Sentences with phrase «about fracking»

«There are legitimate and important concerns about fracking, and for a regulator to refuse to listen to those concerns, it seems to me a serious breach of the regulator's duties,» she says.

Here are a few facts about fracking supported by government agencies and scientific studies:

Mr. Fox is preparing a sequel to «Gasland,» which has contributed to widespread concern about fracking, a method of mining that uses large volumes of water and chemicals under high pressure to free gas deposits from underground shale.

Leo Hickman in the Guardian asks where the debate is about fracking's climate change risks, particulary on the second point.

As an intern with the Colorado Independent, she writes about fracking, environmental policy and coal mine methane.

If all this talk of and concern about fracking has passed you by, the links below will get you up to speed.

We've written a bunch about fracking lately — less colloquially called hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.

Most US voters are ambivalent about fracking, which is an issue in only a handful of states, and the President owns strategy.

A new survey commissioned by the Civil Society Institute sheds some light on what people know about fracking and what their concerns are.

In case your just getting up to speed on the loudly contentious debate about fracking then we've got an infographic for you.

When the Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that tests showed the water is safe to drink in Dimock, Penn., a national hot spot for concerns about fracking, it seemed to vindicate the energy industry's insistence that drilling had not caused pollution in the area.

New Yorkers Have Questions About Fracking?

At the same time Spiegel Online reports that German environment minister Norbert Röttgen and economy minister Phillip Rösler are «very skeptical» about fracking, saying that «there are many open questions that we will first have to carefully examine.»

People learned about fracking from last year's Gasland and Japan's dolphin slaughter in 2009's Audience Award winner The Cove, which went on to win the Academy Award.

• Why should conservatives and libertarians be concerned about fracking?

A few years ago we didn't know about fracking and the natural gas resevoirs we have figured out how to leverage.

The Wall Street Journal laid many out clearly and forcefully in a June 2011 editorial, «The facts about fracking: The real risks of the shale gas revolution and how to manage them.»

Q. Your finding with regard to natural gas flies directly in the face of enthusiasm (even among some greens) about fracking and the «100 year supply» of natural gas found in the U.S. Is the conclusion that natural gas can't be a part of a clean energy solution at all?

The salient quote from EPA's draft report about fracking and associated operational components:

There were several comments about fracking, the newly discovered oil and gas resources and what it means for global GHG emissions.

I was at a conference of oil and gas folks, and they said something interesting: «When people started talking about fracking affecting groundwater, we just laughed it off because it's physically impossible and absurd.

It's about climate change I have talked to and read a number of people in climate change, and they give one of two answers when asked about fracking.

Friday, January 24, 3:30 pm Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall, Dartmouth College Limits to Growth of Energy: Facts About Fracking in the US Dennis Meadows, University of New Hampshire, co-author of Limits to Growth Dennis Meadows was the Director of policy institutes at MIT, Dartmouth, and the University of New Hampshire between 1972 to 2004.

Every expert I have talked to or read provides one or both of those answers when asked about fracking.

Last month, Deal wrapped up a five - week US tour which he spent gathering first - hand information about fracking from industry consultants, politicians, scientists and local citizens from communities where fracking is prevalent.

The facts and opinions expressed herein are intended to raise questions and awareness about fracking, pipelines, and the myriad related industry practices impacting people and the planet.

No Long - Term Up - Side The grim reality about fracking, pipelines, and fossil fuels generally is that, at best, we do not know what all of the negative consequences of their ongoing, large - scale use will be.

In Texas, for example, the state legislature decided that local municipalities have no right to make local zoning determinations about fracking.

The township has had public meetings to learn about the fracking process, and is reviewing its ordinances aimed at minimizing disturbance to neighbors.

Taking our reporting a step further, PAI published a study this week titled, «The UB Shale Play: Distorting the Facts about Fracking,» which offered additional critiques of the methodology of SUNY Buffalo's «study.»

For moi, the enemy are those that demand adherence to consensus and seek to destroy the reputations of people like Judith Curry with false allegations, threaten her with Congressional authority, and literally propose legal actions against those that disagree about the fracking weather.

I would like you to back up your statement about fracking being unhealthy and bad.

Watch «Gasland» to see the truth about fracking.

Because of broad European skepticism about fracking, there is no gas miracle in the EU, while the abundance of heavily subsidized renewables has caused overachievement of the CO2 target.

«What We Latinos Don't Know about Fracking Can Harm Us Main Video: Curtis Bay Community in Baltimore Asks for Clean Water»

about Fracking Industry's Answer to «Gasland»: Devised by Astroturf Lobbying Group and Political Ad Agency

So high - SCS viewers tend to be rather more alarmed about fracking than the scientists say the science justifies.

Revelations about fracking in state waters, which are drawn from the Center for Biological Diversity's analysis of state records and the industry website FracFocus.org, show that fracking off California's coast is growing.

The Halliburton loophole, which exempts fracking from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act, was justified by an EPA study about fracking completed under the George W. Bush administration.

Our goal with this story map is to present an accessible and accurate narrative about the fracking industry in Pennsylvania, which begins with understanding what's actually going on now.

They want a «trade» for Keystone or a climate tax declaration or something about fracking, anything to fire up audiences and get clicks.

His first film, Gasland (2010), about fracking in Pennsylvania, catapulted him to international renown amongst anti-fracking activists.

If you'd like to learn more about fracking and how it impacts people and the environment, be sure to check out Jerrilyn ’s

However, scientists» views about fracking vary across specialty areas.

By comparison, opinion about fracking among AAAS scientists is more negative: 31 % of scientists favor the increased use of fracking while 66 % are opposed.

Guest Post by David Middleton I ran across a really funny story on Real Clear Energy last Friday... Once you get past all of the nonsense about fracking polluting groundwater and global warming hysteria, the article really gets «interesting.»

This isn't just about fracking, of course.

And why is an article ostensibly about fracking and pipelines starting with... Continue reading →

The video above does a good job of demonstrating what's under way right now; Josh Fox, the creator of the Academy Award - nominated GasLand documentary about fracking, has another clip with some great background:

We have a lot to learn about fracking.