Sentences with phrase «including hydraulic fracturing»

Will we encourage industry investments, innovations and advanced technologies — including hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that unlocked vast reserves of shale energy?

Federal regulations provide a broad regulatory foundation for energy development in the United States, including hydraulic fracturing.

The American Lung Association supports protective regulations and state - of - the - art pollution controls, including leakage detection and emissions monitoring, throughout the entire system during the exploration, extraction (including hydraulic fracturing), production, transmission, transport, refining and use of oil and natural gas.

«The tests confirm that we have generated new tracers that allow us to identify coal ash contaminants in the environment and delineate them from contaminants from other sources in the same watershed, including hydraulic fracturing,» Vengosh said.

Other human activites linked to seismic activity include hydraulic fracturing, in which a water mixture gets pumped underground to break up rocks and release gas, and fluid withdrawal, which can refer to the withdrawal of oil and gas, groundwater or hot water / steam for geothermal power, the USGS says.

Ongoing since 1950s, petroleum and gas production in the Williston Basin, underlying parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Saskatchewan in Canada, changed in recent years to include hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

UNGDO, which includes hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, supplies an energy source which is potentially cleaner than liquid or solid fossil fuels and may provide a route to energy independence for the U.S, say proponents.

Groundwater and air quality testing before, during, and after natural gas drilling — which includes hydraulic fracturing — should be key components of efforts to ensure the safety of communities near these sites, according to an expert panel convened to weigh in on public health research needs associated with unconventional natural gas drilling operations (UNGDO).

The process of extracting natural gas from shale deposits includes hydraulic fracturing, during which fluids and solids are pumped into the well.

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«The agency should include and explain the... investigations conducted in Dimock, Pennsylvania; Pavillion, Wyoming; and Parker County, Texas where hydraulic fracturing activities are perceived by many members of the public to have caused significant local impacts to drinking water resources,» states the advisory body's review.

Continental's success for the second consecutive quarter over Whiting highlights the importance of improving hydraulic fracturing processes, including the use of larger amounts of sand, which the Oklahoma City - based company has helped pioneer.

A recent Ceres research paper found that a lot of hydraulic fracturing — a process that uses tons of water — is taking place in water - scarce regions, with nearly 47 % of wells located in highly - stressed water basins, including 92 % of wells in Colorado and 51 % of wells in Texas.

Its current activities include providing hydraulic fracturing and associated pumping services to producers in Western Canada and south Texas, as well as conventional fracturing solutions to clients elsewhere in Canada.

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.

Unconventional gas development (UGD), characterized by advances in engineering, including horizontal drilling and high volume hydraulic fracturing, enables extraction of large amounts of fossil fuel from shale deposits at depths that were previously unapproachable [1].

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

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.

The Yale study of people in southwestern Pennsylvania found a greater prevalence of health symptoms reported among residents living close to natural gas wells, including those drilled via hydraulic fracturing.

It includes cutting taxes and spending and allowing for natural gas drilling using the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.

While I understand the desire to switch to a domestic energy source and the financial enticement of that, high - pressured hydraulic fracturing, which is a relatively new form of fracturing within the decade, has been linked to a 1000 cases of groundwater contamination, including flammable tap water in Colorado, methane explosions in West Virginia, and poisoned, flammable water in Pennsylvania.

He promises to continue to work to advance his party's agenda — including their push to ban the practice of hydraulic fracturing of New York shale deposits.

He is running on issues that resonate with the left, including a ban on hydraulic fracturing, a $ 15 minimum wage and more progressive tax structure («Tax the Rich - Share the Revenues» reads his web site).

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.

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.

Kavanagh: Right and what we would be approving is a process that includes all of those elements, if the state were to approve high volume hydraulic fracturing in New York State.

The changes include full incorporation of the new Michigan Department of Environmental Quality rules on high - volume hydraulic fracturing, adopted this year.

Moreover, if natural gas prices remain low due to higher yields associated with the hydraulic fracturing of wells, other forms of electricity — including renewables — will have a hard time winning favor with utilities and state public utilities commissions that govern the growth of the electricity system.

The panel's recommendations included public disclosure of chemicals during the hydraulic fracturing process, which is widely called «fracking.»

«It starts to finger - point stronger and stronger to the source being somehow related to the gas development, including, but not necessarily conclusively, hydraulic fracturing itself,» said Nathan Wiser, an EPA scientist and hydraulic fracturing expert who oversees enforcement for the underground injection control program under the Safe Drinking Water Act in the Rocky Mountain region.

Researcher Developer Dr Rachel Westwood, Research Fellow Mr Sam Toon, and Emeritus Professor Peter Styles from Keele's School of Geography, Geology and Environment — together with Professor Nigel Cassidy who is now at Birmingham University — have published their study advising on hydraulic fracturing safety guidelines for legislative bodies, including governments, environmental agencies, health and safety executives and local planning authorities.

Anderson and colleagues have several other wristband projects, including agricultural fields in Africa and Peru, and hydraulic fracturing sites in the United States.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

The injection activities considered in McGarr's study include underground disposal of wastewater, development of enhanced geothermal systems and hydraulic fracturing.

The number of earthquakes within central and eastern United States has increased dramatically over the past few years, coinciding with increased hydraulic fracturing of horizontally drilled wells, and the injection of wastewater in deep disposal wells in many locations, including Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Ohio.

«As local and state policymakers decide whether to allow hydraulic fracturing in their communities, it is crucial that they carefully examine the costs and benefits, including the potential impacts from pollution,» said study co-author Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.

Oil and gas development activities, including underground disposal of wastewater and hydraulic fracturing, may induce earthquakes by changing the state of stress on existing faults to the point of failure.

Image courtesy: Michigan Department of Environmental QualityThe changes include full incorporation of the new Michigan Department of Environmental Quality rules on high - volume hydraulic fracturing, adopted this year.

Some scientists, including Cornell University environmental biologist Robert Howarth, have questioned natural gas's use as a «bridge fuel» because producing the gas, most of which is released from underground shale formations through hydraulic fracturing, often emits a lot of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Examples include student - created «explainers» on geo - engineering and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

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.

Reasons for the 2006 - 2012 trend include an increase in plunger lift use for liquids unloading, increased voluntary reductions over that time period (including those associated with pneumatic devices), and RECs use for well completions and workovers with hydraulic fracturing.

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.

Under the category «Regulatory and litigation risks» the 10 - K says specifically that «changes in environmental regulations or other laws that increase our cost of compliance or reduce or delay available business opportunities (including changes in laws related to offshore drilling operations, water use, or hydraulic fracturing)» are a risk to the company's health and wellbeing.

Recently in 2016, an updated version of the workshops included our revised standards related to hydraulic fracturing.

Scientists are increasingly able to trace the source of earthquakes to human activities, including reservoirs, natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing, geothermal energy production, carbon sequestration, mining and water irrigation.

Democrats are committed to closing the Halliburton loophole that stripped the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of its ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing, and ensuring tough safeguards are in place, including Safe Drinking Water Act provisions, to protect local water supplies.

A lifelong advocate for our coast, Williams championed required testing of groundwater before, during, and after hydraulic fracturing, which was included in California's regulations on fracking, and authored legislation to expand groundwater monitoring to other types of injection wells to protect underground sources of drinking water from oil and gas wastewater disposal.

(In its 2005 energy bill, Congress included an exemption from SDWA oversight for the water put into the ground for hydraulic fracturing — a provision that has come to be known as the «Halliburton loophole» after the oil and gas industry service company that is active in the shale industry.)

Finally, the app includes a graphical history of hydraulic fracturing and a glossary of fracking - related terms, including a lot of different kinds of gas (acid, flaring, shale, sour, sweet, tight, wet, etc.) Browsing the glossary is a basic education in fracking.