Sentences with phrase «fracking wells over»

«I applaud the citizen protests that have kept Cuomo from approving fracking wells over the last four years.

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But for those who oppose fracking, there is this: Burning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burning coal.

The debate over the environmental and economic impact of hydraulic fracking in New York State has raged for the better part of the last decade.

Though he will likely be best remembered for heading the DEC during the long debate over fracking, which started during former Gov. David Paterson's administration — in other words, before Martens took the helm — a number of other environmental initiatives were started or accomplished on the outgoing commissioner's watch.

Methane escapes from natural gas wells even before fracking, according to new direct measurements from flying over in an airplane

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.

Volunteers pored over 9,000 online aerial images to identify and classify well locations used for fracking in Pennsylvania.

Mike G, DeSmogBlogWaking Times After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water and farm irrigation, the EPA ordered a report within 60 days.

They can be so stupid that Steve could probably get them to sign over their land for a buffalo nickel and a can of Spam, only to turn around and use Google to investigate the side effects of fracking, as well as pending legal cases facing Steve and Sue's company.

The time is right because Jansa is in the running for a $ 10,000 grant from the Sprout Fund that could help her sustain and refine this effort to portray the many meanings and realities surrounding hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, in Pennsylvania communities scattered over the gas - rich Marcellus Shale.

«When it comes to climate action, Governor Brown talks a good game, but he has bent over backwards for the oil and gas industry and refused to protect communities from drilling and fracking,» said Mark Schlosberg, organizing co-director at Food and Water Watch.

The industry touts the amount of potential energy that can be gained from a fracking well relative to its «small» footprint as a major advantage of the process over conventional gas wells and coal extraction.

Because of its location over a particularly rich part of the Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania has been one of the states most heavily impacted by the fracking boom, but fracking has begun to take off in other states as well.

For more information, go to Fracking and air pollution According to the study conducted by professor Robert W. Howarth of Cornell University, «3.6 % to 7.9 % of the methane from shale - gas production escapes to the atmosphere in venting and leaks over the lifetime of a well.»

The Nature Conservancy's high impact scenario for future fracking well construction over a section of Pennsylvania.

There have been no confirmed cases of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing itself in the at least 2 million wells fracked over the past 65 + years

In fact, there have been no confirmed cases of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing itself in the at least 2 million wells fracked over the past 68 years.11

Though public awareness of the hazards of fracking waste has grown over the past decade, oil and gas wastewater that has nothing to do with fracking can be heavily polluted as well.

For example, the Marcellus Shale fracking is said to have used some 2.5 million cubic metres of water in a year in hundreds of wells over a large area encompassing several US states.

Over a beer at a baseball game a few weeks later he mentioned it to a friend from a rival company who said they had had good results with watery fracks elsewhere.

Over the past several years, vast caches of natural gas trapped in deeply buried rock have been made accessible by advances in two key technologies: horizontal drilling, which allows vertical wells to turn and snake more than a mile sideways through the earth, and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

The ability to drill horizontal oil and gas wells and to «frack» shale by injecting pressurized sand and chemicals into the rock has enabled a huge boom in natural - gas production over the past decade.

Over the years it's morphed with the culture into a sort of good carbs / bad carbs permutation that has activists protesting fracking and the Keystone pipeline (gooey tar sands may be the gluten in this metaphor) while leaving conventional gas, oil, and coal consumption relatively unscathed.

The Obama administration took a heavy swing in the ongoing battle over fracking today by imposing new rules that would, for the first time, restrict the release of smog - causing pollutants from natural gas wells.

Drilling has started on the first UK shale well for six years even as debate intensifies among geologists over how much gas is available for fracking.

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.

It's easy to get lost in complex discussions over carbon taxes, fracking, pipelines, gas vs coal, solar vs nuclear, climate sensitivity, etc and it's useful to stay, well, grounded with a mantra like that.

the claim that the industry has been fracking for 60 years is true but grossly misleading as the current practice involving horizontal drilling and in general aggressive techniques to extract gas from marginal resources only dates back to the 1990s; rather than millions of well using fracking, current practice has only been tested over a few tens of thousands of wells

Another study showing how fracking is hardly an unqualified good as it's proponents would have you believe: A new study shows that while in the short term hydraulic fracturing wells will likely have little impact on tourism, over time the increased

Although wells have been fracked for over 65 years in the United States, concerns have been raised about whether federal, state, and local regulatory agencies can keep up with the recent rapid increase in fracking activity and adequately protect the environment and human health.

While the number of cases where drinking water wells were contaminated by fracking is small, concern over potential contamination could impact the value of a home.