Sentences with phrase «extracting shale gas»

The lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from burning and extracting shale gas make it even more damaging than coal.

Shell has bought the site and has 10 supply contracts in place lasting up to 20 years, including from fracking companies extracting shale gas in the Marcellus shale field.

Today there aren't 30 technologies, there's only one for extracting shale gas — hydraulic fracturing.

Meagan S. Mauter and colleagues point out that a major criticism of extracting shale gas through hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is that it requires tremendous amounts of water — 2.5 to 5 million gallons — to develop a single well.

Chu appointed the Energy Advisory Board subcommittee on natural gas in May after President Obama tapped Chu to make short - term recommendations that can quickly address safety and environmental concerns about extracting shale gas.

The government's adviser on fuel poverty says the controversial method of extracting shale gas, known as fracking, could reduce energy prices for some of Britain's poorest people.

Making fracking easier Extracting shale gas from the ground requires some genuine political courage, because there's deep suspicion across the country about what the process of hydraulic fracturing actually involves.

As an added bonus, the extracted shale gas releases less carbon, so can help countries meet their climate change obligations.

The future of arctic drilling, along with hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas, remains highly controversial and many protest that the resulting environmental damage can not be justified.

Fracking, or Fracing as the oil and gas industry ungrammatically spells it, is short for hydraulic fracturing, and the technology is now being used extensively to extract shale gas, by pumping liquids at high pressure into the rock, creating and expanding fissures.

Not exact matches

New technologies emerged to extract gas from shale and other rock formations.

June 30 2011: The French parliament voted to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

«So I thank Governor Cuomo for being open to the economic, employment and energy benefits that would accrue from safely extracting natural gas from gas - bearing shale formations in New York State, but I am grateful that he has prioritized the health of New Yorkers and the long term protection of the State's irreplaceable natural resources over a short term energy and economic boost from hydrofracking.»

Imposes a 3 percent tax on the value of natural gas extracted from the «Marcellus shale» formation (S. 6610 / A9710, Part A).

Horizontal hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, is an efficient means of extracting natural gas from shale -LSB-...]

The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale, state environmental regulators said on Thursday.

Since 2008, when hydrofracking became a matter of public debate in New York, we have counseled a patient, responsible, balanced and science - based approach to the controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has come under increased scrutiny as questions have arisen over the agency's ability to oversee Hyrdraulic Fracturing, should the process of extracting natural gas from shale be legalized in the state.

Gas industry representatives, who say they've been waiting three years to extract the gas from the Marcellus shale reserves, say they'd like to move the process along without any further delays so that permits can for fracking can finally be issuGas industry representatives, who say they've been waiting three years to extract the gas from the Marcellus shale reserves, say they'd like to move the process along without any further delays so that permits can for fracking can finally be issugas from the Marcellus shale reserves, say they'd like to move the process along without any further delays so that permits can for fracking can finally be issued.

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.

Horizontal hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, is an efficient means of extracting natural gas from shale deposits often otherwise unaccessible, but critics say the process causes environmental damage and can even possibly trigger future earthquakes.

Hydrofracking is a controversial method of extracting natural gas from under shale deposits by shooting chemical - laced water deep into the earth.

Hydrofracking is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock by blasting a mix of water and chemicals at high pressure into underground wells.

«By the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of 30 years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock,» Obama noted at one point in his speech.

A report refutes a recent finding that extracting gas from deep shale basins results in at least as big a greenhouse gas emissions footprint as that of coal

Extracting gas from deep shale deposits by fracturing the rock using a high - pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals is a hot topic.

Today the US is awash with cheap gas, thanks in part to the newfound ability to extract large amounts of shale gas.

Gas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposiGas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposigas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposits.

While I appreciate that Peter Aldhous's article was primarily concerned with the immediate health questions raised by the process of fracking, or cracking rock to extract natural gas from shale beds (28 January, p 8), its effects on climate change can not be ignored since that, too, is likely to be bad for our health.

The extraordinary growth in fracking — the hydraulic fracturing of deeply buried shale rock to extract natural gas — has transformed the United States over the past 15 years, boosting energy stocks, cutting pollution from conventional coal - power plants, and creating new jobs.

And at that point, shale gas production would still be increasing, with much more extracted after 2030.

COVER Natural gas extracted from a deep shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») technology burns at a well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, coupled with horizontal drilling, has unlocked large gas deposits in shale rock, which had been long recognized but weren't profitable to extract until about a decade ago.

This is all down to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which is used to extract gas from otherwise uneconomic shale.

Robert Howarth of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, studies shale gas, which is extracted by injecting a mix of highly pressurised water, chemicals and sand underground to crack open the hydrocarbon - rich rock.

The gas is extracted using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that involves pumping millions of gallons of water laced with chemicals deep underground to blast open the shale and release the gas trapped inside.

Energy companies used nearly 250 billion gallons of water to extract unconventional shale gas and oil from hydraulically fractured wells in the United States between 2005 and 2014, a new Duke University study finds.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

Ken Cronin, chief executive of the UK Onshore Operators Group which represents the onshore oil and gas industry, also welcomed the report, saying he hoped its findings would «reassure communities up and down the country that shale gas can be extracted with minimal risk to their wellbeing».

The illustration displayed here explains the conventional, vertical well method of extracting natural gas, and the unconventional, more recent method of extracting natural gas in shale via horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Natural gas is extracted from shale plays by a process called hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as «fracking.»

Yet governments and industry are rushing into expanded use of fossil fuels, including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, shale gas extracted by hydrofracking, and methane hydrates.

The alternative pathway, which the world seems to be on now, is continued extraction of all fossil fuels, including development of unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking to extract oil and gas, and exploitation of methane hydrates.

Hydraulic fracturing, a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale rock, often takes place a mile or more below groundwater supplies.

New York State appears to be further slowing its effort to produce rules governing fracking, shorthand for the suite of drilling methods used to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits.

12:27 p.m. Updated In the final session of an environmental - science communication course that I co-taught at Pace University this spring, Thad Cook, a graduate student, gave a thorough overview of the issues raised by extracting natural gas from shale using hydraulic fracturing, the method now widely called fracking.

In the early 1980s, Mitchell read a scholarly article saying that it might be possible to extract commercial gas from shale rock.

Updates below After years of gauging the environmental, medical, economic and political risks of hydraulic fracturing, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is moving to ban this method of extracting natural gas from shale deposits in New York State.

The study found no evidence of contamination from chemical - laden fracking fluids, which are injected into gas wells to help break up shale deposits, or from «produced water,» wastewater that is extracted back out of the wells after the shale has been fractured....

[Jan. 15, 8:33 a.m. Updated Obama alludes indirectly to research by the Breakthrough Institute showing that the techniques used to extract gas from shale were developed through federal investments in energy research.]