Sentences with phrase «began fracking wells»
Then, early last year, Exxon launched a project in an old oil field 14 miles away and began fracking wells to get them to produce more oil.
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New York hasn't issued permits for shale gas wells using horizontal drilling and fracking since it began its review of the controversial technology in 2008.
The comments give weight to the scenario of permitting a limited number of wells at first, confined to communities who have expressed a desire to begin hydro fracking.
Beginning in 2008, the EPA took water samples from residents» drinking water wells, finding hydrocarbons and traces of contaminants that seemed like they could be related to fracking.
The team also is seeking additional funding to begin monitoring groundwater wells near wastewater injection wells, where fracking brine is deposited after the wells are drilled.
Because of its location over a particularly rich part of the Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania has been one of the states most heavily impacted by the fracking boom, but fracking has begun to take off in other states as well.
It has been actively beginning fracking its own vast shale gas resources, as well as nuclear, wind and solar.
Beginning one year ago, Range Resources tried a new approach — reusing the wastewater to frack new wells.
A contractor is hired to lay temporary pipeline from impoundment to well, stretching as far as seven miles, and the water is pumped to the site when fracking begins.
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