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Shaken by fracking quakes, Texas is forced to act

by François PICARD Agence France-Presse HOUSTON, United States (AFP) – “You get used to it. The walls shake,” says Sam, a resident of Midland, a town in west Texas where hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas — known as “fracking” — is causing more and more earthquakes. “Then another tremor comes a second later, like a truck passing nearby,” said the 44-year-old, who did not wish to disclose his last name. Echoing his words, three […]

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Namibia defends drilling in unique biodiversity site

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AFP) — Namibia’s environment minister on Thursday defended a decision to allow oil and gas drilling in a biodiversity hotspot and near UN-listed cave paintings believed to be thousands of years old. Canada-based firm ReconAfrica is set to begin drilling this month in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) — a unique ecological site spanning parts of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The petroleum exploration company secured rights in 2014 to drill […]

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