UPDATE FROM MURMANSK: Our activists have been taken from the ship to the Investigative Committee in two buses. While our lawyers are inside, neither they nor the diplomats gathered outside have been granted access to them yet. But despite everything, these brave rainbow warriors seem to be in good spirits.
CALIFORNIA RESTRICTS FRACKING, BUT DOES NOT BAN IT On Friday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the state’s first fracking bill into law, which will impose the nation's toughest regulations on the oil and gas industry in the state but will also open up the vast Monterey Shale reserves for drilling.
The law will go into effect next year and requires oil and gas companies to list the chemicals they use in the fracking process online. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves injecting water, chemicals and sand into underground rock formations to unlock oil and gas reserves deep below the Earth’s surface. Fracking chemicals were exempted from federal disclosure laws and the Clean Water Act, so it is up to each state to decide if and how the oil and gas companies should disclose the chemical brew they use. The law will also require oil and gas companies to get a permit for fracking, notify neighbors before drilling and monitor ground water and ai...Continue Reading
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