Sentences with phrase «fracked gas»

With that formerly dominant environmental matter largely settled in New York, the anti-fracking community has turned its energy to opposing the transport of fracked gas from other states — infrastructure that they argue enables dependency on insufficiently clean energy sources.

He authored the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act, which would have expedited the approval of fracked gas pipelines.

Dominion is one of the partners in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), which if built will bring massive amounts of fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia and down to North Carolina.

Your support of the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines for fracked gas would seize a 1000 - mile strip of public and private land, threaten drinking water, incentivize fracking, and rapidly increase global warming pollution.

Nixon wore a T - shirt that advocates closing a Hudson Valley power plant that runs on fracked gas, operated by the company Competitive Power Ventures.

So that's terrific, and the state comptroller should do that, just as New York City has announced it will do, but you can't say that as governor you want to divest in fossil fuels and then give tens of millions of dollars to the New York Power Authority to invest in fracked gas in downtown Albany.

The Plan continues to promote fracked gas infrastructure like Dominion's Atlantic Coast pipeline, and insists that flooding the Commonwealth with natural gas is the key to economic prosperity.

Opponents of a planned fracked gas power plant in the Hudson Valley say they are hoping the U.S. attorney will investigate decisions made in the permitting process for the plan, now that it's been revealed that the wife of a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo took payments from the lead engineering firm in the project, and that her husband is the subject of a federal probe.

The land of his 10 - generation Virginia family would be seized, bisected, and substantially deforested by the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline carrying fracked gas from West Virginia into Virginia.

Cuomo pushed an environmental agenda that included demanding the EPA pursue further dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River and environs, rejection of the Constitution Pipeline to transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania, and subsidies for Upstate nuclear power plants.

Opponents of a planned fracked gas power plant in the Hudson Valley say they are hoping the U.S. attorney will investigate decisions made in the permitting process for the plan, now that it's been revealed that the wife of a former top aide to Cuomo took payments from the lead engineering firm in the project, and that her husband is the subject of a federal probe.

The billions they're losing explains why the industry is so keen to start exporting fracked gas as Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to China, Japan and India.

In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than...

Megan will give an update about the critical climate and energy campaigns happening now: both to pass bills in the General Assembly and to stop big polluters, like the proposed fracked gas export plant at Cove Point.

«They're going to have to feed the pipelines with fracked gas for 50 years to come,» Foster said, who said there are concerns that if Pennsylvania runs out of gas sometime in the future, New York's ban might be reconsidered.

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.

If the fossil fuel industry gets its way, there will be at least four major new fracked gas pipeline projects criss - crossing the Blue Ridge and Appalachian regions of Virginia and West Virginia — endangering our forests and farmlands, the communities living along their routes, and taking us backward in our fight to stop climate change.

Carbon pricing continues to reveal itself as an effective, efficient means to lower emissions; new data shows that UK's carbon price has greatly reduced local coal consumption, and may result in decreasing fracked gas use too.

When you add the revolution in cheap fracked gas — which Trump has pledged to double down on — it's no surprise the country shut down over 40 gigawatts of coal - fired power stations since 2000.

Opponents of fracking are now focusing on gas pipelines that conduct fracked gas from other states underneath New York.

We're not going to allow fracked gas into our state.»

When drillers frack a gas well, they inject thousands of gallons of chemicals, some of which are highly toxic even at low concentrations.

The outlandish attempt to make fracked gas the new, holy version of Freedom Fries seems dumb until you remember Rick Perry is the guy who said fossil fuels could help prevent sexual assault in Africa and falsely (and I would add, incoherently) said that «the ocean waters and this environment that we live in» are the primary driver of climate change.

For Virginians who have felt especially under attack from fracked gas projects recently, this final graph shows it's not your imagination: Virginia is second only to Texas in new gas plant development underway.

And while he likes to proclaim himself as a national leader on climate change, he is flooding the state with imported fracked gas, giving billions of dollars to old nukes, and is getting only 3 to 4 % of the state's electricity from renewables,» noted Hawkins.

The CPV Valley project is a new 650 MW combined cycle gas plant that would take Marcellus shale fracked gas from the Millennium Pipeline, through the equally controversial Minisink Compressor station, and convert it to power for the wholesale energy market in NY.

She sat down with Katie Cusack and David Howard King last week to discuss that saga, her take on the Cuomo administration's plan to construct a microgrid in Downtown Albany that will be fueled partially by fracked gas, and her take on just how disastrous Donal Trump's presidency and Scott Pruitt's time at the head of the EPA (so far) has been for the environment and how long it will take us to recover from the administration's setbacks.

V.I.D. has also been a leader in the fight against the Spectra pipeline, whose development unfortunately now allows high - pressure fracked gas to pass very near a playground on the West Village waterfront.

Draft State Energy Master plans made oblique references to the implementation of hydrofracking here, and prominently factored fracked gas in the state's future energy portfolio as a «bridge fuel».

Still, the prominent climate scientist James Hansen, who gained fame after sounding the alarm over global warming in the 1980s, criticized Sanders and said shutting down the plant would increase the need for more fracked gas.

They have faulted Gov. Cuomo for continuing to promote the burning of fracked gas across the state, including his proposal to add two new gas turbines in Arbor Hill to heat the Empire State Plaza.

Before the methane storage project was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in October 2014, hundreds of citizens tried every possible legal means to prevent the expansion of fracked gas storage at Seneca Lake, a source of drinking water for 100,000 people and to object to a form of industrialization that places us in harm's way.

It means frack gas pipelines crisscrossing everywhere.

These projects, if built, will massively raise the state's climate pollution, and lock us into decades of burning more climate - heating fracked gas and oil.

No New Gas Power Plants: Stop Sheridan Hollow Fracked Gas Microgrid, Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), Crickett Valley, Lincoln Park, and other proposed gas plants

The UK government is keen on a similar «dash for gas», arguing that the use of domestically fracked gas could both cut energy prices and reduce reliance on imported gas.

High Pressure Gas Line,» and «Fracked Gas Line Museum.»

Last night, The Illuminator was in Manhattan's Meatpacking District to project mayday messages on the facade of the soon - to - be-opened Whitney Museum, while a group of two dozen protesters supported by 23 sponsoring organizations launched a guerrilla inauguration for the «fracked gas pipe museum.»

The proposed Eastern Panhandle Expansion Project is three - mile long pipeline that would carry dangerous fracked gas from Pennsylvania through Maryland and into West Virginia.

Sure, fracked gas looks cheap today, but cheap is not the stuff of legacies.

ACP and Sabal Trail are only two of 15 new pipelines proposed on the East Coast competing to carry fracked gas flowing out of the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

There is a black irony in the fact that the higher the price of gas, the more generators will swich to burning cheap US coal that is being exported due to the temporary US boom in fracked gas supply.

Coal, nuclear, and fracked gas interests dislike the AEPS because they see it as taking too many crumbs of an energy market pie they feel entitled to eat in its entirety.

A Canadian oil company called TransCanada wants to build a pipeline to carry fracked gas underneath the treasured Potomac, the drinking water source for millions of people.

His rural congregations would be dramatically affected by the pollution, noise, and maintenance activity of a proposed 57,000 - horsepower compressor station that would process fracked gas from the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline running from West Virginia to Virginia.

But just as environmentalists were thinking, «Whoa, natural gas turns out to be a bridge to nowhere,» electric utilities were embracing fracked gas in a big way.