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At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

«The Washington, D.C. City Council yesterday passed a resolution opposing hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling for natural gas in the George Washington National Forest due to concerns that such development might contaminate drinking water supplies.

March 17, 2011: Nathalie Normandeau, Quebec's natural resources minister, announced Wednesday that the province would no longer authorize hydraulic fracturing operations in the province in the hunt for oil and gas.

• The exploration of land for natural gas by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is prohibited in the Town of Camillus.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats are calling for new and stronger actions from the B.C. Liberals to ensure long - term sustainability and environmental quality, greater public accountability, and best practices in the natural gas industry as the practice of hydraulic fracturing...

Cuomo has «delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country,» Shafran said, listing the legalization of gay marriage, the new minimum wage law, a gun control law and the ban on hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas.

The performer's message, sent via the mayor's campaign listserv, recalled de Blasio's support for his pet cause: banning the use of hydraulic fracturing to access natural gas deposits in upstate New York.

He said Cuomo has «delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country,» listing the legalization of gay marriage, the new minimum wage law, a gun - control law and the ban on hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas.

FILE - In this July 27, 2011 file photo, workers stand behind the top of a pump for the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. (AP Photo / Keith Srakocic, FilIn this July 27, 2011 file photo, workers stand behind the top of a pump for the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. (AP Photo / Keith Srakocic, Filin the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. (AP Photo / Keith Srakocic, Filin Claysville, Pa. (AP Photo / Keith Srakocic, File)

She said she was most proud of fighting for the so - called Safe Act, a gun - control law that New York enacted after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and against hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a process known as fracking.

In particular, she blamed Cuomo's political machinations for the failure of campaign finance and ethics reform efforts, and for New York not outlawing natural gas extraction through the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.

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.

But with the possible start to drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation of the Southern Tier, Libous — who supports the use of hydraulic fracturing — said more information is needed.

One of the most contentious areas of debate over the expansion of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas concerns a spike in seismic activity in unlikely areas that have begun fracking nearby.

New York environmental officials have released a revised set of proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing natural gas and will begin taking public comment on them in December.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins opposes hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and toured drilling sites in Pennsylvania last week.

The Town Board in Rush has voted unanimously in favor of establishing a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.

The poll showed only 2 percent of likely voters said hydraulic fracturing for New York's natural gas reserves — commonly known as fracking and tied up in studies of the potential health and environmental impacts — was their top issue.

For four years, the Cuomo administration has put off making a decision whether to lift the moratorium that stops drilling companies from using the hydraulic fracturing method of extracting natural gas in New York state.

She's also been an advocate for property tax reform, she opposes high - volume hydraulic fracturing as a method of natural gas exploration and she'd like to take on corruption in Albany.

Hydraulic fracturing is common in Oklahoma, the nation's third - largest producer of natural gas, and has taken place there for decades (pdf).

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

eg on Page 4 Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing as a means for producing oil and natural gas began in the early 2000s.10 aka Cheney et al..

Chip Northrup, a former oil and gas investor from Texas who now splits his time between Dallas and upstate New York, is an articulate and energetic opponent of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for the natural gas locked in deep shale layers in the state.

In this fascinating blog, the Philadelphia - based artist Jennie Shanker is chronicling her efforts to create ceramics using clay from the Marcellus Shale region — best known as a big new source for natural gas through the much — debated method called fracking, or hydraulic fracturing (recently explored by Times columnist David Brooks).

While in Washington to run a panel at an invaluable conference on disasters and the environment this week, I spent a few minutes in a studio to discuss the issues and opportunities surrounding hydraulic fracturing for natural gas (and oil) on the Current TV show The War Room, hosted by Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan.

In addition, studies show that methane emissions are higher for hydraulic fracturing of shale gas than conventional natural gas production.

I suppose you blame Obama for the advances in hydraulic fracturing that have made natural gas so abundant and inexpensive.

The techniques of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, in combination, have opened up vast new areas for natural gas production, and low - cost natural gas has altered the energy landscape in the United States.

With recent increases in natural gas extraction, largely from the combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, many states are confronting the need to regulate extractive industries for the first time, and others are seeing rapid increases in natural gas development.

(CNN)-- «I consider the people of New York my patients,» acting New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said this week as he cited health - related reasons for recommending New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ban hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to develop natural gas resources in the state.

Even without the Clean Power Plan, coal's share of national electricity generation has been in steep decline for over a decade, dropping from 49 % in 2007 to 33 % in 2015, due largely to hydraulic fracturing, which has flooded the market with cheap, lower carbon natural gas.

Hydraulic fracturing — fracking — has been successfully used for more than 60 years in this country (later refined by George Mitchell), capturing and sending to the surface more than seven billion barrels of oil and 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

«Due to advancements in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, the United States has become the No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas in the world, and the market has increasingly adopted natural gas for electricity generation.

Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review's senior editor for energy, has a piece noting that the most significant advances in the energy field the past year resulted from surging natural gas and oil production from shale via hydraulic fracturing — an impact Bullis says is unlikely to be unsurpassed by other energy sectors in the near future:

While many have warned that fracking has no long - term future in the UK, the government continues to explore the potential for more domestic natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing.

The report «Fact - Based Regulation for Environmental Protection in Shale Gas Development» was released in February during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, British Columbia, and suggested there is little or no evidence of a direct connection between groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing, which involves the injection of water, sand and chemicals to release natural gas from shale formations deep undergrouGas Development» was released in February during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, British Columbia, and suggested there is little or no evidence of a direct connection between groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing, which involves the injection of water, sand and chemicals to release natural gas from shale formations deep undergrougas from shale formations deep underground.

I claim no particular expertise on the issue of whether, on balance, increased extraction of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing is a good thing for the environment and our economy, in relation to our current methods of energy generation or other feasible alternatives.

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.

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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.