Sentences with phrase «fracking poses»

We believe that fracking poses a tremendous threat to agriculture, to our drinking water, and to our climate, because when you are injecting millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand, four or five miles underground at very high pressure and breaking open the rock and releasing gas there's all sorts of contamination that can happen.

Fracking poses serious dangers to both human health and the environment.

«Offshore fracking poses a deadly threat to California's fragile marine environment,» said Miyoko Sakashita, the Center for Biological Diversity's oceans program director.

Environmentalists have long been concerned about the risks fracking poses to drinking water via the vast amount of waste that it produces, and the potential for methane and other chemical migration into aquifers.

Unbiased evidence is hard to come by, but the few peer - reviewed studies carried out indicate that the risks fracking poses to human health and the environment are small.

Meanwhile, after studying the issue for years and coming under intense political pressure from the left wing of his Democratic party, the Cuomo administration claimed fracking poses potential health risks and banned the practice in New York in late 2014 just weeks after his reelection.

Earlier this year, the governor directed DOH Commissioner Nirav Shah to begin a review of whether fracking poses any health risks, but that review is yet to be released.

Opponents say fracking poses a risk to public health and the environment but the industry says it is safe.

If allowing fracking posed insurmountable health problems, then how are people in North Dakota doing so well?

The study concluded that fracking posed no risk to drinking water.

Not exact matches

The study was funded by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role of fracking remains contested, the advising scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.

One student posed the question, «Fracking can lead to environmental pollution including, but not limited to, the contamination of water supply.

The reason he gave was concern about the health risks posed by fracking technologies that inject sand and chemicals into rock formations to extract oil and gas.

The Cuomo administration's fracking ban centered on the risks hydraulic fracturing posed to drinking water supplies.

«Finally, the Cuomo administration has embraced what we have known all along — that fracking pollutes the air, land and water, posing incalculable risks to families and business across New York, especially those near drilling sites, «said GPNY Co-Chair Gloria Mattera.

Hawkins criticized the Cuomo administration for interfering with a US Geological Survey study on the dangers posed by fracking.

Hawkins cited investigation by Capital New York showing DEC edited USGS fracking study to remove threats of contamination and threats posed by gas infrastructure

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

At the same time, fracking's lasting environmental toll — particularly the threat it may pose to water supplies — has become the subject of intense debate.

«How to get a handle on potential risks posed by fracking fluids.»

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.

Intelligence Squared U.S. energy and environment debates shine a critical light on the most pressing issues spurred by climate change and 21st century environmental priorities, including clean energy, fracking, organic and genetically modified foods, and whether or not global warming poses an immediate threat.

Voters call the presidential hopeful out for being unaware of the health risks posed by fracking.

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.

However, a working draft of the study prepared by a government contractor suggested that fracking could pose risks to drinking water.

The vote follows a report released earlier that day by the cross-party House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee calling for a ban on fracking due to the risks it poses to Britain's efforts to tackle climate change.

Anthony Ingraffea is an engineer at Cornell University who is willing to go anywhere to talk to audiences about the geologic risks of fracking, raising questions about the threats that shale gas drilling could pose to water supplies.

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.

Big - Picture Study Of Fracking Operations Suggests Even Small Chemical Exposures Pose Risks.

If sunlight is the best disinfectant, the dangers posed by fracking and pipeline use can not remain buried underground.

In its online debate this week on hydraulic fracturing, The Economist poses this question: «Do the benefits derived from shale gas outweigh the drawbacks of fracking?»

However, the failure of the government and of industry to keep apace of the requirements posed by increased production, storage, and use of natural gas is rather astounding — particularly given California's overall environmental record, and the growing concerns over fracking.

An inquiry by the Energy and Climate Change committee concluded that fracking, the process by which gas is extracted from shale rock, poses no risk to underground water supplies as long as drilling wells are properly constructed.»

They focused on immediate steps that shale gas producers could take to reduce the pollution threat posed by fracking.

Coming on the heels of news of «vast reserves» of shale gas in England, opponents of fracking are highlighting the potential threat the natural gas extraction method could pose in another area of the nation — this time to

Federal and state responses to the threats to water resources posed by fracking have been mixed at best.

Expect «fracking» to continue to pose economic and real estate opportunities and risks for years to come.

And that's even without solid evidence that fracking really poses a threat to drinking water.