Sentences with phrase «extracting natural gas out»
He said he spoke to the senator after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and at his district office on Long Island, where they spoke about fracking, a controversial method of extracting natural gas out of the ground.
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«By the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of 30 years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock,» Obama noted at one point in his speech.
It can then be sucked back out as the natural gas is extracted from the reservoir, meaning that there is a virtually complete recovery of the fracking fluid; water - based methods have roughly a 50 percent recovery rate.
And by the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of thirty years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock — reminding us that Government support is critical in helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground.
I think this emerging form of emissions accounting provides a valuable way to show how the growing coal (and natural gas) greenhouse - gas emissions commitment will play out, but — because of the competing social and economic values embedded in that extracted energy, along with the equity argument poor countries use against established fossil - powered industrial giants — I'm not sure it leads to a more effective strategy for cutting those emissions.
The conventional way to produce natural gas is to drill and extract it out of «traps,» or folds and pockets in underground sandstone layers.
The problem is that natural gas is methane, a powerful greenhouse gas in its own right, and when you extract natural gas from shale formations, some of it inevitably leaks out.