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Backyard drilling may be coming soon to a Naples neighborhood; residents fear fracking listen

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Tags: Naples, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, oil, drilling, Preserve our Paradise

A Texas-based company has filed an application with the state to drill just outside a residential neighborhood in Naples. People who live in the Golden Gate Estates neighborhood in Collier County want the project moved out of their backyard. Jaime Duran owns the closest home to the proposed oil and natural gas well. He said he and his wife knew nothing of the proposal until they received a letter asking them for household information.

“She told us that they were putting together a conting...

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor is in Cuba; will lean about their environment, economy and culture

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Tags: Cuba, Kathy Castor, oil spill, drilling, tourism, economy, socialism

Tampa-area member of Congress Kathy Castor is in Cuba on what her office calls a fact-finding visit. The Democrat traveled to the socialist island Wednesday and will learn about Cuba's economy, culture, human rights and environment.

While on her trip Castor will speak with the ministry of tourism and a professor of gender studies.

She’ll spend time in Old Havana with small business owners to encourage...

Experts discuss New York State Attorney's fracking lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers listen

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Tags: Stetson University College of Law, Hydrofracking, Fracking, EPA, environment, pollution, drilling

Hydrofracking is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock under the Earth’s surface. The New York State Attorney General is bringing charges against the Army Corps of Engineers to crack down on the lack of regulation of the process known as fracking. Two of the main players spoke about the lawsuit to students, faculty and members of the public at Stetson Law yesterday.

Mauricio Roma is a geologist who works on the case fo...

Michelle Bachmann will consider drilling in the Everglades listen

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Tags: Michelle Bachmann, drilling, Everglades Foundation, 2012 Election

In an Associated Press interview, Republican Presidential hopeful Michelle Bachmann says she would consider drilling for oil and natural gas in the Everglades.

"The United States needs to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy and more dependent upon American resourcefulness. And so whether that is in the Everglades or whether that is in the Eastern Gulf region or whether that is in North Dakota, we need to, we need to go to where the energy is. But, of course, it needs to be d...

Repower America's Snake Oil Awards listen

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Tags: BP, BP oil spill, Gulf oil spill, Koch, petroleum, drilling

The first annual Snake Oil Awards, hosted by Repower America in St. Petersburg, were full of lies and deceit, corporation corruption and environmental disasters. Repower America spokesperson Blake Williams says the organizations honored in these awards all sold Americans their own brand of snake oil.

“2010 was remarkable year for a number of reasons first we had a number of huge environmental disaster from the BP spill here in Florida to a large oil spill in southwest Michigan to the coa...