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Hydraulic fracturing, often called fracking, fracing or hydrofracking, is the process of initiating and subsequently propagating a fracture in a rock layer, employing the pressure of a fluid as the source of energy. The fracturing, known as a frack job (or frac job), is done from a wellbore drilled into reservoir rock formations, in order to increase the extraction rates and ultimate recovery of oil and natural gas.

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• Keeping your home Cool in Summer or Warm in Winter for free!
  How to keep cool or warm in your home by design, either in Summer or Winter, whilst reducing costs to you and the Earth..

• Home Ventilation
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• Sustainable House Day 2010 in Australia
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• Green Directory
  New Green directory service on line.
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  The Fourth International Conference on Climate Change is taking place in Chicago, Illinois.
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  New Scientist has just published a 'Age of Denial' special edition..
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• Is Cap and Trade really the way to care for the planet?
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• Is Climate Change caused by Photoshop?
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• Home Sustainability Assessment - do you really need one?
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• Most convinced global warming not man made
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• Earth Hour - the flop?
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• Earth Hour - lights out, minds alight
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• Missing, one weather station
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• WWF's Amazon carbon trading cash cow
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• Costs overruns for school buildings
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• Climate Rage
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• The Green Web Directory is Online
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