Sentences with phrase «fracking fields in»

At a time when the nation — and the world — has pledged to decrease climate - changing fossil fuels, the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline would transport 500,000 barrels of highly combustible crude each day nearly 1,200 miles, from the Bakken fracking fields in northwestern North Dakota through four states to southern Illinois.

The plant, which used to burn garbage, will now be converted by the Cuomo administration to natural gas from fracking fields in other states.

It's slated to go from the Bakken gas and oil fracking fields in northern North Dakota across 1,100 miles of the rest of the Dakotas and Iowa to a pipeline hub in Illinois.

Not exact matches

Thanks in large part to fracking in prolific fields such as the Eagle Ford Formation and Sprayberry Trend, the state leads all others in crude production, annually gushing out more than a third of total U.S. output.

And even though drilling has dropped off sharply in the major Bakken field in North Dakota and other fracking plays, it is remarkably inexpensive to restart once prices rebound.

The damage from the oil plunge is already hitting producers of more expensive crude in various outposts from Alberta to the North Sea to the fracking fields of Texas and North Dakota.

Since many energy companies have adopted the process of fracking in their oil field operations, they have come to rely on sand as an integral component to this procedure.

State Republican Chairman Ed Cox spoke last night, speaking with the knowledge of a board member with a major company in the field and with millions of dollars in investments in fracking companies.

Anti fracking is funded by George Soros, the man that owns oil fields in the North Sea.

The study's findings differ from those reported from oil and gas fields in the central United States, where fracking is not considered to be the main cause of a sharp rise in induced seismicity in the region.

Then, early last year, Exxon launched a project in an old oil field 14 miles away and began fracking wells to get them to produce more oil.

Sally Entrekin and colleagues wanted to flesh out this picture for the Fayetteville Shale play, an active gas field in Arkansas where more than 5,000 gas wells were drilled using fracking techniques between 2004 and 2014.

Jeff Alger, 34, who works in the Kansas oil fields on a fracking crew, said his wife Sophia took their children out of school when she heard a tornado was coming and then fled Moore and watched it flatten the town from a few miles away.

The University of California, Berkeley's worldwide network of smartphone earthquake detectors has recorded nearly 400 earthquakes since the MyShake app was made available for download in February, with one of the most active areas of the world the fracking fields of Oklahoma.

This field of storage tanks (in yellow) holds fracking wastewater.

The environmental one is clear, and it's voiced by Dustin Noble (John Krasinski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Damon), an environmental activist from a small organization that has photos of what fracking did to his family's farm (dead cows in a field) and a science demonstration for the local school of what could — or, as he believes, will — happen if fracking becomes the norm in their town.

I spent days collating all the very latest published scientific studies and «letters / articles» by experts in that field, working in the field regarding the impacts of Gas Fracking.

Cheap natural gas from Pennsylvania fracking may cause petrochemical industry build green field plants in northern Appalacia.

A question was posed about the extensive and decades - old oil fields in neighborhoods near the Culver City venue for the talk, and the prospect for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, expanding there and elsewhere in the state.

Shell has bought the site and has 10 supply contracts in place lasting up to 20 years, including from fracking companies extracting shale gas in the Marcellus shale field.

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!).

Ackley himself has surveyed Manhattan, Washington, D.C. and the fracking fields of Pennsylvania in recent months.

Consider the impact to groundwater from «fracking» in the oil and gas fields.

EPA says emissions from field production of natural gas accounted for 32.2 percent of methane emissions from natural gas systems in 2012, but adds that those have come down more than 25 percent since 1990 — which is noteworthy when you factor in that natural gas production ramped up with the introduction of advanced fracking and horizontal drilling in the mid-2000s.

The purpose of the blockade is to prevent fracking sands, known as ceramic proppants, from being shipped from the port to the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and other places.

The problem is not only about the cheap oil and gas made possible by fracking in America's shale fields, and particularly in Texas.

From the Gulf of Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico, the whole country has been stitched together by pipelines filled with toxic materials extracted from offshore platforms in Prudhoe Bay, from the tar sands of Alberta, from the fracking fields of North Dakota.