Sentences with phrase «frack oil or gas»

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Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

Hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» involves injecting liquids, sand and chemicals under high pressure to break apart tight rock formations underground to allow more oil and gas to escape into the well.

To get the oil, producers fracture, or «frack,» the earth below with a high - pressure liquid mixture to untap oil and gas from shale rock.

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.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, deploys a mix of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure to release gas or oil trapped in rocks.

So what am I to make of the extreme claims that are made by opponents to fracking (hydraulic fracturing of subsurface rocks to get oil or gas)?

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The trustee of New York's $ 150.1 billion pension fund has reached an agreement with Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. to disclose what it's doing to reduce risks of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

LaSpino said he supports either a fair or flat tax, opposes fracking for oil and natural gas, and opposes abortion and euthanasia.

Besides the environmental disaster that fracking is, and the step backward it represents in the fight to turn the tide in the global climate crisis, we can't allow big oil and gas to come into our state, or any state, to bully citizens and take away their rights.

Congressmen Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat, and Chris Gibson, a Republican, voted against legislation that would prohibit any federal oversight of oil and gas drilling using fracturing, or fracking, on federal lands.

That surge has coincided in time and place with the boom in unconventional oil and gas extraction such as hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» in which high - pressure fluid is injected into the ground to break up the underlying rock and release trapped gas or oil.

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

In most cases, it is not hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) of oil - and gas - bearing rock that sets off tremors but the related process of wastewater injection.

A survey of a major oil and natural gas - producing region in Western Canada suggests a link between hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» and induced earthquakes in the region, according to a new report published online in the journal Seismological Research Letters.

Most of the drill sites flooded had already been fracked, and were actively producing oil or gas — so chemicals added to fracking fluids should not have been on site.

Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to release natural gas and oil from underground rock.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the rock - cracking method to release trapped oil and natural gas, always takes place thousands of meters below Earth's surface — or so many people assume.

But according to a panel of geologists at the AAAS Annual Meeting, the culprit isn't hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» in which geologists crack open subsurface rocks to extract oil and gas; instead, it's the processes associated with pumping wastewater and other fluids back into the ground.

Fracking — or hydraulic fracturing — is a process in which rocks are deliberately fractured to release oil or gas by injecting highly pressurised fluid into a borehole.

DENVER (Reuters)- Voters in three Colorado communities have decided to suspend or ban an oil and gas production process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, according to unofficial election returns on Wednesday.

They looked both at wells used for enhanced oil recovery — in which fluid is injected to flush lingering oil from a depleted reservoir — and at those used to dispose of wastewater from conventional oil and gas extraction or from hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Added Vengosh: «Our new study, which integrates data from multiple government and industry sources, provides the first comprehensive assessment of fracking's total water footprint, both nationally and for each of the 10 major U.S. shale gas or tight oil basins.»

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a method of hydrocarbon recovery that uses high - pressure injections of fluid to break apart rock and release trapped oil and natural gas.

The specialists detail that, according to their investigations into the matter at hand, at least 11 chemicals used in fracking either for oil or natural gas act as endocrine disruptors.

When hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» to access unconventional oil and gas reserves was a hot topic in the fossil fuel industry, Ryerson was tapped to lead a team to develop GEOS — a dynamic computational rock mechanics and hydrologic tool — that can model facture propagation, resulting seismic signals and pressure - driven fluid flow through a rock mass.

DENVER, Colo. — Fracking is a procedure used to extract oil or gas from deep underground.

And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based on incomplete data from state governments gathered in 2007.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

A Feb. 24, 2014 Rice University news release (also on EurekAlert) and on Azonano as a Feb. 25, 2014 news item) describes a technique tracks which wells are producing oil or gas in fracking operations,

«21 More recently in 2013, on behalf of oil and gas industry groups, JDA overestimated the cost of a revised federal proposed fracking rule by 90 %, or over $ 310 million.22

Second, several years ago, I heard that teams of Chinese engineers were spending months in Oklahoma to learn about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as a method for liberating gas and oil from previously untappable shale deposits.

This crack in my own thinking is heightened by the fact that I am now watching my extended community of plants, animals, rocks, rivers and human beings be ravaged by the oil and gas industry, be it fracking or the razing of vulnerable wildlands.

Chip Northrup, a former oil and gas investor from Texas who now splits his time between Dallas and upstate New York, is an articulate and energetic opponent of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for the natural gas locked in deep shale layers in the state.

Scientists from the United States Geological Survey also presented a report in April that found that «seismicity rate changes» in Arkansas and Oklahoma «are almost certainly manmade,» although it remains unclear if the changes were related specifically to fracking or to the rate of oil and gas production.

Gas and oil extraction there using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is on the verge of a boom.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique to remove natural gas and oil from shale formations, has been under withering assault from environmental groups for much of the last decade.

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking for shale gas is the new wild frontier of the fossil - fuel industry, one they're keen to promote as a low - carbon alternative to high - polluting coal and oil.

The oil and gas industry, industry - funded academics and ideological think tanks have promoted shale gas development — through the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — as a sure - fire job creator during difficult economic times.

Then a mixture, commonly known as fracking fluid, of water (90 percent), sand (9.5 percent) and chemicals (0.5 percent) is pumped into the well under high pressure to create micro-fractures in the shale and free the natural gas or oil.

The link between hydraulic fracturing and U.S. global leadership in oil and natural gas production is direct: Without fracking, there'd be no American energy renaissance — or the array of benefits it is providing to our economy, to individual households, U.S. manufacturers and other businesses.

California oil and gas officials don't yet regulate or even track fracking — onshore or offshore — in spite of its links to water and air pollution in other states.

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.

«But EPA's current standards don't apply to fracked oil wells that also contain gas — gas that the drillers often just waste by venting or flaring it away.»

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing operations, by the oil and gas industries can emit significant amounts of methane.

However, the climate benefits of shifting from fossil - fueled transportation to electric cars, trucks, buses and trains only pencil out if our electricity itself is clean — that it's produced through carbon - free resources such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric, rather than fossil fuels such as coal, oil or fracked gas.

This would discourage government action like restricting oil and gas drilling, imposing pollution controls, limiting the use of fracking (hydraulic fracturing), or even stopping construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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.

Also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracking refers to using pressurized water and chemicals to release oil or natural gas trapped in underground rock formations.

The unpredictable nature of the oil and gas industry makes it hard to say exactly how fracking will affect these farmers, but it's safe to say there's reason for concern — for organic farms especially because of the strict standards they have to uphold, but for any farmer, or consumer for that matter, who wants to ensure their food is grown in places unaffected by chemicals that for the most part are kept secret.

Fracking, or Fracing as the oil and gas industry ungrammatically spells it, is short for hydraulic fracturing, and the technology is now being used extensively to extract shale gas, by pumping liquids at high pressure into the rock, creating and expanding fissures.