Sentences with phrase «drilling process say»

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State seismologist Richard D. Andrews and Dr. Austen Holland said at the time the earthquakes «are very unlikely to represent a naturally occurring process» with data indicating the number of earthquakes were probably linked to drilling.

The Piceance Basin, which spans much of western and northwestern Colorado, already has multiple well sites, pipelines and processing plants in place from a previous round of drilling in a shallower formation, Ludlam said.

Last March, Royal Dutch Shell said it was selling most of its stake in Canada's oil sands, a vast project that has extracted millions of barrels of sticky, gooey hydrocarbons from the ground in a process that resembles mining more than drilling.

Although the divestiture process for land - based drilling rigs has gone on longer than the company had hoped, Weatherford said it has started two other sets of divestitures to raise capital.

ICYMI: Rep. Bob Turner, who is on an upstate campaign swing and headed today to Binghamton — the heart of New York's hydrofracking debate — shrugged off environmental concerns about the controversial natural gas drilling process during a CapTon interview last night, saying the state should «at least start trying it.»

He said that as long as the process is regulated and kept safe, drilling in New York would tap into an «enormous» source of natural gas for the state and the country.

Environmentalists are celebrating after Gov.Cuomo said there will be no hydrofracking in New York for now, citing inconclusive scientific evidence on the health effects of the gas drilling process.

Anti-fracking groups say they are using New York's stance to help convince other states, and even countries to ban the gas drilling process.

A historic preservation group is weighing in on hydro fracking for the first time, and they don't like what they say they've been learning about the gas drilling process.

The governor has said he'll decide whether or not to permit the gas drilling in the state by late February, when the 90 day extension of a rulemaking process runs out.

«It's going to happen,» said Cahill, who said key watersheds like the New York City reservoirs and reservoirs in the Finger Lakes should be exempt from the gas drilling process.

Cuomo said he expected voters to register their concerns on hydrofracking — a controversial natural gas drilling process he has not made a decision on for now — and Common Core.

There is a fifth proposal that the business group is pushing: the start of the gas drilling process known as hydrofracking in New York, which they say would create thousands of high paying jobs.

Environmentalists are celebrating after Governor Andrew Cuomo says there will be no hydrofracking in New York for now, citing inconclusive scientific evidence on the health effects of the gas drilling process.

Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Mark Grisanti, a Buffalo area Republican, is not advocating for a ban, but he says he «shares many of the concerns» about the gas drilling process.

Governor Cuomo says he supports his Administration's internal health review on hydrofracking in New York, and he says it could even hasten the gas drilling process in the state, should fracking ultimately be approved.

Anti-fracking groups say they are using New York's stance to help convince other states — and even countries — to also ban the gas drilling process.

The coalition New Yorkers Against Fracking delivered boxes containing 200,000 signatures to Governor Cuomo's offices that they say are from state residents who want the gas drilling process banned.

Marshall says she and other advocates have learned, through the fracking fight, where years of protests eventually led Cuomo to ban the natural gas drilling process, that applying political pressure can work.

Howie Hawkins said he is the only candidate in the race who is really opposed to the drilling process.

Clarence Republican Assemblyman Ray Walter says fracking was always going to be a scattered process because of different drilling prospects but wants Albany to make a decision either way.

He said the job impact estimates for the controversial natural gas drilling process are greatly exaggerated.

Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens caused a stir among pro- and anti-fracking groups when he issued a statement saying that he was rejecting calls for an independent health analysis of the potential impacts of the gas drilling process known as hydrofracking.

A document from Governor Cuomo's administration assessing the health impacts of hydrofracking, written less than a year ago, says the gas drilling process is likely safe if proper precautions are taken by the governor's environmental agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

Governor Andrew Cuomo says he expects the State's Department of Environmental Conservation will fail to meet a November 29 deadline to propose new rules for the gas drilling process known as hydro - fracking.

Environmentalists are celebrating after Governor Cuomo says there will be no hydro fracking in New York for now, citing inconclusive scientific evidence on the health effects of the gas drilling process.

The court said that local governments whose citizens do not want fracking can opt out of allowing the gas drilling process in their city, town or village.

Cuomo, who previously said he'd decide on whether or not to okay the controversial drilling process known as fracking in New York before Election Day 2014, now says he wants to give his health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, all the time he needs to complete an ongoing health review, which began over a year ago.

Environmentalists are celebrating after Governor Cuomo says there will be no hydrofracking in New York for now, citing inconclusive scientific evidence on the health effects of the gas drilling process.

A document from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration assessing the health impacts of hydrofracking, written less than a year ago, says the gas drilling process is likely safe if proper precautions are taken by the governor's environmental agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

There was no mention in the speech of hydrofracking as an economic development plan, the governor has said his agency will decide whether to allow the gas drilling process by late February.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says he supports his administration's internal health review on hydrofracking in New York, and he says it could even hasten the gas drilling process in the state, should fracking ultimately be approved.

Cuomo says fracking supporters should consider why it is that numerous New Yorkers are afraid of the gas drilling process.

The panel said companies should measure and publicly report the use and disposal of water during the drilling process, and it urged companies to start sharing information on best practices in building and maintaining wells.

According to Space.com, Steven Lee, Deputy Project Manager of Curiosity, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that, «We are in the process of defining a set of diagnostic tests to carefully assess the drill feed mechanism.

He said regulators have always thought that there are few emissions during the drilling process, but when drilling rigs drill through shale layers containing a lot of natural gas, a pressure pulse will send gas out of the well and into the atmosphere.

«This indicates that there are processes occurring — e.g. emissions from coal seams during the drilling process — that are not captured in the inventory development process,» he said.

In particular, Burke said, extensive water testing before, during and after drilling would provide valuable insight into the process in the future.

He noted that the hydraulic fracturing process lends itself to more leakage because it takes more time to drill the well, requires more venting and produces more flowback waste, he said.

Overall, however, the environmental impacts of fracking (a process that involves pumping chemical - laden water underground to extract oil and gas) on groundwater and air near drilling sites have played second fiddle to the industry's economic impacts in this election cycle, Kelsey said.