Sentences with phrase «exploit shale gas»

It was also worried that a rush to exploit shale gas could divert effort away from developing a long - term sustainable low carbon economy.

Instead, it proposed «minimum principles» — nonbinding environmental guidelines for member states that want to explore and exploit shale gas reserves using hydraulic fracking methods.

But George Osborne may see it as the ideal opportunity to advance his «dash for gas», which defies most expert opinion with its punt that the UK can repeat the US's experience and exploit shale gas reserves to secure lower energy prices.

Not exact matches

The U.S. is awash in natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits, but New Englanders paid record prices for gas this past winter because of inadequate pipeline capacity.

This has happened in part because much of the Northeast relies on readily available hydropower from Canada and rapidly expanding natural - gas - fired electricity generation made possible by cheap natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits in Pennsylvania.

China, too, has decided to tap into the shale revolution — in a deal with the U.S. announced this week, it will be exploiting what some estimate to be the world's biggest shale gas reserves, equivalent in energy content to about half the oil in Saudi Arabia.

They argue that shale gas, accessible through cost - effective methods like hydraulic fracturing, are sufficiently plentiful and cheap that most renewable energy sources will not be able to compete for decades, and that we should instead focus our national energy priorities on exploiting our newfound domestic shale gas reserves.61

But the coalition's commitment to green policies has recently been questioned, amid scepticism among Tory backbenchers about the benefits of wind power, and the chancellor's enthusiasm for exploiting Britain's shale gas reserves.

The mining industry has discovered that there are huge reserves of coal - seam gas and oil - shale that can be profitably exploited.

North American experience shows unconventional gas — notably shale gas — can be exploited economically.

Meanwhile, numerous industry efforts are underway to further exploit stressed public lands and perpetuate fossil - fuel dependence through the extraction of coal, oil and gas, oil shale and tar sands, and liquefied natural gas development — as well as uranium mining and milling and the construction of energy corridors and long - distance electric transmission lines.

If there are large quantities of shale gas in China, you can bet your buns that China will figure out how to exploit this (and put in the necessary infrastructure to make that possible).