Sentences with phrase «hydraulic fracturing came»
The breakthrough on hydraulic fracturing came in the late 1990s.
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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.
But the contaminants can come from several sources: from the hydraulic fracturing process itself, from the waste water, from the pits where drilling chemicals are stored, or from transporting chemicals and wastewater.
With huge new amounts of lease condensate coming from America's condensate - rich tight oil fields — the ones tapped by hydraulic fracturing or fracking — the United States isn't producing quite as much actual crude oil as the raw numbers would lead us to believe.
Shortly after the climate moves came into effect, a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing unearthed new deposits of natural gas in British Columbia.
His praise, however, came with a healthy dose of irony: Pegula owes much of his fortune to advancements of horizontal hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a controversial technique that Cuomo's administration has kept on hold in New York for years.
The decision came at an especially sensitive time for the Southern Tier: On the same day as the casino decision, the Cuomo's administration announced that it would ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, seen by some as another economic lifeline for the region.
Though Van der Baan noted that hydraulic fracturing has been in practice since the 1950s, it has come under increased scrutiny in the last handful of years due to both increased production as well as the use of the increased treatment volumes.
More than 60 % of these quakes are linked to hydraulic fracture, about 30 - 35 % come from disposal wells, and only 5 to 10 % of the earthquakes have a natural tectonic origin, Atkinson said.
Hydraulic fracturing has boosted U.S. energy production while coming under scrutiny for its potential environmental impacts, mostly related to the wastewater the method generates.
For example, a study done in 2016 in Texas (Johnston et al., 2016 *) revealed that wells used to dispose of wastewater coming from hydraulic fracturing sites were disproportionately permitted near communities with higher proportions of people of colour.
The results come as a natural - gas boom hits the United States, driven by a technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking», that can crack open hard shale formations and release the natural gas trapped inside.
Shirzaei was careful to say that the injection of wastewater can come from processes associated with oil and gas extraction other than hydraulic fracturing.
«While we know pollution from hydraulic fracturing impacts our health, we do not yet know where that pollution is coming from — from the air or water, from chemicals onsite, or an increase in traffic,» said co-author Katherine Meckel, assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
That's the message coming out of the U.S. Geological Survey, which studied aerial photographs of a handful of Pennsylvania counties where gas companies are using hydraulic fracturing to tap deposits in the Marcellus Shale.
Then along came hydraulic fracturing (fracking), tight oil, deepwater drilling, Trump, Zinke and Pruitt, and the oil and gas are flowing freely and people are piling into pickups.
The news comes a week after DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens announced that the agency will turn part of the review over to the Department of Health Commissioner Nirav Shah to address persistent questions about how shale gas development and high volume hydraulic fracturing will affect public health in communities where it is allowed.
Lost in this apparent green energy triumph is one inconvenient truth: California couldn't have doubled renewable electricity at relatively low cost to consumers without the advanced hydraulic fracturing techniques — fracking — that came into widespread use a decade ago.
Then came the revolutionary integration of technologies such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing — and the industrial development that comes with it — have left a grim trail of damage across America.
A carbon tax could come back to bite natural gas producers big time if the EPA decides, along the lines of Cornell University research, that fugitive methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing make natural gas as carbon - intensive as coal.
Last year, the paper reports, 30 percent of power in the U.S. came from natural gas, up from 19 percent in 2005, driven by hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that have unlocked large and inexpensive new supplies of the fuel.
It has all the hallmarks of a new industry with ups and downs, but it is clearly here to stay — even with cheap natural gas coming from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in shale formations.
Two big blows to the natural gas industry have come in less than 24 hours, with both the province of Quebec and New York state effectively banning shale gas extraction over concerns with the process of hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. «fracking»).
(In its 2005 energy bill, Congress included an exemption from SDWA oversight for the water put into the ground for hydraulic fracturing — a provision that has come to be known as the «Halliburton loophole» after the oil and gas industry service company that is active in the shale industry.)
Where the Shale Gas Revolution Came From: Government's Role in the Development of Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale by Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus, Alex Trembath, and Jesse Jenkins, May 2012
Last week, the same editors who support EPA's carbon dioxide rules and routinely call for a carbon tax came out against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's decision to ban hydraulic fracturing in the Empire State, dubbing -LSB-...]
The bill seeks to preserves state authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands — a right that has recently come under assault from the federal government.
The latest: As Germany's environment and economics ministers decide fracking needs a halt on hydraulic fracturing, the head of Britain's Environment Agency has come out in support of more shale gas.
Details are still coming in on this one, but Huffington Post and Politico are reporting that Gasland director Josh Fox has been arrested during a House Science Committee hearing on hydraulic fracturing.
Second, hydraulic fracturing fluid may come back to the surface, or near enough, to affect groundwater supplies.
We knew this might be coming for the last three months: New Jersey has become the first state in the US to enact a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, popularly known as fracking.
As you can see, these focus on U.S. energy development, now and in the years to come, support for safe hydraulic fracturing that is driving America's energy resurgence, the game - changing role natural gas is playing in reducing emissions and more.
Source: Alex Trembath, Jesse Jenkins, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger, «Where the Shale Gas Revolution Came From: The Role of Government in the Development of Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale,» May 2012.