Sentences with phrase «cuadrilla drilling site»

For years, Esperanza Community Housing has been fighting to permanently close the nearby AllenCo Energy drilling site, which community members say has contributed to various health problems.

Esperanza's Budlong Apartments - a 12 - unit apartment building located less than two miles from the AllenCo drilling site - is one of the nearly 800 buildings in Los Angeles that qualify for SOMAH benefits.

Energy companies frequently «flare» or burn off vast supplies of methane at drilling sites because it earns less money than oil.

Drilling site managers, who oversee exploration projects, are in huge demand, with both number of employees and salaries up by more than a third over five years.

The drilling site in question is at Preston New Road, where Cuadrilla Resources had proposed drilling four wells and testing them with fracking.

«It is a full - fledged boom,» says Dale Redman, chief executive of Propetro, a Midland, Texas, firm that supplies heavyduty horsepower to drill sites, where energy companies coax crude from the ground with sand and water.

By: Henry Lazenby 28th September 2016 Multinational drilling equipment and services provider Boart Longyear has received an award of C$ 1.37 - million from the Ontario government to help improve safety at mineral exploration drilling sites and the efficiency of drilling systems technology.

«Greenhouse gas emissions are going to go through the roof with a project of this kind,» said Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director Joe Foy «From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the gas.

The results discussed in this news release are from drill core samples obtained by PQ and HQ - size triple - tube diamond core drilling using two PMC400 man - portable drill rigs owned by SAMJ and operated by Sumiko Resources Exploration & Development Co., Ltd. (a wholly owned exploration services subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.) The drilling program was fully supervised by SAMJ senior project geologists at the drilling site.

For example, we want to know who is supplying the sand and who is moving the sand to and from the drill sites — these are the companies to pay attention to.

This company deals directly with the production and supply of sand to drill sites.

During my own most recent trip, I visited a village water drilling site and a prison, both targeted with US - made precision - guided weapons.

The study of Pennsylvania residents comes days after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo promised to visit a gas drilling site in the Keystone State.

State Environmental Commissioner Joe Martens and acting Health Commissioner Howard Zucker presented their findings, which raised concerns about the impact drilling would have on the environment and the health of residents living near potential drilling sites.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins opposes hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and toured drilling sites in Pennsylvania last week.

Hawkins and a group of fractivists went to several drilling sites in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania last week to talk about the potential negative impacts that fracking can have.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins opposes the drilling technique, also called fracking, and last week toured drilling sites in Pennsylvania to highlight what he says are negative health and environmental impacts....

Trips to Pennsylvania drilling sites are emerging as political pilgrimages for New York gubernatorial candidates, as politicians and voters wrestle with fracking.

ALBANY — In recommending a ban on fracking in New York, acting state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said he wouldn't want his kids growing up near a drilling site.

«Finally, the Cuomo administration has embraced what we have known all along — that fracking pollutes the air, land and water, posing incalculable risks to families and business across New York, especially those near drilling sites, «said GPNY Co-Chair Gloria Mattera.

The volatile organics released into the air from drilling sites pose a threat to local populations.

Their scientists flew more than 250,000 kilometres across much of West Antarctica — including the areas draining to the Ross and Ronne ice shelves — and part of East Antarctica, including the famous ice - core - drilling sites Vostok and Dome C.

Its mineral veins, laid down in long - ago water, are different from those I found near my first drill site.

A weekly supply trip delivers parts and food to the drill site 19 miles (30 kilometers) off the Yucatan coast.

Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.

Many of these substances are found in various fluids used at drilling sites.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is now assessing the status of flooded drilling sites.

«This model would say that after three months you should pack up and drill in another location if you have a number of distinct drilling sites that you're exploring.»

Groups opposed to fracking have raised the alarm over images of storage tanks shifted off their foundations at oil and gas drilling sites.

Most of the drill sites flooded had already been fracked, and were actively producing oil or gas — so chemicals added to fracking fluids should not have been on site.

Curiosity is now long gone from Yellowknife Bay, off to new drilling sites on the route to Mount Sharp where more dating can be done.

That's frustratingly short of the crucial transition period, so to extract an older core, the EPICA consortium must now go back to its drill site.

Rightly or wrongly, fracking seems to provoke many fears in those living near a drilling site (10 August, p 36):...

The researchers admitted their work was compromised by their lack of full access to the drilling site.

They found that wells located within 1 kilometre of an active shale - gas drilling site contained 17 times as much methane on average as those further away.

Free to choose the cheapest, most direct way to reach drilling sites, oil companies dredged canals off natural waterways to transport rigs and work crews.

Finding suitable drill sites can be a big headache.

Over the past year Pennsylvania proposed doubling fines for safety violations at drill sites, and New York renewed a temporary ban on drilling in the state.

Looking at seismic records near Fox Creek, in northwest Alberta, where there are six drilling sites, researchers found an intermittent set of induced earthquakes between December 2014 and March 2015, clustered around fracking operations.

The quake is felt over a 500 - mile - long area, so a whole slew of local news media rapidly converge on the tiny town of Parkfield, population 18, which is about eight miles from both the earthquake's epicenter and the drill site.

People don't even like to talk about it,» says Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics at Stanford University and another principal investigator at the drill site.

Using records from more than 1.1 million births across Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2013, the researchers compared infants born to mothers living near a drilling site to those living farther away from a site, before and after fracking began at that site.

But after pausing for 2 weeks in December 2016 to focus on fixing the drill, the Curiosity team decided to start driving again, leaving behind a promising drilling site and potential wet chemistry target.

• Ambient and occupational air quality should be measured at active drilling sites and be compared with baseline measurements in adjacent areas without drilling operations.

Add to that the question of how much human exposure can be expected from the radiation detected at some Marcellus drilling sites.

The Ellsworth Mountains (shown in the background here with the drilling site in the foreground) stretch some 200 miles (322 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.

Based on the existing age model (24), we targeted a search for cryptotephra (subtle horizons of volcanic glass shards not visually apparent or detectable using remote sensing methods) on the depth interval of 20 — 40 m below lake floor (MBLF) in drill sites MAL05 - 1C and MAL05 - 2A in search of the YTT.

The Curiosity rover sends images of the latest drill site on Mars.

At the first drill site, the researchers drilled until hitting bedrock about 100 feet (30 m) under the surface of the ice.

A flow cytometric method to measure prokaryotic records in ice cores: an example from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide drilling site Journal of Glaciology, in press, p. 1 - 19.