Sentences with phrase «fracking sites»

Surface spills near fracking sites implicated in water contamination.

That's the light from huge numbers of fracking sites burning off excess gas.

They also compared siblings born to the same mothers who lived near fracking sites before and after it started.

What are the health impacts related to living near fracking sites where contaminants, including volatile organic compounds, are released?

Many residents in areas surrounding upcoming fracking sites are concerned about rising homeowners insurance premiums.

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.

Last Friday, Republican Gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino sent out a late afternoon press release saying that he would not be going on a gas industry tour of fracking sites in Pennsylvania until after the election because the company providing the tour — Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation — refused to allow members of the press on the tour.

But he said the work is trustworthy, noting that it would be very difficult for gas companies to speedily alter practices at fracking sites to clean up their act ahead of the researchers» visits, given very short lead time on choosing well sites and that procedures and equipment are developed well ahead of time.

Campaigners from over 20 countries across Europe visited the controversial fracking site at Preston New Road, Lancashire, today, to offer support to local communities as they mark six years of successfully keeping fracking at bay.

Past research has shown that processes such as wastewater injection at oil drilling and fracking sites throughout the state could induce a small number of earthquakes but scientists have never been able to specifically link some of the more distant or stronger earthquakes with these sometimes faraway wastewater wells.

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But this ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations — literally — and when a controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole and an unspeakable horror is unleashed.

«The film is set in an illustrious British boarding school that becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.»

Since these gases are leaking as they are piped to the surface, rather than seeping up through the ground from deep fracking sites, improving the integrity of drill holes and pipelines could curb the problem of water pollution.

«A unique approach to monitoring groundwater supplies near Ohio fracking sites.»

With that said, I am an environmental engineer who specializes in reducing greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from coal fired power plants, natural gas fracking sites, and landfills.

A number of Tory MPs, including Members local to the main fracking site in the North West, welcomed the decision to start exploiting shale gas.

Residents near flooded fracking sites should be more concerned about sewage and toxic waste from mining for gold and silver

Fracking sites shoot pressurized water underground to access natural gas.

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.

In addition, the researchers compiled information from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection on the locations of all of the active fracked sites in the state and when sites became active.

The researchers also investigated how distance from fracking sites impacted an index of health measures, including prematurity and congenital anomalies.

And epidemiologists have found an increased rate of heart defects in babies whose mothers live near natural gas wells, including fracking sites.

In one study researchers found methane levels 17 times higher in drinking water near fracking sites compared to those in non-drilling sites.

They conclude that, because some African Americans communities near fracking sites suffer higher rates of disease, fracking must be causing those conditions.

According to Heinberg, this wildly optimistic prediction was calculated by extrapolating the best production rates of the best fracking sites over the 20,000 or so existing rigs.

Last night, on her show, Rachel Maddow showed some incredible photos of an explosive accident at a Texas fracking site.

For the entire month of July, UK - wide network Reclaim the power worked with the local community in Lancashire to disrupt work at the local fracking site.

These and other known toxic chemicals commonly found in fracking fluids and in the air around fracking sites have been known to cause numerous acute and chronic health conditions in humans such as cancer, digestive problems, nausea, partial paralysis, blindness, asthma, eye irritation, headaches, under development in children and learning disabilities.

In Weld County, where much of the fracking is occurring despite protests and legal obstacles, the study found a nearby fracking site adds $ 30,000 to each home's property value.

I encourage Rob Astorino and Andrew Cuomo to take a real tour of fracking sites in Pennsylvania, from the citizens affected, not the gas industry which won't even allow journalists to see what they're doing.

California can officially add one more disaster to its rapidly growing list of water woes: The EPA just found that at least nine fracking sites throughout the state have been dumping billions of gallons of contaminated wastewater into its protected aquifers.

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But this ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations — literally — when a controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole and an unspeakable horror is unleashed.

There'll be action at fracking sites and within the halls of the UNFCCC.

«We are concerned that, despite New York State's ban on high - volume hydraulic fracturing, and the widespread evidence of the danger posed to public health by fracking, gas and oil drilling waste from fracking sites is ending up in our communities,» the lawmakers wrote in the letter to DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos.

On Thursday October 9, Howie Hawkins will take a citizen - led tour of fracking sites in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

The EPA's study found that between 25,000 to 30,000 new wells were drilled each year between 2011 and 2014 and that 9.4 million Americans live within a mile of a fracking site.

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Other stops on her whistle - blower tour included a Pennsylvania fracking site, «because Cuomo has taken over a million dollars in pro-fracking money,» Teachout said, and a Manhattan luxury tower built by developer Extell, inventor of the «poor door.»

And EPA studies have concluded that the well water of many people near fracking sites is polluted by fracking.

Local authorities will be allowed to keep 100 % of business rates from fracking sites, while local people could be handed up to one per cent of revenues in an attempt to head off opposition.

On Sunday, the Lib Dem delegates flouted party history and voted in favour of building more nuclear power stations — energy secretary Ed Davey having told them this is vital to fight climate change — and also voted to support fracking, albeit with an amendment to ensure pollution levels were closely monitored and those local to fracking sites were properly consulted.

Hawkins, a long time advocate on a ban on fracking for natural gas, also announced that he will touring fracking sites in Pennsylvania on Thursday.