Sentences with phrase «hydraulic fracturing does»

Officials cite environmental and climate concerns, but studies show safe hydraulic fracturing doesn't threaten drinking water supplies, and cleaner - burning natural gas is the leading reason U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation are at their lowest levels in nearly 30 years.

After five years and millions of taxpayer dollars, EPA says what we in industry and others have said for some time: Safe hydraulic fracturing doesn't threaten our drinking water.

Yet, EPA's five - year, multi-million-dollar study says the governor's concerns are basically baseless, that safe hydraulic fracturing doesn't threaten the nation's drinking water.

«These results suggest that hydraulic fracturing does have an impact on our health, though the good news is that this is only at a highly localized level,» said Currie, who directs the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Not exact matches

The national government in London supports hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to release gas from shale rock, and so did the planning staff of the Lancashire County Council.

Texas oilman George Mitchell didn't invent hydraulic fracturing, but, through much trial and error in the»80s and»90s, he demonstrated the technique was a commercially viable way of squeezing oil from otherwise impermeable rock.

However, it wasn't until the 1970s that large - scale hydraulic fracture became profitable, and more importantly, was being done in areas where the rock wasn't porous enough for conventional drilling to work at all.

The newly employed system of hydraulic fracturing has brought enormous supplies of natural gas to market already, and is about to do the same for oil.

Cuomo said he's comfortable with the state's review of hydraulic fracturing, telling reporters in Utica that his administration is «doing the best we can to understand all the facts.»

«The moratorium will allow time for such analysis to be commenced, analysis that we are confident will affirm absolutely our contention that hydraulic fracturing should never be done within New York City's upstate unfiltered water supply watershed,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Environmental Committee Chair James Gennaro said in a joint statement.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous today didn't completely rule out a tax on high - income earners, saying that without high - volume hydraulic fracturing impoverished communities need some source of revenue in the wake of severe flooding.

«Governor Cuomo, please do everything in your power to ban hydraulic fracturing throughout New York State.

Hydraulic Fracturing can not be done safely and to think that government regulations or corporate responsibility will protect our landscape and water is gravely mistaken.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The trustee of New York's $ 150.1 billion pension fund has reached an agreement with Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. to disclose what it's doing to reduce risks of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Speaking Thursday at the annual Spring Environment Conference held by the Business Council in Albany, Martens says the agency doesn't have a specific date yet for an update on the environmental review and proposed regulations for high - volume hydraulic fracturing of shale gas wells.

While the Governor has said he expects to reach a decision on whether to permit high - volume hydraulic fracturing («fracking») in fewer than 40 days, today's proposal did not include any information on or insight into his administration's intentions on fracking.

the secretary of energy today, the secretary of the interior today, have all reaffirmed the fact that hydraulic fracturing can be done in a safe and effective way that protects the workforce and protects the environment,» continued Gerard, whose institute represents virtually all major gas and oil companies in the nation, including ExxonMobil and Shell, and sets the industry standards for the equipment used in the energy field.

At the session on tick - borne illness — a major district concern that has earned Gibson votes from the left and right — she led off by pointing to New York's ban on hydraulic fracturing as evidence of what a groundswell of opposition can do.

The New York State Water Rangers, a group of environmental organizations that oppose hydraulic fracturing, are encouraged that Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not include revenue from hydrofracking in his budget, or add money for increased staff to process fracking permits.

The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York is demanding the release of the state's environmental impact study on hydraulic fracturing, and are threatening to take legal action if the state doesn't release the report.

«It's not as simple as saying «we do a hydraulic fracturing treatment, and therefore we are going to cause felt seismicity.»

Babies of moms living within one kilometer of a hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, site in the state had a 25 percent greater chance of being born underweight than did babies whose moms lived at least three kilometers away, researchers report online...

Before hydraulic fracturing was exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2005, the EPA assessed the process and concluded it did not pose a threat to drinking water.

And companies that do the hydraulic fracturing, such as Halliburton and Baker Hughes, both based in Houston, Texas, are developing their own chemical - assessment programs in an apparent effort to address public concerns and reduce their environmental footprint.

«Our decades - old regulations do not contemplate current techniques in which hydraulic fracturing is increasingly complex.»

Babies of moms living within one kilometer of a hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, site in the state had a 25 percent greater chance of being born underweight than did babies whose moms lived at least three kilometers away, researchers report online December 13 in Science Advances.

Currie points out that hydraulic fracturing often moves into areas that didn't previously have industrial activity, providing the opportunity to measure health effects before and after fracking begins.

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.

While the study does not prove that hydraulic fracturing actually causes these health problems, the authors say, the hospitalization increases observed over the relatively short time span of observation suggests that healthcare costs of hydraulic fracturing must be factored into the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil drilling.

«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.

Thanks to hydraulic fracturing (at least for now) there is enough supply outside of OPEC at inexpensive prices, that if OPEC cut production as a group, it might not gain as much of the benefit as they did in the»70s and early»80s.

As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch

The study should ease * concerns that reports of briny water mixing with drinking water have anything to do with gas drilling, including the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, used to release gas from deep shale layers.

As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch reports that EPA head Lisa Jackson has said that there may soon be Federal regulations dealing with air pollution caused by the natural gas extraction process.On the air quality issues, Jackson said:

(In a related development, North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue, a Democrat who does not flatly oppose hydraulic fracturing, on Sunday vetoed a bill championed by state Republicans that she said was insufficiently protective of water supplies and landowners.)

Thanks to vast domestic shale reserves and safe hydraulic fracturing, the U.S. is the world's leading producer of oil and natural gas — which by far has had the most to do with reducing U.S. net crude imports.

Now, fairness dictates I point out that George Mitchell didn't invent hydraulic fracturing or directional drilling — the two technologies that, when combined, have unleashed the surge in oil and natural gas production the United States has experienced over the last half decade.

The authors of the proposal did not demand the immediate cessation of all hydraulic fracturing activities by the oil and gas giant, but rather requested that the corporation provide better disclosures regarding its fracking activities.

The SAB finds that the EPA did not support quantitatively its conclusion about lack of evidence for widespread, systemic impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources, and did not clearly describe the system (s) of interest (e.g., groundwater, surface water), the scale of impacts (i.e., local or regional), nor the definitions of «systemic» and «widespread.»

Furthermore, in order to repair leaks, the guidelines for hydraulic fracturing require operators to detect methane leaks and suggest several options for doing so.

«The science clearly indicates that, with an emphasis on prevention... energy production can and is being done right, and that hydraulic fracturing is not leading to widespread, systemic effects to drinking water resources,» Stephanie Wissman, an Executive Director with the American Petroleum Institute, stated at a recent meeting of the Delaware River Basin Commission.

There's much that impresses about hydraulic fracturing if you see it up close, which I did during a recent tour of Anadarko Petroleum natural gas operations near Williamsport, Pa.: the technology, the company's highly skilled workers, the game - changing resource opportunities in the Marcellus Shale and more.

After more than five years and millions of dollars, the evidence gathered by the EPA confirms what the agency has already acknowledged and what the oil and gas industry has known: hydraulic fracturing is being done safely under the strong environmental stewardship of state regulators and industry best practices.

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as «fracking,» does not appear to be linked to the increased rate of magnitude 3 and larger earthquakes.»

On September 9, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked nine natural gas service companies to submit information on the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing — indicating the agency will use its legal authority to compel disclosure of the information if the companies do not comply.

While lowering CO2 emissions is talked about in various circles, the fact is the United States already is doing it, thanks largely to natural gas — 60 percent of the U.S. total produced with advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

An early look at the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) proposed new rule governing hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands shows the challenge of trying to create a new rule that doesn't just add regulation on top of effective state rules already in place.

In its online debate this week on hydraulic fracturing, The Economist poses this question: «Do the benefits derived from shale gas outweigh the drawbacks of fracking?»

The Premier also doesn't agree with my opposition to shale gas hydraulic fracturing — a process that will drastically reduce fresh water supplies in north - eastern BC and substantially increase greenhouse gases.

Thanks to cleaner - burning natural gas, you can make a strong «green» case for hydraulic fracturing, as some are doing.