Sentences with phrase «fracking contaminates water»

These days, the Russians promote the view that fracking contaminates the water.

«Fracking contaminates our water, and without water there's no food,» the actor - activist said.

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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.

As of August 2011, oil and gas companies still said there had never been a documented case of drinking water contaminated by fracking.

You don't have to worry about us funding private prisons, fracking, oil drilling, contaminated water pipes, or supporting idiotic political candidates.

I don't think hydro - fracking which has proven to be an extraction process that IS contaminating tax paying citizen's well water, in addition to lowering the value of their homes, security, and only assets, not to mention making their homes uninhabitable IS the answer.

«If Governor Cuomo gives the green light for Fracking, does he have a plan on how to deal with cleaning up contaminated water systems like those we saw last week in Pennsylvania?»

New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio warns that fracking could threaten drinking water and food supplies that might be contaminated by the gas drilling.

They shared stories and fears of water being contaminated by fracking fluid; the political class reeled.

If a stipulation required that all water used in fracking must be reused, there would be no trucking of contaminated water, leaving AbTech in a position to benefit.

AbTech's sponge was marketed to areas affected by Hurricane Sandy and can be used to clean water contaminated by fracking.

And the exhibit plays to local concerns over contaminated water supplies, fracking - induced earthquakes, methane leaks, noise, dust and dirt.

Carbon dioxide emissions from power plants could be put to good use, preventing fracking chemicals from contaminating drinking water supplies.

Badly managed fracking has recently been shown to have contaminated water wells in Wyoming, though this involved a shallow sandstone reservoir rather than much deeper shale.

THE act of fracking is probably not contaminating US drinking water — the real problem is leaky wells drilled to bring the gas the surface.

Its opponents are concerned that this and other, more toxic pollutants might be seeping up from fracking sites far below ground and contaminating water supplies.

Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.

Residents have long expressed concerns that fracking could contaminate drinking water.

Opposition to fracking has arisen mostly out of fear that the technique could potentially contaminate drinking water supplies.

The debate over whether and how drilling and fracking contaminate groundwater with gas — the infamous flaming water faucet of the documentary Gasland — would benefit especially.

In particular, concerns that the hydraulic fracturing process (called «fracking») used to capture natural gas could pose a threat to the environment and public health if chemicals used in the operation contaminate underground drinking water.

Despite concerns that fracking could seriously deplete or contaminate local water supplies, in 2010 Pennsylvania issued more than 3,300 natural gas permits in the Marcellus Shale.

Fracking, which injects liquids underground at high pressure to extract oil and natural gas from hard to reach places, can contaminate water (SN Online: 10/12/15) and air, due to chemicals used in the process.

UT officials also decided to appoint an independent panel to review the 414 - page study, which had concluded that fracking was unlikely to contaminate ground water.

Environmental groups say fracking can contaminate water supplies, but the industry has argued that it does not hurt the environment.

Environmentalists and residents of Parker County, Texas, were dismayed last year when the EPA dropped an investigation into complaints that fracking by Range Resources was contaminating local water supplies with methane.

There's no evidence — zero, zilch, nada — that fracking contaminates drinking water.

Mike G, DeSmogBlogWaking Times After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water and farm irrigation, the EPA ordered a report within 60 days.

Given the distance between the water and the fracking fluid, there's just no way fracking could contaminate aquifers, the gas industry and its allies argue.

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.

Can fracking contaminate drinking water?

In fact, they are the ones who will be breathing more particulate matter in their air; drinking water contaminated with fracking chemicals the composition of which is considered a «proprietary matter» and thus protected from disclosure; and eating food that is less and less safe — romaine lettuce, anyone?

Likewise, contaminated water generated in fracking can be tightly regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and Toxic Substances Control Act.

There are those that say that there is no credible documentation that drilling and fracking have contaminated people's well water.

The 600 - plus - page report that resulted looks at a variety of ways fracking could have an effect on local drinking water: withdrawing millions of gallons of water needed to frack a well, improperly mixing chemicals with the water at the well, injecting that fracking fluid into the ground at high pressure to fracture rock as much as two miles beneath the surface, handling the contaminated water then produced by the well and finally improperly storing or disposing of that water.

In a study released in May 2012 an independent scientist confirmed that fracking contaminated a drinking water source east of the town of Pavillion, Wyoming, supporting the findings in a draft EPA report published in December 2011.

From communities that are dealing with waterways that are contaminated with toxic chemicals from coal ash waste seeping into their waters to communities that are having drinking water supplies contaminated by fracking, our reliance on dirty energy sources is having a huge impact on water quality and quantity.

«Fracking,» a violent process that dislodges gas deposits from shale rock formations, is known to contaminate drinking water, pollute the air, and cause earthquakes.

The track's title and its Earth, Wind and Fire-esque refrain — «I think my water's on fire tonight» — may bring to mind «Gasland,» the polemical Oscar - nominated documentary that memorably features a Colorado man lighting his (ostensibly) fracking - contaminated tap water on fire.

Fracking also poses other hazards, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, which warns that besides contaminating drinking water with toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, fracking could trigger earthquakes, poison livestock, and overburden wastewater Fracking also poses other hazards, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, which warns that besides contaminating drinking water with toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, fracking could trigger earthquakes, poison livestock, and overburden wastewater fracking could trigger earthquakes, poison livestock, and overburden wastewater systems.

Highlighting what it deems an «authoritative study,» Rolling Stone concludes that fracking is «contaminating the air and water — and imperiling the health of millions of Americans.»

A Cornell University engineering professor often used by activists to attack fracking ran from reporters after he admitted in court there was no proof drilling had contaminated Dimock's drinking water.

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-...]

One of the harshest charges against fracking, often leveled with apocalyptic intensity by its foes, is that it indiscriminately contaminates vital drinking water supplies.

Fracking fluid goes through the aquifers, contaminating drinking water with chemicals, many of which are cancerous.

In real life, anti-fracking environmentalists claim that fracking is responsible for methane getting into groundwater while also pointing out that the contaminated water will burst into a ball of fire when a flame is applied to it.

Unfortunately, fracking has been shown to contaminate or eliminate already - struggling water sources.

The majority of the rules that regulate the use of fracking are derived from European directives and are intended to make sure that fracking and other activities do not contaminate water, pollute the air or use unsafe chemicals.

In the process of fracking, the «toxic soup» of chemicals used to break apart shale rock can leach into underground aquifers, wells and other drinking sources, contaminating the water lines that flow into hundreds or thousands of local businesses and homes.

Drinking water contaminated by fracking wastewater can affect a person's normal respiratory, sensory and neurological processes as well as other biological functions.