Sentences with phrase «extract natural gas even»
It's an effort to preempt companies from starting to extract natural gas even if the state ends up giving them the green light to do so.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/pennsylvania-gas-drillers-dump-pollution-drinking-water-supplies/ The fact is, no matter how much we want to use natural gas as a new fuel, or even a transition fuel, off of oil, the process of extracting it can't be done safely and without consequently poisoning our water and ourselves.
Horizontal hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, is an efficient means of extracting natural gas from shale deposits often otherwise unaccessible, but critics say the process causes environmental damage and can even possibly trigger future earthquakes.
Even if energy conservation were pursued more aggressively in the state (a perennial opportunity), scratching off New York natural gas and nuclear power would clearly lead to more reliance on coal - generated electricity (or gas extracted in other states unlikely to have the safeguards that are inevitable in environment - minded New York).
The recent low prices for natural gas and oil appear likely to continue for at least decades and possibly even longer due to the new technology for extracting natural gas and oil from shale rock.