Sentences with phrase «for fracking companies»

Exporting the excess may be the only way for fracking companies to make money.

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The study was funded by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role of fracking remains contested, the advising scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.

But for several years, companies in southern Louisiana, where his business is located, have suffered along with the oil industry, which is affected by changes in global oil supplies and technologies like fracking.

It's going to cost her $ 3,200 to get a lab to test for all the acids, detergents and poisons that companies say they use for fracking — or hydraulic fracturing — to break up underground shale and remove oil and natural gas.

With Wall Street backing, the company leased land all over the country for fracking, including Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Depending on where you live, there's legislation pending that will levy more regulations and taxes on fracking, which in a time of rapidly falling oil prices could significantly hurt local energy companies that provide jobs and work for small businesses.

The energy sector's recovery is helping; energy companies accounted for 30 % of all capex this cycle, namely via fracking - related spending.

Here's a look at the frack sand producer's latest quarter, some of the details for its most recent investments, and what this could mean for the company in 2018.

For example, US Silica CEO Bryan Shinn said during his company's most recent conference call that management expects demand for frack sand to decline by just 15 % to 20 % in 2015 assuming U.S. rig counts fall by 30 % -35For example, US Silica CEO Bryan Shinn said during his company's most recent conference call that management expects demand for frack sand to decline by just 15 % to 20 % in 2015 assuming U.S. rig counts fall by 30 % -35for frack sand to decline by just 15 % to 20 % in 2015 assuming U.S. rig counts fall by 30 % -35 %.

Guar Gum, commonly used for baking and a thickening agent, witnessed a sudden increase in demand when oil and gas companies started using the material for fracking explorations.

A top Senate aide to former majority leader Dean Skelos set up a meeting on fracking with the state Department of Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption trial.

Let's not forget that mortgage companies don't want make loans for someone to buy a fracked property, either.

As many local activists waved signs protesting the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, she denounced her Republican opponent, former state legislator John Faso of Kinderhook, as a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterways.

«And John Faso took money from fossil fuel companies as they tried to take your land by eminent domain for a fracked gas pipeline.»

The mailer also accuses Murphy's Democratic opponent, attorney Justin Wagner, of representing «one of the largest fracking companies» whose natural gas flows through the Algonquin pipeline, which is slated for expansion in Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties.

But the oil and gas companies are urging Governor Cuomo to reconsider any plan that would limit fracking to specific parts of the Southern Tier, while leaving out for now the rest of available private land in the Marcellus Shale.

There have been reports for some time now that the Cuomo Administration would soon begin to allow limited hydraulic fracturing by gas drilling companies in some Southern Tier in communities where most of the residents want fracking.

The records cite emails beginning in «mid-2013» in which Adam Skelos began to push to position the company to sell products needed in fracking for natural gas trapped deep in shale deposits upstate.

A spokesman for Gerard, Reid Porter, told The Post that neither Cuomo nor the state Department of Health, which the governor claims has been conducting a health study on fracking for nearly a year, has sought any information about the drilling technique from API or any of its member companies.

Federal prosecutors allege that Senator Skelos tried to pressure Cuomo's health department to skew proposed regulations on fracking to a company that Adam worked for.

The fracking company alleges that she showed «blatant» disregard for the ban when she took Hawkins on the tour and allegedly stood within 100 feet of an access road leading to one of Cabot's wells in Dimock, Pennsylvania.

Environmentalists are celebrating while gas companies are fuming over Governor Cuomo's decision to ban hydro fracking in New York State for the near future.

For many years fracking industry groups insisted their member companies never used diesel fuels in their operations.

For the new study, his team combined 23 hormone - disrupting chemicals known to have been used by oil and gas companies for frackiFor the new study, his team combined 23 hormone - disrupting chemicals known to have been used by oil and gas companies for frackifor fracking.

It can be challenging for health care providers to learn what specific chemicals are used in a fracking mixture because gas companies claim «trade secrets.»

They can be so stupid that Steve could probably get them to sign over their land for a buffalo nickel and a can of Spam, only to turn around and use Google to investigate the side effects of fracking, as well as pending legal cases facing Steve and Sue's company.

Matt Damon plays a corporate salesman for Global, a multibillion - dollar fracking company, in «Promised Land,» which he also co-wrote and produced.

Promised Land Film Review by Kam Williams Gas Company Downplays Downside of Fracking in Timely Eco-Drama In 2011, a disturbing documentary called Gasland was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category.

But he said the work is trustworthy, noting that it would be very difficult for gas companies to speedily alter practices at fracking sites to clean up their act ahead of the researchers» visits, given very short lead time on choosing well sites and that procedures and equipment are developed well ahead of time.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil waste injection sites and a review of over 100 others in the Central Valley for fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids into drinking water aquifers.

The U.S. is the world's largest petroleum and natural gas producer, and we can thank fracking and American energy companies for it.

Gas companies argue that fracking will add thousands of jobs to impoverished communities, and that utilizing gas will reduce the need for the use of «dirtier» sources of energy, namely, oil and coal.

Trump is also reported to be considering Harold Hamm, chief executive of fracking industry leader Continental Resources, for energy secretary, and Forrest Lucas, co-founder of oil products company Lucas Oil, for interior secretary.

Wind energy — «can cause considerable consternation for local communities» — does this mean one law for the powerful corporate fracking companies and another for wind companies.

Because it was a pride to participate on behalf of 350.org and somehow, I believed that it was possible to influence the announcement of the suspension of activities of the company Petrel Energy and the moratorium for 4 years for the exploitation of fracking at the level national election unanimously in the Senate of Uruguay.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company, has filed for bankruptcy (although coal's problems are due mostly to fracking for natural gas, which by some measures is as bad as coal).

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.

Industry reps agreed that regulation is necessary for companies that frack to help the industry to avoid pollution.

Heath used that access to advocate for a fracking chemical disclosure system that allows generous exemptions for chemicals that companies deem «trade secrets.»

For example, in the UK, Patrick Erwin went from head of Energy Markets and Infrastructure Strategy and Programme Office at the Department of Energy and Climate Change to working for the biggest UK fracking company, INEOS shaFor example, in the UK, Patrick Erwin went from head of Energy Markets and Infrastructure Strategy and Programme Office at the Department of Energy and Climate Change to working for the biggest UK fracking company, INEOS shafor the biggest UK fracking company, INEOS shale.

The company submitted an environmental impact assessment for fracking in the VMM - 37 block to Colombia's environmental agency ANLA, Irving, Texas - based Exxon said in an e-mailed response to questions Thursday.

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.

Thus oil / gas companies, the banks that finance them, the federal agencies that regulate them and Obama himself all parrot the hype that fracking will supply cheap natural gas to fuel US power plants for the next 100 years.

More on Fracking Natural Gas Far Less Green Than Claimed - Fracking Emissions 1000s Times Higher Than Reported: EPA Gas Companies Illegally Using Diesel Fuel For Fracking

Farmers in New York have been calling for the state to ban fracking, but if such legislation is not enacted, the future of food in upstate New York — and any state where gas companies are fracking — is alarmingly uncertain.

The momentum toward fracking and more natural gas is certainly great right now, but in no way is this a good idea (except for perhaps the profits of the companies involved), nor is it inevitable.

The company, which has faced local opposition in the rest of the UK is trying to overturn the Scottish ban which doesn't involve legislation but is an instruction to local authorities not to consent planning for any fracking - related activities.

Astoundingly, for a state so environmentally progressive in many ways, oil and gas companies there are not required to disclose the location of fracking wells — currently some 350 wells have been disclosed voluntarily.

A lighter take on a serious subject, one day before the official start of winter... The tune is familiar, the words clever and the cause serious: Fracking for natural gas, occurring in a number of places as fossil fuel companies try to to tap into the billions of dollars worth of natural gas trapped in shale deposits, using a technique with some environmentally dubious consequences — flammable drinking water, anyone?

Different in California than in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio — the front line of the fracking battle, for those just coming to this discussion — in the Monterey Shale it's oil that companies are going for as more than natural gas.