{"id":2685,"date":"2014-12-09T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2014-12-09T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:07:12","slug":"new-report-highlights-frackings-global-hazards-desmogblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2685","title":{"rendered":"New Report Highlights Fracking&#8217;s Global Hazards | DeSmogBlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2014\/12\/05\/new-report-highlights-fracking-s-worldwide-hazards-lima-climate-talks\">New Report Highlights Fracking&#8217;s Global Hazards | DeSmogBlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">A new report, issued the same day the latest round of global climate negotiations opened in Peru, highlights the fracking industry&#8217;s slow expansion into nearly every continent, drawing attention not only to the potential harm from toxic pollution, dried-up water supplies and earthquakes, but also to the threat the shale industry poses to the world&#8217;s climate.<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/>The\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foeeurope.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/fracking_frenzy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, issued by Friends of the Earth Europe, focuses on the prospects for fracking in 11 countries in Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe, warning of unique hazards in each location along with the climate change risk posed in countries where the rule of law is relatively\u00a0weak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">\u201cAround the world people and communities are already paying the price of the climate crisis with their livelihoods and lives,\u201d\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foeeurope.org\/fracking-frenzy-011214\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0Susann Scherbarth, climate justice and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe. \u201cFracking will only make things worse and has no place in a clean energy\u00a0future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The 80-page document describes plans for fracking in Brazil&#8217;s Amazon rainforest (and the deforestation that would go along with that drilling), highlights the hazards the water-intensive process poses to already-disappearing aquifers in arid regions of northern Africa, and notes that licenses for shale gas drilling have been issued in the earthquake-prone zone at the foot of the Himalaya mountains in\u00a0India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin\/>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Report Highlights Fracking&#8217;s Global Hazards | DeSmogBlog. 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