Sentences with phrase «by fracking companies»

More on the benefits of shale gas as touted by fracking companies being overstated: According to new independent analysis, published in The Oil Drum, of extent of the US» shale gas reserves and the economics of extracting those finds that «industry

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The study was funded by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role of fracking remains contested, the advising scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.

But for several years, companies in southern Louisiana, where his business is located, have suffered along with the oil industry, which is affected by changes in global oil supplies and technologies like fracking.

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.

Other factors — including the financial crisis and business lost to the fracking boom — put the company into crisis mode by 2011.

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

Companies including Anadarko Petroleum Corp, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum Corp have saved millions on drilling and fracking wells in Texas, Colorado and North Dakota since the oil price slide started by demanding that oilfield service companies slash prices by 20 percent to 30 percentCompanies including Anadarko Petroleum Corp, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum Corp have saved millions on drilling and fracking wells in Texas, Colorado and North Dakota since the oil price slide started by demanding that oilfield service companies slash prices by 20 percent to 30 percentcompanies slash prices by 20 percent to 30 percent or more.

For example, US Silica CEO Bryan Shinn said during his company's most recent conference call that management expects demand for frack sand to decline by just 15 % to 20 % in 2015 assuming U.S. rig counts fall by 30 % -35 %.

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

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.

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.

And a the local government in Lancashire, England in late June rejected a fracking application by a gas company.

Nixon wore a T shirt that advocates closing a Hudson Valley power plant that runs on fracked gas, operated by the company Competitive Power Ventures.

What's more, the source said, Cuomo has turned down offers to tour ongoing fracking operations just across the New York border in Pennsylvania and, in at least one case, «insulted» a major energy - company president by not even responding to a formal letter requesting a meeting on the gas - drilling issue with the governor.

Nixon wore a t - shirt that advocates closing a Hudson Valley power plant that runs on fracked gas, operated by the company Competitive Power Ventures.

Ten companies or trade groups that lobbied on fracking and other issues of concern to the natural gas industry spent $ 4.5 million lobbying in Albany over the last three years, according to an analysis prepared by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

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.

The company claims its technology can produce steam at a cost of $ 3 per million BTUs, based on U.S. National Renewable Laboratory calculations; natural gas currently costs some $ 4 per million BTUs, though that price may continue to fall as natural gas freed up by fracking floods the market.

The very worst impact from an exploratory «frack» would be the discovery of vast reserves of methane, which profit - hungry petroleum companies, aided and abetted by power - hungry politicians, would fall over themselves to bring to the surface and burn.

For the new study, his team combined 23 hormone - disrupting chemicals known to have been used by oil and gas companies for fracking.

Promised Land Film Review by Kam Williams Gas Company Downplays Downside of Fracking in Timely Eco-Drama In 2011, a disturbing documentary called Gasland was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category.

It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.

Earlier this week, Climate Progress posted an interesting essay, «Climate Change is Fracking Society,» written by Auden Schendler, who is vice president of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company and the author of «Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution.»

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.

Companies owned by Duke, Southern and Dominion are partners in the 550 - mile ACP, which will carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia to the North Carolina coast.

As an example, consider how the big companies were bystanders and taken by surprise in the North American fracking revolution.

A ProPublica investigation into oil and gas money received by members of the Natural Gas caucus found that they received 19 times more money on average than members of Congress who signed a letter in support of a proposal to require fracking companies to disclose the chemicals they use when drilling on public lands.

Instead of wildcatting in costly, unproven non-conventional fossil fuel technologies such as fracking and tar sands that add greenhouse gas to the atmosphere, the company could show foresight and leadership by investing in clean, renewable energy such as wind, solar and geothermal.»

EOG Resources is one of the top companies in the fracking industry, and thanks to the new tax bill passed by Republicans and President Donald Trump at the end of last year, EOG had an exceptionally strong year compared to 2016.

Well, they just passed a law here in Texas stating that shale oil companies will be required by law to disclose the ingredients in their «fracking» fluids.

Barclays is withdrawing its investments from fracking company Third Energy, according to a response by Chairman John McFarlane to a 70,000 - strong petition against fracking that was presented to him at the company's AGM in May.

At an annual meeting, nearly a third of Exxon Mobil shareholders back a proposal requiring greater transparency by the company on the risks of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

As 350 DC member Rachel Goldstein writes in Feministing, we're part of a coalition of other incredible local groups, including the Rising Hearts Coalition and Potomac Riverkeeper Network, fighting the fracked - gas Potomac Pipeline — a project proposed by TransCanada, the company behind Keystone XL.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company, has filed for bankruptcy (although coal's problems are due mostly to fracking for natural gas, which by some measures is as bad as coal).

The Colorado bill was based on a model bill from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate - funded group dedicated to passing legislation approved by ALEC's corporate funders, including fracking companies like Chesapeake Energy.

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.

Fracking companies can hide which chemicals they use in the fracking process by calling them «trade secretsFracking companies can hide which chemicals they use in the fracking process by calling them «trade secretsfracking process by calling them «trade secrets».

Just when newly disclosed documents obtained by the New York Times reveal the financial shaky ground on which fracking companies base their claims, a group on Congressmen are urging President Obama to further embrace natural

The topic is increasingly in the spotlight as the land grab for gas leases — by drilling companies seeking to tap shale deposits via high - volume, hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling (fracking)-- continues through New York State and the nation.

Another project proposed by Heartland for 2012, The Hydraulic Fracturing Project (p. 18 - 19, «2012 Fundraising Plan») would «raise funds from businesses with a financial interest in fracking» by «approach [ing] dozens of companies and trade associations that are actively seeking allies in this battle.»