Sentences with phrase «heating fracked gas»

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After much heated debate and delay, the Village of Oxford Board of Trustees voted 4 - 1 last night in favor of a change in the municipal zoning ordinance that clarifies a prohibition against gas exploration, extraction, and disposal, establishing the first fracking moratorium in Chenango County.

They have faulted Gov. Cuomo for continuing to promote the burning of fracked gas across the state, including his proposal to add two new gas turbines in Arbor Hill to heat the Empire State Plaza.

The agency's findings could be a turning point in the heated national debate about whether contamination from fracking is happening, and are likely to shape how the country regulates and develops natural gas resources in the Marcellus Shale and across the Eastern Appalachian states.

Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.

Increasingly, methane is being mined through controversial methods like fracking, but with Logan's technique, we could achieve green production of methane gas to power our appliances and heat our homes.

AP (4/28/13) reports: «The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat - trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change?»

But some of the fracking in these basins is for natural gas, which serves as an alternative to oil in some capacity (heating), yet it competes with different market forces and regulatory issues.