Sentences with phrase «allowing hydraulic fracturing»
David Cameron's government has snuck a new definition of fracking onto the statute books — allowing hydraulic fracturing for shale gas to take place outside the new regulatory regime.
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«If Governor Cuomo is serious about investing in New York's economic and energy future, he should waste no more time in allowing hydraulic fracturing to move forward in the Empire State.»
Common Cause: Pro-Fracking Interests Spent Millions on Politics A new Common Cause / NY report released Monday highlights the role that money plays in the policy debate over allowing hydraulic fracturing in New York.
As Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrestles with whether or not to allow hydraulic fracturing in the state, a Queens councilman has lauded him for refusing to buckle to pressure and allowing a critical deadline to pass rather than speed up a review of the controversial drilling method's potential impact on public health.
On whether or not to allow hydraulic fracturing in New York, voters continue to be split on the issue, but now more voters are opposed to fracking.
Legislative Director Julia Walsh said opponents to a state decision to allow hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, are worried the DEC may be giving short shrift to the 66,000 public comments received on a proposed state roadmap for hydrofracking.
«As local and state policymakers decide whether to allow hydraulic fracturing in their communities, it is crucial that they carefully examine the costs and benefits, including the potential impacts from pollution,» said study co-author Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
The growing tension between environmental concerns and business interests intensified this weekend amid reports that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was ready to approve a plan to allow hydraulic fracturing (aka «hydrofracking» or «fracking») in parts of his state, until a last - minute intervention from Robert Kennedy Jr. put the plan on delay as it undergoes further study.
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Hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» involves injecting liquids, sand and chemicals under high pressure to break apart tight rock formations underground to allow more oil and gas to escape into the well.
The organization has also created model legislation with intended loopholes that allow energy companies to withhold names of certain chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Allowing the controversial natural - gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing would be «premature at a minimum,» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, said in a statement.
The downstate region, dominated by New York City, has been growing much faster than upstate (everything north of the metropolitan transportation district)-- and the slowest growing upstate metro areas are in Central New York and the Southern Tier, which would benefit most from the issuance of long - delayed state regulations allowing the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas production.
«The moratorium will allow time for such analysis to be commenced, analysis that we are confident will affirm absolutely our contention that hydraulic fracturing should never be done within New York City's upstate unfiltered water supply watershed,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Environmental Committee Chair James Gennaro said in a joint statement.
New York's health commissioner is still declining to speculate when his agency will finish a review of the health effects of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, meaning the state appears no closer to allowing the controversial drilling process.
It includes cutting taxes and spending and allowing for natural gas drilling using the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.
Former Hudson Valley Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, in his first major public appearance since retiring from office in January, says he just penned a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to wait for the results of a study from the Environmental Protection Agency on the impacts of fracking before deciding whether to allow high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the state.
ALBANY — Opponents of shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing gathered in Albany on Monday to keep up the pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he prepares to decide whether to allow the practice after four years of studying its health and environmental impacts.
There have been reports for some time now that the Cuomo Administration would soon begin to allow limited hydraulic fracturing by gas drilling companies in some Southern Tier in communities where most of the residents want fracking.
«And, at long last, we concluded our review of hydraulic fracturing and decided that there was simply too many unknowns and the possible risks too great to allow it to go forward,» Martens concludes.
If the companies are allowed to drill, they will utilize a procedure known as hydraulic fracturing that would likely lead to contamination in the watershed and the need for another, even larger filtration plant.
«The tests confirm that we have generated new tracers that allow us to identify coal ash contaminants in the environment and delineate them from contaminants from other sources in the same watershed, including hydraulic fracturing,» Vengosh said.
The injection of the hydraulic fracturing fluids creates channels for flow in the formations (often shale formations), allowing methane and other hydrocarbon gases and liquids in the formation to migrate to the production well.
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.
His study attributes the expected growth in oil output largely to a combination of high oil prices and new technologies such as hydraulic fracturing that are opening up vast new areas and allowing extraction of «unconventional» oil such as tight oil, oil shale, tar sands and ultra-heavy oil.
If Republicans in Congress allow McCarthy to take her seat [interesting context here], her presence could help insure that the president recognizes that his «all of the above» energy plan only works with a strong dose of policy and regulation — particularly as hydraulic fracturing expands access to both gas and oil.
They haven't allowed, water hydraulic fracturing in the state.
The head of Columbia University's Earth Institute suggests that New York State explore a hydraulic fracturing demonstration project, given how intense the views are on both sides of the debate about whether drilling should be allowed.
«While we welcome your determination to lead on climate change, we are greatly concerned by indications that you may soon allow high - volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) in New York,» the letter asserted.
Modern hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling allow multiple wells to be drilled from one spot, reducing the size of the drilling area above ground by as much as 90 percent.
The oil and gas industry uses hydraulic fracturing to enhance subsurface fracture systems to allow oil or natural gas to move more freely from the rock pores to production wells that bring the oil or gas to the surface.»
Hydraulic fracturing, and the similar techniques used for «tight oil» drilling, have actually allowed the United States to become the world's leading oil producer in 2014.
Modern hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling allows multiple wells to be drilled from one spot, reducing the size of the drilling area above ground by as much as 90 percent.4 Fracking is the key to unlocking vast U.S. shale resources, freeing up oil and natural gas that previously was inaccessible while protecting groundwater supplies and the environment.
Credit the U.S. Forest Service for adopting a revised plan for the George Washington National Forest that will allow safe and responsible energy development using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.
The proposal to allow horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling for natural gas involving the injection of millions of gallons of chemically laced water, has caused a furor around the state.
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.
We say all of the above to say this: Natural gas — in abundance thanks to America's energy renaissance, propelled by advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling — is allowing the U.S. to make significant climate progress and helping to improve air quality, without sacrificing energy or economic growth.
Modern hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in American shale deposits allowed companies to increase natural gas production 50 percent over the past decade:
The hydraulic fracturing revolution shows that our future will be brighter if we allow the American people to figure out what works best instead of trying to dictate policy and special subsidies from Washington.