Sentences with phrase «banning shale gas»

Lawrence Solomon: Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

Two big blows to the natural gas industry have come in less than 24 hours, with both the province of Quebec and New York state effectively banning shale gas extraction over concerns with the process of hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. «fracking»).

Indeed, a shortage of accessible natural gas threatens to cause more manufacturing losses in the region, where the state has banned shale gas production via high - pressure hydraulic hydrofracturing.

We look forward to the Scottish Government acting swiftly to ban shale gas fracking and coalbed methane drilling once it has finished its review.

Not exact matches

And not only is Britain thought to have generous reserves of gas trapped in underground shale formations, it is one of the few countries remaining in Europe not have banned fracking, as many of their neighbors on the Continent already have done, including France and Germany.

The country is seen as Europe's main driver for shale gas development after other countries with large resources, such as France and Germany, have banned the technology.

Oct. 4 2012: France will maintain a ban on fracking until there is proof that shale gas exploration won't harm the environment or «massacre» the landscape, President Nicolas Sarkozy said.

June 30 2011: The French parliament voted to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

in the Southern Tier, money will flow to landowners who won't get to cash in on shale gas exploration royalties, thanks to Cuomo's fracking ban;

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

While high - volume hydraulic fracturing is banned in New York State, using propane to bust open shale formations and release natural gas is not.

A ban on drilling for underground shale gas, otherwise known as fracking, has been lifted, the energy secretary has announced.

New York has one of the nation's largest untapped reserves of natural gas and is the only state with a major shale gas formation to ban fracking.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

Ruffalo, who lives near the Delaware River in the upstate New York region that was targeted for shale gas drilling, is one of many prominent public figures who pressed Cuomo long and hard to ban hydraulic fracturing, popularly known as fracking.

Updates below After years of gauging the environmental, medical, economic and political risks of hydraulic fracturing, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is moving to ban this method of extracting natural gas from shale deposits in New York State.

Added, Dec. 19, 2 p.m. Jesse McKinley filed a piece on the ramifications of the shale - gas ban (and a failed casino plan) for the struggling communities on the New York side of the border with Pennsylvania: «Shock in Southern Tier of New York as Hopes of Gambling and Fracking Both Die.»

It would make it much harder for countries to ban or impose strong regulations on fracking for shale gas and other unconventional fossil fuels, for fear of having to pay millions in compensation: http://www.foeeurope.org/no-fracking-way-report-060314

We're committed to science - based climate pollution targets through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act, and are the first state sitting on shale gas to ban fracking before drilling begGas Reduction Act, and are the first state sitting on shale gas to ban fracking before drilling beggas to ban fracking before drilling began.

As a result there was fortunately nothing government could do to stop the development of shale oil and gas other than to ban fracking, an effort which the CIC is indeed strongly backing.

French lawmakers opened debate on Tuesday on proposals to ban a method for extracting oil and gas deposits from shale because of environmental concerns, throwing up the first serious stumbling block to firms that want to use the practice.

Yet ban + home rule = huge barrier to economic incentives to develop NY shale gas in foreseeable future.

Some US cities including New York and Pittsburg are trying to halt local drilling for shale gas, with Philadelphia calling for at least a temporary ban on new wells in the watershed that serves the city.

Interestingly, France imposed an interim moratorium on shale gas extraction earlier this year, and may ban it entirely, after the government backed a draft bill that would outlaw the controversial process.

There are extensive shale gas reserves throughout Europe and although extraction is currently banned in some countries, permits have been issued in at least 18 European nations.