Sentences with phrase «fracking industry»

Christi Craddick, the Texas Railroad Commissioner, praised the Texas fracking industry in her address at the annual Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association (PPROA) meeting last week.

With the report of corruption with fracking industry, it seems we need a new governor who truly stands behind the people of New York.

Federal prosecutors revealed Mr. Skelos had arranged a meeting between fracking industry leaders and the state Department of Environmental Conservation at the same time that his son both held an alleged «no - show» job at AbTech and was in the process of negotiating the contract to sell filters through his consulting firm Rockville Strategies.

In that time, environmental and community groups turned the 124 - mile pipeline, which would have connected gas from Pennsylvania's robust fracking industry into a network of pipelines that terminate in Schoharie County, into a powerful symbol of the fossil fuel industry that causes climate change.

Following the EPA's release of the initial draft of its «Hydraulic Fracturing Drinking Water Assessment» on Thursday, expressions of joy exuded from fracking industry officials and pro-fracking politicians while anger erupted from environmentalists.

The natural gas fracking industry, big in Sestak's home state, could be among the users.

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The group set about their plan by renting office space in Dallas, Texas, where a robust fracking industry regularly requires radioactive materials for gauges needed in their search for gas and oil deposits.

As I've written many times before, the American fracking industry is largely responsible for keeping global oil prices low, which has been a huge windfall to the world economy.

The well surveys were conducted only in the gas - rich counties that would be the epicenter of the state's fracking industry if it were ever to become legal.

Brian McMahon, with the New York State Economic Development Council, a pro business and pro fracking group, believes that heritage tourism and the gas drilling industry can co exist, and he says fracking industry related jobs will pay workers a much higher wage and improve the overall health of the economy.

For many years fracking industry groups insisted their member companies never used diesel fuels in their operations.

A nascent fracking industry in the country was halted several years ago, and the freeze remains in place while the Merkel government decides how to regulate the new technology.

The embryonic fracking industry in the UK, for example, not only concedes to the green movement, it tries to draw strength from it, claiming that shale gas could serve as a «bridging technology» towards a «cleaner» future.

Midway through Catherine Pancake's video on citizen surveillance of the natural - gas fracking industry, Bloodland (all works cited, 2015), a female voice - over quotes Hito Steyerl's 2009 essay «In Defense of the Poor Image,» on the cultural implications of highly circulated, low - resolution digital artifacts online: «The imperfect cinema is one that strives to overcome the divisions of -LSB-...]

It's worth noting that the fracking industry's practices have improved.

Other research groups have published on pregnancy and birth outcomes and symptoms, and the evidence suggests that the fracking industry may be affecting health in a range of ways.

If we understand why we are seeing associations between the fracking industry and health problems, then we can better inform patients and policymakers.

And we repeated our studies with other health outcomes we would not expect to be affected by the fracking industry.

Between the oil crash of 2013, and increased competition from the fracking industry in the United States, the petroleum industry industry in Canada isn't the safe haven it used to be.

And Daisy Sands, an energy and climate campaigner for Greenpeace UK, called the rejection «a Waterloo for the fracking industry and a triumph for local democracy.»

«This decision is a Waterloo for the fracking industry and a triumph for local democracy,» said Daisy Sands, Greenpeace UK energy and climate campaigner.

The other area that continues to fascinate me is fracking — not owning the fracking companies, but owning the people who supply the stuff to the fracking industry; the suppliers of sand, water, chemicals and pipes.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking industry.

What is not fair are the negative impacts on Australian farmers of cheap imports, centralized market control, overly - burdensome regulations and the rampant expansion of the fracking industry.

Why is the Fracking industry so desperate to Frack New York State and not allow a full disclosure of their drilling chemicals or time for the public to review the health impacts of Fracking?

Our entire community is being held hostage by the fracking industry.»

The anti-fracking activists got their message out early and loudly, making it difficult for Cuomo, operating in a deep blue state, to choose to side quickly with the fracking industry.

So is the central belt, after Sturgeon spent a great deal of political capital by giving the green light to the fracking industry.

Frackopoly describes how the fracking industry began; the technologies that make it possible; and the destruction and poisoning of clean water sources and the release of harmful radiation from deep inside shale deposits, creating what the author calls «sacrifice zones» across the American landscape.

Building out the clean energy system will create 4 1/2 million jobs in our state over the next 15 years, far beyond the most outlandish job projections by the fracking industry, but without the costs to air, land, water, and climate and without the damage to existing industries, including agriculture, tourism, and all manufacturers and other businesses that depend on clean water.

«If communities had let up on Cuomo and the fracking industry for even a moment, they would have started drilling long ago,» said Michael O'Neil, who serves as Co-Chair alongside Mattera.

He has stated his doubts about the process, once calling the fracking industry an «outlaw enterprise.»

A new set of performance standards could inject a higher degree of safety and accountability into the fracking industry.

And scientists suspect that the fracking industry is the culprit.

The salt of the Earth may hint at trouble for the fracking industry's safety claims, according to a new geological study — although other researchers disagree.

The 2013 - 2014 Broad Annual Report doesn't have him on the Board, but currently he is on The Broad Prize for Urban Education Review Board — which includes Condoleezza Rice, Ed Rendell, former Governor of Pennsylvania (who is also involved with the fracking industry), and Andrew Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union.

In towns where the fracking industry has exploded, some people are already bracing for a bust like the ones that have followed previous oil booms.

After reading the regulatory sections of the report authored by Professor Wiseman, I reached the opposite conclusion — that there is a need for new regulatory frameworks at the federal level, or at least the elimination of the major exemptions that the fracking industry currently enjoys.

A low oil price could also disrupt the fracking industry.

On President Obama's quote about gas prices, it's pretty funny that the guy most worried about his legacy regarding global warming just took credit for the fracking industry.

The fracking industry spending especially targeted oversight - members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.