Sentences with phrase «new drilling permits»

Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, is doing everything she can to fight the Interior Department's continuing moratorium on new drilling permits in the Gulf.

Now, today, we're working to expedite new drilling permits for companies that meet these higher standards.

Yes, we supported the bill, which suspended new drilling permits through May 15 in gas reservoirs like the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale formations.

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But companies need to continuously drill new wells to fuel this growth, which requires companies to obtain drilling permits from the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC).

«Any action to lift the moratorium is premature and at a minimum, New York should wait until the EPA completes its own study on hydraulic fracturing before even considering whether the state should permit this type of drilling activity.»

Nadeau says it may be the 2013 session before any of the bills are taken up again, and it's likely that any new permitting staff or new taxes or fees on the drilling industry will be imposed in Governor Cuomo's next budget, which also is not due until January 2013.

Governor Andrew Cuomo offered some support to a plan to permit hydrofracking in New York in communities that welcome the gas drilling process.

Groups for and against fracking are gearing up for an announcement by Governor Cuomo's environmental officials on whether the natural gas drilling process will be permitted in New York on a limited basis.

New York hasn't issued permits for shale gas wells using horizontal drilling and fracking since it began its review of the controversial technology in 2008.

One of the nation's leading energy - industry executives is blasting Gov. Cuomo for denying upstate New Yorkers thousands of jobs with his «shortsighted» refusal to permit drilling for natural gas.

Numerous sources and published reports have said that the Cuomo Administration may permit hydro fracking in some communities in New York's Southern Tier where the majority of residents want natural gas drilling.

In the past several days, Governor Cuomo's environmental department has announced that it's undertaking a new health review of fracking, and that it will likely miss a deadline and have to restart the rule making process to permit the gas drilling process in the state.

In the past ten days, Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation has taken two significant steps that are likely to push off any permits for natural gas drilling into at least the New Year.

As you might know, Governor Cuomo is considering permitting fracking in New York, a dangerous way of drilling for gas by pumping toxic chemicals through our drinking water.

Clearly, this is a tactic to delay the issuance of drilling permits in New York's Southern Tier and is not intended to facilitate a meaningful discussion,» continued Gill.

Cuomo has said his administration will issue a long awaited health report on fracking by the end of the year, and announce whether gas drilling will be permitted in New York.

State Environmental Commissioner Joe Martens has said he'd need at least 100 more employees to carry out permitting for any new drilling.

In its comments, the EPA pointed out that New York's current permitting system for water treatment plants doesn't include limits on pollutants frequently contained in drilling wastewater, such as radionuclides, which can cause cancer at high levels.

Homebuilders found they could circumvent limits on groundwater pumping for large residential developments by building just a few homes at a time, because single homes could drill new water wells without a permit.

The state of New York has stopped issuing horizontal drilling permits for the Marcellus Shale while it completes an environmental review.

They have leveled blistering criticism about Obama's efforts to slow down the Keystone Pipeline; they don't like his new auto emissions standards; they are unhappy with new EPA mercury emissions rules for boilers; and they don't like the fact that permits for drilling and fracking on federal lands have slowed.

They're shortchanging the resources necessary even to promptly issue new permits for offshore drilling.

When it comes to drilling offshore, my administration approved more than two permits last year for every new well that the industry started to drill.

[May 27, 7:57 a.m. Updated A Democratic senator from Alaska said Thursday night that President Obama plans to suspend new permits for offshore drilling in Arctic waters at least through the rest of this year.]

And we've announced that no permits for drilling new wells will go forward until the 30 - day safety and environmental review that I requested is completed.

Shale gas drilling has been a headline - making and contentious political subject that features prominently in the rhetoric of politicians seeking votes, and Merkel's government in February unveiled a new draft law that permits development of the unconventional fossil fuel through fracking, albeit with conditions.

They proposed that Colorado not issue any new permits for oil and gas drilling «unless the best available science demonstrates, and an independent third party organization confirms, that drilling can occur in a manner that does not cumulatively, with other actions, impair Colorado's atmosphere, water, wildlife, and land resources, does not adversely impact human health and does not contribute to climate change.»

The administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling and the slow pace of new permitting since the ban was lifted in October are projected to cut production there by 20 percent in 2012.

If New York eventually does permit shale gas development, the scientific monitoring done by USGS prior to any drilling will have established a critical monitoring benchmark.

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.

The reported plan would presumably offer natural gas drilling permits to gas extraction companies in the «southwest New York region — primarily Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Steuben and Tioga Counties — drilling would be permitted only in towns that agree to it and would be banned in Catskill Park, aquifers and nationally designated historic districts.»

There is no reason to permit hundreds of new groundwater wells to be drilled in the Mojave Desert.

Obviously the exact details will be forthcoming, but the New York Times, the Guardian, Reuters and others have gotten wind of what the plan will entail: Along the east coast, oil drilling will be permitted in some 167 million acres of ocean from northern Delaware to the central Florida coast.

He includes nuclear energy, and insists on permitting more offshore drilling for oil and gas to give us more domestic sources, as we bridge to a new clean energy economy.

For example, the Obama administration has continued to issue new permits for oil drilling throughout the U.S. and there has been a mass expansion of the use of hydraulic fracking to extract natural gas.