Sentences with phrase «for natural gas extraction»

The North Texas earthquakes of the last seven years have all occurred in areas developed for natural gas extraction from a geologic formation known as the Barnett Shale.

Not exact matches

Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Commission shall issue final rules that require each resource extraction issuer to include in an annual report of the resource extraction issuer information relating to any payment made by the resource extraction issuer, a subsidiary of the resource extraction issuer, or an entity under the control of the resource extraction issuer to a foreign government or the Federal Government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals...

Take, for example, the sharp increase in U.S. oil and natural gas production stemming, in part, from the innovations in drilling and extraction technologies.

This report provides context and background for the growth of natural gas extraction, and examines trends and regulations concerning fracking and other methods and byproducts of natural gas extraction.

And he blasted the governor for not making a decision on the controversial natural gas extraction process known as hydrofracking.

He was especially disappointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to ban high - volume hydrofracking, a natural gas extraction process believed to be a potential boon for the area.

7:23: Both Turner and Maragos call for varying degrees of environmental balance with the controversial natural gas extraction process known as hydrofracking.

In the early years of the Cuomo Administration, oil giant Exxon - Mobil put its considerable political clout behind an effort to get New York to allow fracking; a controversial type of drilling that allowed for the extraction of natural gas.

Schneiderman had sued the commission, an agency that regulates drinking water for residents in parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, earlier this year after he determined their proposed regulations for the controversial natural gas extraction method didn't go far enough.

In particular, she blamed Cuomo's political machinations for the failure of campaign finance and ethics reform efforts, and for New York not outlawing natural gas extraction through the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.

Schneiderman is also suing the federal government over its review standards for hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas extraction process.

The casino siting announcement came the same day the Cuomo administration moved to ban high - volume hydrofracking, a controversial natural - gas extraction process that had been considered for the Southern Tier.

The SGEIS, or Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, is a review of potential regulations for hydrofracking, a natural gas extraction process that involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to access the gas underneath.

Hydro - fracking has been banned in New York State for nearly a year now, but opponents of the natural gas extraction process have other concerns, including new pipelines.

Hydrofracking is the practice of fracturing subterranean rock with a pressurized chemical mixture to release natural gas for extraction.

New York state's highest court struck a blow Monday for home rule and against fracking, deciding that municipalities can use zoning laws to ban the natural - gas extraction method that has fueled a U.S. energy boom.

These findings have been published by Matthew Lasich and Deresh Ramjugernath from the University of KwaZulu - Natal, Durban, South Africa, in EPJ B. Alternative applications for such findings are relevant for future energy research, such as energy storage and the development of natural gas extraction methods.

For the hydraulic fracturing system, the study estimated the toxicity of the fracturing fluid chemicals used to crack rock and release natural gas, as well as the wastewater associated with shale - gas extraction.

Several said they were uncertain about which fuels were the cleanest (for some, natural gas was perceived by some as dirty due to its extraction from hydro - fracking).

U.S. EPA has begun the process of requiring natural gas companies to use «green completions,» a set of technologies and methods that allow for an efficient and leak - free transfer of natural gas from extraction wells to transport pipelines to the refineries or processors.

Image courtesy: Top of the Mitt Watershed CouncilANN ARBOR — University of Michigan researchers today released the final version of a report analyzing policy options for the state of Michigan regarding high - volume hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas and oil extraction process commonly known as fracking.

While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting coal.

Peaking oil and natural gas extraction is going to accelerate global warming when many desperate people use wood and coal for heating and cooking.

I was glad to see Joe Romm react to The New York Times investigation of water problems in gas country by sticking with his appropriately nuanced view of the need for responsible expansion of natural gas extraction.

The Department of Environmental Conservation announced late today that it was releasing a revised set of recommendations for managing, but not ending, natural gas extraction using the contentious hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, technique.

Join us in the Energy Forum for discussions on everything from natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania to blue skies over Beijing.

With recent increases in natural gas extraction, largely from the combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, many states are confronting the need to regulate extractive industries for the first time, and others are seeing rapid increases in natural gas development.

Natural gas delivered to market as LNG has life - cycle greenhouse gas emissions (ie extraction, pipelining, liquefaction, shipping, regasification, pipelining and burning for electricity) of roughly 600 - 800 kg of carbon per megawatt - hour of electricity.

Likewise, the extraction of oil and natural gas using enhanced recovery techniques, and handling of injected and produced water, raise state and federal concerns for oil, gas, and geothermal energy production.

Metric bias results in more stringent gas water - heater standards despite the fact that life - cycle energy losses for natural gas are only about 10 percent of its usable energy (from the point of wellhead extraction to the consumers» utility meter) versus 70 percent for electricity.

Bruno Van Peteghem, 2001 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for Islands and Island Nations, celebrated a victory as the French government recently adopted a nation - wide ban on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial natural gas extraction method frequently known as «fracking.»

This infusion of liquid breaks up the rock deposits to free oil and natural gas for extraction.

He's also called for increased extraction of oil, coal, and natural gas reserves at a time when climate leaders are seeking to limit emissions by transitioning to renewable forms of energy.

Fracking allows for the cheap extraction of natural gas from shale deposits that were previously inaccessible, and it is responsible for both the boom in natural gas production as well as the correlate controversy.

The ratio of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) for fossil energy production has tended to fall as high - quality deposits of oil, coal, and natural gas are depleted, and as society relies more on unconventional oil and gas that require more energy for extraction, and on coal that is more deeply buried or that is of lower energy content.

Mr. Mitchell will be honored for innovating the technological breakthrough that made the economical extraction of natural gas from shale rock formations possible.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

LNG or Alberta Natural Gas will have competing uses, for home heating and Tar Sands extraction, respectively.

This work emphasizes the need for top - down identification and component level and event driven measurements of methane leaks to properly inventory the combined methane emissions of natural gas extraction and combustion to better define the impacts of our nation's increasing reliance on natural gas to meet our energy needs.

Right now, state - of - the - art hydrogen extraction from natural gas, pressurized and delivered to the customer, costs about $ 4.50 for a gallon of gasoline equivalent (GGe).

Increases in natural - gas extraction are being driven by rising energy demands, mandates for cleaner burning fuels, and the economics of energy use (1 — 5).

I claim no particular expertise on the issue of whether, on balance, increased extraction of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing is a good thing for the environment and our economy, in relation to our current methods of energy generation or other feasible alternatives.

Also, expect Obama to call for the «safe» extraction of domestic fossil fuels like natural gas, in a bid to exhibit bipartisan compromise.

The Oscar nominee for The Kids Are All Right compared the extraction of natural gas «like changing cabins on the Titanic.»

Primary Safety resource for safety related issues including field operations, natural gas processing and transmission covering 25 Compressor Stations, 2 PSM regulated liquid extraction plants, 4210 miles of transmission pipeline, and 129 personnel that staff these facilities within a 5 State region.