Sentences with phrase «in fracking companies»

State Republican Chairman Ed Cox spoke last night, speaking with the knowledge of a board member with a major company in the field and with millions of dollars in investments in fracking companies.

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The study was funded by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role of fracking remains contested, the advising scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.

But for several years, companies in southern Louisiana, where his business is located, have suffered along with the oil industry, which is affected by changes in global oil supplies and technologies like fracking.

When prices were high, producers launched countless new projects — with U.S. companies in particular using fracking and horizontal drilling to tap previously unreachable reserves.

Some states require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals and the amount of water they use in fracking operations on FracFocus.org, a website formed by industry and intergovernmental groups in 2011, but the statistics are not complete.

She signed her own gas lease to allow fracking on the farm near Ulster, pocketing $ 13,600 starting back in 2006, but no company drilled on her land.

Depending on where you live, there's legislation pending that will levy more regulations and taxes on fracking, which in a time of rapidly falling oil prices could significantly hurt local energy companies that provide jobs and work for small businesses.

Oil prices continue to remain low, however, thanks in large part to the ingenuity of Texas fracking companies.

The CEO of Mammoth says Cobra has electrical experience in the Midwest, but according to Mammoth's website, the company's deeper expertise is in drilling and fracking, including «pressure pumping services, well services, natural sand and proppant services, contract and directional drilling services and other energy services.»

Companies including Anadarko Petroleum Corp, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum Corp have saved millions on drilling and fracking wells in Texas, Colorado and North Dakota since the oil price slide started by demanding that oilfield service companies slash prices by 20 percent to 30 percentCompanies including Anadarko Petroleum Corp, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum Corp have saved millions on drilling and fracking wells in Texas, Colorado and North Dakota since the oil price slide started by demanding that oilfield service companies slash prices by 20 percent to 30 percentcompanies slash prices by 20 percent to 30 percent or more.

Here's a look at the frack sand producer's latest quarter, some of the details for its most recent investments, and what this could mean for the company in 2018.

Pretty much any company connected to oil has fallen sharply in the last six months, including frack sand producers such as US Silica Holdings (NYSE: SLCA), Emerge Energy Services (NYSE: EMES), and Hi - Crush Partners (NYSE: HCLP).

Although the company is relatively new, so is the explosion in fracking.

Since many energy companies have adopted the process of fracking in their oil field operations, they have come to rely on sand as an integral component to this procedure.

For example, US Silica CEO Bryan Shinn said during his company's most recent conference call that management expects demand for frack sand to decline by just 15 % to 20 % in 2015 assuming U.S. rig counts fall by 30 % -35 %.

Guar Gum, commonly used for baking and a thickening agent, witnessed a sudden increase in demand when oil and gas companies started using the material for fracking explorations.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

With the State's moratorium on (fracked shale) natural gas production, the only way we can receive natural gas is from the Constitution Pipeline and local distribution from the Leatherstocking Company... It is also important to note that a state agency, Empire State Development, has provided a $ 750,000 grant... to assist in degrading the costs of bringing the Leatherstocking gas line to our new facility.

Winger says she no longer believes the gas companies claim that fracking is safe, and says it's too toxic and potentially polluting to be allowed in New York.

It; s a counter-weight to one of the few contentious issues in the speech: allowing fracking companies to dig on people's land without their permission.

As many local activists waved signs protesting the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, she denounced her Republican opponent, former state legislator John Faso of Kinderhook, as a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterways.

The Pittsburgh law firm representing a company that wants to build a water treatment plant in Coudersport, PA to treat natural gas fracking waste has told the Seneca Nation and President Todd Gates to keep quiet about the plant, saying he is making «false, destructive and defamatory statements.»

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.

«If he did, he'd have to give the voters a direct answer on where he stands on fracking, since he has accepted campaign donations from pro-fracking companies and has not passed a ban on hydrofracking in New York State.

The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York, a Binghamton - based organization representing landowners who had hoped to lease their gas rights to energy companies, had previously sued the Cuomo administration in an unsuccessful attempt to force a decision on fracking prior to the ban.

The mailer also accuses Murphy's Democratic opponent, attorney Justin Wagner, of representing «one of the largest fracking companies» whose natural gas flows through the Algonquin pipeline, which is slated for expansion in Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties.

New York landowners blocked from cashing in on the natural gas boom by the state's just - announced fracking ban may fight back in court, but experts say energy companies are unlikely to spend their money and time on lawsuits when they've already lost their investments.

In 2013, as Skelos was pushing Cuomo to authorize natural gas fracking, the senator's son, Adam, was angling to get payments from a wastewater treatment company seeking a piece of the hydrofracking windfall, the documents claim.

The catch: Democrats in the Hudson Valley Senate District are being targeted with the mailer, which also questions the clients in Wagner's law firm, which Ball's campaign says «protects fracking companies and other polluters.»

A bankrupt energy company is suing the Cuomo Administration over the long delayed decision on whether to allow hydro - fracking in New York.

But the oil and gas companies are urging Governor Cuomo to reconsider any plan that would limit fracking to specific parts of the Southern Tier, while leaving out for now the rest of available private land in the Marcellus Shale.

There have been reports for some time now that the Cuomo Administration would soon begin to allow limited hydraulic fracturing by gas drilling companies in some Southern Tier in communities where most of the residents want fracking.

The documents showed that the father and son also were planning to have Adam cash in on fracking through the same wastewater treatment company before Cuomo ultimately shelved the proposal.

The records cite emails beginning in «mid-2013» in which Adam Skelos began to push to position the company to sell products needed in fracking for natural gas trapped deep in shale deposits upstate.

«It's not surprising that New York GOP Chair Ed Cox would be so enthusiastically supportive of fracking, given the substantial personal financial stake he has in its expansion as a Noble Energy board member with millions of dollars in company stock,» Mr. Paterson said.

And a the local government in Lancashire, England in late June rejected a fracking application by a gas company.

What's more, the source said, Cuomo has turned down offers to tour ongoing fracking operations just across the New York border in Pennsylvania and, in at least one case, «insulted» a major energy - company president by not even responding to a formal letter requesting a meeting on the gas - drilling issue with the governor.

While Cuomo claims he's trying to make New York business - friendly, an authoritative oil - and - gas industry source involved in Pennsylvania - based energy production told The Post the governor has repeatedly rejected offers of information on fracking from leading energy companies, which are prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on gas exploration in the state.

Last Friday, Republican Gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino sent out a late afternoon press release saying that he would not be going on a gas industry tour of fracking sites in Pennsylvania until after the election because the company providing the tour — Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation — refused to allow members of the press on the tour.

The fracking company alleges that she showed «blatant» disregard for the ban when she took Hawkins on the tour and allegedly stood within 100 feet of an access road leading to one of Cabot's wells in Dimock, Pennsylvania.

Environmentalists are celebrating while gas companies are fuming over Governor Cuomo's decision to ban hydro fracking in New York State for the near future.

The other company was Competitive Power Ventures, the builder of a controversial fracked - gas power plant in Orange County.

Clinton told Anderson Cooper that she supports fracking only when local governments approve, when companies reveal what chemicals they are using in the fracking fluids, and if they can prove they are not polluting the water or the land.

Ten companies or trade groups that lobbied on fracking and other issues of concern to the natural gas industry spent $ 4.5 million lobbying in Albany over the last three years, according to an analysis prepared by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

The Safe Drinking Water Act requires drilling companies to obtain permits when they intend to use diesel fuel in their fracking operations.

For many years fracking industry groups insisted their member companies never used diesel fuels in their operations.

Then, in 2011, a congressional investigation found that in fact between 2005 and 2009, 12 companies had injected 32 million gallons of diesel fuel or fracking fluids containing diesel fuel in wells in 19 states.

In a highly publicized case last year, a lifelong gag order was imposed on two children who were parties to a legal case that accused one gas company of unsafe fracking operations that caused them to fall sick.

And there are substances that oil and gas companies use in fracking operations that they don't disclose publicly.