Sentences with phrase «accessible by hydraulic fracturing»
The Post Carbon Institute's latest report exposes inflated predictions by the Energy Information Administration of how much oil and gas is accessible by hydraulic fracturing that have led to local government officials relaxing restrictions on the fracking industry.
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Over the past several years, vast caches of natural gas trapped in deeply buried rock have been made accessible by advances in two key technologies: horizontal drilling, which allows vertical wells to turn and snake more than a mile sideways through the earth, and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.