Sentences with phrase «by natural gas drilling»

Fracking has plenty of potential downsides but from the point - of - view of a helicopter the amount of destruction caused by natural gas drilling is minuscule compared to the large - scale devastation from mountain top removal;

By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor of sociology at the UI and corresponding author of a new study, demonstrated how local screenings of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic fracking.

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In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused by the injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.

As detailed in the first three installments of Power Shift, an NBC News / CNBC special report, the United States is experiencing an energy boom created by new drilling technologies that have unlocked vast domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

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.

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.

• The exploration of land for natural gas by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is prohibited in the Town of Camillus.

Johannes Teyssen, chief executive of Eon, said there were no obvious options for Europe to narrow the US advantage — whether by drilling for shale gas, importing more liquefied natural gas or importing inexpensive US supplies.

Despite the fact that he just recently voted «yes» on a Democrat - sponsored hydrofracking moratorium passed by the Senate, Farley speaks about the importance of natural gas drilling from a business standpoint and calls it «abolutely essential for the health of New York State and the farm community and energy in general.»

Astorino's choice also shows his attention to the Southern Tier, which Astorino contends was failed by Cuomo over his indecision over whether to expand drilling for natural gas, which is opposed by environmental groups.

The makers of petrochemicals used in natural gas hydrofracking like the proposed new gas drilling rules offered by the DEC..

The Quinnipiac poll finds that by a narrow four point margin, New Yorkers surveyed believe that the economic benefits of natural gas drilling, including job creation, outweigh the potential harmful environmental effects.

The firm contracted by the state to help complete an environmental impact statement for the controversial natural gas drilling process hydrofracking clarified its relationship with an energy industry trade group in a letter to the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Meanwhile, Cox is being criticized by Democrats because he is on the board of directors of the Texas - based natural gas drilling company Noble Energy and holds about $ 3 million in its stock.

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.

The hearing followed the Jan. 4 announcement made by the U.S. Department of the Interior proposing plans for expansion of natural gas and oil drilling along coastal waters.

Documents obtained by a group opposed to hydrofracking in New York show that the Cuomo Administration is conducting a thorough and comprehensive health study on the controversial natural gas drilling process.

Documents obtained by a group opposed to hydrofracking show the Cuomo administration is conducting a thorough health study on the controversial natural gas drilling process.

ALBANY — The makers of petrochemicals used in natural gas hydrofracking back proposed new gas drilling rules offered this month by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

The State is considering allowing private companies to begin drilling for natural gas in upstate New York, while the City is shelling out more than $ 630 million between now and 2017 on «filtration avoidance» by protecting the Cat / Del watershed, where 90 % of our water comes from.

According to Governor Cuomo, the DEC should make up their mind on the future of natural gas drilling in New York by the end of the summer.

Four years ago, Cuomo was being followed around by environmentalists upset he was considering allowing a natural gas drilling practice known as hydro fracking and by members of the teacher unions upset after Cuomo during his re-election campaign had declared war on them.

After being grilled about groundwater contamination by Assemblyman Kavanagh, Democratic Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell questioned her on the economics of natural gas drilling:

Dr. Nirav Shah, who was appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the state's health commissioner, is expected to be asked by state lawmakers about a study he's conducting on the potential health effects of natural gas drilling.

ALBANY — State Sen. Greg Ball, a Republican known for his maverick sensibility, enhanced that reputation further with his introduction Wednesday of a proposed moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas drilling technique better known as hydrofracking that's under review by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Cuomo's budget did not contain any new spending or revenue attributed to hydrofracking — the controversial natural gas drilling process under consideration by the state.

The region just west of the Appalachian Basin — the Marcellus Shale formation — is rich in natural gas reserves and is being considered for development by drilling companies.

He added that if hydraulic fracturing drilling is constrained — as has been suggested by some lawmakers — it could seriously affect the nation's ability to reach the unconventional natural gas.

Increase biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug ‐ in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recovery

There, seven years of natural - gas drilling in the Pinedale Anticline region have slashed mule deer populations by a third.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

For decades, natural gas (methane) deposits were tapped by single wells drilled vertically over large, free - flowing pockets of gas.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

A worker hooks up pipe during natural gas drilling by EnerVest on the Barnett Shale near Fort Worth, Texas, in 2012.

Delta should be able to grow its natural gas production â $ œthrough the drill bitâ $ by 8 % to 10 % a year.

The New York energy analysis, led by Mark Jacobson of Stanford University, has become a popular talking point among foes of expanded natural gas drilling in the state.

11:15 p.m. Updated below As I promised in an earlier post on transparency and conflicts of interest in the fight over natural gas drilling, here's my piece on the importance of peer review in gauging the merits of research findings wielded by the «ban» or «bonanza» factions in this continuing battle.

I recently attended a Manhattan screening of «Promised Land,» a new feature film written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski that aims to examine America's natural gas drilling boom as a case study in «what happens when real people and real money collide,» as Krasinski explained in publicity materials.

The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration has posted a short update on trends in natural gas production in the United States that's worth noting simply because it illustrates the profound nature of the energy transitions that are being propelled by the exploitation of shale deposits using hydraulic fracturing, known best as fracking, along with horizontal drilling.

I hope all the ships which want to drill Arctic oil and natural gas will broke down by the iceberg.

Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.

Americans are speaking out in support of EPA's coming protections from pollution caused by natural gas and oil drilling.

I hope you'll read «Applying Creativity to a Byproduct of Oil Drilling in North Dakota,» a valuable Clifford Krauss feature on baby steps taken by the oil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North Dakota.

Lisa McKenzie of the Colorado School of Public Health, who — like Hill — has expressed concerns about the health risks posed by natural gas operations and has done research pointing to health effects from drilling, declined to directly critique the paper.

Hang uncovered hundreds of unresolved cases of spills and accidents related to drilling in New York state, contrary to the Mineral Resources Divison's claim that the state's record was characterized by «a lack of contamination events» from natural gas development.

The United States is the world's leading oil and natural gas producer, thanks to vast shale energy reserves safely unlocked by advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

China's and India's net emissions are growing dramatically and governments, most recently Japan's, are abandoning earlier pledges to reduce their nations» carbon footprints... And as the US shale fracking revolution shows, the most efficient way to cut emissions is not via command - and - control regulation but by allowing private drillers to expand natural gas production.»

Increase existing domestic onshore oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) production of approximately 8 million barrels a day by 3 - 4 million barrels a day through the acceleration of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing to develop the enormous unconventional oil and NGL resources that underlie many parts of our country;

A study conducted over three years by the Colorado School of Public Health concluded that fracking can contribute to «acute and chronic health problems for those living near natural gas drilling sites».

The national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted March 27 - April 9 among 2,541 adults, finds pockets of partisan agreement over expanding solar and wind power, though wide political divides remain over increasing fossil fuels through such methods as coal mining, hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, a pattern consistent with a 2016 Pew Research Center survey.