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Just when newly disclosed documents obtained by the New York Times reveal the financial shaky ground on which fracking companies base their claims, a group on Congressmen are urging President Obama to further embrace natural

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As fracking became commercially viable, oil and gas drilling companies entered communities with shale gas resources, which can have a number of local effects.

But for several years, companies in southern Louisiana, where his business is located, have suffered along with the oil industry, which is affected by changes in global oil supplies and technologies like fracking.

Depending on where you live, there's legislation pending that will levy more regulations and taxes on fracking, which in a time of rapidly falling oil prices could significantly hurt local energy companies that provide jobs and work for small businesses.

Rather, its problems are related to the rise of fracking, which depressed the natural - gas prices that private - equity buyers had expected would climb and help the company boost revenue and service its debt.

The complaint says Skelos also pressed to get hydraulic fracturing made legal in New York, which the environmental company was interested in, to treat fracking waste water.

The mailer also accuses Murphy's Democratic opponent, attorney Justin Wagner, of representing «one of the largest fracking companies» whose natural gas flows through the Algonquin pipeline, which is slated for expansion in Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties.

The catch: Democrats in the Hudson Valley Senate District are being targeted with the mailer, which also questions the clients in Wagner's law firm, which Ball's campaign says «protects fracking companies and other polluters.»

The records cite emails beginning in «mid-2013» in which Adam Skelos began to push to position the company to sell products needed in fracking for natural gas trapped deep in shale deposits upstate.

A spokesman for Gerard, Reid Porter, told The Post that neither Cuomo nor the state Department of Health, which the governor claims has been conducting a health study on fracking for nearly a year, has sought any information about the drilling technique from API or any of its member companies.

While Cuomo claims he's trying to make New York business - friendly, an authoritative oil - and - gas industry source involved in Pennsylvania - based energy production told The Post the governor has repeatedly rejected offers of information on fracking from leading energy companies, which are prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on gas exploration in the state.

A bill now under consideration on Capitol Hill would grant the EPA oversight of fracking and force drilling companies, which are currently exempt from portions of the Clean Water Act, to disclose the chemicals they use in fracturing fluids.

The very worst impact from an exploratory «frack» would be the discovery of vast reserves of methane, which profit - hungry petroleum companies, aided and abetted by power - hungry politicians, would fall over themselves to bring to the surface and burn.

It seems that Butler isn't telling the simple folk of Backwoods, Asswhere that the way evil gas companies extract gas is through the controversial «fracking» process, which could, potentially, poison their land at the same time it's not making them rich.

Matt Damon plays a corporate salesman for Global, a multibillion - dollar fracking company, in «Promised Land,» which he also co-wrote and produced.

The company called Global which is engaged in hydraulic fracturing, known commonly as fracking, has sent two sales agents to a rural area (filmed in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania) to convince the locals to agree to drilling on their land.

And now we get Promised Land, which finds him playing a natural - gas company spokesperson whose selling of the hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) technique to small - town rubes instead leads him to conclude that — gasp!

A lot of companies just announce their games here then never bother answering anything which is fracking frustrating.

Companies owned by Duke, Southern and Dominion are partners in the 550 - mile ACP, which will carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia to the North Carolina coast.

The more oil companies frack and drill, the more wastewater they inject into disposal wells near active faults, which can trigger damaging earthquakes.

«The report found that the Russian - sponsored news agency RT (formerly Russia Today) «r [an] anti-fracking programing, highlighting environmental issues and the impacts on public health,» which «is likely reflective of the Russian Government's concern about the impact of fracking and the U.S. natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to [Russian energy companies»] profitability.

The most involved are Barclays and HSBC, both of which not only provide banking services to fracking companies, but own portions of several of them.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company, has filed for bankruptcy (although coal's problems are due mostly to fracking for natural gas, which by some measures is as bad as coal).

In March of 2013, the Commissioners approved a chemical disclosure bill in committee which would have required fracking companies to disclose to the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) the chemical ingredients in fracking fluid, many of which are extremely toxic.

However, Halliburton, a major fracking services company, raised some reservations which killed the bill, as AP reporter Michael Biesecker confirmed:

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Public opposition to fracking has escalated in recent months, with concerned residents and environmental and consumer advocacy groups campaigning against the practice in New Jersey and the surrounding states, where gas companies have been ramping up plans to drill in the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation which extends up the East Coast.

The company, which has faced local opposition in the rest of the UK is trying to overturn the Scottish ban which doesn't involve legislation but is an instruction to local authorities not to consent planning for any fracking - related activities.