemicals has entered an agreement for immediate supply of guar gum to the U.S. market.

Thompson Pump and Manufacturing Co., Inc., a full-service provider of high quality pumps, pumping equipment and engineering expertise, introduces the 6-inch, high-head 6JCC pump.

A newly developed fluid for use in oil and natural gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations is now ready for testing in field operations, Family Joule Holdings, Inc. (FJH) announced today.

Gardere Wynne Sewell’s Richard O. Faulk will participate in the panel discussion at the 2011 Gas Drilling Operations Conference.

Celeritas Chemicals, a specialty chemicals supplier based in Southlake, TX announces new supply availability of Hydrochloric Acid

Title Board Rejects Bill of Rights Charter Amendment Petition Banning Fracking as Multiple Subjects

Colorado Springs Citizens for Community Rights (CSCCR) is issuing this release to add clarity and offer a response to Tuesday’s Colorado Springs City Council vote to defeat proposed oil and gas regulations.

This Tuesday between noon and 1 p.m., a coalition of social and environmental groups will rally on the front steps of the Colorado Springs City Hall in opposition to city council plans to legalize hydraulic fracturing within city limits.

Dates for the second Global Water: Oil & Gas Summit announced

Could the Mancos Shale be the next Bakken? the next Marcellus? the next Barnett? it could be.... Find out at the San Juan Basin Energy Conference!

Here renowned energy expert Dr. Daniel Fine of M.I.T. talks about the future of Shale Gas-Oil and Fracking

National Coaltion for Healthier Schools' state of the states report finds all children should be considered at risk for extra health problems due solely to environmental conditions of schools. Letter to Congress from 78 groups supports EPA budget.

"Towards Healthy Schools 2015" state by state data and policy report from Coalition for Healthier Schools urges swifter federal and state actions to address environmental hazards that impact kids health and learning.

Raybo Chemical has selected Viachem Ltd. to be its sales and marketing representative in select States for its Raybo 77AlGel fracking additives.

With a fierce debate raging in the UK about fracking’s value – extracting gas from shale rock layers deep within the earth – Ecobuild 2013 is putting the controversial technique under the spotlight.

Martin Freeman of leading UK radon specialists PropertECO offers a balanced view on the impact that fracking activity will have on radon levels in local buildings

New book untangles the economics, science, and the politics of fracking for the curious and concerned layman. Author beautifully lays out both sides of the argument and depends upon the scientific research to outline the facts.

Greeley & Stone, Publishers, in co-operation with Amazon.com, is giving away award-winning journalist Walter Brasch's latest book, Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting With Disaster, Jan. 6-7

The tourism “image” of my home state of New York has a lot at stake in our great outdoors. People come from all over to glimpse our fall foliage, to savour the views from atop our mountains, and fish or boat along our freshwater lakes and rivers.

Celeritas Chemicals Announces Availability of a New High-Performance Grade of Carboxymethyl Hydroxypropyl Guar Gum (CMHPG) that provides unique benefits in fracturing applications with high performance requirements.

A recent study conducted by Plains Exploration and Production Co. and environmental group Cardno Entrix at the Inglewood Oil Field, in Los Angeles County, indicates that fracking may not have any adverse environmental effects.

Fracking, a controversial new method for extracting oil and natural gas from shale rock, yields it's first domestic consequences in the United States.

Article describing how the domestic natural gas industry is changing, and the impact hydraulic fracturing is having on that change.

The guar gum market has experienced unprecedented demand during the last 24 months, with prices increasing as much as 1,600%. To address the demand, Celeritas Chemicals has entered an agreement for immediate supply of guar gum to the U.S. market.

Guerrilla Marketing Multi-Chem Style: Fracker Registers CITIZENSAGAINSTMULTICHEM and CITIZENSAGAINSTMULTI-CHEM domains to block fracking and pollution protests.

FracOhio is just recently organzied! To understand how it can help your company, organization develop oil, gas resources in Ohio, read below

Lowering their fracking profile after a bungled blending blast, this self-proclaimed master fracker can now be found hawking "cleaner fracs through chemistry".

Last year Frac King Multi-Chem sold out to Halliburton after they blew up their own blending plant in New Iberia LA. Now over in Vermilion Parish, they're breaking ground on their next Ground Zero.

Thompson Pump and Manufacturing Co., Inc., a full-service provider of high quality pumps, pumping equipment and engineering expertise, introduces the 6-inch, high-head 6JCC pump.

PetroSense Introduces the New CMS-1500 Environmental Monitoring Backbone, the real time monitoring solution for produced water.

A concert event featuring: Citizen Cope, Natalie Merchant, Medeski Martin & Wood, The Felice Brothers, Joan Osborne, Tracy Bonham, Toshi Reagon, Dan Zanes, Ida, The Horse Flies, The Ahkwesasne Women Singers hosted by Mark Ruffalo & Melissa Leo

So who's to blame for those high gas prices at the pump? Obama? George W. Bush? Oil speculators?

Why the Economic Boom will Outweigh Environmental Concerns says Igor Purlantov

North Carolina is in a unique position among the states when it comes to hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for natural gas. That’s the assessment of Daniel Fine of the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy. Fine discussed North Carolina,

said Miller.“We spent a fair amount of time with several of their elected officials and local business leaders discussing a wide range of issues that any area involved in energy exploration faces.”

Learn how secondary containment spill berms on your frac site can help keep your materials contained in the event of a leak or spill.

Now, the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy – a research wing of New Mexico Tech – is taking the lead in framing the debate on these hot-button issues. The Center and the Economic Development Corporation of Lea County (N.M.) are hosting a

"The purpose of this conference is to bring together shale gas and conventional gas producing counties to discuss the opportunities and challenges of the regulations, economics and energy security surrounding this natural resource," says conference

A newly developed fluid for use in oil and natural gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations is now ready for testing in field operations, Family Joule Holdings, Inc. (FJH) announced today.

Gardere Wynne Sewell’s Richard O. Faulk will participate in the panel discussion at the 2011 Gas Drilling Operations Conference.

Celeritas Chemicals, a specialty chemicals supplier based in Southlake, TX announces new supply availability of Hydrochloric Acid

Two of the Hunter Valley’s leading winemakers, Bruce Tyrrell and Brian McGuigan, have strongly refuted comments by the former NSW premier, Nick Greiner, that coal seam gas production and winemaking can operate side by side.

It has been a turbulent week for the Shale Gas industry globally, and environmental concerns still continue to lead many news headlines.

NYC Council Member James F. Gennaro discusses DEC's release of draft regulations for high-volume hydraulic fracturing with June Stoyer, host of The Organic View Radio Show.

Two senior ExxonMobil executives are heading up a high-level panel of industry experts at the upcoming European Unconventional Gas Summit in Krakow from 28-29 September.

Public acceptance and assurance of the safety of the unconventional gas industry are just some of the market challenges that will be discussed at the European Unconventional Gas Summit in Krakow from 27-29 September.

‘Global Water: Oil & Gas Summit’ by The CWC Group and supported by Global Water Intelligence will take place in May 2012, Dubai and looks at the role and demand of water in the oil and gas industry...

Join industry professionals at SMi's CPD accredited conference from 2nd - 3rd November 2011, Central London, UK. For further information and the opportunity to register, please visit the website.

Using technology called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," asort of controlled earthquake, companies now bringing previously inaccessible natural gas to the surface all over the globe. But as prices fall, the process is ecologically devastating

The companies are collaborating on a novel technology based on covalently bound biocides coated on proppants and iron pipes used in hydraulic fracturing. This technology will prevent clogging due to bacterial growth without polluting the environment.