Sentences with phrase «cheap fracked gas»

Suppose further that because of resource depletion and technological change including cheap fracked gas, the coal - miner's job is ultimately unsustainable; in contrast, the farmer's job was sustainable if very difficult in the face of natural weather events, but is being made ultimately unsustainable by the additional stress from climate change.

Not exact matches

The promise of cheap energy supplies and jobs in the oil and gas sector have often overshadowed concerns over the environmental impact of fracking.

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.

Combine that with the glut of cheap natural gas from fracking, and coal production has plummeted:

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

Now, it is suddenly plentiful and relatively cheap in the U.S. due to hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, a process that has unlocked natural gas from massive shale formations, driving prices down.

Fracking triggers earthquakes and hammers down local house prices - but a plentiful supply of cheap gas could make it worthwhile.

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.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein issued an executive order last week banning the use of fracking brine — a residue of drilling for natural gas, cheaper than salt — on county roads.

Gas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposiGas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposigas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposits.

Cheap natural gas from Pennsylvania fracking may cause petrochemical industry build green field plants in northern Appalacia.

Sure, fracked gas looks cheap today, but cheap is not the stuff of legacies.

Fracking technology did more than the Obama administration to drive coal use down by making shale gas cheap.

Helen's main point was that with UK gas production falling, the country is increasingly turning to cheaper and more polluting coal, a problem fracking might address.

It's been because natural gas got really cheap as a consequence of fracking.

Lomborg adds that «We need to ditch our unrealistic expectations for renewables» because «A much better course is now possible: to focus on cheaper gas through fracking.»

AND as fracking begins to overtake conventional extraction methods and promise us centuries of cheap fossil gas and oil, we're only beginning to understand its impact on water and communities.

Fracking has made gas so cheap that giving up coal is no sacrifice.

No doubt the effect of cheap gas from fracking.

Psst... I know where you can get some fracked shale gas, really cheap!

But a combination of new federal and state environmental policies and a glut of cheap natural gas (mostly from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking) have led to a dramatic shift during the past decade, with coal dropping from 50 percent to 32 percent of our electricity generation and gas increasing from 18 percent to 33 percent.

(That's something that has already been happening through a combination of new government regulations and market forces, especially the flood of cheap natural gas from fracking.)

The simple reason is because the fracking boom has flooded the market with cheap natural gas.

Renewables have driven electricity costs so high that EU manufacturers are moving production to the US, which has cheap natural gas AND cheaper electricity prices, for the same reason: fracking for oil and natural gas.

Cheap and clean natural gas, thanks to fracking technologies developed since the 1970's with significant support from taxpayers, has rapidly displaced coal.

This will further flood world markets with cheap American domestic oil and fracked natural gas.

It has all the hallmarks of a new industry with ups and downs, but it is clearly here to stay — even with cheap natural gas coming from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in shale formations.

This new government data is also just the latest evidence that the U.S. is leading the industrialized world in carbon reductions thanks to cheap and abundant natural gas made possible by fracking.

It's hard for me to take an article on practical solutions to AGW seriously if it doesn't mention nuclear power or fracking and other cheap natural gas.

And Trump won't save the coal industry from its biggest threat: the flood of cheap shale gas from fracking.

It is now urging members to restore Europe's competitiveness by «fracking» for cheap natural gas from shale, instead of pushing «renewable» energy subsidies which cost consumers billions of pounds.

Fracking allows for the cheap extraction of natural gas from shale deposits that were previously inaccessible, and it is responsible for both the boom in natural gas production as well as the correlate controversy.

The EU has also been importing large amounts of coal, particularly from the US, where many power producers have been switching to fracked gas — less polluting and, in the US, a cheaper fuel.

During that game of business musical chairs, fracking happened, stunning the fuel market with enormous and cheap supplies of new natural gas.

fracking is good because it allows us to produce natural gas cheaper than coal, and that allows a rapid decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from electricity.

Unfortunately, the development of cheap natural gas through fracking has done the opposite.

As the market for coal - fired electricity generation here in North America shrinks due to the rise of cheap natural gas - fired power (thanks to fracking for shale - gas), exports of coal from the US to overseas markets in Europe and Asia are sharply increasing.

The problem is not only about the cheap oil and gas made possible by fracking in America's shale fields, and particularly in Texas.

Thus oil / gas companies, the banks that finance them, the federal agencies that regulate them and Obama himself all parrot the hype that fracking will supply cheap natural gas to fuel US power plants for the next 100 years.

Most importantly, this scenario pre-dates the fracking revolution that has flipped the use of coal and natural gas in the United States by making natural gas so cheap and plentiful.

Much of the mainstream media — in the US and abroad — has been swallowing the fossil fuel Kool - Aid and hailing the arrival of cheap gas, through the fracking boom, as a new energy «revolution», as if this would be a permanent state of affairs.

And since fracking makes natural gas cheaper, it helps stimulate a switch from coal to gas.

Coal is under increasing pressure from cheap supplies of natural gas due to the fracking boom and now also from rising supplies of wind and solar electricity.