Sentences with phrase «gas fracking industry»

Midway through Catherine Pancake's video on citizen surveillance of the natural - gas fracking industry, Bloodland (all works cited, 2015), a female voice - over quotes Hito Steyerl's 2009 essay «In Defense of the Poor Image,» on the cultural implications of highly circulated, low - resolution digital artifacts online: «The imperfect cinema is one that strives to overcome the divisions of -LSB-...]

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Fracking is part of the problem, but the report states that most human - induced quakes are caused by the oil and gas industry's use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater - the contaminated liquid that gets pumped out of the well during oil and gas extraction.

Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

The group set about their plan by renting office space in Dallas, Texas, where a robust fracking industry regularly requires radioactive materials for gauges needed in their search for gas and oil deposits.

U.S. President Barack Obama has made clear that when it comes to «fracking,» he is siding with the oil and gas industry.

Some states require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals and the amount of water they use in fracking operations on FracFocus.org, a website formed by industry and intergovernmental groups in 2011, but the statistics are not complete.

But when it comes to fracking — the oil and gas industry's technique to tap into harder - to - reach fossil fuels — the two have similarly negative yet slightly divergent view points, which were highlighted at the Democratic Presidential Debate in Flint, Michigan, on Sunday night.

It's not solar or wind power that is cutting into the coal industry — but the explosion in natural gas as a result of fracking.

The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

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.

In just a few short years, fracking has transformed the once - declining U.S. oil and gas industry into the world's most important.

Even if Europe put aside its environmental concerns and decided to pursue natural gas fracking, it would take at least five years to develop such an industry, he predicted.

Britain's # 50 Billion chemical industry has stated fracking for shale gas is of economic importance to the country, will protect jobs and can be done in a safe way that does not damage the environment.

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.

Still, the gas industry is working overtime to bring fracking into New York.

In this rare instance, Frack Action would have to agree with Tom West, an attorney and lobbyist for the gas industry in Albany, about both the purpose and the legality of this plan.

Even if the Gas industries were to stay in the southern tier, the fracking will effect us all in time.

Senator Reed seems to be losing his mind over the fact that the gas industry can't frack in New York.

Smith, with the gas industry lobby, says he hopes that does not mean going back to square one in a fracking approval process that began back in 2008.

The group Environment Massachusetts is urging Massachusetts lawmakers to enact a ban on fracking even though geologists and the petroleum industry insist the chances are remote the controversial gas drilling technique — where water and chemicals are used to break rock — would ever be used in the Bay State.

Cox spoke at a natural gas industry lobby meeting, where he said Cuomo was «dithering» on a decision about allowing fracking in New York, by continuing to say he's waiting for his health commissioner to finish a review.

The nation's top energy - industry lobbyist said Cuomo's «knee - jerk» ban on fracking is being «cheered» by the gas and oil industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, all of which share the gas - rich Marcellus Shale region with New York.

The state Democratic Committee, in turn, has accused Cox of pushing the fracking issue because of his ties to the natural gas industry, with some lawmakers, including IDC Leader Jeff Klein, to call for an investigation of the financial relationship with Noble Energy.

They appear no less prone to the Jekyll and Hyde approach to green issues than other parties, with a 100 % renewables pledge, and a ban on fracking, sitting incongruously alongside a promise to «keep the pressure on the UK Treasury to do all it can to protect... investment in the oil and gas industry».

«Ed Cox is simply a paid - for mouthpiece of the oil and gas industry,» said the group New Yorkers Against Fracking.

The propaganda spread about by the deep pockets of the oil and gas industry must not be allowed to drown out the scientific facts that attest to the harm fracking can do to us.

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.

And New Yorkers aren't buying the notion that oil and gas industry - sponsored studies that say fracking is safe are legitimate.

The well surveys were conducted only in the gas - rich counties that would be the epicenter of the state's fracking industry if it were ever to become legal.

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.

Jim Smith, with the Independent Oil and Gas Association, a lobby group for the gas industry, says recent events may be influencing New Yorkers to think more positively about frackiGas Association, a lobby group for the gas industry, says recent events may be influencing New Yorkers to think more positively about frackigas industry, says recent events may be influencing New Yorkers to think more positively about fracking.

Brian McMahon, with the New York State Economic Development Council, a pro business and pro fracking group, believes that heritage tourism and the gas drilling industry can co exist, and he says fracking industry related jobs will pay workers a much higher wage and improve the overall health of the economy.

They say further delay in fracking is only hurting the state's small business community, which could see increased sales in hotels, restaurants and other service industries if the gas drilling begins, and they lament what they say has become a «hostile and extreme opposition».

President Obama is a natural gas booster, though his administration did issue tighter fracking rules in 2015, which were immediately challenged in court by the gas industry.

As if we needed more evidence on Gannett's Jon Campbell's impact as the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade group.

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....

The agency says encouraging more fracking in New York will lead to «growth in the natural gas industry,» with more pipelines and compressor stations that could harm state owned preserves, freshwater wetlands and forests.

But this victory against fracking belongs to the ordinary people of New York state who stood up to the gas industry and organized creative and confrontational grassroots protests, despite those who called for supporting industry - backed politicians in the name of «political expediency.»

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 issuGas 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 issugas 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.

Cherie Messore, with the Independent Oil and Gas Association, a gas industry lobby group that is helping pay for the ads, says the spots are aimed at showing there's support for frackiGas Association, a gas industry lobby group that is helping pay for the ads, says the spots are aimed at showing there's support for frackigas industry lobby group that is helping pay for the ads, says the spots are aimed at showing there's support for fracking.

Industry and business groups that support fracking have been running advertisements for the past several weeks, featuring real people who live in the Marcellus Shale region in New York's Southern Tier and who say they want the natural gas drilling to begin.

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.

Last Friday, Republican Gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino sent out a late afternoon press release saying that he would not be going on a gas industry tour of fracking sites in Pennsylvania until after the election because the company providing the tour — Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation — refused to allow members of the press on the togas industry tour of fracking sites in Pennsylvania until after the election because the company providing the tour — Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation — refused to allow members of the press on the toGas Corporation — refused to allow members of the press on the tour.

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.

Greenberg calls fracking a «lose - lose» situation for the governor, because whichever decision he ultimately makes, he risks angering either the powerful gas drilling industry, or environmentalists who are part of the Democratic base.

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.

Ten companies or trade groups that lobbied on fracking and other issues of concern to the natural gas industry spent $ 4.5 million lobbying in Albany over the last three years, according to an analysis prepared by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Some of the findings in the report also directly contradict longstanding arguments by the drilling industry for why the fracking process is safe: that hydrologic pressure would naturally force fluids down, not up; that deep geologic layers provide a watertight barrier preventing the movement of chemicals towards the surface; and that the problems with the cement and steel barriers around gas wells aren't connected to fracking.