Sentences with phrase «more fracked gas»

Still, the prominent climate scientist James Hansen, who gained fame after sounding the alarm over global warming in the 1980s, criticized Sanders and said shutting down the plant would increase the need for more fracked gas.

Not exact matches

Hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» involves injecting liquids, sand and chemicals under high pressure to break apart tight rock formations underground to allow more oil and gas to escape into the well.

The coal miner has been hurt as the world has turned to more environmentally - friendly energy sources such as natural gas — a trend that has accelerated in the last few years as gas prices have come down substantially due to surging supply from the U.S. fracking boom.

Private equity sees the most opportunity in natural gas and oil, thanks to more effective technologies like hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling and related opportunities to harness the increased supply.

But fracking opponents claim that, though natural gas is considered the greenest of fossil fuels, shale extraction is significantly more carbon - intensive than conventional production and may result in the release of large quantities of methane, itself a greenhouse gas.

Of much more importance, by accepting the policy of the Clark government you must be accepting fracking, a process which involves drilling vertically, then horizontally to oil and especially natural gas by pumping huge quantities of water laced with deadly chemicals.

Thanks to fracking, the U.S. has suddenly become the world's largest producer of natural gas, creating a massive glut that has more than halved the price of natural gas.

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.

In recent months Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and former federal natural resources minister Joe Oliver have all advocated for more bitumen export pipelines, while British Columbia premier Christy Clark has lauded the benefits of LNG projects and natural gas pipelines from fracking operations in northern B.C.

Christian environmental groups have criticised the Church of England's stance on fracking, a controversial method of drilling for shale gas that has been... More

«IOGA's statement says it all — the gas companies believe the state should care more about their bottom line than the public health and well being of the millions of New Yorkers who will be affected if fracking is permitted,» she said.

NY can't shut Indian Point without more natural gas to fire the generators but Cuomo won't approve the pipelines from the fracked PA gas.

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.

New York needs a Governor who will say that fracking for more natural gas is not the answer.

«It would repeal a national model to fight climate change and replace it with more expensive, dirty fuel and fracked gas.»

The fight against fracking in New York has now become a fight against natural gas infrastructure — this time with more lawmakers joining the fray.

There's been increasing signs that the state might more slowly phase in the permitting of new gas wells, with preference going to communities or regions of the state that are more receptive to hydro fracking.

County Executive Hein's leadership on big environmental issues like fracking and oil and gas pipelines has been stellar, and he has also given his attention to the details of taking care of our more vulnerable populations, such as elders and veterans.

Jim Smith, with the Independent Oil and Gas Association, a lobby group for the gas industry, says recent events may be influencing New Yorkers to think more positively about frackiGas Association, a lobby group for the gas industry, says recent events may be influencing New Yorkers to think more positively about frackigas industry, says recent events may be influencing New Yorkers to think more positively about fracking.

As if we needed more evidence on Gannett's Jon Campbell's impact as the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade group.

The agency says encouraging more fracking in New York will lead to «growth in the natural gas industry,» with more pipelines and compressor stations that could harm state owned preserves, freshwater wetlands and forests.

We see it with more fracking and gas drilling on our public lands.

What's more, the source said, Cuomo has turned down offers to tour ongoing fracking operations just across the New York border in Pennsylvania and, in at least one case, «insulted» a major energy - company president by not even responding to a formal letter requesting a meeting on the gas - drilling issue with the governor.

The climate can not afford more carbon and methane from fracked gas, or to divert any more social resources to fossil fuel development when they are needed for energy conservation, efficiency, and clean renewables.

That's the sound of fracking — pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals a mile or more into the Earth to shatter shale deposits and release the natural gas within.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

Sally Entrekin and colleagues wanted to flesh out this picture for the Fayetteville Shale play, an active gas field in Arkansas where more than 5,000 gas wells were drilled using fracking techniques between 2004 and 2014.

China would need to increase that shale gas production via fracking more than 30 times in just the next two years in order to meet its goal.

As fracking and refracturing become more common to make wells produce more oil and gas, it adds to an already fraught competition among agriculture, aquatic ecosystems, and municipalities for water supplies, the study says.

Fracking to free more natural gas from shale can help displace even more polluting coal in more developed countries such as the U.S. but can only serve as a bridge — and a very short bridge — to the zero - greenhouse - gas pollution future, unless also outfitted with carbon capture and storage to eliminate pollution.

This simple switch could pave the way toward a more environmentally friendly method of extracting natural gas that would do less collateral damage to the land and water while dramatically reducing fracking's carbon footprint at the same time.

Despite concerns that fracking could seriously deplete or contaminate local water supplies, in 2010 Pennsylvania issued more than 3,300 natural gas permits in the Marcellus Shale.

Robert Howarth, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist, and Anthony Ingraffea, a civil and environmental engineer, reported that fracked wells leak 40 to 60 percent more methane than conventional natural gas wells.

More and more fracking would speed the world to that transition or undermine efforts to reduce emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gaMore and more fracking would speed the world to that transition or undermine efforts to reduce emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gamore fracking would speed the world to that transition or undermine efforts to reduce emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

Yesterday, two Cornell University professors said at a press conference that fracking releases large amounts of natural gas, which consists mostly of methane, directly into the atmosphere — much more than previously thought.

Natural gas is extracted from shale plays by a process called hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as «fracking.»

Brain research raises the possibility of a very exotic future (this article assumes that such animals wouldn't be vicious or use their new - found smarts to drive other species to extinction) «Liberated» mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions Methane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowering them.

More methane than previously thought may have been released into the atmosphere from fracking and burning natural gas, according to new research from Cornell University.

To posit the argument against fracking, a highly likable Dustin Noble (John Krasinski) acts as a roving environmentalist plastering signs about the town condemning the fracking, even accepting a bribe from Global's agents and, rather than keeping quiet, using the money to buy more signs opposing the offers by Big Gas.

«21 More recently in 2013, on behalf of oil and gas industry groups, JDA overestimated the cost of a revised federal proposed fracking rule by 90 %, or over $ 310 million.22

Fracking has allowed the gas in the region to be extracted more efficiently causing production to increase since 2010.

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At the same time, Mr. Trump has pledged to promote fracking for oil and gas, but that would make natural gas even more economically attractive, and accelerate the elimination of coal - sector jobs.

It would be a far better use of most scientists and PhDs time who comment on this forum and on others like Open Mind to just STOP wasting YOUR time arguing with idiotic «drunken» deniers, and spend their time much more effectively by scouring the internet for such «events» as «Gas Fracking reviews by Government» etc etc in all nations across the world and use your education and skills and knowledge and actually make a positive difference to AGW / CC action by sending them a FORMAL SUBMISSION or offering up YOUR OPINION and EXPERTISE to be considered in their deliberations.

And that then forces any government to approve expanded oil drilling, hydro - fracking to get more gas, mountaintop removal to get coal.

Fracking, including methane and water concerns — Environmental groups will keep the pressure on the Obama administration to more aggressively regulate methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide that is the primary component of natural gas.

Methane is many times more potent than CO2 in the atmosphere, and since the fracking process emits huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere, gas is not preferable to coal in the short term or long term.

The new plan is more restrictive than the 2009 environmental report on oil and gas drilling, which was written before fracking became a prime target of local environmental groups.

Flood waters can topple facilities and spread oil, gas, and cancer - causing fracking chemicals across vast landscapes making contamination and clean - up efforts exponentially worse and more complicated.»

More recently, he has become a prominent critic of New York State's proposed rules for gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, methods.