Sentences with phrase «fracking wastewater in»

Organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Integrity Project and some six others, want updated rules covering disposal of fracking wastewater in underground injection wells, which have been linked to river contamination most recently in West Virginia, and earthquakes in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and California.

Opposition to a proposal to dump out - of - state fracking wastewater in Nebraska went viral over the weekend, after a community group posted a video of a man offering chemical - laden water to a Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

XTO Energy, an ExxonMobil subsidiary, will reluctantly shell out $ 20 million to properly treat and dispose of fracking wastewater in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Not exact matches

A tiny start - up in Boston is pioneering a revolution in the wastewater treatment industry that could turn it on its head: a forward - osmosis technology to purify the water used in fracking.

Before the ban was in place, Cuomo himself had even references Ruffalo's advocacy when mocking his 2014 gubernatorial opponent Rob Astorino's stance on natural gas through the banning of fracking wastewater being being used to treat roads in Westchester County.

In 2013, as Skelos was pushing Cuomo to authorize natural gas fracking, the senator's son, Adam, was angling to get payments from a wastewater treatment company seeking a piece of the hydrofracking windfall, the documents claim.

The documents showed that the father and son also were planning to have Adam cash in on fracking through the same wastewater treatment company before Cuomo ultimately shelved the proposal.

The researchers looked at several potential ways fracking wastewater could end up in the drinking supply, including transportation and leaks or spills.

If passed, the law would be the first in the state by a county legislature banning the use of the chemical - laden wastewater from fracking wells as a road deicer.

He said that an amendment was already planned that would extend the ban to include wastewater from vertically drilled oil and gas wells (which is being used elsewhere in the state for deicing roads), as well as those using horizontal fracking techniques.

In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluentIn 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluentin response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.

In most cases, it is not hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) of oil - and gas - bearing rock that sets off tremors but the related process of wastewater injection.

Researchers are also tracking induced earthquakes in Canada, and the current batch of studies suggests that fracking might be more significant than wastewater disposal for causing earthquakes in that country, according to focus section co-editor David Eaton of the University of Calgary.

It is possible that massive wastewater disposal in the U.S. is «masking another signal» of induced seismicity caused by fracking, Atkinson said.

«Fracking — not wastewater disposal — linked to most induced earthquakes in Western Canada.»

Both fracking and wastewater injections can increase the fluid pressure in the natural pores and fractures in rock, or change the state of stress on existing faults, to produce earthquakes.

Large volumes of wastewater are produced in the process of fracking.

Previous Stanford research has shown that wastewater injected as a step in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) underlies an increase in seismic activity in parts of the central and eastern U.S., particularly in Oklahoma, starting in 2005.

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.

Investigations by The New York Times last winter revealed that sewage - treatment plants processing fracking wastewater are discharging radioactive fluid into public waterways, in some cases upstream of intake sites for drinking water.

But according to a panel of geologists at the AAAS Annual Meeting, the culprit isn't hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» in which geologists crack open subsurface rocks to extract oil and gas; instead, it's the processes associated with pumping wastewater and other fluids back into the ground.

Compounding concerns, reports from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) leaked earlier in the year indicated that fracking wastewater is too radioactive to be handled safely by water treatment plants.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

They looked both at wells used for enhanced oil recovery — in which fluid is injected to flush lingering oil from a depleted reservoir — and at those used to dispose of wastewater from conventional oil and gas extraction or from hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

«Given the high levels of contaminants these waters contain, it's startling that the amount of wastewater being produced from hydraulic fracturing in the United States is nearly on the same level as the amount of water used to frack the wells in the first place,» Vengosh said.

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

In January, for example, a leaking pipeline spewed more than 11 million liters (2.9 million gallons) of fracking wastewater.

About a dozen protesters chanted «carbon trading is no solution,» a criticism of his cap - and - trade system, and «poisoned wastewater» and «keep it in the ground,» shots at his permissive stance on fracking, at an event with Brown and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg called «America's Pledge.»

However, experts believe that the November 2011 earthquake and other events in Oklahoma — such as the drastic increase from six earthquakes between 2000 and 2008 to 850 earthquakes between January 2010 and March 2011 in Oklahoma County — point to a link between fracking - related activites, specifically wastewater injection, and seismic activity.

In a letter sent to EPA officials last week, attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity warned that the agency's draft permit for water pollution discharges in the Gulf fails to properly consider how dumping wastewater containing chemicals from fracking and acidizing operations would impact water quality and marine wildlifIn a letter sent to EPA officials last week, attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity warned that the agency's draft permit for water pollution discharges in the Gulf fails to properly consider how dumping wastewater containing chemicals from fracking and acidizing operations would impact water quality and marine wildlifin the Gulf fails to properly consider how dumping wastewater containing chemicals from fracking and acidizing operations would impact water quality and marine wildlife.

He maintains a significant financial stake in Halliburton, and also has over $ 10,000 invested in BioLargo, a company involved in disposal of fracking wastewater.

A lifelong advocate for our coast, Williams championed required testing of groundwater before, during, and after hydraulic fracturing, which was included in California's regulations on fracking, and authored legislation to expand groundwater monitoring to other types of injection wells to protect underground sources of drinking water from oil and gas wastewater disposal.

The USGS concurs that fracking injection wells may be the cause of earth quakes up to mag 3: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/ «The increase in seismicity has been found to coincide with the injection of wastewater in deep disposal wells in several locations, including Colorado, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Ohio.

«We have a bill in committee right now that would ban the use of fracking wastewater as a de-icer in New York State, and we hope that my colleagues will see that this activity actually is occurring here in New York State,» Gipson said.

In a report assessing Fracking wastewater management, the National Resources Defense Council writes:

Fracking operations in Pennsylvania alone are expected to create 19 million gallons of wastewater.

«EPA has identified significant flaws in the state's fracking proposals, particularly inadequate plans to treat hazardous wastewater, questions about unsafe levels of radiation in fracking waste, and the absence of any consideration of the environmental impacts of the infrastructure associated with fracking, such as pipelines and compressor stations,» said a statement issued by a coalition of hydrofracking opponents including Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council and others.

In the end, I can't agree more with the idea that natural gas needs harsh regulation on its fracking, wastewater wells, and methane leakage.

Aside from the fact that Fracking (it really is the entire gas drilling industry, as wastewater wells are used in all cases.

Some of the fracking fluid remains underground where it could potentially contaminate groundwater in the future, but much of it is brought back to the surface as wastewater.

The suspected culprit is fracking — or more specific to this case, the three injection wells in the area, which inject «vast volumes of salty, chemical - laced wastewater» deep into the ground.