Sentences with phrase «natural gas extraction needs»

Given the realities and the time needed to make the transition to a lower - carbon economy, I think probably some expansion of natural gas extraction needs to be in the mix, but hopefully with better environmental protection than has generally been the case so far.

Not exact matches

I was glad to see Joe Romm react to The New York Times investigation of water problems in gas country by sticking with his appropriately nuanced view of the need for responsible expansion of natural gas extraction.

With recent increases in natural gas extraction, largely from the combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, many states are confronting the need to regulate extractive industries for the first time, and others are seeing rapid increases in natural gas development.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

This work emphasizes the need for top - down identification and component level and event driven measurements of methane leaks to properly inventory the combined methane emissions of natural gas extraction and combustion to better define the impacts of our nation's increasing reliance on natural gas to meet our energy needs.