Sentences with phrase «hydraulic fracking»

A controversial study of hydraulic fracking will be reviewed by an independent panel of experts.

And nothing is hotter these days than the controversy over hydraulic fracking for natural gas.

Unlike the incumbent, the engaging and personable Democratic challenger supports a moratorium on hydraulic fracking.

Private equity sees the most opportunity in natural gas and oil, thanks to more effective technologies like hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling and related opportunities to harness the increased supply.

The debate over the environmental and economic impact of hydraulic fracking in New York State has raged for the better part of the last decade.

Environmental lawyers were slapped with court sanctions Friday for using a sketchy, unfounded legal theory to ban hydraulic fracking in a small community in Pennsylvania.

What's more, after nearly seven years of regulatory review that began with an executive directive before Cuomo took office, the state officially banned high - volume hydraulic fracking in 2015, denying opportunities for the state's smaller producers, which long ago saw demand outpace the supplies pulled from conventional reservoirs.

The actor, who plays the Incredible Hulk in the new movie «The Avengers,» was there as part of a performance piece by the gallery artist Rirkrit Tiravanija to raise awareness about hydraulic fracking for natural gas.

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.

Winter 2015 - Hydraulic Fracking Debate: The Importance of Pre-Drill Water - Quality Testing Environmental Litigation, American Bar Association Section of Litigation

He will work to shut down the oil pipeline at the Straits of Mackinac, ban natural gas hydraulic fracking, fight invasive species entering the waters, and invest in renewable energy to lower electricity costs foster energy independence.

(Demonstration projects for hydraulic fracking began in the U.S. in the 1970s; though it didn't become common until the early 2000s.)

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.

«Governor Cuomo should heed the requests of thousands of New Yorkers who asked his administration to make sure that all forms of shale fracking are included in our state's high - volume hydraulic fracking prohibition,» said Walter Hang, an anti-fracking activist who runs Toxic Targeting.

Hundreds of demonstrators, including members of the Village Independent Democrats, participated in a rally against hydraulic fracking outside of Chelsea Piers.

Instead, it proposed «minimum principles» — nonbinding environmental guidelines for member states that want to explore and exploit shale gas reserves using hydraulic fracking methods.

Responding to pressure from Congress to «study the relationship between hydraulic fracking and drinking water,» the EPA spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars to conclude, tentatively at least, that fracking doesn't pollute or poison drinking water in areas close to fracking wells.

However, much of this natural gas has recently been developed by hydraulic fracking, which can have enormous impacts on water quality (if done poorly) and may inadvertently leak methane (another powerful greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere.

Represented Fortune 100 oil services company in trespass claim involving hydraulic fracking, resulting in dismissal with no payment.

The Administration proposes easing restrictions on hydraulic fracking for oil and gas in less populated areas and allowing more drilling on Federal land.

Leslie Roeder, an advocate with New Yorkers Against Fracking, celebrates in 2014 after Govenor Cuomo announced he would ban hydraulic fracking.

However, Vasi says negative public sentiment about hydraulic fracking was most readily apparent in online activity and social media chatter because traditional newspapers are obligated to show both sides of an issue.

Even a handful of state and local governments have sued, claiming that horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking techniques violated various trespassing, public nuisance and pollution standards.

The health implications of hydraulic fracking for natural gas remain understudied, however, some findings point to birth defects and low birth - weight babies

The phrase, «energy dominance,» seems to have originated in a speech made by candidate Trump in North Dakota — an epicenter for U.S. oil and gas hydraulic fracking, and the site of the Standing Rock anti-pipeline camps.

They include industrialist David Koch, whose holdings include oil interests; hedge - fund billionaire Paul Singer, who invested heavily in the energy sector and Charles Joyce, president of a pipeline company and supporter of hydraulic fracking, the process of oil extraction using high pressure mixtures of water, chemicals and sand or gravel.

Most chemicals used in hydraulic fracking are not harmful, while precautions can be taken to prevent problems from those substances which are, according to a CSIRO report released today.

Ms. Teachout promised to be a relentless advocate for the public financing of elections, the banning of hydraulic fracking and a reduction of income inequality.

Boling says «there was a feeling of being rushed» to meet state budget deadlines, and he says it's better that that pressure is now off, and that the process be done «right», even if it takes longer, because in order for the industry to proceed, the public needs to be «assured that hydraulic fracking is safe».

But a University of Iowa (UI) sociologist and his co-researchers are the first to use the Internet and social media to systematically show how a documentary film reshaped public perception and ultimately led to municipal bans on hydraulic fracking.

Another reason for his choice was that scientists still don't agree on the dangers of hydraulic fracking — a method of horizontal drilling into shale formations.

By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor of sociology at the UI and corresponding author of a new study, demonstrated how local screenings of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic fracking.

In 2014, the American Petroleum Institute published a pamphlet: «Hydraulic Fracking; Unlocking America's Natural Gas Resources.»

If you want to go deeper, the Capricorn new moons encourages it: read up on climate change and hydraulic fracking to develop an informed opinion on the topic.

Thanks to hydraulic fracking, the United States is now the world's largest oil producer.

Now with the boom in domestic supply we are left to bemoan the use of hydraulic fracking and tar sands.

We are also facing extreme extraction of fossil fuels, in particular coal mining, hydraulic fracking, and tar sands, as well as tar sands pipelines.

According to a 2013 report, hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling have the potential to increase the global reserve of oil from 1.6 billion barrels to 10.2 billion barrels.

A vocal supporter of hydraulic fracking, Mr. Trump pledged that he would convince New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo to permit fracking in 2015.

His accession to office coincided (coincidentally) with the widespread adoption of hydraulic fracking to drill for natural gas, resulting in a sudden boom in supplies and a rapid drop in price, to the point where gas began to supplant coal as the fuel of choice for American power plants.

The booming oil industry and a growing interest in hydraulic fracking have brought thousands of jobs to Texas.

Roundup of recent legal suits and court decisions from around the country, involving the growing field of hydraulic fracking.

For example, the Obama administration has continued to issue new permits for oil drilling throughout the U.S. and there has been a mass expansion of the use of hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas.