Sentences with phrase «frack site on»

But this ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations — literally — when a controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole and an unspeakable horror is unleashed.

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The same week Andrew Cuomo announced the ban on fracking, a New York State board recommended the approval of three sites for the development of resort casinos.

Other stops on her whistle - blower tour included a Pennsylvania fracking site, «because Cuomo has taken over a million dollars in pro-fracking money,» Teachout said, and a Manhattan luxury tower built by developer Extell, inventor of the «poor door.»

On the same day as the fracking ban was made public, a state board appointed by Cuomo and legislative leaders announced the siting of three new gambling casinos in economically depressed upstate areas.

On Sunday, the Lib Dem delegates flouted party history and voted in favour of building more nuclear power stations — energy secretary Ed Davey having told them this is vital to fight climate change — and also voted to support fracking, albeit with an amendment to ensure pollution levels were closely monitored and those local to fracking sites were properly consulted.

On Thursday October 9, Howie Hawkins will take a citizen - led tour of fracking sites in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.

Also at 11:30 a.m., the Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy, ally organizations and local residents will gather at the site of two new proposed fracked gas turbines to call on Cuomo to halt the proposal and reissue a request for proposals for renewable energy solutions, 79 Sheridan Ave., Albany.

He plans to tour fracking sites in Pennsylvania on Thursday.

Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for New York Governor's race will be taking a tour of fracking sites in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania on October 9.

The Syracuse resident said he's seen fracking sites from a distance as he traveled on Interstate 81.

Cuomo, who has never visited a fracking site, shocked industry observers on Wednesday when he said the state's long - awaited health study of fracking was due by the end of year.

And they say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agencies.

ALBANY — In recommending a ban on fracking in New York, acting state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said he wouldn't want his kids growing up near a drilling site.

Last Friday, Republican Gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino sent out a late afternoon press release saying that he would not be going on a gas industry tour of fracking sites in Pennsylvania until after the election because the company providing the tour — Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation — refused to allow members of the press on the tour.

They say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by Governor Andrew Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agencies.

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.

This massive development has led to more than 3,900 brine spills, mostly coming from faulty pipes built to transport fracked wells» flowback water from on - site holding containers to nearby injection wells where it will be disposed underground.»

In addition, the researchers compiled information from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection on the locations of all of the active fracked sites in the state and when sites became active.

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.

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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.

This opinion piece on the importance of an independent review on the impacts of fracking in Canada features a satellite image of a remote well site provided by SkyTruth.

I wonder if Pickles will block fracking rigs like he has solar farms and wind turbines, or if he'll treat them like the housing estates being built on green field sites (eg at the back of Anne Hathaways cottage in Stratford - upon - Avon — you don't get much more «heritage» than that!).

According to Rolling Stone, the report's central claim is that «residents living near an active [fracking] site breathe air laced with carcinogens,» which leads to an «increased risk of asthma, a decrease in infant health and worrisome effects on the development of a fetus.»

Nonetheless, up to 50 layers of natural gas can occur between the surface and deep shale formations, and methane from these shallow deposits has intruded on groundwater near fracking sites.

Overall, however, the environmental impacts of fracking (a process that involves pumping chemical - laden water underground to extract oil and gas) on groundwater and air near drilling sites have played second fiddle to the industry's economic impacts in this election cycle, Kelsey said.

Fracking has been on hold in the UK since 2011 when two small earth tremors were blamed on exploratory operations by Cuadrilla at another site near Blackpool.

The Associated Press (7/19/13) reports: «A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy -LSB-...]

Last night, on her show, Rachel Maddow showed some incredible photos of an explosive accident at a Texas fracking site.