Sentences with phrase «linking fracking»

The agency said last week that it found no evidence linking fracking with contamination of groundwater in the small town of Dimock, Pennsylvania, where families had feared that drilling had polluted their wells.

Robert Jackson, a Professor of Global Environmental Change at Duke University and co-author of the «Duke Study» linking fracking to groundwater contamination did an independent peer review of Thyne's censored findings.

The study found no evidence linking fracking to groundwater contamination.

US delays finalizing report linking fracking to water pollution.

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.

In December 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency linked fracking to groundwater contamination for the first time in Wyoming.

Not exact matches

Christian environmental groups have criticised the Church of England's stance on fracking, a controversial method of drilling for shale gas that has been linked by some anti-fracking organisations to water contamination.

Hawkins has called for an investigation of the massive donations Cuomo has raised in his re-election effort, especially from real estate firms, hedge funds linked to charter schools, and the fracking and gambling industries.

A survey of a major oil and natural gas - producing region in Western Canada suggests a link between hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» and induced earthquakes in the region, according to a new report published online in the journal Seismological Research Letters.

«Fracking — not wastewater disposal — linked to most induced earthquakes in Western Canada.»

Remember that study out of The University of Texas last February that concluded there wasn't a direct link between fracking and groundwater contamination?

Past research has shown that processes such as wastewater injection at oil drilling and fracking sites throughout the state could induce a small number of earthquakes but scientists have never been able to specifically link some of the more distant or stronger earthquakes with these sometimes faraway wastewater wells.

The link between earthquakes and the energy industry is growing clearer, but fracking itself isn't the culprit, experts said at the AAAS Annual Meeting.

It involves blasting large volumes of water, sand and chemicals to release the gas, and has been linked to water and soil contamination when untreated fracking waste is improperly released into the environment.

Fracking Chemicals Linked to Endocrine Disruptions.

Instead, the increased risk for seismicity is more strongly linked with the subsequent injection of the wastewater from fracking and other oil - extraction processes into massive disposal wells that are thousands of feet underground.

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.

Read below for Yergin's «Your Dot» contribution, which includes a link to an excerpt on Mitchell and fracking from his superb book, «The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World.»

One of the most interesting changes afoot is the revolution in natural gas supplies linked to shale fracking.

The aim is to bring academic discipline to the unresolved national debate, which pits an industry that denies any link between fracking and environmental contamination against those who assert that fracking poisons air and water with natural and man - made chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects and other illnesses.

Attached is a new study from a researcher at Cornell, the first to suggest evidence of a direct link between fracking and human health.

Gasland explores the impacts of natural gas drilling, or fracking, on the environment and communities in North America, highlighting the link between fossil fuel exploration and climate justice.

Studies from Arkansas [pdf] and Wyoming are similarly inconclusive about the link between fracking and water contamination.

However, experts believe that the November 2011 earthquake and other events in Oklahoma — such as the drastic increase from six earthquakes between 2000 and 2008 to 850 earthquakes between January 2010 and March 2011 in Oklahoma County — point to a link between fracking - related activites, specifically wastewater injection, and seismic activity.

In fact, since the paper was purchased by oil and gas tycoon Philip Anschutz, whose company sued a town that banned fracking, the paper has dismissed the links between fracking and groundwater contamination and written two previous editorials attacking the connection between fracking - related activities and seismic activity.

The link between hydraulic fracturing and U.S. global leadership in oil and natural gas production is direct: Without fracking, there'd be no American energy renaissance — or the array of benefits it is providing to our economy, to individual households, U.S. manufacturers and other businesses.

In yet another signal that era of fossil fuels is drawing to a close, a jury has just awarded a whopping $ 3 million to a Texas family for health and property impacts linked to a nearby Aruba Petroleum fracking operation.

California oil and gas officials don't yet regulate or even track fracking — onshore or offshore — in spite of its links to water and air pollution in other states.

Yet, as we have written about before, there is one extraordinary important issue about the link between natural gas production and climate change that is rarely being reported on in the US press nor is it usually part of the US debate about natural gas fracking and its impact on climate change.

Featuring an image by SkyTruth, the article focuses on the link between fracking and earthquakes.

In the U.K., fracking company Cuadrilla Resources voluntarily halted their fracking activities in areas where the practice had been linked to earthquakes.

In a snappy two and a half minutes, the song outlines the pros and cons of fracking, the drilling technique that has unlocked vast new reserves of natural gas but come under sharp scrutiny for its apparent links to water contamination and other environmental harm.

This is essential information to keep in mind as «Keep It In the Ground» groups continue to insist that duplicative and expensive methane regulations are absolutely necessary, and that methane links from the U.S. fracking boom are exacerbating climate change.

Injection of waste water from fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has been linked to increased seismicity in areas where the injection occurs.

Read the fracking links and then go to the fracking science instead of merely pulling snark out of your fracking arse — dimwit.

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as «fracking,» does not appear to be linked to the increased rate of magnitude 3 and larger earthquakes.»

There were three earthquakes as of 2012 attributed to fracking, all larger than magnitude 1, in Great Britain, Oklahoma (see Oklahoma link), and Canada.

Organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Integrity Project and some six others, want updated rules covering disposal of fracking wastewater in underground injection wells, which have been linked to river contamination most recently in West Virginia, and earthquakes in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and California.

New Study Definitively Links Texas Earthquakes to Fracking and Drilling.

That report, according to the AP, would have explicitly linked methane migration to hydraulic fracturing («fracking») in Weatherford, a city with 25,000 + citizens located in the heart of the Barnett Shale geologic formation 30 minutes from Dallas.

It «threatened not to cooperate» with the Obama EPA's study on fracking's link to water contamination.

350 Organizations Back Effort to Protect Climate, Communities From Fracking Pollution Linked to Exporting U.S. Oil

Yoko Ono and her son Sean Lennon published an op - ed (link below) about why they are opposed to fracking, and about how they are organizing other artists to fight the practice.

Fracking has been linked to groundwater contamination in Pennsylvania, high ozone levels in Wyoming and to headaches, sore throats and difficulty breathing for people living close to wells in Colorado.

If all this talk of and concern about fracking has passed you by, the links below will get you up to speed.