Sentences with phrase «make fracking»

The IEA has a longish set of «Golden Rules» that could make fracking a better environmental bet, and McCabe highlights the two most important of them: (1) Eliminate leaks completely from the natural gas production process, and (2) use carbon sequestration to substantially reduce carbon emissions from gas - fired electrical plants.

More than enough, as we shall see, to make fracking worse for climate change than the coal it was replacing.

In the case of natural gas, it took the elimination of price controls and federal tax credits to make fracking financially feasible.

The decades - long struggle to make fracking viable is one of the DOE's great success stories, where public and private groups worked together to break the shale code.

And that innovation continues, working on ways to make fracking even safer for the surrounding environment and communities.

He said those factors combine to make fracking less economically beneficial than had been anticipated.

Other people are making money, taking petroleum jobs, leasing oil sites and selling freshwater needed to make fracking fluid and maintain the active wells.

«Research finds way to make fracking safer: Wastewater injections cause human - made earthquakes, but the risk can be reduced.»

The solution to all of these concerns may be to make fracking more efficient and less toxic.

«Cuomo has been telling voters that he will make his fracking decision based on science, but his actions have made it clear that he really means science fiction,» added Hawkins.

The French made fracking illegal in 2011, and the country's highest court upheld the ban in October.

American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard slammed Cuomo for his «shortsighted» delay on making a fracking decision, and for snubbing industry attempts to meet with and lobby him on the issue.

Making fracking easier Extracting shale gas from the ground requires some genuine political courage, because there's deep suspicion across the country about what the process of hydraulic fracturing actually involves.

«This news is a victory for all New Yorkers who have dedicated their lives for the past six years to keep fracking out of New York,» said Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor in November, who made fracking a central part of his campaign....

The outlandish attempt to make fracked gas the new, holy version of Freedom Fries seems dumb until you remember Rick Perry is the guy who said fossil fuels could help prevent sexual assault in Africa and falsely (and I would add, incoherently) said that «the ocean waters and this environment that we live in» are the primary driver of climate change.

Not exact matches

Maryland in particular has a decision to make, as its moratorium on fracking ends in October 2017.

Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

U.S. President Barack Obama has made clear that when it comes to «fracking,» he is siding with the oil and gas industry.

The county seat of Greeley sold 1,575 acre - feet of water last year to contractors that supply fracking companies, and made about $ 4.1 million.

Some farmers and city leaders worry that the fracking boom is consuming too much of a scarce resource, while others see the push for production as an opportunity to make money by selling water while furthering the nation's goal of energy independence.

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.

If the cement casing that surrounds a fracking well is made incorrectly, natural gas can leak along its sides or through cracks, releasing harmful gases like methane to the environment.

In just a short time, fracking has gone from a little - known industry term to make its debut in the mainstream lexicon as a dirty word.

The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

Fleets of trucks have to make hundreds of trips to carry the fracking fluid to and from each well site.

Thus the wage gains are from a one time energy glut brought about by increased supply from fracking, lower demand from a weak global economy, and some producers increasing production to make up for lower prices (not entirely self defeating as consumer nations expand inventories while prices are low).

This could, of course, partly be due to the cheap natural gas made available by fracking.

The giant natural - gas field, once one of fracking's hottest spots, is making a comeback after being sidelined.

Just remember Keep your Oil Drilling calamities to your own decrepit coast, and fracking of land to make your drinking water un-potable and flammable should not effect other neighboring states.

Even the argument over fracking in Ohio's oil shale region plays to Romney, although the Obama administration has made only the subtlest moves against oil shale fracking.

So what am I to make of the extreme claims that are made by opponents to fracking (hydraulic fracturing of subsurface rocks to get oil or gas)?

Fracking Vidal was available, Draxler was available, just these two players would have made a difference in our season.

Look if Wenger deserves praise, we will give it, but when he completely and utterly fracks up like he did in the transfer window, we will make our remarks.

They were especially alarmed after heavy rains created serious flooding in the Southern Tier, adding to the worries that runoff from fracking fluid would make the process even more dangerous.

Andy Cuomo wants to fulfill his family destiny and make his daddy proud and be president someday and fracking upstate New York is one of the bodies he's willing to crawl over to get there

«I did make a commitment... that I would never sign a lease for fracking in New York State — period.

It's unclear when the DEC will make a final determination on the proposal, but energy groups did not attack the state's fracking ban in court, as some had expected.

Opponents of a planned fracked gas power plant in the Hudson Valley say they are hoping the U.S. attorney will investigate decisions made in the permitting process for the plan, now that it's been revealed that the wife of a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo took payments from the lead engineering firm in the project, and that her husband is the subject of a federal probe.

Martens says «if» fracking moves forward in New York, it will do so «with the strictest standards in the nation» to protect drinking water and the state's other natural resources, and he says he expects «additional improvements» to be made in the final report.

And since NY doesn't frack, natural gas seems remote so I have no idea (and neither do you) where the difference will be made up from but rolling back outs could be a realty.

And while Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens hinted at a possible do over on the rule - making process for fracking, Cuomo says there's «no step back.»

Cox is attacking Governor Andrew Cuomo, saying his administration's failure to make a decision on fracking shows he's a «ditherer» like his father, former Governor Mario Cuomo.

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

Our three demands are stop all fracked - gas infrastructure projects, move to 100 % clean renewable energy, and make corporate polluters pay.

On the same day as the fracking ban was made public, a state board appointed by Cuomo and legislative leaders announced the siting of three new gambling casinos in economically depressed upstate areas.

All the talk of progressive policies like another minimum wage hike and establishment of a public campaign finance system and a formal fracking ban makes business leaders very nervous.

Fracking triggers earthquakes and hammers down local house prices - but a plentiful supply of cheap gas could make it worthwhile.

According to Hawkins, the «real scandal» related to the Buffalo Bills is that the team's new owner, Terry Pegula, made his money in fracking — the controversial natural gas drilling process to which the Green Party is vehemently opposed.

Please also realize that NYS is not a great location for fracking and right now no one would make money by drilling here.

Let's not forget that mortgage companies don't want make loans for someone to buy a fracked property, either.