Sentences with phrase «hydraulic fracturing made»

Updates below Last year, after opponents of hydraulic fracturing made much of an unpublished paper by a doctoral candidate in economics who reported finding health impacts in infants from nearby gas drilling operations, I wrote a piece titled «When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in the Fight Over Gas Impacts.»

The complaint says Skelos also pressed to get hydraulic fracturing made legal in New York, which the environmental company was interested in, to treat fracking waste water.

The myriad liquid concoctions used in hydraulic fracturing make for quite a recipe book.

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.

Not exact matches

The primary cause has been competition from cleaner - burning natural gas, which has been made cheaper and more abundant by hydraulic fracturing.

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.

Sophisticated drilling techniques — including the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking» — have unlocked enormous energy reserves previously inaccessible in shale formations in North Dakota and elsewhere, making U.S. energy independence a real possibility.

So what am I to make of the extreme claims that are made by opponents to fracking (hydraulic fracturing of subsurface rocks to get oil or gas)?

«Whether he was leading the charge on the Child Safe Products Act, or making sure regulations are in place that will safeguard our drinking water from hydraulic fracturing, Tony has kept the environment a top issue in the Senate,» the email states.

Some state legislators and environmental advocates see it as a chance to make sure oil and gas wastes from hydraulic fracturing in neighboring states like Pennsylvania stay out of wastewater plants and landfills.

The Journal News says it's time for Cuomo to stop playing «Hamlet on hydraulic - fracturing» and make a decision about fracking.

Making fracking easier Extracting shale gas from the ground requires some genuine political courage, because there's deep suspicion across the country about what the process of hydraulic fracturing actually involves.

In a matter of 15 days, those Legislators believed that Erie County had enough information to make a significant decision concerning hydraulic fracturing on county property.

New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah has been looking at health studies, and said back in March that he planned to make a recommendation to the governor in weeks on whether the state should approve hydraulic fracturing.

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.

Likewise, Mr. Astorino seems intent on making an issue of hydraulic fracturing, the gas and oil extraction method known as fracking.

ALBANY — Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino has made his support of hydraulic fracturing a cornerstone of his campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Previous studies have shown that fracking fluids contain high levels of salts, barium and radioactive elements, in addition to human - made chemicals added in the process of hydraulic fracturing.

Eventually, Durham hopes that researchers will help to develop novel chemicals that could be used to make the entire hydraulic - fracturing process cleaner and more efficient.

While hydraulic fracturing works by making thousands of extremely small «microearthquakes,» they are rarely felt and are too small to cause structural damage.

According to the study, «screenings of Gasland in different locations had an effect on the mobilization of local campaigns against the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing; in turn, those local mobilizations made local policymakers significantly more likely to take action to ban the practice of fracking.»

Much of the increased production has been made possible by advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

UT has been clobbered with a tough outside review, made public yesterday by Provost Steven Leslie, of blunders in a controversial study on the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas, known as «fracking.»

Over the past several years, the United States and other countries have undergone an energy revolution as new drilling techniques and a process called hydraulic fracturing have made it possible to recover vast amounts of natural gas.

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.

Some of that produced water has been recycled in recent years for use in hydraulic fracturing, which helps make that method of oil extraction more water efficient and reduces the competition for water between farms and oil fields.

As if studies linking fracking to earthquakes and groundwater contamination were not reason enough to make folks frown upon this practice, a recent investigation carried out by researchers working with the University of Missouri has shown that hydraulic fracturing can also cause endocrine disruptions.

However, these pockets are not linked and so to extract the gas, tiny fractures have to be made in the rock, a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

The Howarth paper, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» had estimated that leakage of gas from hydraulic fracturing operations (given that natural gas is mainly methane, a potent heat - trapping substance) and other factors made the climate impact of gas from such wells substantially worse than that of coal, measured per unit of energy.

Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.

No one who is interested in objectivity could make that claim about hydraulic fracturing.

I was at the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday and officials there made a convincing case that the hydraulic fracturing study, due out in 2012, will clarify where real risks lie.

In the latter category, at the moment, is the recent burst of assertions and press coverage over the extent of climate impacts from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — centered on a new paper on this issue by Robert Howarth, a Cornell ecologist who makes no secret of his opposition to the gas - extraction method.

The protesters targeted Momentive because it makes resin - treated proppants, a solid material that's used to keep a hydraulic fracture open.

With the advent of hydraulic fracturing we are able to produce oil and gas at much greater levels here in the United States that puts downward pressure on price, which helps consumers and also makes natural gas more abundant.

Indeed, the report challenges a common belief that America's dramatic natural gas boom — made possible by the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of shale gas wells — is the main factor in the decline of energy - related emissions.

Techniques for hydraulic fracturing vary, but Mr. Mitchell's involved drilling straight down, then making a 90 - degree turn thousands of feet underground to penetrate shale formations horizontally.

In the few years immediately following the technological advancements in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that made vastly more resources commercially available, the price of gas fell from more than $ 13 per gigajoule in 2006, to less than $ 4 today.

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

But what makes this study so important is that the laboratory's findings include the emissions involved in producing natural gas from hydraulic fracturing as part of studying the whole picture.

On top of a very polluting and extraction process (especially if happening through hydraulic fracturing) the the phenomenon of methane leakage make so that over a period of twenty years, methane is eighty times more pollutant for the atmosphere and the climate than CO2.

The «comprehensive long - term energy policies and strategies» slogan also ignores where the real progress of recent years has been made: in the private sector, especially the petroleum industry, where revolutionary horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies have unlocked centuries of oil and natural gas worldwide.

Gerard underscored the critical need to put the right policies in place, to sustain and extend the progress America has made thanks to surging energy production here at home — mainly the result of oil and natural gas safely developed with hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

Since recent events have demonstrated the relative environmental soundness of hydraulic fracturing — a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale formations — Promised Land's script has been altered to make doom - saying environmentalists the tools of oil companies attempting to discredit legitimate «fracking» concerns.

The new administration and Congress should take note of the progress made by the market and continue to build, not hinder, the development of our nation's enormous supply of oil and natural gas resources, rather than pursue policies that either restrict production or add unnecessary regulatory regimes that limit the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

Notably, the United States has reduced carbon emissions 14 percent since 2005, with about two - thirds of those reductions attributable to increased natural gas use made possible by hydraulic fracturing technology.

Over the past several years, vast caches of natural gas trapped in deeply buried rock have been made accessible by advances in two key technologies: horizontal drilling, which allows vertical wells to turn and snake more than a mile sideways through the earth, and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Members of Congress, gas companies, news organization, drilling opponents: They've all made bold claims about hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the U.S. supply of underground natural gas.

We say all of the above to say this: Natural gas — in abundance thanks to America's energy renaissance, propelled by advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling — is allowing the U.S. to make significant climate progress and helping to improve air quality, without sacrificing energy or economic growth.

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