Sentences with phrase «between hydraulic fracturing»

All other credible studies arrive at the same conclusion — there is no link between hydraulic fracturing and drinking water impacts.

The link between hydraulic fracturing and U.S. global leadership in oil and natural gas production is direct: Without fracking, there'd be no American energy renaissance — or the array of benefits it is providing to our economy, to individual households, U.S. manufacturers and other businesses.

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.

Not exact matches

Scientists from University of Texas at Austin took advantage of new monitoring data to explore the connection between seismicity and petroleum production near the Bakken Formation, an area of historically low seismicity, but with a recent history of increased hydraulic fracturing and wastewater disposal.

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.

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.

«This study provides the strongest large - scale evidence of a link between the pollution that stems from hydraulic fracturing activities and our health, specifically the health of babies.»

• An environmental epidemiological study should be performed to determine whether an association exists between health outcomes data and water quality in private drinking wells in communities with and without hydraulic fracturing.

Some of that produced water has been recycled in recent years for use in hydraulic fracturing, which helps make that method of oil extraction more water efficient and reduces the competition for water between farms and oil fields.

July 29, 4:38 p.m. Updated (see asterisk) Lisa Wright, a foe of natural gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing, or facking, sent the following essay reflecting on recent posts about apparent undisclosed conflicts of interest in a University of Texas gas drilling study and an unrefereed study claiming a link between drilling and fetal health.

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.

The growing tension between environmental concerns and business interests intensified this weekend amid reports that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was ready to approve a plan to allow hydraulic fracturing (aka «hydrofracking» or «fracking») in parts of his state, until a last - minute intervention from Robert Kennedy Jr. put the plan on delay as it undergoes further study.

Some may find inconvenient the clear connection between safe and responsible hydraulic fracturing, which is delivering all that natural gas to market, and U.S. emissions reductions.

Hydraulic fracturing generated $ 3.5 trillion in new wealth between 2012 and 2014 in spite of falling oil prices, according to a new study, but today's rising prices could be even better for the U.S. e

The report «Fact - Based Regulation for Environmental Protection in Shale Gas Development» was released in February during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, British Columbia, and suggested there is little or no evidence of a direct connection between groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing, which involves the injection of water, sand and chemicals to release natural gas from shale formations deep underground.

Most of the touted benefits of the NJ - NY Expansion pipeline simply gloss over the very important differences between extracting natural gas through conventional means and through hydraulic fracturing.

At the center of it are the environmental consequences of Fracking (that's hydraulic fracturing) and the same issue which dogs oil, the difference between easily accessible reserves and those which may, someday, somehow, and at great cost be recovered.