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The Blackfeet Tribal Council can stop poisonous fracking to their lands. Pauline Matt is conducting a peaceful protest of Blackfeet Reservation Lands being destroyed by Hydraulic Fracturing this August 5-12. Lands could easily be saved and kept healthy if the Tribal Council prohibits fracking from occurring, All other sites of fracking have poisoned land, crops, waters, livestock and reduced Real Estate values to nothing. Join Dr. Carol Francis Talk Radio Show and help Blackfeet people...

HOUSTON, Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- C&J Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE: CJES) today reported net income of $53.3 million, or $0.99 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2012, compared to net income of $33.2 million, or $0.68 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2011. Net income for the first quarter of 2012 was $49.4 million, or $0.92 per diluted share. Second quarter 2012 results included the impact of approximately $0.5 million in transaction costs incurred in...

DALLAS, August 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market research report, "Hydraulic Fracturing Market by Resource & Well Type - Global Trends & Forecasts up till 2017" published by MarketsandMarkets (http://www.marketsandmarkets.com), the global hydraulic fracturing market will grow from its estimated $31 billion in 2011. This value is expected to increase from $40 billion in 2012 to $64 billion by 2017, with 10% CAGR during the same period. North America is...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Risk analysts have concluded that the disposal of contaminated wastewater from hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") wells producing natural gas in the intensively developed Marcellus Shale region poses a substantial potential risk of river and other water pollution. That conclusion, the analysts say, calls for regulators and others to consider additional mandatory steps to reduce the potential of drinking water contamination from...

CALGARY, AB and VICTORIA, BC, July 27, 2012 /CNW/ - A new report, "The Modern Practices of Hydraulic Fracturing: A Focus on Canadian Resources", provides a comprehensive overview of hydraulic fracturing in Canada. The culmination of a year-long research project, the report provides a review of factual and objective information on the practice of hydraulic fracturing and its importance to the development of Canadian shale oil and natural gas resource plays. The research looks at...

HOUSTON, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kirby Corporation ("Kirby") (NYSE: KEX) today announced net earnings attributable to Kirby for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012 of $47.6 million, or $.85 per share, compared with $41.7 million, or $.77 per share, for the 2011 second quarter. Consolidated revenues for the 2012 second quarter were $511.8 million compared with $437.3 million reported for the 2011 second quarter. Joe Pyne, Kirby's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,...

SAN DIEGO, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verenium Corporation (Nasdaq: VRNM), a leading industrial biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of high-performance enzymes, today announced that it has received regulatory authorization from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to market its next-generation cellulase enzyme for non-food applications, including use as a biocatalyst to break down the guar-based gel used in hydraulic fracturing. This...

LAFAYETTE, La., July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Field Energy Services, Inc. (CUSIP: 39304KAA4), announces the deployment of a second turbine-driven hydraulic fracturing spread for Shell in the Eagle Ford Shale, marking the 3rd fracturing spread in operation, with a total of 118,000 hydraulic horsepower (HHP) of Turbine-Driven Frac Pumps. Green Field President Rick Fontova stated, "Green Field is proud to deliver our second spread of turbine-driven fracturing pumps to Shell....

HOUSTON, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockwater Energy Solutions, Inc., a fluids management and environmental solutions provider to the oilfield industry, announced today that it has assigned a strategic agreement with Neohydro Corp., headquartered in Houston, Texas. Neohydro supplies water treating equipment for the onsite treatment and conditioning of water to the oil and gas industry. Neohydro designs and manufactures patent-pending PathoCell(TM) technology and Rover(TM)...

HARRISBURG, Pa., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In advance of a panel discussion on hydraulic fracturing regulations, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Krancer today outlined in a letter to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) some perspectives that the organization missed in its May 2012 report, "In Fracking's Wake: New Rules are Needed to Protect Our Health and Environment from Contaminated Wastewater." Krancer will take part...