Sentences with phrase «drill a well within»

Did you know that here in Texas an oil company can drill a well within 200 feet of your home and you have no rights.

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The EPA's study found that between 25,000 to 30,000 new wells were drilled each year between 2011 and 2014 and that 9.4 million Americans live within a mile of a fracking site.
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Mr. Romaine said he will introduce a resolution in the county Legislature this Tuesday instructing the Department of Health Services» well drilling unit to install fire wells capable of providing 400 gallons of water per minute on county parkland within the Pine Barrens.
Geothermal wouldn't produce the amount of heating we need, we would have to drill hundreds of wells within the city and that's just not feasible.
Local regulatory requirements may not help: for instance, although the researchers discovered methane contamination at homes within 1,000 meters of active natural gas wells, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection only holds drilling companies responsible for drinking water within 305 meters.
Evidence of a past environment well suited to support microbial life came within the first eight months of the 23 - month primary mission from analysis of the first sample material ever collected by drilling into a rock on Mars.
When Antero Resources announced plans in the spring of 2009 to drill 200 more wells in Battlement Mesa, a golf - course community almost within sight of Wallace - Babb's old home, about 400 residents petitioned the county to study the potential health impacts before they permitted the drilling.
De Natale told ANSA that drilling the pilot well should start «within a few months,» the time needed to «reorganize with the company that won the contract,» and that a second well 3.5 kilometers deep should then follow.
They found that wells located within 1 kilometre of an active shale - gas drilling site contained 17 times as much methane on average as those further away.
The number of earthquakes within central and eastern United States has increased dramatically over the past few years, coinciding with increased hydraulic fracturing of horizontally drilled wells, and the injection of wastewater in deep disposal wells in many locations, including Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Ohio.
Each day presents a new challenge, although there is always the spectacle of the drill masters yelling at their charges, calling them the N - word all the time, beating and slamming them to within an inch of serious injury and, in Zurich's case, more than that: He suffers a fractured rib that would take weeks to heal, but he hides it and hopes for the best.
Third, there were some asset purchases and rationalizing of assets between the portfolio companies during the past 4 months; Several oil / gas well drilling companies / assets were acquired by different affiliates within the portfolio, then the companies / assets were consolidated under Steel Excel (the shell of the old ADAPTEC), presumably upstreaming some cash from Steel Excel to the holding company for further investments.
The study compares before and after drilling within small distances (the recently reported upon distance is 2.5 kilometer or close to 1.5 miles) of the well head.
Abrupt tropical cooling ~ 8,000 years ago «We drilled a sequence of exceptionally large, well - preserved Porites corals within an uplifted palaeo - reef in Alor, Indonesia, with Th - 230 ages spanning the period 8400 to 7600 calendar years before present (Figure 2).
Often times, these wells and their associated infrastructure are within sight and earshot of people's homes, or even schools, hospitals, and other sensitive areas where people's health can be put at risk by the 24/7 noise, lighting, diesel fumes, dust, and volatile chemicals emanating from typical drilling sites:
As others said of the plan, science won out in the sense that hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling can be conducted safely while protecting the forest itself as well as the watershed within it.
The bill requires that any company seeking a drilling permit must first guarantee that it could prevent any future blowouts; promptly stop any blowout, even if the blowout preventers and other measures fail; and drill a relief well within 90 days of any blowout.
(5) Whenever, before or during the drilling of a well not within the boundaries of an operating coal mine, the well operator encounters conditions of a nature which renders drilling of the bore hole or a portion thereof impossible, or more hazardous than usual, the well operator, upon verbal notice to the department, may immediately plug all or part of the bore hole, if drilling has occurred, and commence a new bore hole not more than 50 feet from the old bore hole if the location of the new bore hole does not violate section 3215 (relating to well location restrictions) and, in the case of a well subject to act of July 25, 1961 (P.L. 825, No. 359), known as the Oil and Gas Conservation Law, if the new location complies with existing laws, regulations and spacing orders and the new bore hole is at least 330 feet from the nearest lease boundary.
The average methane concentration in shallow groundwater in active drilling areas fell within the defined action level (10 — 28 mg L - 1) for hazard mitigation recommended by the US Office of the Interior (13), and our maximum observed value of 64 mg L - 1 is well above this hazard level (Fig. 3).
Although the creek is enveloped within three national conservation areas, a secretly - negotiated deal to transfer protected lands into corporate hands initiated under the Bush Administration could result in the proliferation of hundreds of miles of roads, pipelines, airstrips, and drilling wells that would cause irreparable harm to the creek and threaten the Yukon River downstream.
Oil drilling in areas falling within the U.S. and Canada's territorial jurisdiction of the Arctic Ocean, as well as certain areas of the Atlantic ocean, is now illegal.
Additionally, there is a provision in the Texas Local Government Code Section 253.005 that provides «a well may not be drilled in the thickly settled part of the municipality or within 200 feet of a private residence.»
It is likely that failure to check in at the muster drills in the future may prompt increased passenger action and it's likely well within the cruise line's rights.
Additionally, I have organized the Dearborn Town Drill, a day in which the city was invited to come to the fire house and discuss how to better prevent fires within their home, and how to plan their fire escape routes.
Harvard Protection Service (New York, NY) 6/2001 — 12/2001 Fire Safety Director • Monitored a Class - E fire alarm system located within a busy commercial high - rise building • Conducted regular inspections of all fire safety equipment, as well as performed regular fire evacuation drills • Collaborated with other safety professionals to coordinate both prevention and response efforts
Shale gas drilling within a 0.6 mile of a home can decrease property values by an average of 16.7 percent if the house depends on wells — not municipal sources — for its drinking water, according to research by Spiller and other economic professors.
Smart Site uses data derived from customer profiles to identify key markets, as well as drill down to find preferable expansion locations within a particular market.
For example, there are few instances of a well being drilled within 180 days of a home being sold, making comparisons between those homes and other homes difficult.
The data below show that home sale prices were lower for homes that had a well drilled within 180 days of a sale.
The table below shows whether home prices were higher or lower for homes that had an oil or gas well drilled within 180 days before and after the home was sold.
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