Sentences with phrase «if shale gas»

If the shale gas industry does take off we will bring all that experience to bear, to ensure the industry operates at the very highest standards in terms of the environment and Health and Safety.

Therefore if shale gas was to displace existing coal electricity generation then there would be a net carbon reduction.

It's an initial sign that the oil and gas industry is waking up to the need for far more transparency if shale gas is to play a substantial role in America's energy mix any time soon.

It isn't as if shale gas wells are constructed only in remote areas — they are sited in the middle of residential areas.

Not exact matches

On the shale revolution, the report concedes that energy prices for U.S. businesses might well rise if Washington decides to lift an old prohibition to export natural gas to countries who haven't signed a free trade agreement with the U.S. (which includes Japan and China, among America's best potential customers.)

So too with China and other major energy importers — the world is now awash in shale gas and will remain so for many decades, if not centuries.

«This decision is a serious setback for shale gas in the UK and many must be wondering if it can ever reach production phase,» said John Williams, senior principal consultant at Poyry Management Consulting.

If built, the pipeline would transport 0.65 billion cubic feet per day of shale gas.

If the Department of Environmental Conservation ever makes good on Gov. Cuomo's promises and produces reasonable regulations on fracking, shale - gas wells and pipeline projects will need hundreds of roustabouts.

«Because they allow us to distinguish if contaminants are coming from natural sources, fracking and shale gas development, coal mining, coal ash disposal, or other causes.»

IF YOU thought shale gas was a nightmare, you ain't seen nothing yet.

The EPA has the authority to issue permits for such discharges, but current rules allow shale gas drillers to pass their waste through public sewage plants even if those plants are not equipped to remove pollutants.

Some want to emulate the success of the United States in bringing down energy prices via shale gas - a fossil fuel that can help cut greenhouse emissions if it replaces coal but at the same time can divert investments from cleaner energy.

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If volume measurements show that leaked gas makes up most of the «unaccounted - for pile», it will provide direct evidence that Howarth's critical assessment of shale gas's green credentials was valid.

Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.

«If you want to estimate the storage capacity of shale gas, you need to understand materials that store them,» said Yun Liu, an affiliated associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware and a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research.

These and other types of region - specific scenarios are similar to what other states and countries could encounter when or if they also develop shale gas reserves.

If such developments were to occur elsewhere, either because of shale gas or the advent of a truly global natural gas market, then, according to our analysis, this could have a major impact on the use of different fuels — oil, gas, coal, renewables, and nuclear.»

«If you can't turn the well so it goes along the shale formation and a lot of the well is exposed to the gas, you can't get the gas out economically,» says Anthony Ingraffea, a hydraulic fracturing expert and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University.

If, following industrial exploration, methane or helium levels in groundwater at extraction sites are found to have changed, analysis could determine whether the gas is natural or a leak from deep shale.

«The currently available evidence indicates that the potential risks to public health from exposure to emissions associated with the shale gas extraction process are low if operations are properly run and regulated,» said John Harrison, director of PHE's center for radiation, chemical and environmental hazards.

Brain research raises the possibility of a very exotic future (this article assumes that such animals wouldn't be vicious or use their new - found smarts to drive other species to extinction) «Liberated» mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions Methane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowering them.

This baseline, established before extensive shale gas extraction, will help us to understand the impacts of fracking if it becomes established in the UK.

I think that shale gas and drilling plays like RIG, SDRL, SD, TLM, CIE, OAS, etc. are too risky but some of them will be a long - term story, but, if I can not sleep well with these in night, I do not buy them.

I'd like to think that there might have been a chance for an open discussion of the economic and environmental realities in shale - gas country if the tickets had been honored.

Until then, people didn't talk about «shale gas»; if it had any name, it was «uneconomic gas.»

Public health experts who work on the «shale fields» among impacted citizens have been ringing alarm bells: «I don't know if I have ever seen a problem as widespread as this with as little information collected about it, and as relaxed an attitude in terms of the sense of urgency, in the sense of responsibility on the part of the state and federal governments, and for that matter, the drilling industry,» cautioned a seasoned public health toxicologist David Brown from Southwest Environmental Health Project in my interview for Gas Rush Stories.

A more likely scenario if we do nothing is that emissions will continue at a rapid pace as oil from sand and shale plus coal substantially replace oil and natural gas, with the consequence that we will have dug ourselves into a deeper hole in terms of having sufficient resources to reduce emissions sufficiently without major disruption to our society.

Meanwhile the U.S. has moved fast forward with the shale gas development as if the critical questions regarding the safety of the procedure were answered.

It had been clear for years, as I wrote in 2012, that there was little political or economic impetus to act quickly, even though I felt (and still am convinced) that gas extraction from shale can be done safely and cleanly if properly regulated.

Of course, the situation is a little different if you are making big money off the shale gas boom, or if the only job in town is at Freedom Industries.

Between January and May, U.S. carbon emissions fell to a 20 - year low; 48 percent of that resulted from substituting coal for cheap shale natural gas, while little, if any, came from deploying subsidized wind and solar, according to Michael Levi, the director of the climate change program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

If the U.K. sold its shale gas both domestically and abroad to replace coal, it could reduce local air pollution significantly and reduce global carbon emissions by 170 megatons.

In it, British journalist James Delingpole said: «Russia is screwed if it can't export its gas, so it is really important for Russia that the shale gas revolution does not happen.

«The take - home message of our study is that if you do an integration of 20 years following the development of the gas, shale gas is worse than conventional gas and is, in fact, worse than coal and worse than oil,» Howarth said.

There could be as much as 2,600 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas available domestically.63 The U.S. currently uses approximately 22 tcf per year.64 If the shale deposits meet their potential, these finds will certainly help accelerate the retirement of coal power plants and reduce our dependence on foreign oil and our foreign exchange imbalance.

If you consider the total energy supplied to the human system, the biggest energy innovation of the last 20 years is probably the ability to economically recover unconventional petroleum sources like tar sands oil and shale gas.

«The economics shows UK unconventional supply will struggle to compete in the gas market over the next decade, and shale gas could only contribute a tiny volume if projects do go ahead,» concluded Andrew Grant.

-- Muller believes humans are changing climate with CO2 emissions — humans have been responsible for «most» of a 0.4 C warming since 1957, almost none of the warming before then — IPCC is in trouble due to sloppy science, exaggerated predictions; chairman will have to resign — the «Climategate» mails were not «hacked» — they were «leaked» by an insider — due to «hide the decline» deception, Muller will not read any future papers by Michael Mann — there has been no increase in hurricanes or tornadoes due to global warming — automobiles are insignificant in overall picture — China is the major CO2 producer, considerably more than USA today — # 1 priority for China is growth of economy — global warming is not considered important — China CO2 efficiency (GDP per ton CO2) is around one - fourth of USA today, has much room for improvement — China growth will make per capita CO2 emissions at same level as USA today by year 2040 — if it is «not profitable» it is «not sustainable» — US energy future depends on shale gas for automobiles; hydrogen will not be a factor — nor will electric cars, due to high cost — Muller is upbeat on nuclear (this was recorded pre-Fukushima)-- there has been no warming in the USA — Muller was not convinced of Hansen's GISS temperature record; hopes BEST will provide a better record.

However, I was wondering if you can provide me with a link to arguments against the rapid decline of shale gas wells?

Because the world faces a fossil fuel glut in the future — the torrents of new shale oil and gas that increasingly flood world markets could themselves be swamped by next - generation methane hydrate fuels — Canada's energy resources could depreciate if left to stagnate in the ground.

It looks as if the study - conducted by a team led by Robert Howarth, and to be published in May's Climatic Change Letters - has put shale - gas, extracted using controversial hydraulic fracturing technology, at the top of the climate impact bad - boy league.

Furthermore, if the natural gas is sourced from unconventional shale sources, potential methane emissions «may add a further 25 % to its carbon intensity.»

If New York eventually does permit shale gas development, the scientific monitoring done by USGS prior to any drilling will have established a critical monitoring benchmark.

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.

If there are large quantities of shale gas in China, you can bet your buns that China will figure out how to exploit this (and put in the necessary infrastructure to make that possible).

... In short, if we assume current policies, shale gas is almost a wash for global CO2, and methane will decrease or eliminate any small climate benefits of shale gas.

If cheap shale gas crowds out renewables or increases energy demand more than IEA predicts, or methane leaks are worse than we think, cheap shale gas will actually hasten climate emissions, even in the short term (2035).