Sentences with phrase «gas drilling regulations»

He used his office to push natural gas drilling regulations that would have increased his son's commissions.

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This resulted in a range of policies — from the Clean Power Plan to methane regulations for oil and gas drilling — that now face uncertainty or complete rescindment.

It's also giving the fossil fuels sector whiplash from a White House whose energy policies have otherwise been very good to them, from starting to undo greenhouse gas regulations to opening more public land to mining and drilling and tax cuts.

As the recent court cases on force majeure point out, the gas industry could have been doing vertical shale drilling / fracking, as well as drilling in conventional formations, the whole time that the SGEIS / regulation process has been ongoing.

The Association says the regulations would prevent gas companies from drilling on 50 % of land parcels that they have already identified in the Southern Tier as desirable for drilling, and could unnecessarily delay drilling.

Please spare us the propaganda as there are 35 other states that are safely drilling for gas and Obama's EPA just ok'd new regulations for drilling which they would have NEVER done if it was a dangerous and you propagandize about.

Sampson said that while gas prices are low and New York's proposed regulations would make drilling most costly than in other states, there would still be a market for gas produced in the state.

Schneiderman sent a letter seeking a review of regulations on gas drilling as proposed by the Delaware River Basin Commision, an interstate federal body led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and includes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Parks Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is nearing completion on an environmental impact study and new regulations for gas drilling using horizontal drilling and high - volume fracking technology.

The agency that oversees water quality and quantity in the Delaware River basin has issued proposed regulations for the natural gas drilling industry.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is in the midst of an environmental review process to allow the controversial gas drilling process on some private lands in the state, and has already issued proposed regulations for hydrofracking.

Environmentalists claim that Charles Monnett of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) is the victim of a «witch hunt» aimed at opening up more of Alaska to oil and gas drilling.

University at Buffalo group had drawn criticism for report on regulation of gas drilling in Pennsylvania

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) to issue new suspensions of deepwater drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), saying a pause is needed to ensure that oil and gas companies first implement adequate safety measures to reduce the risks associated with deepwater drilling operations and are prepared for blowouts and oil spills.

With President Trump's plans to lift regulations and allow drilling on federal land, there are no signs that the oil and gas industry will be slowing down.

While the immense amount of rain and devastating floods that hit Colorado nearly two weeks ago were already tragic, they have also exposed a larger issue of concern regarding the lax environmental regulations that allow the oil and gas industry to drill in flood zones.

Now it's not that drillers should never be fracking But the current regulation is severely lacking Reduce the toxins, contain the gas and wastewater And the people won't get sick and the planet won't get hotter

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation has announced that draft regulations for industrial gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale through fracking will be issued at the same time as the environmental

Questions about Field's pro-industry stance on global warming come as the DEC faces accusations from environmental activists that the agency gave the natural gas industry exclusive and unfair access to draft drilling regulations up to six weeks before they were released to the public or to any other stakeholders.

China's and India's net emissions are growing dramatically and governments, most recently Japan's, are abandoning earlier pledges to reduce their nations» carbon footprints... And as the US shale fracking revolution shows, the most efficient way to cut emissions is not via command - and - control regulation but by allowing private drillers to expand natural gas production.»

Key state regulations include: Review and approval of permits; well design, location and spacing; drilling operations; water management and disposal; air emissions; wildlife impacts; surface disturbance; worker health and safety; and inspection and enforcement of day - to - day oil and gas operations.

Better yet would be to debate an energy policy for the USA, including opening up exploratory oil and gas drilling including shale deposits, limiting the exponential growth of regulations currently stifling new exploration, ending the EPA regulatory war on coal, reactivating the Keystone pipeline, etc.; these issues have direct impact on American jobs and future energy independence, both of which are more important issues for US voters (and presidential candidates) than any «climate» debate.

The Republican platform slated for approval at the party's convention includes expanded offshore oil - and - gas development, opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling rigs and thwarting Environmental Protection Agency climate change regulations.

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.

Concern over unconventional energy like gas fracking may be the reason by Ohio SB 315 also addresses clean energy standards and drilling regulations.

-- If a well is drilled at a location where coal has been removed from one or more coal seams, the well shall be drilled and cased to prevent migration of gas or fluids into the seam from which coal has been removed in a manner prescribed by regulation of the department.

(5) Whenever, before or during the drilling of a well not within the boundaries of an operating coal mine, the well operator encounters conditions of a nature which renders drilling of the bore hole or a portion thereof impossible, or more hazardous than usual, the well operator, upon verbal notice to the department, may immediately plug all or part of the bore hole, if drilling has occurred, and commence a new bore hole not more than 50 feet from the old bore hole if the location of the new bore hole does not violate section 3215 (relating to well location restrictions) and, in the case of a well subject to act of July 25, 1961 (P.L. 825, No. 359), known as the Oil and Gas Conservation Law, if the new location complies with existing laws, regulations and spacing orders and the new bore hole is at least 330 feet from the nearest lease boundary.

Reading it at a time when gas is being fracked and offshore drilling is being opened up and environmental regulation is being rolled back, one realizes that his basic thesis is dead - on: energy is money, the universal currency.

Pennsylvania has already received billions of dollars in natural gas drilling investment, making tougher regulations a difficult sell.