Sentences with phrase «heard of fracking»
It's hard to believe that just a few years ago, virtually no one had heard of fracking; our archives for 2009 include only 192 stories on the topic.
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Through the rumour mill we had heard that he had fracked under the pressure of leading our large team and the responsibilities that it entailed.
Assembly Democrats also held a lengthy hearing on fracking, in the first week of the legislative session, where opponents as well as supporters gave testimony.
Erie County Executive Poloncarz will hear about the pros and cons of natural gas fracking Monday afternoon as he holds a public hearing on limiting the energy source in Erie County.
Albany an appeals court will hear arguments in a case involving the ban on fracking that was passed by the town of Dryden.
Yesterday, during a joint legislative hearing on Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed executive budget, Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens was peppered with questions from legislators about the administration's fracking plans.
Julia Walsh, who's led the group Frack Action through years of protests, hearing testimony, and other actions, helped deliver a thank you petition to Governor Cuomo the day the fracking ban was formalized.
Virtually all of the 58 who spoke at Wednesday evening's hearing on a proposed county law to prohibit the use of hydrofracking brine as a de-icer on county roads said they wanted the ban, and one on fracking in Ulster to boot.
Governor Cuomo's Health Commissioner was questioned by lawmakers at a budget hearing about his on - going review of the health effects of hydro - fracking.
At a budget hearing Martens told legislators that there's no timetable for his agency's environmental review of fracking, known as the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS).
«It appears that Governor Cuomo has heard the public outcry about the need to fully assess and address public health impacts of fracking, but based on the administration's most recent statement, people remain in the dark about what is really happening.
ALBANY, NY (01/10/2013)(readMedia)-- New York Water Rangers partners joined with experts from across the state today at a New York State Assembly hearing on the Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) proposed High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing («fracking») regulations and to call on Governor Cuomo to protect New York from the harmful effects of fracking.
However, earlier in the month, Cuomo's environmental commissioner, testifying at a legislative budget hearing, cast doubt on whether the administration's self - imposed deadline of late February will actually be met, meaning that a decision on fracking could once again be delayed.
Julia Walsh, who's led the group Frack Action through years of protests, hearing testimony, and other actions, helped deliver a thank you petition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo the day the fracking ban was formalized.
County legislators viewed presentations on the risks of fracking waste products and heard from industry representatives during debate over the bill.
Jeff Alger, 34, who works in the Kansas oil fields on a fracking crew, said his wife Sophia took their children out of school when she heard a tornado was coming and then fled Moore and watched it flatten the town from a few miles away.
Second, several years ago, I heard that teams of Chinese engineers were spending months in Oklahoma to learn about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as a method for liberating gas and oil from previously untappable shale deposits.
One that jumped out at me when I first saw the poll was the large majority of Americans who are either not familiar with (28 percent) or have never heard (35 percent) the terms hydraulic fracturing or fracking.
Anti-fracking crowds from the GreenARMY (including Sierra Club activists) have packed recent public hearings on a proposed permit to frack in a wetlands area of St. Tammany Parish - with the next major public hearing coming on June 2.
Come hear the Marcellus Shale Activists share their stories of the on going fight to protect their community from the deadly affects of fracking TONIGHT's JP Forum @ 7 pm!
«When the climate bill of rights came before council — you heard tonight some people interpret it as a ban on fracking — and I didn't interpret it that way,» he said.
I was totally psyched, until I heard that one of the kids went home and told their parents who work for the Gas industry about the presentation and the song me and my brother performed called «What the Frack».
With all the promotion of NG, we're only now beginning to hear about the dark downside of hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» — using millions of gallons of water mixed with undisclosed chemicals and sand to release natural gas.
It is hard to hear the word «fracking» without recalling images of people at their kitchen sink, setting fire to the gases emanating from their tap along with the flowing water.
The thousands across the US who have documented cases of water contamination in fracking areas deserve their own hearing on Capitol hill.
It also groups together under the same banner «environmental activists and militants,» and equates protest at public hearings and screening films detailing the dangers of fracking with anarchist rallies.
Josh Fox, whose HBO documentary «Gasland» raised questions about the safety of the natural gas drilling technique known as horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, was handcuffed and led away on Wednesday as he tried to film a House Science Committee hearing on the topic.
Mr. Fox brought a crew to film a hearing of the energy and environment subcommittee that was looking into an Environmental Protection Agency finding that fracking was probably responsible for groundwater contamination in Pavillion, Wyo..