Sentences with phrase «like shale gas»

Prohibitions on things like shale gas development are shortsighted.

It also means putting a stop to the dash for unconventional fossil fuels like shale gas that we are witnessing around the world.

Brook Riley continued: «A 27 % energy savings target is incomprehensible at a time when Europe is facing energy insecurity and is considering dangerous alternatives like shale gas and tar sands, and giving massive subsidies to nuclear, to meet demand.»

Environmental issues like shale gas drilling stay and people have to live with impacts even though the interest of the main media is already elsewhere.

The numbers aren't perfect — they don't fully reflect the recent surge in unconventional energy sources like shale gas, and they don't accurately reflect coal reserves, which are subject to less stringent reporting requirements than oil and gas.

British Columbia is likewise feeling the pinch, as what was looking like a shale gas boom little more than a year ago has gone quiet.

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It encompasses aging projects in the North Sea, factory - like shale fields from Texas to Pennsylvania, and, oh, by the way, 43,000 gas stations ringing the planet — a larger retail network than that of either McDonald's (mcd) or Starbucks (sbux) x.

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 biggest challenge facing the new government will be the scale of its Soviet - like subsidies for shale gas development and the missing science on hydraulic fracturing.

Credit distress is rampant among energy companies, which borrowed heavily against the promise of shale oil and gas extraction and are now reeling from what looks like a prolonged price crash.

However, oil prices have been dropping like hot potatoes, almost 30 %, and with that energy stocks are tanking in unison and singing songs with same tune, along with drilling and exploration companies for shale oil or natural gas.

As for other UK basins said to hold large quantities of shale gas, like those containing the Carboniferous Bowland Shale in Lancashire and West Lothian Oil Shale in Scotland, they went through an additional previous episode of deformation about 290m years ago.

Like it or not, it's become increasingly clear that more shale gas is not welcome in New York.

Gas industry representatives, who say they've been waiting three years to extract the gas from the Marcellus shale reserves, say they'd like to move the process along without any further delays so that permits can for fracking can finally be issuGas industry representatives, who say they've been waiting three years to extract the gas from the Marcellus shale reserves, say they'd like to move the process along without any further delays so that permits can for fracking can finally be issugas from the Marcellus shale reserves, say they'd like to move the process along without any further delays so that permits can for fracking can finally be issued.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

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.

I saw it in Finland while doing stories on polarized issues like nuclear power or genetically modified food, and now here with the shale gas drilling, how things get stuck.

It certainly seems reasonable to imagine we do lack the kind of self - control needed to use just enough of the shale oil, gas and tar to pay for the climate - and - democratic transition I describe, but I think this is a bit like the dieter who believes he must stop eating almost all food to lose weight at all.

There are several dozen other countries investing in next - generation nuclear technologies (along with things like renewables, shale gas, coal - to - gas, etc.) to power rapidly growing demand.

I hope this study is widely read by legislators and other public officials in Washington, D.C., and state capitals like Albany and Little Rock, where debates are continuing about the importance of encouraging domestic energy production via shale gas.

The great bulk of their investments goes to traditional petroleum resources, including carbon - intensive energy sources like tar sands and natural gas from shale, while alternative investments account for a tiny fraction of their spending.

They argue that shale gas, accessible through cost - effective methods like hydraulic fracturing, are sufficiently plentiful and cheap that most renewable energy sources will not be able to compete for decades, and that we should instead focus our national energy priorities on exploiting our newfound domestic shale gas reserves.61

The switch has been driven by falling coal prices as Asian demand has slowed, the US has replaced some coal with shale gas and mining capacity has expanded in top exporting nations like Indonesia and Australia.

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.

Fracking wells will be popping like champagne corks across Britain during the next five years following the promotion of shale gas supporter Amber Rudd to secretary of state for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

In North Dakota, where oil drillers lack the equipment and pipelines to capture the gas that accompanies extraction of crude, the practice of flaring off the methane lights up some areas over the Bakken shale like big cities at night.

Found in limestone and shale deposits, tight oil isn't extracted from wells like conventional oil, but is removed with hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking» — a process that also releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Low oil prices will incentivize the rapid transfer of what has been learned refracking shale gas plays for use in more liquids - rich plays like the Bakken and Eagle Ford.

There are rules that can be applied like replacing less efficient fuels (in terms of energy per CO2 released) like coal with more efficient ones like natural gas, and never switching towards less efficient fuels like shale oil from more efficient ones like regular oil.

Instead, they import most of their natural gas from states like Pennsylvania, where hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus shale has brought jobs, prosperity, and lower energy bills — New York's electric bills are 36 percent higher than neighboring Pennsylvania's.

Consider the Source (or, How to Swashbuckle Like a Pirate) The American Gas Association (AGA), flush with cash from increased consumption of shale gas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISGas Association (AGA), flush with cash from increased consumption of shale gas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISgas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA).

The same lobbyists are keen on talking about the future, but I see the medium term (> 50 years) as being predominantly only fossil fuel (shale gas / coal) and / or nuclear, whether we like it or not.

Friends of the Earth Europe believes emissions must be reduced by at least 60 % by 2030 and there must be binding targets to reduce energy use by a minimum of 50 % and increase the share of renewables to at least 45 % to reduce Europe's dependency on polluting energies like coal and shale gas.

The history behind the shale gas boom remained relatively unknown until late 2011, when researchers at the Breakthrough Institute conducted an extensive investigation revealing the role that federal agencies like the Department of Energy and the National Laboratories played in supporting gas industry experimentation with shale fracking.

And like Illinois» New Albany shale, which was sold as a climate change game changer with natural gas replacing coal by the environmental NGOs.

China is believed to have sizable shale gas potential but, like in many countries, this potential is not yet well understood.

But the reason that EIA is projecting a long - term decline over the next decade or more is the glut of cheap natural gas, mostly from unconventional sources like shale, that has profoundly changed America's energy outlook over the next several decades.

Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

Lawrence Solomon: Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

Private - sector deals like these will help enhance coooepration on shale gas development.

It also reports that emissions from the type of hydraulic fracturing being used in the nation's bountiful new shale gas reserves, like the Marcellus, are almost 9,000 times higher than it had previously calculated, a figure that begins to correspond with Robert Howarth's research at Cornell.

China has the biggest shale - gas reserves in the world and would dearly like to unleash an American - style fracking boom (which is its own kind of environmental nightmare, of course).

Fully implement his Executive Order 13514 requiring all resource management agencies to fully consider climate pollution, like they do other types of pollution, prior to leasing or exporting onshore and offshore oil, gas, coal, and unconventional fuels sources such as oil shale and tar sands.

The Yukon, like B.C., is home to some of the largest shale gas deposits on the planet.