Sentences with phrase «drilling method»

I also believe that the method of fracking is much worse overall for methane emissions than conventional gas drilling methods.

I think his portrayal of environmental risks from the gas - drilling method known as «fracking» doesn't adequately account for studies showing that problems, while real, are very rare.

With extensive knowledge of horizontal drilling methods and techniques, our staff can offer alternatives for customers seeking new approaches to challenging underground installations.

The lecture and drill methods many learned in college are no longer adequate to attain these goals.

Hydrofracking foes want to keep the pressure on the governor as a decision about the controversial drilling method nears.

New York State appears to be further slowing its effort to produce rules governing fracking, shorthand for the suite of drilling methods used to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used a new drilling method to produce a hole on Feb. 26, 2018, in a target named Lake Orcadie.

Using conventional drilling methods, it will take three summer seasons in the remote reaches of Antarctica to get to the million - year - old ice that the teams hope lies 3000 metres down.

Acknowledging the «irony» of how a business practice that's illegal in New York State helped keep the Buffalo Bills in Western New York, billionaire Terry Pegula defended the controversial gas drilling method better known as hydro - fracking.

Central New Yorkers who oppose controversial gas drilling method believe their continued protests are making a difference.

«Many of the regulations on the books at the Interior Department have not kept pace with advances in technology and modern drilling methods,» said Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior and a former petroleum engineer, in her statement announcing the new policy.

There are new stratigraphic drilling methods that reveal the buried geology, which can be intelligently extrapolated across larger areas.

Drilling proponents play the same time card, this week making an «urgent call to action» to press New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to swiftly release the state's package of new rules for such drilling methods.

Offshore wind is about twice as expensive as onshore wind due to the higher cost of materials, more expensive drilling methods, and more complex maintenance.

Let's say we accept the inevitable contamination of sea water that comes from extraction, the toxic drilling methods, occasional spills of oil and radioactive drill lubricants into the ocean.

Diverting more gas from the domestic energy market would exert even more upward pressure on fuel gas prices, and with gas prices on the rise you're going to start setting more pushback from consumers and less support for fracking (short for hydrofracturing), the shale drilling method that has been causing so many problems in local communities.

Drake's drilling method quickly caught on throughout the region, though he failed to patent the idea and profited little from it.

Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside), a longtime opponent of the natural gas drilling method and ranking minority member of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, -LSB-...]

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrestles with whether or not to allow hydraulic fracturing in the state, a Queens councilman has lauded him for refusing to buckle to pressure and allowing a critical deadline to pass rather than speed up a review of the controversial drilling method's potential impact on public health.

And I'm not sure it reduces the higher emissions of natural gas obtained via fracking versus natural gas obtained from more conventional drilling methods.

Cuomo has not yet decided whether the state should allow hydrofracking; he's awaiting a health review on the drilling method from his top health commissioner.

More than two dozen people stood outside the Gordon Student Center at OCC to protest hydrofracking, a deep - drilling method to extract natural gas.

Thirty - eight percent of voters say they are opposed to fracking, while 35 percent of those polled back the drilling method.

At the same time, Cuomo has been criticized by the energy industry for not making a decision on whether to allow the drilling method.

Cuomo has not decided what to do on hydrofracking, a controversial drilling method that is opposed by environmentalists but backed property owners and the energy industry.

Ulrich said he supports the drilling method for natural gas in the state if it can be done safely, and also argued it would create good paying jobs and help ease dependence on foreign oil.

He also said the drilling method uses dangerous chemicals that can make its way into water reservoirs.

Fracking is a drilling method to extract natural gas found deep in shale formations.

In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has not yet decided whether to allow fracking - a drilling method to extract natural gas found deep in shale formations.

The Buffalo Niagara Partnership is endorsing the New Economic Revitalization Agenda proposed by Unshackle Upstate, a plan that looks to cut taxes and calls for the legalization of a controversial gas drilling method.

Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside), a longtime opponent of the natural gas drilling method and ranking minority member of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, said the poll showed a grassroots movement against hydrofracking is resonating in New York.

One glaring admission from the hour - long presentation in Albany involved hydrofracking, a controversial drilling method the state has yet to approve or reject.

Forty - three percent of voters oppose hydrofracking in New York; 39 percent support the deep - drilling method.

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.

My sense is that it will not satisfy many people — either as a drama or a potential weapon (for either side) in the fight over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the drilling method that has opened vast regions of the country underlain with gas - rich shale to exploitation.

Its construction would require a drilling method called Hydraulic Directional Drilling, which uses millions of gallons of bentonite slick water, typically laced with diesel fuel, to drill longitudinally under rivers and other structures.