Sentences with phrase «from fracking companies»

Shell has bought the site and has 10 supply contracts in place lasting up to 20 years, including from fracking companies extracting shale gas in the Marcellus shale field.

Barclays is withdrawing its investments from fracking company Third Energy, according to a response by Chairman John McFarlane to a 70,000 - strong petition against fracking that was presented to him at the company's AGM in May.

Not exact matches

Drilling companies will use hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to recover the gas from the Mancos Shale, Ludlam said.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

New York Water Rangers is calling on state Sen. Tom Libous to recuse himself from fracking deliberations after his ties to a real estate company with a natural - gas lease were disclosed.

It remains the only state with significant shale gas reserves to forbid energy companies from fracking.

With the State's moratorium on (fracked shale) natural gas production, the only way we can receive natural gas is from the Constitution Pipeline and local distribution from the Leatherstocking Company... It is also important to note that a state agency, Empire State Development, has provided a $ 750,000 grant... to assist in degrading the costs of bringing the Leatherstocking gas line to our new facility.

«And John Faso took money from fossil fuel companies as they tried to take your land by eminent domain for a fracked gas pipeline.»

«If he did, he'd have to give the voters a direct answer on where he stands on fracking, since he has accepted campaign donations from pro-fracking companies and has not passed a ban on hydrofracking in New York State.

New York landowners blocked from cashing in on the natural gas boom by the state's just - announced fracking ban may fight back in court, but experts say energy companies are unlikely to spend their money and time on lawsuits when they've already lost their investments.

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.

A spokesman for Gerard, Reid Porter, told The Post that neither Cuomo nor the state Department of Health, which the governor claims has been conducting a health study on fracking for nearly a year, has sought any information about the drilling technique from API or any of its member companies.

While Cuomo claims he's trying to make New York business - friendly, an authoritative oil - and - gas industry source involved in Pennsylvania - based energy production told The Post the governor has repeatedly rejected offers of information on fracking from leading energy companies, which are prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on gas exploration in the state.

Adam Skelos, 33, had sought to profit from fracking through a contract with environmental company AbTech Industries, as Dean — then the Senate majority leader — tried to pressure the state to legalize the procedure.

The upshot is a growing — albeit incomplete — list of preferred chemicals that companies such as Apache can choose from as they design their fracking fluids.

More members from «the regulated community» — chemical and energy companies and manufacturers — could prevent the committees from spotting problems such as the fracking report, says Robert Richardson, an ecological economist at Michigan State University who was one of the BOSC members let go.

A bill now under consideration on Capitol Hill would grant the EPA oversight of fracking and force drilling companies, which are currently exempt from portions of the Clean Water Act, to disclose the chemicals they use in fracturing fluids.

The very worst impact from an exploratory «frack» would be the discovery of vast reserves of methane, which profit - hungry petroleum companies, aided and abetted by power - hungry politicians, would fall over themselves to bring to the surface and burn.

Earlier this week, Climate Progress posted an interesting essay, «Climate Change is Fracking Society,» written by Auden Schendler, who is vice president of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company and the author of «Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution.»

from Rising Tide Vermont Climate justice activists have blockaded the main entrance to Vermont Gas's headquarters and dropped a massive banner from the roof, demanding the company immediately cancel its plans to build the fracked gas pipeline.

Companies owned by Duke, Southern and Dominion are partners in the 550 - mile ACP, which will carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia to the North Carolina coast.

The Environment News Service reported that, from 1990 - 2011, oil and gas companies contributed $ 238.7 million into gubernatorial and Congressional election campaigns to persuade lawmakers that fracking is safe.

The Constitution Pipeline Project — a joint venture between four oil and gas companies — was proposed to transport fracked natural gas from Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania through Broome, Chenango, Delaware, and Schoharie counties in New York to existing interstate pipelines.

Sierra Club TIME — 2 February 2012 Exclusive: How the Sierra Club Took Millions From the Natural Gas Industry TIME has learned that between 2007 and 2010 the Sierra Club accepted over $ 25 million in donations from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy — one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking.From the Natural Gas Industry TIME has learned that between 2007 and 2010 the Sierra Club accepted over $ 25 million in donations from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy — one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking.from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy — one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking.from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy — one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the U.S. and a firm heavily involved in fracking.....

«Drilling companies have won exemption from just about every piece of federal environmental law except the requirement to get permits if they use diesel in their fracking fluid,» said Dusty Horwitt of the Environmental Working Group.

Since recent events have demonstrated the relative environmental soundness of hydraulic fracturing — a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale formations — Promised Land's script has been altered to make doom - saying environmentalists the tools of oil companies attempting to discredit legitimate «fracking» concerns.

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.

The Colorado bill was based on a model bill from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate - funded group dedicated to passing legislation approved by ALEC's corporate funders, including fracking companies like Chesapeake Energy.

For example, in the UK, Patrick Erwin went from head of Energy Markets and Infrastructure Strategy and Programme Office at the Department of Energy and Climate Change to working for the biggest UK fracking company, INEOS shale.

Chevron and other giant energy companies are demanding a TTIP investment chapter that will allow them to sue governments if environmental or other regulations interfere with their expected future profits by, for example, restricting oil and gas drilling, imposing pollution and oil spill controls or constraining the use of hydraulic fracking techniques to extract natural gas and oil from shale formations.

More companies, from 3 - M Energy to ZTC Petro Investments, are sharing information about what's in their fracking cocktails.

People living nearby may feel that they are inadequately protected from any possibly accidents, and that the fracking company will not be held sufficiently liable for any damage they cause, and may be encouraged to take risks.

Another project proposed by Heartland for 2012, The Hydraulic Fracturing Project (p. 18 - 19, «2012 Fundraising Plan») would «raise funds from businesses with a financial interest in fracking» by «approach [ing] dozens of companies and trade associations that are actively seeking allies in this battle.»