Sentences with phrase «millions of gallons of water»

In addition to generating verified carbon offset credits, these practices also resulted in reduced energy consumption and the reduced use of millions of gallons of water, a critical resource in both regions.

Millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and up to 300 tons of chemicals are then pumped into the well at high pressure to create breaks in the rock and release the gas.

To free the gas trapped in the Marcellus and other shale formations, drillers pump millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground under pressure.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves using millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals to break up organic - rich shale to release natural gas resources.

But it's hard to imagine that, after being diluted in millions of gallons of water, enough of the pesticide could have drifted or flowed into the Sound to kill the lobsters.

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has approved a request to pull millions of gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan to serve a new Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing plant, helping the Taiwanese electronics giant clear a major regulatory hurdle.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has approved a request to pull millions of gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan to serve a new Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing plant, helping the Taiwanese electronics giant clear a major regulatory hurdle.

Implemention of water conservation programs, including repurposing retired steel fermentation tanks to collect runoff water for re-irrigation, saving millions of gallons of water per year.

South Bend, Ind., avoided $ 120 million in upgrades and conserved millions of gallons of water by becoming one of the first cities on the globe to use cloud computing to manage its water systems.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and undisclosed chemicals at high pressure into horizontal wells to crack...

Fracturing a natural gas well requires millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals to release gas from the shale formation thousands of feet below the earth's surface.

The natural stormwater management can handle millions of gallons of water and cost the plant roughly one - third of the $ 50 million necessary to construct a conventional water treatment plant.

The study, Horizontal respect distance for hydraulic fracturing in the vicinity of existing faults in deep geological reservoirs: A review and modelling study, focused on the safety of hydraulic fracturing — where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped under high pressure deep underground to deliberately break apart rock and release the gas trapped inside.

«The volcano will create millions of gallons of water beneath the ice — many lakes full,» says Wiens.

The gas is extracted using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that involves pumping millions of gallons of water laced with chemicals deep underground to blast open the shale and release the gas trapped inside.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

Sacramento recently passed a pretty extensive Sustainability Master Plan, and many locals are wondering how allowing a bottled water company to come in and use millions of gallons of water for bottled water fits into that plan.

«Over the course of the year, we're keeping millions of gallons of water out of the sewer system,» Gwen Schantz, one of the founders and chief operating officer of the Brooklyn Grange, told TreeHugger.

The 600 - plus - page report that resulted looks at a variety of ways fracking could have an effect on local drinking water: withdrawing millions of gallons of water needed to frack a well, improperly mixing chemicals with the water at the well, injecting that fracking fluid into the ground at high pressure to fracture rock as much as two miles beneath the surface, handling the contaminated water then produced by the well and finally improperly storing or disposing of that water.

Caroma expects that their system will save the city millions of gallons of water each year just by replacing common urinals with their H2Zero waterless urinals.

The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures.

This project has helped save millions of gallons of water, lower fertilizer rates, increase waterfowl habitat, and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

We believe that fracking poses a tremendous threat to agriculture, to our drinking water, and to our climate, because when you are injecting millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand, four or five miles underground at very high pressure and breaking open the rock and releasing gas there's all sorts of contamination that can happen.

Instead of pumping millions of gallons of water and fracturing fluid into the earth, the company GasFrac used a liquefied petroleum gas gel — propane gas compressed into a thick fluid — to break up the rock.

With all the promotion of NG, we're only now beginning to hear about the dark downside of hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» — using millions of gallons of water mixed with undisclosed chemicals and sand to release natural gas.

For instance, the Brentwood, Maryland, company recycled only a fraction of the millions of gallons of water it uses.

The update, which is the biggest renovation the 18 - hole golf course has seen in the last 35 to 40 years, is going to improve the club's turf and expand its water detention capacity by about 5 million of gallons of water, according to officials.

Transporting the millions of gallons of water, as well as equipment, sand, and other materials needed to hydraulically fracture a natural gas well requires quite a few truck trips, to put it mildly.

With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into the earth, fracturing hard rock to release oil and gas.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is expected to release its updated fracking report this week and environmental groups are upping the pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to weigh in against the controversial process by which gas is extracted from shale formations by pumping millions of gallons of water and chemicals into the ground.

Between 1998 and 2002 companies started drilling this deposit using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which involves pumping millions of gallons of water, plus sand and chemicals, into the ground at high pressure to crack the rock and release the gas.

She used the Water Authority's resources to help pay to build a reservoir capturing excess river flow before it ran into Mexico from California, saving hundreds of millions of gallons of water, of which the Southern Nevada Water Authority got a significant share.

Fracking makes it possible to tap into vast domestic reserves of low - carbon natural gas, but the process — which uses sand, chemicals, and millions of gallons of water to free gas trapped inside dense rock — has sparked environmental questions.

The predominant approach is hydraulic fracturing («fracking») of deep shale formations via injection of millions of gallons of water, sand and toxic chemicals under pressure, thus liberating methane [155], [160].

The predominant approach is hydraulic fracturing («fracking») of deep shale formations via injection of millions of gallons of water, sand and toxic chemicals under pressure, thus liberating methane [155], [160].

Gas companies that use the hydraulic fracturing process - a drilling technique that uses millions of gallons of water, combined with a fair amount of chemicals, to crack shale formations and extract natural gas - are exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, unless they use diesel as part of the frack fluid.

The process of drilling for oil and gas involves high - pressure injections of millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals — including highly toxic substances, such as benzene and lead — into the well.