Sentences with phrase «by fracked gas»

She sat down with Katie Cusack and David Howard King last week to discuss that saga, her take on the Cuomo administration's plan to construct a microgrid in Downtown Albany that will be fueled partially by fracked gas, and her take on just how disastrous Donal Trump's presidency and Scott Pruitt's time at the head of the EPA (so far) has been for the environment and how long it will take us to recover from the administration's setbacks.

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Fracking is part of the problem, but the report states that most human - induced quakes are caused by the oil and gas industry's use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater - the contaminated liquid that gets pumped out of the well during oil and gas extraction.

The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.

The group set about their plan by renting office space in Dallas, Texas, where a robust fracking industry regularly requires radioactive materials for gauges needed in their search for gas and oil deposits.

Some states require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals and the amount of water they use in fracking operations on FracFocus.org, a website formed by industry and intergovernmental groups in 2011, but the statistics are not complete.

But for those who oppose fracking, there is this: Burning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burning coal.

She agrees that this jar, by itself, proves nothing about the environmental impact of «fracking,» the drilling technology largely responsible for America's boom in oil and gas production.

As of August 2011, oil and gas companies still said there had never been a documented case of drinking water contaminated by fracking.

But the council itself voted June 29 to reject the application by shale gas explorer Cuadrilla Resources to drill four wells in the region and to use fracking to test their ability to produce gas.

The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

By the time the plant was complete in 2009, the fracking boom in the U.S. had suddenly created a giant glut of gas that sank the export scheme.

But by «fracking» horizontally in stages from a single drill hole and using sand to prop open the cracks, Mitchell now recovered unprecedented volumes of gas.

A majority of economists, business and energy analysts instead agree that coal's demise is due to a triple whammy: competition from much cheaper and cleaner - burning natural gas, proliferated by fracking technology; growth in the solar and wind energy production; and tougher environmental regulations.

Of much more importance, by accepting the policy of the Clark government you must be accepting fracking, a process which involves drilling vertically, then horizontally to oil and especially natural gas by pumping huge quantities of water laced with deadly chemicals.

While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

The British government led by Prime Minister David Cameron has embraced fracking and shale gas development in a way that much of the rest of Europe has not.

This could, of course, partly be due to the cheap natural gas made available by fracking.

Meanwhile, although China will continue to burn lots of coal, it will begin shifting to gas including by tapping into its own tight gas reserves using new fracking technologies.

The decision by the government of Australia's Northern Territory government to allow the resumption of fracking for natural gas will do little to immediately solve the country's energy woes, but Continue Reading

In Australia, the decision by Northern Territory government to end a two - year moratorium and allow the resumption of fracking for natural gas will do little to immediately solve the country's energy woes, but will likely sharpen political battle lines.

The reason he gave was concern about the health risks posed by fracking technologies that inject sand and chemicals into rock formations to extract oil and gas.

Christian environmental groups have criticised the Church of England's stance on fracking, a controversial method of drilling for shale gas that has been linked by some anti-fracking organisations to water contamination.

So what am I to make of the extreme claims that are made by opponents to fracking (hydraulic fracturing of subsurface rocks to get oil or gas)?

Under the proposal by Tioga Partners LLC for test wells on a hay and corn farm in Tioga County, the fracking would be done using liquefied petroleum gas and sand instead of water to split the rock.

«This reckless move, driven by ideology not evidence, risks locking the UK into an expensive polluting fossil fuel future — increasing our exposure to volatile gas prices and forcing controversial fracking developments onto communities before the full impact is understood.

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.

Gennaro and other opponents of fracking in New York have raised the issue's visibility in part by pointing to the disastrous effects the practice has had in a number of Western states that have allowed it, and in Pennsylvania, which shares the same source of gas as New York State, the Marcellus Shale formation, which runs from the Southern Tier to West Virginia, and west to part of Ohio.

Cuomo's own rhetoric isn't consistent — his State of the State book for 2017 included a clear policy statement: «the State must double down by investing in the fight against dirty fossil fuels and fracked gas from neighboring states.»

New York City: The Illuminators projected a protest message to Governor Cuomo upon the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Thursday night during his fundraising event there, on behalf of frontline communities impacted by a growing number of fracked - gas infrastructure projects in NY such as pipelines and power plants, (Pictures attached).

After winning a fracking ban, one of the most significant strikes against fossil fuel usage in the nation, New York's environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

His biggest test is to finally stop promoting the burning of natural gas by banning fracking,» said Hawkins.

Cox spoke at a natural gas industry lobby meeting, where he said Cuomo was «dithering» on a decision about allowing fracking in New York, by continuing to say he's waiting for his health commissioner to finish a review.

The proposal comes as nuclear facilities across the country feel the financial pressure of cheap natural gas produced by the fracking boom and after Entergy has already decided to close its Vermont Yankee facility for economic reasons.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has killed a proposed natural gas transfer station off Jones Beach, ending a venture whose projected fuel cost savings had been drowned by fears of fracking, terrorism and environmental damage.

Others were upset by the ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, because they believe the gas drilling process would boost that region's struggling economy.

«And John Faso took money from fossil fuel companies as they tried to take your land by eminent domain for a fracked gas pipeline.»

The nation's top energy - industry lobbyist said Cuomo's «knee - jerk» ban on fracking is being «cheered» by the gas and oil industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, all of which share the gas - rich Marcellus Shale region with New York.

«Now that New York has built a foundation for the renewable energy system of the future, the state must double down by investing in the fight against dirty fossil fuels and fracked gas from neighboring states,» Cuomo said in his 2017 state - of - the - state address.

«The whole world is being transformed by fracking for natural gas and it's being done safely right across the border in Pennsylvania,» said the source close to Cox.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox plans an all - out - attack on Gov. Cuomo for «caving in to environmental Luddites» by refusing to approve «fracking» for natural gas in upstate's Southern Tier, The Post has learned.

New York landowners blocked from cashing in on the natural gas boom by the state's just - announced fracking ban may fight back in court, but experts say energy companies are unlikely to spend their money and time on lawsuits when they've already lost their investments.

The propaganda spread about by the deep pockets of the oil and gas industry must not be allowed to drown out the scientific facts that attest to the harm fracking can do to us.

Groups for and against fracking are gearing up for an announcement by Governor Cuomo's environmental officials on whether the natural gas drilling process will be permitted in New York on a limited basis.

There have been reports for some time now that the Cuomo Administration would soon begin to allow limited hydraulic fracturing by gas drilling companies in some Southern Tier in communities where most of the residents want fracking.

President Obama is a natural gas booster, though his administration did issue tighter fracking rules in 2015, which were immediately challenged in court by the gas industry.

As if we needed more evidence on Gannett's Jon Campbell's impact as the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade group.

The plant, which used to burn garbage, will now be converted by the Cuomo administration to natural gas from fracking fields in other states.

... Stein calls for the transition of the U.S. energy system and economy to completely rely on clean, renewable energy by 2030, and the ridding of fossil fuels, gas extracted through fracking and nuclear power.

The Republican Party responded to Mr. Paterson by noting that Noble Energy currently has no infrastructure in New York State to harvest natural gas through fracking.