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“A disaster waiting to happen”: How the fracking boom put an oil field in the Guadalupe River floodplain

Lack of a state floodplain policy enabled oil companies to build in parts of Texas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.
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Advocates decry a bill that would allow discharge of treated fracking waste into surface, groundwater

A newly minted bill in the legislative session that would allow the discharge of treated oil and gas wastewater into New ...

If fracking begins in the Kimberley, it could damage a sacred river

Under the soils of the Kimberley lies one of the world’s last undeveloped large-scale reservoirs of onshore gas, according to ...

‘Disaster waiting to happen': Fracking boom put hundreds of tanks in Guadalupe River floodplain

Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 ...