Sentences with phrase «more natural gas development»

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They looked at more than 2,300 samples from 234 natural gas wells during mud gas logging, and 67 private groundwater supplies prior to natural gas development occurring nearby in a five county area.

«He came into office wanting to take a more centrist position, wanting to be more open - minded, open for business, including wanting to open things up for natural gas development,» said Robert Shum, a political science professor at the College at Brockport in Upstate New York.

The development of natural gas, far from being a bridge fuel, makes climate change worse because it is so much more potent than carbon near term.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

Rodents are more abundant where there is natural gas development,» Chalfoun says.

Seventy - seven percent of voters support producing more of America's oil and natural gas, yet the government keeps 87 percent of federally controlled offshore acreage off - limits to energy development.

They include: reliance on industry innovation that has been the driving force behind America's energy renaissance — innovation that launched the surge in shale energy production, prompting increased natural gas use and resulting in lower carbon emissions; embracing the successful, free - market approach to energy and economic growth while lowering emissions by basing decisions on sound science; and allowing more opportunities for energy exploration and development.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

All the more reason for policymakers to encourage the development of America's abundant natural gas resources.

Energy Nation brings together the men and women of the U.S. oil and natural gas industry to channel their frontline expertise to promote more U.S. energy development, energy industry jobs and a stronger, more independent American energy future.

To wit: Recently, the natural gas enthusiasts at the Center for Global Development argued that the U.S. government's development finance agency, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), should make more investments in natural Development argued that the U.S. government's development finance agency, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), should make more investments in natural development finance agency, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), should make more investments in natural gas plants.

All this development is coming to an economically depressed region that lies atop the Marcellus shale, a rock formation that produces more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.

The companies also back natural gas as a cleaner alternative to coal and want to see more research and development into renewables and carbon capture and storage.

As we say, a good development that ultimately could lead to more domestic oil and natural gas in support of America's ongoing energy revolution, greater U.S. energy security, the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs and positive economic growth into the next two decades.

Steven Hamburg, chief scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization that cautiously supports natural gas development, said that the new research is «asking the right questions,» but questioned some of the paper's assumptions, including the idea that people would use so much more energy as a result of cheap natural gas that it would cancel out the benefits.

The administration supports development of natural gas export terminals and the development of natural gas infrastructure abroad, which would lock in more decades of continued fossil fueled electricity.

Hydrogeologist David Yoxtheimer of Penn State's Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research gives the withdrawals more context: Of the 9.5 billion gallons of water used daily in Pennsylvania, natural gas development consumes 1.9 million gallons a day (mgd); livestock use 62 mgd; mining, 96 mgd; and industry, 770 mgd.

The report suggests that it is much more affordable to continue along the coal development path way rather than transitioning towards natural gas which would cost USD 75 billion annually.

A recent report by the Center for Global Development finds that 60 million more Africans would gain electricity if the same $ 10 billion were invested in natural gas and not just renewables like solar.

We know the administration is feeling pressure to pile on new methane regulation from those who're more interested in halting natural gas development altogether than in making the process better for the environment — which demonstrably is industry's history and continuing goal.

A recent University of Texas poll points up an interesting disconnect in Americans: While more than 80 percent of those surveyed said they support natural gas development, they're much less enthusiastic about the process that has made possible America's energy resurgence: hydraulic fracturing.

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They're also creating more jobs and economic development than natural gas.

The oil giants also want to do more to promote natural gas, which has become more abundant because of recent developments in the exploitation of shale gas and emits half as much greenhouse gas as coal does.

As you can see, these focus on U.S. energy development, now and in the years to come, support for safe hydraulic fracturing that is driving America's energy resurgence, the game - changing role natural gas is playing in reducing emissions and more.

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