Sentences with phrase «gas wells dot»

Gas wells dot the landscape like mailboxes in suburbia.

It's been a decade since the start of the Marcellus Shale gas boom in Pennsylvania, and today more than 10,000 unconventional gas wells dot the state's hills and valleys.

Not exact matches

Rick Roles, whose ranch is dotted with gas wells and used to be near a set of large open - air waste pits, complained of intense fatigue.

I've previously given BP a lot of credit for environmental care, as in my 2009 article and Dot Earth post on the company's remarkable efforts — far beyond those of nearly all competitors — to stanch the flow of methane, the main constituent of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas, from its wells and pipes in New Mexico.

The ProPublica piece expands on findings I reported in the print paper and on Dot Earth in 2009 showing that the amount of gas leakage from wells, pipelines and storage facilities for gas and oil was vastly greater than longstanding Environmental Protection Agency estimates.