Sentences with phrase «from fracking industry»

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In Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming, the vast majority of the counties where fracking is occurring are also suffering from drought, according to an Associated Press analysis of industry - compiled fracking data and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's official drought designations.

In just a short time, fracking has gone from a little - known industry term to make its debut in the mainstream lexicon as a dirty word.

And unlike with the oil industry, no «fracking» method has been invented yet to extract gold from hard - to - reach areas, though Barrick — the world's largest producer by output — has been experimenting with sensors at its Cortez project in Nevada.What Pierre is talking about, of course, is the idea of «peak gold.»

According to Hamm, he's happy assisting Trump from the sidelines, and is optimistic about America's oil and gas industry under the new administration, which he sees as less regulation happy — particularly around fracking — and less tax happy.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking industry.

However, the fact that the average quantity of frack sand used per well has more than doubled in recent years — which has helped lower the breakeven price of U.S. shale oil — should help insulate the industry from the worst of the oil crash.

An advisory committee has been tasked with coming up with a fee structure to reap revenues from the industry and to pay for staff at the Department of Environmental Conservation to regulate the hydro fracking.

«Powerful businesses and industries which stand to benefit from fracking use campaign contributions to gain influence with their local lawmakers, candidates, and party organizations.

Advances in fracking technology have allowed the industry to extract enormous volumes of natural gas from rock formations such as the Marcellus Shale, which lies under southern New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

An oil and gas industry group is warning that a business exodus from New York will worsen while Gov. Andrew Cuomo waits for a Pennsylvania health study before deciding whether to allow fracking.

Frackopoly describes how the fracking industry began; the technologies that make it possible; and the destruction and poisoning of clean water sources and the release of harmful radiation from deep inside shale deposits, creating what the author calls «sacrifice zones» across the American landscape.

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

Gas industry representatives, who say they've been waiting three years to extract the gas from the Marcellus shale reserves, say they'd like to move the process along without any further delays so that permits can for fracking can finally be issued.

In that time, environmental and community groups turned the 124 - mile pipeline, which would have connected gas from Pennsylvania's robust fracking industry into a network of pipelines that terminate in Schoharie County, into a powerful symbol of the fossil fuel industry that causes climate change.

With a campus controversy about natural gas fracking, the University at Buffalo is taking a look at the way it reports donations from industry for research.

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.

Hawkins has called for an investigation of the massive donations Cuomo has raised in his re-election effort, especially from real estate firms, hedge funds linked to charter schools, and the fracking and gambling industries.

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.

Meanwhile, under Governor Cuomo's watch, the oil and gas industry has been allowed to import and treat of fracking wastes from Pennsylvania in New York State.

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.

«These provisions could threaten everything from Buy America contracting provisions to New York State's ban on hydro - fracking and setting discounted prices for vital prescription drugs to regulations to protect consumer from noxious financial industry practices,» they wrote.

County legislators viewed presentations on the risks of fracking waste products and heard from industry representatives during debate over the bill.

Scientific American's Carin Bondar runs through some of the top posts in May from advertising in the food industry, Mythbusters, and fear - mongering and fracking (by yours truly).

Last year, for instance, an industry - funded study on the methane emissions from fracking wells was published in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Added Vengosh: «Our new study, which integrates data from multiple government and industry sources, provides the first comprehensive assessment of fracking's total water footprint, both nationally and for each of the 10 major U.S. shale gas or tight oil basins.»

Cheap natural gas from Pennsylvania fracking may cause petrochemical industry build green field plants in northern Appalacia.

At the same time, the Delaware River Basin Commission — of which Paterson is a member — also looks like it is moving forward on allowing fracking in the area, despite objections from various sources (including Paterson) and a lack of adequate scientific review of the potential consequences.The energy industry has welcomed the moratorium as a positive alternative to what it called a «flawed» piece of legislation.

In addition to infuriating GOP politicians and the industry, the Obama's administration rules on fracking also receive complaints from environmental groups The Hill reports.

From Pennsylvania to Texas, the chemical industry is building new plants to take advantage of vast deposits of natural gas opened up by the fracking boom.

«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.

The fracking industry is exempt from the Clean Air and Water Act, a loophole that complicates meaningful regulation.

He talked about the state's unique geology and how it affects industry practices; San Benito County's current level of production; current restrictions from the state on such matters as water monitoring and disclosure of chemical use; coming, similar restrictions as part of an approved senate bill; the history of fracking in the state; and the potential of the Monterey Shale.

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 frackIndustry 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 frackindustry, 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.....

He utilizes quotations from industry experts, which are out of context, to further his biased viewpoint that fracking oil / gas wells has never, and never will be, fiscally prudent.

It's been a rough year or so for the fossil fuels industry, what with exploding fracking wells, massive coal ash dumps, and oil spills from pipelines.

The problem is that treating oil and gas waste from fracked wells remains particularly tricky because the industry is still allowed to keep secret information about which chemicals drillers use when injecting fluids to crack open shale formations to release oil and gas.

The industry also faces stiff competition from a flood of U.S. oil unleashed from oil shale formations by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Revelations about fracking in state waters, which are drawn from the Center for Biological Diversity's analysis of state records and the industry website FracFocus.org, show that fracking off California's coast is growing.

So, rather than claim that fracking is good because it creates jobs, maybe CEOs in the energy industry should look towards sustainability, and recognize that, by definition, a sustainable energy industry will create jobs for a longer time than an unsustainable one, and the change from dirty to clean energy will yield short - term jobs and long - term profitability without the massive downside of fossil fuels.

It has all the hallmarks of a new industry with ups and downs, but it is clearly here to stay — even with cheap natural gas coming from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in shale formations.

In this regard, the natural gas industry has made a considerable effort to convince citizens that natural gas from hydraulic fracking is part of the solution to climate change.

Howard specifically requested help from Energy In Depth (EID), an oil and gas front group run by the PR firm FTI Consulting and funded by the fracking industry.

Tragically, fracking is not regulated by federal statutes governing water safety, because industry lobbyists obtained an exemption from this law, known as the «Halliburton loophole.»

Then there's a 2017 report from the NAACP which claims emissions from fracking and other energy industry activities drive up rates of asthma, cancer, and other deadly conditions in African American communities.

And Trump won't save the coal industry from its biggest threat: the flood of cheap shale gas from fracking.

The embryonic fracking industry in the UK, for example, not only concedes to the green movement, it tries to draw strength from it, claiming that shale gas could serve as a «bridging technology» towards a «cleaner» future.

Much of the story for the first part of the 21st century has been the replacement of coal with natural gas, with electricity generation from gas more than doubling from 2000 through 2016 as hydraulic fracturing (fracking) transformed the gas industry.

Last month, Deal wrapped up a five - week US tour which he spent gathering first - hand information about fracking from industry consultants, politicians, scientists and local citizens from communities where fracking is prevalent.

Get a sneak peak into a family divided by the fossil fuel industry as a climate scientist struggles to tell the truth about global warming, his daughter struggles to save the frogs, while his sister wants to frack, with this live reading of excerpts from the upcoming play from the award - winning Three Theatre Collaborative.