Groundwater and air quality testing before, during, and after natural gas drilling — which includes hydraulic fracturing — should be key components of efforts to ensure the safety of communities near these sites, according to an expert panel convened to weigh in on public health research needs associated with unconventional
natural gas drilling operations (UNGDO).
In April, the OGS said most of the state's recent earthquakes were caused by the injection of wastewater from oil and
natural gas drilling operations Earth, which has become increasingly common in recent years.
They want to capture money that should be spent on climate change and use it for
their natural gas drilling operation, and greenwash the development.
Not exact matches
Remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV) are becoming critical in offshore oil - and
natural gas —
drilling operations.
It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off
natural gas during
drilling operations on public lands.
And it remains to be seen whether
natural gas delivers environmental benefits — such as reduced emissions of carbon dioxide when burned — given that it in itself is a potent greenhouse
gas if it escapes during
drilling or pipeline
operations, so - called fugitive emissions.
Unconventional oil and
gas (UOG)
operations combine directional
drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to release
natural gas and oil from underground rock.
One option alluded to earlier in these pages could be citizen patrols to check for methane leaks from
natural gas facilities:
drilling operations, compressing stations or pipelines.
Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse -
gas footprint of
natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that
gas escaping from
drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made
natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.
Lisa McKenzie of the Colorado School of Public Health, who — like Hill — has expressed concerns about the health risks posed by
natural gas operations and has done research pointing to health effects from
drilling, declined to directly critique the paper.
Industry executives and analysts foresee a dramatic move away from diesel for
drilling operations that could lead to at least half all of US rigs being powered by
natural gas in the next five years.
At retirement, I was President of a sizable energy company that included a stable of 23 renewable energy plants, an oil and
gas drilling and production subsidiary, a
natural gas trading subsidiary and various other diverse
operations including such unlikely endeavors as airliner leasing and even a large pistachio farm.
Much of the wastewater injected there came from
drilling operations in Pennsylvania, where energy companies are tapping the vast formation of
natural -
gas - rich Marcellus Shale.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced in April that it is considering raising the royalty rate for oil and
natural gas drilled on Federal lands — currently at 12.5 percent of
drilling operations» production value.
Dirty energy lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for
natural gas, deny permits for liquefied
natural gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new coal mining, oil
drilling, and oil /
gas pipeline
operations, among others.
South Texas, Louisiana and other states along the Gulf Coast are especially rich in
natural resources, which makes this region a target for large - scale
gas and oil
operations, as well as corporations looking to profit from the mineral riches by
drilling deep into the soil.