Sentences with phrase «fracking process»

Only a small percentage of induced seismicity comes from fracking processes that inject liquid into the ground to break up rock layers to free oil and gas for recovery.

Environmental Watchdog Calls on Cuomo Administration to Clarify Fracking Process Monday October 01, 2012 at 12:42 pm

«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?»

Witnessing the adoption of the fracking process fuel demand for frac sand is just one example.

Earthquakes result from natural shifts in earth's crust (and possibly from the fracking process of obtaining oil, but the jury is still out on that one).

I'm still undecided on the merits of the fracking process, and refuse to be swayed by emotion alone.

Last month, the DEC issued a notice of incomplete application for the proposal and requested additional information on such things as truck traffic, the length of the fracking process and the number of storage tanks that would be required.

Hein has been skeptical of the fracking process which has, to put it mildly, come in for criticism by environmentalists.

The younger Mr. Skelos had, thanks to his father's connections, had obtained a contract from a company called AbTech to sell filters for purifying the chemical - laced water used in the fracking process, and was so enraged by the ban he called the Democratic governor «a pussy.»

Moreau: You have a drilling process, you have a casing process, you have a fracking process, you have a removal of wastewater from a site.

In the days leading up to Cuomo's decision, Adam Skelos and lobbyists for Capitol Group — Nick Barrella and Mike Avella — had discussed setting up a meeting with officials at the Department of Environmental Conservation to talk about how to include a provision requiring that water used in the fracking process be reused and recycled — an opportunity for AbTech's filter to be utilized, which would then also benefit Adam Skelos.

In an effort to ensure that AbTech filters would be used in the fracking process, the Capitol Group lobbyists reached out to Sens. Tom O'Mara, Tom Libous, and Michael Nozzolio, all of whom had areas in their districts that were susceptible to fracking to see how they felt about trucks transporting waste water in and out of their districts.

* Clarification (11/15/2011): This sentence was edited after posting to describe the fracking process more precisely.

The report highlights a range of impacts that extend well beyond the fracking process itself.

The fracking process uses high - pressure injections of fluid to break apart rock and release trapped oil and natural gas.

Some of the findings in the report also directly contradict longstanding arguments by the drilling industry for why the fracking process is safe: that hydrologic pressure would naturally force fluids down, not up; that deep geologic layers provide a watertight barrier preventing the movement of chemicals towards the surface; and that the problems with the cement and steel barriers around gas wells aren't connected to fracking.

A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

Pressure tests, called mechanical integrity tests, will be required in order to confirm that the wells can contain the extraordinary forces of fracking, before the fracking process itself can be performed.

In 2011 tremors in Blackpool, UK, were caused when injected fluid used in the fracking process reached a previously unknown geological fault at the Preese Hall fracking site.

Capturing and storing gases that are being vented during the fracking process is feasible, but industry says that these measures are too costly to adopt.

The report explains that along with natural gas, production wells in the Azle area of the NEGF can also bring to the surface significant volumes of water from the highly permeable Ellenburger Formation — both naturally occurring brine as well as fluids that were introduced during the fracking process.

We should have said: «there are lots of concerns related to the fracking process, air quality, water use, and other issues, and we need to take those seriously.

Methane is many times more potent than CO2 in the atmosphere, and since the fracking process emits huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere, gas is not preferable to coal in the short term or long term.

Is the contamination intrinsic to the fracking process or just mistakes and / or carelessness on the part of drillers?

Related Event I'll be participating in a panel discussion tonight on gas drilling and the fracking process at the Carey Conference Center in Rensselaerville, N.Y. Details are here.

Take the water out of the fracking process.

The map goes describes the fracking process and its associated risks, and how the growing industry is impacting local communities and the environment.

Yes, the fracking process is dirty, noisy and polluting, and yes, methane leakage around gas wells is exacerbating climate change.

More and more people are learning about how bad fracking is, even Robert F. Kennedy jr, came out and publicly admitted that Fracking is not a safe bridge away from fossil fuels and is worse for climate change then using coal because of the fugitive methane emissions that are released in the fracking process's.

Lisa Jackson, the former head of the EPA under President Obama, plainly stated that «in no case have we made a definitive determination that the fracking process has caused chemicals to enter groundwater.»

New York State has a moratorium on fracking, in partial response to concerns raised in Pennsylvania about water contamination and other pollution related to the fracking process.

Not only does the EPA study verify what the fracking industry has known for more than 60 years — that fracking is safe for nearby drinking water supplies — it also confirms sworn testimony given before Congress by Lisa Jackson when she was the EPA's administrator, that there have been «no proven cases where the fracking process itself has affected water.»

The township has had public meetings to learn about the fracking process, and is reviewing its ordinances aimed at minimizing disturbance to neighbors.

They claimed that methane, leaking out during the fracking process, has much greater global - warming potential than that of carbon dioxide.

Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson also admitted, «I am not aware of any proven case where the fracking process has affected water, although there are investigations ongoing.»

Gina McCarthy of the EPA said the mandate would yield a 90 percent reduction in air pollutants released as a byproduct of the fracking process at some 13,000 gas wells nationwide.

He found that it is probable that the methane in Lipsky's well water likely ended up there thanks to the fracking process.

Fracking companies can hide which chemicals they use in the fracking process by calling them «trade secrets».

When the cement fails, it opens a pathway for gas and other toxins involved in the drilling and fracking process to migrate into groundwater and to the surface.

You can be pretty sure that no one is pumping PCBs into or out of their fracking process.

If the authors mean to say that some of the more than 750 chemicals added throughout the fracking process can be likened to PCBs or pesticides because of similar chemical structure, they might spend a bit more ink supporting that observation, and less making scary allegations.

During the fracking process, millions of gallons of fracking fluid — a mixture of water, sand and toxic chemicals — are injected into the ground to break up the shale and release natural gas.