Sentences with phrase «near fracking»

The University of Denver study, to soon be published in the Journal of Real Estate Literature, found up to a 25 percent decrease in bid value of homes near fracking.

If you live near a fracking site and are experiencing health problems or property damage which you believe is significantly attributed to nearby drilling operations, we encourage you to give our Texas fracking accident attorneys a call today to discuss your case.

Don't look to this study for an objective and well - reasoned scientific analysis of the relative risks for people living near fracking operations, though.

Nonetheless, up to 50 layers of natural gas can occur between the surface and deep shale formations, and methane from these shallow deposits has intruded on groundwater near fracking sites.

In one study researchers found methane levels 17 times higher in drinking water near fracking sites compared to those in non-drilling sites.

Infants born to mothers living near fracking sites have a greater risk of lower Apgar scores, which measure newborn health at the time of birth, and low birth weight.

New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites.

Surface spills near fracking sites implicated in water contamination.

A recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science showed that methane release measured at abandoned wells near fracking sites can be significant but did not investigate how the process occurs.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

Currie adds that infants, who are essentially the «canaries» near the fracking mines, probably aren't the only victims.

They say methane and other hydrocarbons in drinking water wells near fracking areas are a sign of this.

According to the first large - scale study of babies born before and after natural gas extraction began in Pennsylvania, those living near fracking sites had significantly lower birth weights — and worse health — than other babies.

They also compared siblings born to the same mothers who lived near fracking sites before and after it started.

Near fracking operations in Pavillion, Wyoming, monitors with the Environmental Protection Agency detected unsafe levels of benzene in water - monitoring wells and methane and various hydrocarbons in public drinking water wells.

But when you drive through communities that are experiencing fracking, and you hear and see the wells and truck traffic, you talk to people living nearby, it highlights why no one should have to live near a fracking well,» said Hawkins.

In the letter, the groups cite New York's fracking ban, and state health commissioner Howard Zucker's contention that he wouldn't let his children, if he had any, live near a fracking well.

New Yorkers are getting educated about what fracking is, what it involves, and the terrible toll it takes on the environment, the communities, the local economies, the health of the people and animals anywhere near fracking operations... and the more educated we are, the more opposition there is and will continue to be.

Recent peer - reviewed scientific studies have shown low birth - weights among people living near fracking operations.

Then came the most - publicized case of well - water contamination near fracking operations, in Dimock Township, Pa., just east of Bradford County; the federal Environmental Protection Agency said in 2012 that preliminary results found the water was safe to drink, though it did contain chemicals as well as explosive methane.

Not exact matches

She signed her own gas lease to allow fracking on the farm near Ulster, pocketing $ 13,600 starting back in 2006, but no company drilled on her land.

The nonprofit investigative news organization Pro Publica has reported numerous confirmed health and safety problems related to drilling and fracking, including a house explosion near Cleveland, Ohio, after gas leaked into the home's water well.

One study out of Duke University found a higher - than - average presence of methane in water wells located close to fracking operations, but methane in groundwater can come from a variety of sources, including organic decomposition near the surface.

The Cuadrilla project near Blackpool, northwest England, was abandoned after it triggered an earth tremor that resulted in an 18 - month ban on fracking, lifted in 2012.

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.

There is also the matter of two years ago when during a press conference announcing a ban on fracking, Zucker seemed to say he wouldn't let his children live near land being fracked.

V.I.D. has also been a leader in the fight against the Spectra pipeline, whose development unfortunately now allows high - pressure fracked gas to pass very near a playground on the West Village waterfront.

Julia Walsh, with Frack Action, says she hopes that the governor will now act to stop the expansion or building of new gas pipelines in Westchester County, near the Indian Point Nuclear power plant, and upstate across Schoharie, Albany and Rensselaer counties.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is nearing completion on an environmental impact study and new regulations for gas drilling using horizontal drilling and high - volume fracking technology.

The event was the latest in a series of near weekly events by anti fracking activists at the Capitol during this legislative session.

The legislature also took no action on a number of bills to impose stricter regulations on fracking, despite repeated protests from anti fracking groups that visited the Capitol on a near weekly basis in the final months of the session.

Gibson has said that fracking could provide much - needed jobs to parts of his district, mostly near the Southern Tier where natural gas is found in large reserves, underground in the Marcellus Shale.

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

The day after Democratic gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout canceled her Elmira appearance, Hawkins met with residents living near the Chemung County Landfill who are concerned about the frack drilling wastes being taken there.

The city's Department of Environmental Protection has differed with the State's Department of Environmental Conservation about what constitutes reasonable conditions that must be satisfied before there can be any fracking near the Catskill / Delaware watershed and the tunnels that carry water to New York City.

ALBANY — In recommending a ban on fracking in New York, acting state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said he wouldn't want his kids growing up near a drilling site.

Caroline Lucas, the former leader of the Green party, has been arrested at a protest against fracking near Balcombe, West Sussex.

«Finally, the Cuomo administration has embraced what we have known all along — that fracking pollutes the air, land and water, posing incalculable risks to families and business across New York, especially those near drilling sites, «said GPNY Co-Chair Gloria Mattera.

Cabot alleges that she violated a temporary injunction banning her from leading groups to view areas near Cabot's frack sites and to meet families whose water, land and health have been impacted from this toxic process.

Environmentalists are celebrating while gas companies are fuming over Governor Cuomo's decision to ban hydro fracking in New York State for the near future.

Maps of coal deposits in 1880s Pennsylvania sit near modern schematics explaining how fracking works (SN: 9/8/12, p. 20).

Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.

In the 121 - page draft report released today, EPA officials said that the contamination near the town of Pavillion, Wyo., had most likely seeped up from gas wells and contained at least 10 compounds known to be used in frack fluids.

Rightly or wrongly, fracking seems to provoke many fears in those living near a drilling site (10 August, p 36):...

For the latest science and debates about fracking, including the unlikely chance that the practice caused a magnitude 5.6 temblor on November 14 near Oklahoma City, see our ongoing Storify file, which is updated weekly.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sparked a firestorm in December last year when it released a draft report suggesting that the use of hydraulic fracturing — or «fracking» — to extract natural gas had contaminated groundwater near Pavillion, Wyoming.

Looking at seismic records near Fox Creek, in northwest Alberta, where there are six drilling sites, researchers found an intermittent set of induced earthquakes between December 2014 and March 2015, clustered around fracking operations.

«A unique approach to monitoring groundwater supplies near Ohio fracking sites.»

Townsend - Small says water samples finding natural gas - derived methane in wells near Pennsylvania fracking sites were taken only after fracking had occurred, so methane levels in those wells were not documented prior to or during fracking in Pennsylvania.

Using records from more than 1.1 million births across Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2013, the researchers compared infants born to mothers living near a drilling site to those living farther away from a site, before and after fracking began at that site.