In 2011, Clean Harbors acquired Peak Energy Services, bringing on the capabilities to service oil and
gas drilling operations by providing surface rentals and specialized liquid, solid and sludge processing.
Not exact matches
In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused
by the injection of wastewater from oil and natural
gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.
PTSD sufferers in the battered upstream oil and
gas industry will take little comfort to learn their economic future is in the hands of software written
by programmers and traders who have never set foot on a
drilling rig or production
operation, nor put on a pair of coveralls or a hard hat.
What's more, the source said, Cuomo has turned down offers to tour ongoing fracking
operations just across the New York border in Pennsylvania and, in at least one case, «insulted» a major energy - company president
by not even responding to a formal letter requesting a meeting on the
gas -
drilling issue with the governor.
ALBANY, NY (07/17/2012)(readMedia)-- In response to a new report released
by Earthworks» Oil &
Gas Accountability Project - NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following stateme
Gas Accountability Project - NYS DEC: Inadequate enforcement guarantees irresponsible oil and
gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following stateme
gas development (http://enforcement-ny.earthworksaction.org), which questions New York's ability to oversee the state's existing and proposed
gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following stateme
gas drilling operations - Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter, and Environment New York released the following statement:
While oil and
gas companies work to minimize the amount of methane emitted
by their
operations, almost no attention has been paid to wells that were
drilled decades ago.
Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led
by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse -
gas footprint of natural
gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that
gas escaping from
drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural
gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.
Updates below Last year, after opponents of hydraulic fracturing made much of an unpublished paper
by a doctoral candidate in economics who reported finding health impacts in infants from nearby
gas drilling operations, I wrote a piece titled «When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in the Fight Over Gas Impacts.&raq
gas drilling operations, I wrote a piece titled «When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in the Fight Over
Gas Impacts.&raq
Gas Impacts.»
Lisa McKenzie of the Colorado School of Public Health, who — like Hill — has expressed concerns about the health risks posed
by natural
gas operations and has done research pointing to health effects from
drilling, declined to directly critique the paper.
But a report commissioned
by Cuadrilla Resources, which is
drilling for
gas in the area outside the northwestern English coastal resort town of Blackpool, cautioned that the tremors, measuring 1.9 and 2.8 on the Richter scale - were due to an unusual combination of geology and
operations and were unlikely to happen again.
Industry executives and analysts foresee a dramatic move away from diesel for
drilling operations that could lead to at least half all of US rigs being powered
by natural
gas in the next five years.
South Texas, Louisiana and other states along the Gulf Coast are especially rich in natural resources, which makes this region a target for large - scale
gas and oil
operations, as well as corporations looking to profit from the mineral riches
by drilling deep into the soil.