Sentences with phrase «fracking at»

Just 44 % of Americans were either very aware or somewhat aware of fracking at all, with a further 13 % of people saying they were not very aware.

Onshore and in shallow waters, oil companies use hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» techniques to blast cracks into source rock and release the oil, but fracking at the ocean depths where MacMullin and Wilson wanted to look is exceptionally difficult and expensive, and companies are only just starting to take it on.

He does not believe that any other of the recent quakes in Oklahoma or elsewhere are related to fracking at all.

Natural gas is burned off next to water reservoirs used for fracking at an oil well site August 23, 2011 near Tioga, N.D.

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.

But what if oil prices tumble, and its just not economic to do high cost fracking at a large number of current sites?

That might be the primary reason for high - SC people not loving fracking at this point.

He says he was told by the New York State Brewers Association, which helped organize the summit with the Cuomo Administration, not to bring up the topic of fracking at the gathering or wine in grocery stores, a proposal that is not favored by Governor Cuomo.

State Senator Tony Avella of Queens and two newly - elected colleagues joined New Yorkers Against Fracking at a press conference in Albany re-affirming their commitment to banning the practice in New York State.

Ultimately, the state moved to put a ban in place on high - volume fracking at the end of last year and the ban formally took effect in early 2015.

«Avella has stood apart as the Senate's leading voice in protecting New York's environment and has played a key role in building the movement that has held fracking at bay in the Empire State.

The most recent such study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, finds that at least 6,900 oil and gas wells in the U.S. were fracked less than a mile (5,280 feet) from the surface, and at least 2,600 wells were fracked at depths shallower than 3,000 feet, some as shallow as 100 feet.

None of the wells in the area were being fracked at the time, and none were in the «flowback» stage, according to the study.

Not exact matches

At the same time the sudden decline in oil prices caused a slowdown in fracking activity.

The news comes at the end of a week in which Scotland's energy minister said that fracking «can not and will not take place in Scotland.»

Last month, the panel of 31 independent scientists charged with reviewing the EPA's draft report stated that the agency's broad conclusion about the mining technique known as fracking is at odds with the evidence and «inconsistent with the observations, data, and levels of uncertainty presented.»

The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

According to the scientists, in looking at the issue nationally, the EPA failed to give due consideration to several cases in which fracking may have contaminated water supplies locally.

Chesapeake Energy workers at one of the company's Texas oil fracking operations (Photo: Michael Stravato / The New York Times)

At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

At the end of the day, it probably won't be environmentalists who curb fracking in most states, but economics.

But when it comes to fracking — the oil and gas industry's technique to tap into harder - to - reach fossil fuels — the two have similarly negative yet slightly divergent view points, which were highlighted at the Democratic Presidential Debate in Flint, Michigan, on Sunday night.

We won't put that at risk with fracking,» state Labor Premier Daniel Andrews said in a statement on Tuesday.

That's left a lot of junk bond fund managers with plenty of exposure to the energy sector at a time when oil prices have crashed and defaults, particularly among fracking companies, are rising.

The drilling site in question is at Preston New Road, where Cuadrilla Resources had proposed drilling four wells and testing them with fracking.

And unlike with the oil industry, no «fracking» method has been invented yet to extract gold from hard - to - reach areas, though Barrick — the world's largest producer by output — has been experimenting with sensors at its Cortez project in Nevada.What Pierre is talking about, of course, is the idea of «peak gold.»

For the past two years, OPEC's pump - at - will policies have flooded the market with cheap supply, causing economic pain for producers with higher cash costs, including those involved in fracking, the Canadian oil sands and deepwater drilling.

«For us who are long - term investors, we tend to look at the group of people who are gathering in Vienna and say «they're fighting against history... The cost of producing crude, largely due to fracking technology, has dramatically changed the marginal economics of oil,» Hunt told Bloomberg Television.

«Clearly, the current regime is not fit for the government's purpose of gaining a social licence to frack,» Michael Bradshaw, professor of global energy at Warwich Business School, wrote in an email.

At the gathering the water protectors strengthened their resolve to stop the pipeline, which would be the final leg of ETP's Dakota Access pipeline carrying oil fracked in North Dakota to Louisiana.

The fracking technology is probably good for at least decade or two for stable energy prices.

Even if Europe put aside its environmental concerns and decided to pursue natural gas fracking, it would take at least five years to develop such an industry, he predicted.

Joseph R. D'Angelo, partner at Carl Marks Advisors, looks at restructuring issues facing fracking suppliers and providers, and advises steps to take when ABLs are hit with vulnerable credits.

Ty Wright Bloomberg Getty Images A rig hand removes a drill pipe from a natural gas well at a fracking site in Washington Township, Pa..

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.

«How can B.C. commit to ramping up this dangerous, polluting industry when the province has just announced that they will be looking at the environmental impacts of the fracking process through their scientific review?»

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

Bravo Ozil, thank you for staying in this fracked team at the moment.

I am ANGRY, after 12 years of this sh*t, I am Angry, There are NO excuses left, either this team at least becomes a real challanger or Wenger gets the frack out.

Some players has an easy life at this club and thats effecting others, everybody...... Sven and Raul should change things, briniging those two gave me hope, but now, right now, at this fracking moment, only thing that can really change things is money... When Board sense lack of profit they will start thinking.

Joining me in the interview is Green Moms Carnival Founding Member, author, environmental expert, and XRF - gun wielding lead - toy - tester Jennifer Taggert — also known as The Smart Mama — and Lisa Frack, online parent organizer at The Environmental Working Group.

Fracking has been at the centre of much controversy in recent times, but what is the real story.

SCIENTIST Hydrochloric acid is found in toilet cleaners at concentration 100 times higher than what's used in fracking!

Before the rebellion, senior Tories I spoke to agreed that fracking and HS2 were the issues likely to cause the PM problems at conference.

Three Parks is joined by Assembly member Linda Rosenthal (left) at the Albany rally to stop Fracking.

In her previous capacity as New Paltz's supervisor, she was often at the center of protests against the governor's perceived hesitancy to ban fracking.

To receive backing from such a highly respected campaigner, who has been so prominent in the battle against fracking and broader issues of climate change, is a real boom to the party as we look to translate the «Green surge» into votes at the general election in May.

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.

The Syracuse Post-Standard accepts a step - by - step approach to fracking in the Marcellus — like the one floated by the Cuomo administration — might be the only way to go if drilling is to occur at all.

Does she plan to join her colleague Caroline Lucas in getting arrested at fracking protests?