Sentences with phrase «extracted from hydraulic fracturing»

The pipeline would take natural gas extracted from hydraulic fracturing («fracking») in West Virginia and over environmentally sensitive areas.

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June 30 2011: The French parliament voted to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

Horizontal hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, is an efficient means of extracting natural gas from shale -LSB-...]

The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale, state environmental regulators said on Thursday.

Making fracking easier Extracting shale gas from the ground requires some genuine political courage, because there's deep suspicion across the country about what the process of hydraulic fracturing actually involves.

For four years, the Cuomo administration has put off making a decision whether to lift the moratorium that stops drilling companies from using the hydraulic fracturing method of extracting natural gas in New York state.

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.

Gas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposits.

The extraordinary growth in fracking — the hydraulic fracturing of deeply buried shale rock to extract natural gas — has transformed the United States over the past 15 years, boosting energy stocks, cutting pollution from conventional coal - power plants, and creating new jobs.

COVER Natural gas extracted from a deep shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») technology burns at a well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

This is all down to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which is used to extract gas from otherwise uneconomic shale.

A team of researchers studying water quality around hydraulic fracturing, the process used to extract gas from rock deep underground, have found a blueprint to move those conversations forward.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

Natural gas is extracted from shale plays by a process called hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as «fracking.»

Hydraulic fracturing, a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale rock, often takes place a mile or more below groundwater supplies.

12:27 p.m. Updated In the final session of an environmental - science communication course that I co-taught at Pace University this spring, Thad Cook, a graduate student, gave a thorough overview of the issues raised by extracting natural gas from shale using hydraulic fracturing, the method now widely called fracking.

Updates below After years of gauging the environmental, medical, economic and political risks of hydraulic fracturing, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is moving to ban this method of extracting natural gas from shale deposits in New York State.

Found in limestone and shale deposits, tight oil isn't extracted from wells like conventional oil, but is removed with hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking» — a process that also releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Since recent events have demonstrated the relative environmental soundness of hydraulic fracturing — a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale formations — Promised Land's script has been altered to make doom - saying environmentalists the tools of oil companies attempting to discredit legitimate «fracking» concerns.

Greenpeace activists took to Westminster's Parliament Square in the heart of London this morning to protest against hydraulic fracturing — a relatively new method of extracting gas from the Earth which has gone a long way to lowering energy prices

The process of extracting natural gas from shale deposits includes hydraulic fracturing, during which fluids and solids are pumped into the well.

Yes, one can profit in the short term off these industries, or get in on the latest environmental insanity caused by hydraulic fracturing, but this process of extracting financial gain from environmentally stupid business practices must end, especially if one claims to invest in a sustainable or responsible manner.

By STANLEY REED Published: December 13, 2012 LONDON — The British government gave the go - ahead Thursday for exploratory hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract natural gas from shale - rock deposits.

Add Algeria to the growing list of nations that choose to focus on the profits rather than the pollution of using fracking to extract natural gas from shale (that's hydraulic fracturing for those new to this issue).

Encana had carried out shallow drilling to extract methane gas from coal beds using a technique known as hydraulic fracturing, which Ernst believes has led to the contamination of her water supply.