Sentences with phrase «around hydraulic fracturing»

And here's how the report summarizes the «golden age» answer, and how it addresses the issues that have arisen around hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in huge shale reserves:

A team of researchers studying water quality around hydraulic fracturing, the process used to extract gas from rock deep underground, have found a blueprint to move those conversations forward.

Still, the EPA had not drawn conclusions based on the tests and took pains to separate its groundwater investigation in Wyoming from the national controversy around hydraulic fracturing.

From the start of its investigation, the EPA has been careful to consider all possible causes of the contamination and to distance its inquiry from the controversy around hydraulic fracturing.

Not exact matches

Led by Encana Corp. chief executive Doug Suttles, companies that are employing innovations in drilling and hydraulic fracturing insist they can boost investment, employment and exports while contributing to efforts in Canada and around the world to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

The report said a price recovery is expected to cause the most pain among companies drilling in the United States, who rely mostly on hydraulic fracturing, which isn't profitable unless the average global price of oil is around $ 60 per barrel.

Governing magazine reports that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has paid off big - time for the area around Midland, which has become «the nation's fastest - booming metro area.»

That's an unanswered question, but it also enable frackers to get around New York state's moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.

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.

Hydraulic fracturing has brought cleaner air, significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions, created millions of jobs, reduce energy prices, strengthened national security, and turned the American economy around.

If lawmakers pursue energy policies that constrain domestic oil and natural gas production, particularly from hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, they could consign future generations of Americans and millions of people around the world to a less prosperous and productive future, because those energy production technologies account for the bulk of our nation's increased energy production.

Hydraulic fracturing — known as «fracking» — has been around since 1947, and initial efforts to adapt it to dense shale began in Texas in the early 1980's.