Sentences with phrase «natural gas extraction method»

Coming on the heels of news of «vast reserves» of shale gas in England, opponents of fracking are highlighting the potential threat the natural gas extraction method could pose in another area of the nation — this time to

Bruno Van Peteghem, 2001 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for Islands and Island Nations, celebrated a victory as the French government recently adopted a nation - wide ban on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial natural gas extraction method frequently known as «fracking.»

Hear different perspectives on the controversial natural gas extraction method hydraulic fracturing, commonly called «fracking.»

Two Syracuse University geology professors - along with a graduate assistant or two - are hurrying to collect water samples from drinking wells in the Southern Tier before - and if - the natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing is approved in New York.

Schneiderman had sued the commission, an agency that regulates drinking water for residents in parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, earlier this year after he determined their proposed regulations for the controversial natural gas extraction method didn't go far enough.

The New York State Assembly's Environmental Conservation Committee has voted in favor of a law that would defer the issuance of new hydrofracking permits amid increased environmental and health concerns about the controversial natural gas extraction method.

These findings have been published by Matthew Lasich and Deresh Ramjugernath from the University of KwaZulu - Natal, Durban, South Africa, in EPJ B. Alternative applications for such findings are relevant for future energy research, such as energy storage and the development of natural gas extraction methods.

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This report provides context and background for the growth of natural gas extraction, and examines trends and regulations concerning fracking and other methods and byproducts of natural gas extraction.

But she strayed briefly from a largely upbeat outlook to level harsh attacks against census takers and the possibility of hydrofracking near the city's watershed — the controversial natural gas - extraction method.

In particular, she blamed Cuomo's political machinations for the failure of campaign finance and ethics reform efforts, and for New York not outlawing natural gas extraction through the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.

Similar pressures are at work in the debate over hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method of natural gas extraction.

New York state's highest court struck a blow Monday for home rule and against fracking, deciding that municipalities can use zoning laws to ban the natural - gas extraction method that has fueled a U.S. energy boom.

U.S. EPA has begun the process of requiring natural gas companies to use «green completions,» a set of technologies and methods that allow for an efficient and leak - free transfer of natural gas from extraction wells to transport pipelines to the refineries or processors.

Gasland Part II, the sequel to the groundbreaking documentary that exposed the risks associated with the natural gas industry's hydraulic fracturing method of gas extraction, known as fracking, will premiere tonight on HBO.

I claim no particular expertise on the issue of whether, on balance, increased extraction of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing is a good thing for the environment and our economy, in relation to our current methods of energy generation or other feasible alternatives.