Sentences with phrase «about shale gas»

Misleading claims about shale gas development serve dogma but not the public interest by Paul Driessen The Sierra Club and other environmental pressure groups are redoubling their efforts to «stop fracking in its tracks.»

Although the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is enthusiastic about shale gas development, their chief scientist says shale realistically won't provide meaningful supplies for at least a decade.

Sure, yesterday's rosy predictions about shale gas could bear out in terms of years, but the high cost of shale drilling, the rapid rate of well depletion, and increased gas exports will translate into higher domestic prices.

Well, France is even more dogmatic than Britain about shale gas!

On May 4th The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) published a detailed report about the shale gas revolution and its likely implications climate policy.

Even the public editor of the New York Times said one of the Times» stories about shale gas was «out on a limb» with questionable sourcing and little context.

Clearly, Howarth's flawed findings about shale gas emissions were the anomaly.

These stories are not only about shale gas drilling, they are about energy policy.

These kinds of personal stories are an easy introduction to people who are just starting to learn about shale gas drilling.

To regain public trust, the report says, much information about shale gas should become readily available to the public, starting with the chemical recipes for the fluids pumped at high pressure into shale to free up the gas.

It called for the creation of a national database of all public information about shale gas development.

«These fears have been heightened at a time when we're talking about shale gas exploration in the country.

Discovering Shale Gas: An Investor's Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale Plays explores in detail the environmental and social impacts of shale gas development in the United States, identifying key questions for investors and also broader issues about shale gas development's implications for extending the era of fossil fuel dominance.

Not exact matches

The pace of oil and gas production gains has consistently surprised forecasters since horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, better known as «fracking», were pioneered in U.S. shale rock formations about ten years ago.

Think about the disruption being caused by electric and autonomous cars in automotive; by regulatory challenges in banking; by shale resources in oil and gas; and by a groundswell of public dissatisfaction in political institutions, to name just a few.

A final investment decision has been made to move forward with a 1.9 Bcf / d pipeline being jointly developed by Kinder Morgan, DCP Midstream and Targa Resources that would allow more shale gas to move from the Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast after the project secured long - term shipper commitments for about 85 % of its capacity, the companies said Thursday.

America's shale gas production is about to surge 12 percent.

But the important question is about future Chinese gas demand: how much is satisfied by pipeline deals and how much is satisfied by domestic production, which could include shale gas?

Given that concerns about an oil and gas supply crunch in the future due to near - term underinvestment are globally rising, Japan should continue to highlight the importance of engagement in shale - related projects from a long - term perspective.

Yet we now know about nuclear energy policy; shale gas exploration; grammar schools; housing plans; a race equality audit.

As for other UK basins said to hold large quantities of shale gas, like those containing the Carboniferous Bowland Shale in Lancashire and West Lothian Oil Shale in Scotland, they went through an additional previous episode of deformation about 290m years ago.

Gillibrand, a resident of Greenport in Columbia County, said that while Marcellus Shale gas would provide an economic shot in the arm, she doesn't want to support hydrofracking until she has answers to questions about the process of pumping chemicals under intense pressure into the shale formation.

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.

David Cameron claims there is a «huge amount of myths» about fracking and a «far better job» is needed to tell people about the benefits of shale gas extraction.

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.

«There are considerable issues about health effects,» said John Deutch, former director of the CIA and a professor of chemistry at MIT, who heads a Department of Energy panel examining the environmental effects of shale gas drilling, with an emphasis on hydraulic fracturing.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) recently estimated that the UK has 150 billion cubic metres of shale gas, about half of its more conventional reserves.

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.

First bullet point after the importance of mitigation is to expand shale gas — tells you something about the realpolitik.

Hughes has been a thorn in the side of those optimistic about supplies of shale oil and gas.

Much about how industry produces shale gas must be improved, a report released today finds, in order to reduce shale gas's environmental impact.

Production of gas in the Marcellus, the biggest and fastest growing U.S. shale gas field centered under Pennsylvania and West Virginia, was expected to reach about 16.6 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd), up from just 2.0 bcfd five years ago, according to federal data.

Increased awareness about using a highly technical process called hydraulic fracturing to recover natural gas trapped deep within the Marcellus shale has created questions about related human - health and environmental impacts.

Increased awareness about using hydraulic fracturing to recover natural gas trapped deep within the Marcellus shale has created questions about related human - health and environmental impacts.

Regardless of how we feel about unconventional fossil fuels (for example, shale gas), we need chemists to inform decisions around their extraction and use.

Then U.S. shale gas production could account for about 12 percent of the global methane increase over that time (it scales at approximately 4 percent of global increase per 1 percent leak rate).

The news comes a week after DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens announced that the agency will turn part of the review over to the Department of Health Commissioner Nirav Shah to address persistent questions about how shale gas development and high volume hydraulic fracturing will affect public health in communities where it is allowed.

Until then, people didn't talk about «shale gas»; if it had any name, it was «uneconomic gas.»

Second, several years ago, I heard that teams of Chinese engineers were spending months in Oklahoma to learn about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as a method for liberating gas and oil from previously untappable shale deposits.

Of that 8 percent, only about 1 percent can be related to U.S. shale gas production.

Josh Fox, the filmmaker whose «Gasland» documentary powerfully influenced debates about gas extraction from shale deposits, has started a conversation with me related to his new short video, «The Sky is Pink,» and my post supporting New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's signaled plans for the state's gas resource.

Now we need a complete and honest discussion about the impacts of shale gas development on environment and health.

Public health experts who work on the «shale fields» among impacted citizens have been ringing alarm bells: «I don't know if I have ever seen a problem as widespread as this with as little information collected about it, and as relaxed an attitude in terms of the sense of urgency, in the sense of responsibility on the part of the state and federal governments, and for that matter, the drilling industry,» cautioned a seasoned public health toxicologist David Brown from Southwest Environmental Health Project in my interview for Gas Rush Stories.

We talked about big impediments to the development of China's huge shale gas reserves or increasing exports of liquefied natural gas to Asia.

You probably already read about California being added to the list of states facing the economic opportunities and environmental issues that come with abundant shale oil or gas (oil in California's case, because of the Monterey Shale).

In comparison, shale gas in the U.S. has created an estimated 600,000 jobs that are generating about $ 100 billion in added GDP and almost $ 20 billion in public revenue.

Shell is thinking about building a plant in Pennsylvania to convert natural gas from the Marcellus shale into the building blocks of plastics.

In the journal Climatic Change (where the first study by Howarth was published), Cathles lays out several fundamental errors that led Howarth to unreliable conclusions about the emissions from shale gas production:

At the same time, instead of costing $ 8 billion per year, shale - gas production would add about $ 10 billion per year to the U.K. economy.

I hope this study is widely read by legislators and other public officials in Washington, D.C., and state capitals like Albany and Little Rock, where debates are continuing about the importance of encouraging domestic energy production via shale gas.