Sentences with phrase «as natural gas booms»

As natural gas booms nationwide, the amount of methane leaking from the natural gas system — from wellhead to homes — has become a hot - button issue.

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As detailed in the first three installments of Power Shift, an NBC News / CNBC special report, the United States is experiencing an energy boom created by new drilling technologies that have unlocked vast domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

Economists use the term «Dutch disease» to describe the way resource booms spur an inflationary spiral that causes other industries to wither and hampers overall competitiveness, as happened to the Netherlands as a result of its natural gas boom in the 1960s.

The coal miner has been hurt as the world has turned to more environmentally - friendly energy sources such as natural gas — a trend that has accelerated in the last few years as gas prices have come down substantially due to surging supply from the U.S. fracking boom.

In its highly anticipated Annual Energy Outlook 2018, the agency forecasts that the U.S. will become a net exporter of energy by as early as 2022, thanks in large part to the boom in shale oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) production as well as the relaxation of export restrictions.

The proposal comes as nuclear facilities across the country feel the financial pressure of cheap natural gas produced by the fracking boom and after Entergy has already decided to close its Vermont Yankee facility for economic reasons.

«Andrew Cuomo has given into the radical environmental Luddites in his own party to leave New York as the only one of 35 states with extractable natural gas to be missing out on the hydro - boom,» said Cox.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

The results come as a natural - gas boom hits the United States, driven by a technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking», that can crack open hard shale formations and release the natural gas trapped inside.

Oklahoma City is known for its booming livestock markets, as well as oil, natural gas, and petroleum products.

I recently attended a Manhattan screening of «Promised Land,» a new feature film written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski that aims to examine America's natural gas drilling boom as a case study in «what happens when real people and real money collide,» as Krasinski explained in publicity materials.

A natural gas boom in many parts of Africa (such as recent oil & gas discoveries in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and Ghana) suggest that new power investment will rise.

Coal, which once supplied about half the nation's electricity, has dropped to 40 percent as it has been replaced by booming supplies of natural gas and renewable sources such as wind and solar.

As Brigham sat silently, Murray largely blamed policies by the Obama administration for the decline of coal, rather than the natural gas boom associated with fracking.

The highest rates of subsidence occurred in the northern delta and in regions where natural gas and groundwater extraction is booming, such as the Menoufia Governorate and the Abu Madi gas field.

Fracking allows for the cheap extraction of natural gas from shale deposits that were previously inaccessible, and it is responsible for both the boom in natural gas production as well as the correlate controversy.

As I wrote last year when the rule was initially announced, many states are already well on their way to achieving the required reductions, thanks in part to a recent boom in cheap natural gas and the Obama administration's choice of 2005 as the basis year for cuts, which was close to America's all - time peak in carbon emissionAs I wrote last year when the rule was initially announced, many states are already well on their way to achieving the required reductions, thanks in part to a recent boom in cheap natural gas and the Obama administration's choice of 2005 as the basis year for cuts, which was close to America's all - time peak in carbon emissionas the basis year for cuts, which was close to America's all - time peak in carbon emissions.

As of 2011, the United States had already achieved a 9 percent reduction in economy - wide CO2 emissions since 2005, thanks in large part to the boom in natural gas.

As of 2013, US greenhouse gas emissions had fallen just 8.5 percent below 2005 levels, a drop that largely happened due to the recession, to a natural gas boom that pushed out dirtier coal power, and to a rise in vehicle efficiency.

His accession to office coincided (coincidentally) with the widespread adoption of hydraulic fracking to drill for natural gas, resulting in a sudden boom in supplies and a rapid drop in price, to the point where gas began to supplant coal as the fuel of choice for American power plants.

Oklahoma City is known for its booming livestock markets, as well as oil, natural gas, and petroleum products.