Sentences with phrase «from fracking wells»

The Dominion Cove Point project would take gas from fracking wells across Appalachia and liquefy it along the shore of the Chesapeake Bay for export to Asia.

Plastic production wreaks havoc on people and the planet — from fracking wells and pipelines in Pennsylvania, to air pollution from plastic plants in Scotland.

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.

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.

Long - time problems associated with HHF such as major spills including from pipelines or what to do with radioactive and toxic waste water from a fracked well have not been rectified.

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 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.

Environmental groups and some states have pushed the EPA to directly regulate methane from fracked wells through technology - based new source performance standards.

Not exact matches

One study out of Duke University found a higher - than - average presence of methane in water wells located close to fracking operations, but methane in groundwater can come from a variety of sources, including organic decomposition near the surface.

But perusing newspapers from towns where fracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing refracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing reFracking Fluids» appearing regularly.

Fleets of trucks have to make hundreds of trips to carry the fracking fluid to and from each well site.

Ty Wright Bloomberg Getty Images A rig hand removes a drill pipe from a natural gas well at a fracking site in Washington Township, Pa..

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.

A recent article from Shale Plays Media highlights that just a year ago oil field fracking operations used around 2,500 tons of sand, whereas today the new fracking techniques call for as much as 8,000 tons of sand to be pumped into a well.

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.

The famous - among - environmentalists jug of brown «Dimock - water» comes from a Pennsylvania town where a fracking operation polluted nearby wells.

«What's not being communicated well is the economic benefits of going to 100 percent clean energy by 2030 far outweighs any economic benefits we could get from fracking.

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.

On Wednesday, October 30, hundreds of New Yorkers from across the state came to Albany to expose Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) regulations for what they are: fatally flawed, a danger to public health and our well - being, and supportive of a massive fracking infrastructure build out.

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

In addition to Club business we will be hosting an important discussion on Fracking and Gas Pipeline Infrastructure, as well as presentations from and endorsements of Civil Court and District Leader candidates.

Fracking would be banned in and around the city's watershed as well as within 500 feet of state aquifers and on state land, including parks, forests and wildlife areas — a significant reversal from its 2009 position.

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

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

Carbon dioxide emissions from power plants could be put to good use, preventing fracking chemicals from contaminating drinking water supplies.

The growing number of wells used to dispose of wastewater from fracking are subject to lax oversight

In the 121 - page draft report released today, EPA officials said that the contamination near the town of Pavillion, Wyo., had most likely seeped up from gas wells and contained at least 10 compounds known to be used in frack fluids.

The agency released data from these test wells in November that confirmed high levels of carcinogenic chemicals such as benzene, and a chemical compound called 2 Butoxyethanol, which is known to be used in fracking.

Beginning in 2008, the EPA took water samples from residents» drinking water wells, finding hydrocarbons and traces of contaminants that seemed like they could be related to fracking.

COVER Natural gas extracted from a deep shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») technology burns at a well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

Fracking wastewater is laden with chemicals used to drill and frack the well and may also contain radioactive compounds and heavy metals released from deep underground.

This massive development has led to more than 3,900 brine spills, mostly coming from faulty pipes built to transport fracked wells» flowback water from on - site holding containers to nearby injection wells where it will be disposed underground.»

Silica exposure also occurs from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of oil and gas wells.

Rob Jackson of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues analysed water from 68 drinking wells in upstate New York, where fracking is banned, and Pennsylvania.

The researchers found 532 wells, or 1.3 percent of those studied, that were fracked about 300 meters or less from the surface — within the depth range of drinking water wells.

But Jackson says that the contamination may have come not from the fracking but from the wells themselves, which can serve as a conduit between geological formations if not properly sealed.

The most recent such study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, finds that at least 6,900 oil and gas wells in the U.S. were fracked less than a mile (5,280 feet) from the surface, and at least 2,600 wells were fracked at depths shallower than 3,000 feet, some as shallow as 100 feet.

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).

And there are other challenges associated with fracking for natural gas besides climate change, from what to do with the wastewater produced to drinking water contamination and even improperly drilled wells that leak or explode and get out of control (a blowout).

«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.

The Ohio samples are being analyzed by UC researchers for concentrations of methane as well as other hydrocarbons and salt, which is pulled up in the fracking water mixture from the shales.

The report explains that along with natural gas, production wells in the Azle area of the NEGF can also bring to the surface significant volumes of water from the highly permeable Ellenburger Formation — both naturally occurring brine as well as fluids that were introduced during the fracking process.

Last year his team claimed drinking wells close to fracking sites in Pennsylvania were contaminated with methane — perhaps from fracking — a finding that was met with a storm of criticism.

Instead, the increased risk for seismicity is more strongly linked with the subsequent injection of the wastewater from fracking and other oil - extraction processes into massive disposal wells that are thousands of feet underground.

And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based on incomplete data from state governments gathered in 2007.

High levels of methane leakage from fracking have been found [163], as well as nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds [159].

The device gathers data on how tracers — microscopic particles that can be pumped into and recovered from wells — move through deep rock formations that have been opened by hydraulic fracturing [fracking].

The study, «Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development,» was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and undertaken by Dana R. Caulton and Paul B. Shepson of Purdue and a host of co-authors, including Anthony Ingraffea and Robert Howarth, Cornell scientists who are prominent foes of fracking, along with Renee Santoro of Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy, a nonprofit group that has been critical of fracking * (Ingraffea is affiliated with the group, as well).

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.