Sentences with phrase «near fracking operations»
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Fracking has been on hold in the UK since 2011 when two small earth tremors were blamed on exploratory operations by Cuadrilla at another site near Blackpool.
After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended.
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