Sentences with phrase «for extracting natural gas»

Hydraulic fracturing is a process for extracting natural gas and oil by injecting water and chemicals deep underground.

In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural gas from coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some of the dwindling supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.

At the heart of the debate is whether to tax energy companies for extracting natural gas from the Marcellus Shale, a geologic formation rich in fossil fuels that runs underneath the western half of the state.

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.

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.

Geologists also say that fracking - a controversial technique for extracting natural gas and oil from underground rock deposits - could be one of the causes.

The commissioner of the state Department of Health in an interview on Monday said he is taking a look at the alternative method for extracting natural gas that could sidestep the state's ban on hydrofracking.

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.

Not exact matches

These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into vehicle fuel, are extracted from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.

«So I thank Governor Cuomo for being open to the economic, employment and energy benefits that would accrue from safely extracting natural gas from gas - bearing shale formations in New York State, but I am grateful that he has prioritized the health of New Yorkers and the long term protection of the State's irreplaceable natural resources over a short term energy and economic boost from hydrofracking.»

Besides banning fracking to extract natural gas, Cuomo's administration has denied permits, thrown up hurdles or delayed approvals for natural gas pipelines and storage facilities.

Instead of looking for ways to locate and extract more natural gas, Woods said residents should explore renewable energy and conservation.

Except that there are more and more examples of how extracting natural gas is terrible for communities - Just look at Penn..

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.

While I appreciate that Peter Aldhous's article was primarily concerned with the immediate health questions raised by the process of fracking, or cracking rock to extract natural gas from shale beds (28 January, p 8), its effects on climate change can not be ignored since that, too, is likely to be bad for our health.

McCain is a booster for tapping the Outer Continental Shelf to extract both oil and natural gas.

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New York State appears to be further slowing its effort to produce rules governing fracking, shorthand for the suite of drilling methods used to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits.

If China can build its capacity to extract natural gas without substantial emissions to the air (and with careful standards for drilling and water pollution — which is hardly a given!)

In a speech at Pace University yesterday, Veerappa Moily, India's minister of petroleum and natural gas, described how, as part of a government plan for energy self sufficiency by 2030, India is planning an aggressive push to extract natural gas from its large shale deposits.

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.

ProPublica has published a good update on concerns that existing practices for extracting and piping natural gas, through leakage, substantially cut into the fuel's substantial greenhouse - gas advantage over coal.

A «pre-pay» carbon policy might work something like this: before a company extracts a ton of carbon from the ground (be it in the form of oil, natural gas, coal, trees, soil, etc.), it would have to «pre-pay» for a credit demonstrating that the organization (or a third - party) had already removed and sequestered an equivalent ton of carbon from the atmosphere.

Clearly, there is more information to be gathered about the environmental impact of extracting natural gas and using it for electricity generation, and I look forward to the conclusion of a currently running EPA study to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge.

Doctor John Broderick, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and University of Manchester said: «Extracting and burning natural gas produces substantial quantities of methane and carbon dioxide which warm the climate in different ways.

The authors of the new study are careful to note that the controversial method, which is used to extract natural gas and oil from the ground, is not liable for the Southwest's methane cloud.

After the gas is extracted, an additional 400 million gallons of water per day are consumed for natural gas refining and pipeline operations.

If he were to aggressively help U.S. oil, natural gas and coal companies to extract our mineral wealth for either internal or overseas sales, would that increase jobs in America?

Gas extracted from shale currently accounts [in 2011] for about 15 percent of natural gas produced in the United StatGas extracted from shale currently accounts [in 2011] for about 15 percent of natural gas produced in the United Statgas produced in the United States.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

The step of extracting and purifying the CO2 from a dilute state (12 - 15 % for coal, 3 - 5 % for natural gas, and 20 - 30 % for cement) is the most significant problem with CCS because of the very large energy demand to purify it to near 100 % for compression and liquification, transport, storage and monitoring.

Chevron and other giant energy companies are demanding a TTIP investment chapter that will allow them to sue governments if environmental or other regulations interfere with their expected future profits by, for example, restricting oil and gas drilling, imposing pollution and oil spill controls or constraining the use of hydraulic fracking techniques to extract natural gas and oil from shale formations.

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.

One of CSPW's major criticisms of the QER under President Obama was its treatment of natural gas as a «bridge fuel» to a renewable energy future; since the infrastructure used to extract, process, and transport natural gas to market is essentially the same as that for oil and petroleum products, continued reliance on natural gas only delays the transition to clean, renewable energy and has only marginal CO2 - reduction benefits in the near term.

Natural gas liquids (NGLs) ethane and propane get extracted and sent to a «cracking facility» where ethane is made into ethylene (the foundation of polyethylene - the most common plastic in the world, frequently used for packaging, bottles, and synthetic clothing), and at a dehydrogenation plant, propane is made into propylene (the foundation of polypropylene - a plastic commonly found in food packaging and vehicle manufacturing).

For more than a decade the energy industry has steadfastly argued before courts, Congress and the public that the federal law protecting drinking water should not be applied to hydraulic fracturing [2], the industrial process that is essential to extracting the nation's vast natural gas reserves.

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).

Professor James Davis told the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) the method mirrors techniques the oil industry has used for the last 80 years to extracting carbon dioxide from natural gas.

Assistant Drillers work on oil rigs and direct teams responsible for extracting oil and natural gas.

For example, the Obama administration has continued to issue new permits for oil drilling throughout the U.S. and there has been a mass expansion of the use of hydraulic fracking to extract natural gFor example, the Obama administration has continued to issue new permits for oil drilling throughout the U.S. and there has been a mass expansion of the use of hydraulic fracking to extract natural gfor oil drilling throughout the U.S. and there has been a mass expansion of the use of hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas.