Sentences with phrase «around drilling sites»
Other impacts of tight oil include potentially significant water, air, and noise pollution around drilling sites, and the risk of oil spills by the trucks, trains, and pipes that transport extracted shale oil to refineries.
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The study challenges the estimate by federal officials, based on the amount of oil on the sea surface, that around 5000 barrels (800 cubic metres) of oil per day are pouring into the sea from the site where the BP - operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon was destroyed by fire last month.
Looking at seismic records near Fox Creek, in northwest Alberta, where there are six drilling sites, researchers found an intermittent set of induced earthquakes between December 2014 and March 2015, clustered around fracking operations.
Characterization of Deep Internal Layers and Basal Conditions Around the WAIS Divide Drill Site by Surface - Based Radar.
Drilling sites around the world help distinguish trends in local climate from trends in global climate.
Although oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform site may in fact be creating the greatest environmental and economic harm in U.S. history so far, there is new evidence that another looming environmental problem is likely to produce far worse environmental and economic impacts not only for the United States but particularly for some of the poorest people around the world.
When Kaser's team looked at ice cores previously drilled at two sites high in the western Alps — the Colle Gnifetti glacier saddle 4,455 m up on Monte Rosa near the Swiss — Italian border, and the Fiescherhorn glacier at 3,900 m in the Bernese Alps — they found that in around 1860 layers of glacial ice started to contain large amounts of soot.
It relies on diesel engines and generators running around the clock to power rigs, and heavy trucks making hundreds of trips to drill sites before a well is completed.