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Taft (United States) (AFP) - Fred Holmes watches with satisfaction as pumps pull oil from deep under his California farm, tapping a supply he thinks could last another century. But he knows the state's ambitious environmental policies will put an end to the practice much sooner than that. Oil extraction "could continue for another 100 years," he told AFP. But it won't. "Twelve to 14 years" for his company at the rate things are changing, he says. California produces 311,000 barrels of crude oil every day, around 2.4 percent of all US production, making it the seventh largest producing state i...
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Washington (AFP) - Talk of a possible ban on gas cooking in the United States due to health fears has become the latest rallying cry for US Republicans, joining other more established lines of attack such as gun rights. The noisy debate was sparked by Richard Trumka Jr, a member of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), saying that a ban could not be ruled out due to the "hidden hazard" of gas stove emissions. "Any option is on the table. Products that can't be made safe can be banned," he told Bloomberg News this week following new research showing an increased risk of asthma in ho...
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Houston (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 quakes rocked the ground in just one day on February 4. This region of the Permian Basin, from which 40 percent of US oil and 15 percent of its gas are extracted, experienced nine earthquakes greater than three-magnitude...
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Lake Itasca (United States) (AFP) - Environmental activists and Native American protestors blocked construction of a controversial oil pipeline between Canada and the United States for several hours, with police arresting more than 160 demonstrators according to a nonprofit. To the cries of "Stop Line 3" and the sound of tribal drums, several hundred protesters, including actress and activist Jane Fonda, occupied the construction site in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, on Monday before being dislodged by the police. Built by the Canadian company Enbridge, the Line 3 pipeline takes oil from the tar san...
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