Sentences with phrase «with fracking»

With fracking, if you contaminate an aquifer, they don't have any way to bring these things back.»

This has happened with fracking.

If you want to understand what's happening with fracking, deep well injection, and seismic events, here's a good primer from The Grumpy Geophysicist...

Although the controversy with fracking, and shale gas, is new, the technology is quite old.

I think the biggest problem with fracking is that it tarnishes my fond memories of Battlestar Galactica:)

We still don't understand all of the risks associated with fracking, or even if we can manage them.

At the same time, increased use of cleaner - burning natural gas developed with fracking is the primary reason the United States leads the world in reducing energy - related carbon emissions, lowering them to levels not seen in more than 20 years.

A British energy company admits they caused earthquakes with fracking, Lt. John Pike's pepper spraying is seen around the world, and an octopus walks on land: Find this and More.

As with any fracking, water is a huge concern:

«EPA has identified significant flaws in the state's fracking proposals, particularly inadequate plans to treat hazardous wastewater, questions about unsafe levels of radiation in fracking waste, and the absence of any consideration of the environmental impacts of the infrastructure associated with fracking, such as pipelines and compressor stations,» said a statement issued by a coalition of hydrofracking opponents including Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council and others.

At the same time, the Tory love - in with fracking shows no signs of dissipating with a promise to try and reassure the public about the technology, before then simply forcing projects through the planning system if that doesn't work.

I'm still not entirely comfortable with nuclear but I admit ignorance there and thus don't really advocate directly against it (PS somewhat the same position with GM foods / crops); what I know enough to be afraid of and advocate against is a BAU future of coal, oil, and gas, especially one without CCS or other sequestration, with mountaintop removal mining, with tar sands, with fracking (you may already be aware of the radioactivity associated with that), Hg, escalating prices, etc (and you would be against this too, I'm sure).

The risks associated with fracking go beyond the point of production; if the benefit in natural gas use comes through its consumption, the advantage is lost through the rest of its lifecycle — especially when mistakes, accidents, poor regulation, and poor maintenance allow massive leaks to affect local populations and the global atmosphere.

Too Many Pipeline Failures With fracking, then, it is a choice of tangible profits over «uncertain» risks (although some of those risks are as «uncertain» as human - caused climate change).

In light of the air and water contamination and climate - disrupting emissions associated with fracking, the last thing communities need is rules that threaten their ability to regulate it.

I've seen it with Fracking (which actually does have some relatively minor provable bases for complaint in a small number of cases).

However, Obama and Clinton were good enough with fracking.

That has nothing to do with fracking.

And we can portray carbon taxes as a way to reduce the tax burden elsewhere while reducing the conflicts of land use and pollution associated with fracking for gas, drilling for oil and slicing off mountaintops for coal.

Truthland, a 35 - minute compilation of interviews with fracking proponents, is being promoted by the oil and natural gas industry's PR arm, Energy In Depth, as an answer to the 2010 anti-fracking film Gasland.

Most of the hazards associated with fracking and other extractive processes are considerably less present in renewable energy production.

It also occurs to me that there is a contrast in the approach which you outline for wind, and the one being taken for fracking — where local opposition seems not to matter at all, where planning regulations are being eased as are environmental protections (and it's not visual pollution that's the sole problem with fracking).

Given the controversy and delays associated with fracking in North America and Europe, it might be expected that CO2 sequestration will meet with similar or greater levels of public resistance than fracking already has.

Also, in many cases today with fracking, natural gas is somewhat of a waste product going after the high value lighter oil.

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.

Since their romance with fracking began, Ohio and Pennsylvania have largely spurned efficiency and renewables, and neither state has seriously considered putting a price on carbon pollution.

With fracking in the air, and in the groundwater, prices are still unlikely to decrease.

Next week, anti-fracking activists from Washington County, Pennsylvania will be speaking in Winthrop and Jamaica Plain (details below) about their experiences with fracking and how their fight is conn...

Though public awareness of the hazards of fracking waste has grown over the past decade, oil and gas wastewater that has nothing to do with fracking can be heavily polluted as well.

In California, the pollution and development associated with fracking threaten endangered species like the California condor, San Joaquin kit fox and blunt - nosed leopard lizard.

While originally intended for the community members we work with in southern Pennsylvania, I hope this story map becomes a useful tool for many different communities grappling with fracking.

Moreover, the existing plan guarantees that America will be covered with fracking wells from one end of the country to the other.

Obama's current plan guarantees that America will eventually be covered with fracking wells from one end of the country to the other.

In 2011, the EPA initiated a comprehensive study on the environmental and health risks associated with fracking.

But the compounds found in those monitoring wells are more commonly associated with fracking — not the cements used to encase a well, [Stanford researchers Dominic DiGiulio and Robert Jackson] say.

Cooper conveniently avoids real and legitimate water resource impacts associated with fracking, as summarized in the list below:

He added: «There has been a revolution in the US with the shale gas technologies, with the fracking, the horizontal drilling.

There are already enough problems with fracking to justify banning the drilling practice in certain areas.

In fact, they are the ones who will be breathing more particulate matter in their air; drinking water contaminated with fracking chemicals the composition of which is considered a «proprietary matter» and thus protected from disclosure; and eating food that is less and less safe — romaine lettuce, anyone?

The 2013 - 2014 Broad Annual Report doesn't have him on the Board, but currently he is on The Broad Prize for Urban Education Review Board — which includes Condoleezza Rice, Ed Rendell, former Governor of Pennsylvania (who is also involved with the fracking industry), and Andrew Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union.

This would be combined real - time monitoring to track the rate of seismic events of magnitude 2 or greater within 25 kilometers, with fracking operations adjusted to potentially reduce this rate to less hazardous levels.

While some see the new energy boom as benefiting the local economy and decreasing U.S. reliance on foreign oil, others fear the potential health and environmental consequences that come along with fracking.

And there are other challenges associated with fracking for natural gas besides climate change, from what to do with the wastewater produced to drinking water contamination and even improperly drilled wells that leak or explode and get out of control (a blowout).

A range of hydrocarbons showed up in the deep wells, as did some synthetic organic chemicals associated with fracking fluids and drilling activities.

There is no technical issue with fracking, the controversial technique of fracturing shale rock with high - pressure, chemically treated water to release natural gas.

They asked Cuomo to tell his environmental officials not to go ahead with fracking in New York.

Tensions are high, as both sides wait to find out whether Cuomo will go ahead with fracking.

Even though that has nothing to do with fracking.»

It's about as depressed an area as there is and when you had a chance to help these people, with the fracking and the casino, they give them a doubleheader.

The report fails to address how to deal with fracking in flood plains — an issue made all the more poignant by tropical storm Irene.