Sentences with phrase «between fracking»

There is, as I understand it, no relation between fracking and groundwater that is different than the relation between ordinary drilling and groundwater.

Many people are drawing a close connection between fracking and the increased rate of leaks being discovered.

In the United States, even after a U.S. Geological Service study said that there was strong correlation between fracking and earthquakes, the state of Ohio was the only place that halted fracking, and that ban was limited and lasted a short time.

Featuring an image by SkyTruth, the article focuses on the link between fracking and earthquakes.

In fact, since the paper was purchased by oil and gas tycoon Philip Anschutz, whose company sued a town that banned fracking, the paper has dismissed the links between fracking and groundwater contamination and written two previous editorials attacking the connection between fracking - related activities and seismic activity.

However, experts believe that the November 2011 earthquake and other events in Oklahoma — such as the drastic increase from six earthquakes between 2000 and 2008 to 850 earthquakes between January 2010 and March 2011 in Oklahoma County — point to a link between fracking - related activites, specifically wastewater injection, and seismic activity.

Studies from Arkansas [pdf] and Wyoming are similarly inconclusive about the link between fracking and water contamination.

Attached is a new study from a researcher at Cornell, the first to suggest evidence of a direct link between fracking and human health.

The aim is to bring academic discipline to the unresolved national debate, which pits an industry that denies any link between fracking and environmental contamination against those who assert that fracking poisons air and water with natural and man - made chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects and other illnesses.

Pam Factor - Litvak, an epidemiologist at Columbia University not involved in the study, notes that it's possible the associations between fracking and poor infant health could be due to other factors besides pollution, such as extreme levels of maternal stress, perhaps due to noise and continuous traffic to and from the sites.

Mauter's team looked at what practices could help maintain a balance between fracking and environmental and residential needs.

Remember that study out of The University of Texas last February that concluded there wasn't a direct link between fracking and groundwater contamination?

Federal prosecutors revealed Mr. Skelos had arranged a meeting between fracking industry leaders and the state Department of Environmental Conservation at the same time that his son both held an alleged «no - show» job at AbTech and was in the process of negotiating the contract to sell filters through his consulting firm Rockville Strategies.

If we understand why we are seeing associations between the fracking industry and health problems, then we can better inform patients and policymakers.

Not exact matches

The EPA's study found that between 25,000 to 30,000 new wells were drilled each year between 2011 and 2014 and that 9.4 million Americans live within a mile of a fracking site.

• Liberty Oilfield Services, a Denver, Colo. - based fracking equipment maker, said it plans to raise $ 161 million in an offering of 10.7 million shares between $ 14 and $ 16 a piece.

Every shale - gas well that is fracked requires between three and eight million gallons of water.

Between the Moreland Commission, his unwillingness to debate in the primary, his refusal to outlaw fracking, and that he is the first Governor in decades not to utilize his powers of clemency, which we find cold - hearted and unjust, we simply do not believe Cuomo deserves the votes of liberal Democrats.

The increasing bizarre contest between GOP Sen. Greg Ball and Democrat Justin Wagner gets even weirder when Ball «reveals» an alleged fracking - related conflict of interest on the part of his opponent.

Between a potential overhaul of the state's education system, and a decision on casinos and fracking, last week was a busy one in state politics.

New York Democrats deserve a debate between Andrew Cuomo and myself about the issues that real New Yorkers care about: schools, fracking, corruption and building a fair and strong economy,» Teachout said in a statement.

Gennaro said he intended to highlight differences between Governor Andrew Cuomo's «very nice - sounding and very responsible» sounding statements about fracking and the state agencies» sometime - incongruous actions: «It's nice when elected officials make statements like that because then you can thank them for their statements, for their good - sounding statements, and ask the agencies that answer to the governor to sort of live up to the governor's good rhetoric on this.

And she says there's a connection between achieving good education and strengthening the middle class, which the President will speak about, and advancing fracking in economically troubled upstate regions.

Were there e-mail exchanges between the governor's office and Bobby Kennedy Jr., a former Cuomo brother - in - law and eco-freak opponent of fracking?

Regardless of the reality of the current correlations between HHF and water contamination (leading to illnesses of people, pets and farm animals), having regulations and oversight is enough to justify their moving forward to frack the Marcellus Shale.

The prosecutor then asked if Mr. Avella, a leading opponent of fracking, had known that Senator Skelos had asked his staff to set up a meeting on the subject between AbTech and state officials.

In a series of phone calls between lobbyists for the Capitol Group, who had been hired by AbTech Industries, an environmental technology firm which employed the younger Skelos, and an official for AbTech, Adam Skelos was confident that the governor would lift the moratorium and allow fracking in the state.

We're opposing projects including the proposed Williams fracked gas pipeline off the Rockaways, the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline between Albany and New Jersey, and the large fracked gas CPV and Cricket Valley power plants.

A survey of a major oil and natural gas - producing region in Western Canada suggests a link between hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» and induced earthquakes in the region, according to a new report published online in the journal Seismological Research Letters.

Most geologists see contamination of aquifers as unlikely because of the great difference between the depths at which fracking is carried out and the shallow aquifers from which we get our water.

Now, health economist Janet Currie at Princeton University and her colleagues have tried to overcome those problems by looking at birth certificates for all 1.1 million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013 — a period that spanned the drilling of thousands of fracking wells in the state, which now has more than 10,000 of them.

Sally Entrekin and colleagues wanted to flesh out this picture for the Fayetteville Shale play, an active gas field in Arkansas where more than 5,000 gas wells were drilled using fracking techniques between 2004 and 2014.

The report, published this week by the Environmental Integrity Project, found that between 2010 and July 2014 at least 351 wells were fracked by 33 different companies using diesel fuels without a permit.

Then, in 2011, a congressional investigation found that in fact between 2005 and 2009, 12 companies had injected 32 million gallons of diesel fuel or fracking fluids containing diesel fuel in wells in 19 states.

A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

«How to avoid water wars between «fracking» industry and residents.»

The link between earthquakes and the energy industry is growing clearer, but fracking itself isn't the culprit, experts said at the AAAS Annual Meeting.

The model put the probability that new fracking - induced fractures in the Marcellus formation would connect to an existing well bore at between.03 percent and 3 percent.

But Jackson says that the contamination may have come not from the fracking but from the wells themselves, which can serve as a conduit between geological formations if not properly sealed.

This suggested a minimum vertical distance of 600m between the depth of fracking and aquifers used for drinking water, which now forms the basis of hydraulic fracturing regulation in the UK's Infrastructure Act 2015.

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.

In the latest research the researchers used data from previous fracking operations to measure the distance between the furthest detected microseismic event — a small earthquake caused by hydraulic fracturing of the rock or fault reactivation — and the injection point in the fracking borehole.

Of the 6 mb / d increase in global oil production between 2006 and 2014, almost a fifth came from the Canadian tar sands, and the rest from the US «shale oil revolution» driven by fracking.

«Drilling a single well can require between 3 to 6 million gallons of water, and thousands of wells are fracked each year.

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Given the distance between the water and the fracking fluid, there's just no way fracking could contaminate aquifers, the gas industry and its allies argue.

But they also found that produced water contained potentially toxic chlorocarbons and organobromides, probably formed from interactions between high levels of bacteria in the water and salts or chemical treatments used in fracking fluids.

Chip Northrup, a former oil and gas investor from Texas who now splits his time between Dallas and upstate New York, is an articulate and energetic opponent of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for the natural gas locked in deep shale layers in the state.

It analyzes the correlation between proximity to hydro - fracking wells and low - birth weight and other troubling outcomes for newborns.

Between 1978 and 2007, the Energy Department spent $ 24 billion on fossil energy research that led to the fracking revolution — including $ 10 billion in tax credit (US Code Section 29) for unconventional oil and gas drilling.