Sentences with phrase «by extracting natural gas»

12:27 p.m. Updated In the final session of an environmental - science communication course that I co-taught at Pace University this spring, Thad Cook, a graduate student, gave a thorough overview of the issues raised by extracting natural gas from shale using hydraulic fracturing, the method now widely called fracking.

Not exact matches

Saving oil and natural gas through efficiency gains and investment in renewables would also generate profit by allowing BC to import less oil from Alberta and to export more of the natural gas it already extracts.

These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into vehicle fuel, are extracted from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.

And on the controversial natural - gas extract process known as hydrofracking, a majority of voters — 54 percent to 40 percent — agree with the decision by the Cuomo administration ban the practice.

Tracking Rep. John Faso in the Age of Trump from fivethirtyeight.com Disapprove Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers Rule — Vote Passed (235 - 187, 10 Not Voting) The measure would disapprove of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule issued in July 2016 that requires resource extraction issuers (companies that extract oil, natural gas or -LSB-...]

Hydrofracking is a controversial method of extracting natural gas from under shale deposits by shooting chemical - laced water deep into the earth.

Hydrofracking is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock by blasting a mix of water and chemicals at high pressure into underground wells.

«By the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of 30 years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock,» Obama noted at one point in his speech.

By heating and jostling the permafrost, the researchers have now managed to extract significant amounts of methane — the primary component of natural gas — from the field.

While I appreciate that Peter Aldhous's article was primarily concerned with the immediate health questions raised by the process of fracking, or cracking rock to extract natural gas from shale beds (28 January, p 8), its effects on climate change can not be ignored since that, too, is likely to be bad for our health.

Walker said he would emphasize that pipeline with Obama, as well as the state's need to extract natural gas resources and address financial challenges caused by low oil prices.

COVER Natural gas extracted from a deep shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») technology burns at a well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

UT has been clobbered with a tough outside review, made public yesterday by Provost Steven Leslie, of blunders in a controversial study on the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas, known as «fracking.»

Here's how it might work: Next year and in each year thereafter, Congress would set an overall cap on fossil fuels extracted by upstream energy producers, which David A. Weisbach of the University of Chicago Law School identifies as «fewer than 3,000 entities» — petroleum refiners, coal mines and domestic natural gas processors — «plus imports at a few locations.»

The exquisite natural plumbing that made it all possible had been dismantled, piece by piece, to protect coastal communities and extract oil and gas.

Recently published research documents that nearly two - thirds of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil and natural gas, and 7 cement manufacturers.

hydraulic fracturing, or fracking The cracking open of undergound rocks by introducing liquid at high pressure, especially to extract natural gas.

Natural gas is extracted from shale plays by a process called hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as «fracking.»

While the researchers found that emissions from a critical stage of well construction — «completions» — are far lower than regulators had estimated, they pinpointed an important under - appreciated source of escaping gas — pneumatic devices powered by the pressure of the extracted natural gas.

And by the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of thirty years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock — reminding us that Government support is critical in helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground.

In a speech at Pace University yesterday, Veerappa Moily, India's minister of petroleum and natural gas, described how, as part of a government plan for energy self sufficiency by 2030, India is planning an aggressive push to extract natural gas from its large shale deposits.

Recently published research by Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute documents that nearly two - thirds, 63 percent, of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil, and natural gas, and seven cement manufacturers.

Mitchell put it all together, and by the time he sold his company to Devon Energy in 2002, the idea of extracting natural gas from shale was about to turn from technological pipe dream to very real economic powerhouse.»

Lomborg was quoted in an a web - piece entitled, «Earth Daze,» written by news correspondent John Stossel in Real Clear Politics, «The amazing number that most people haven't heard is, if you take all the solar panels and all the wind turbines in the world, they have (eliminated) less CO2 than what U.S. fracking (cracking rocks below ground to extract oil and natural gas) managed to do.»

The cities» lawsuits allege — supported by modern climate science — that major oil and natural gas companies contribute substantially to global warming by extracting and using fossil fuels, which emit massive quantities of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing ocean waters to warm and ice sheets to melt, and thus, sea levels to rise, endangering coastal communities.

Recently published research documents that nearly two - thirds of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil and natural gas, and 7 cement manufacturers.

The latest example of how wrong the Malthusian - influenced doubters have been is provided by fracking, horizontal drilling, and associated technology applied particularly to extracting oil and natural gas from shale formations.

The use of fracking to extract natural gas is expected to reduce American emissions in the future, by reducing its reliance on coal.

Chevron and other giant energy companies are demanding a TTIP investment chapter that will allow them to sue governments if environmental or other regulations interfere with their expected future profits by, for example, restricting oil and gas drilling, imposing pollution and oil spill controls or constraining the use of hydraulic fracking techniques to extract natural gas and oil from shale formations.

By STANLEY REED Published: December 13, 2012 LONDON — The British government gave the go - ahead Thursday for exploratory hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract natural gas from shale - rock deposits.

In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural gas from coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some of the dwindling supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.

Hydraulic fracturing is a process for extracting natural gas and oil by injecting water and chemicals deep underground.