Sentences with phrase «new fracking operation»

With this baseline established, scientists can determine whether a recent event — an earthquake or a new fracking operation, for instance — has changed the arch's vibrational characteristics and, consequently, its mechanical composition.

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Chesapeake Energy workers at one of the company's Texas oil fracking operations (Photo: Michael Stravato / The New York Times)

A recent article from Shale Plays Media highlights that just a year ago oil field fracking operations used around 2,500 tons of sand, whereas today the new fracking techniques call for as much as 8,000 tons of sand to be pumped into a 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.

What's more, the source said, Cuomo has turned down offers to tour ongoing fracking operations just across the New York border in Pennsylvania and, in at least one case, «insulted» a major energy - company president by not even responding to a formal letter requesting a meeting on the gas - drilling issue with the governor.

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.

A 2011 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Jackson and his colleagues documented high concentrations of methane and other hydrocarbons in groundwater close to fracking operations in Pennsylvania and New York.

New findings published by the high impact journal Science show that the rate in which earthquakes are triggered or induced by fracking depends on the volume of the hydraulic fracturing operations.

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal today reported on a new study by the University of Texas that found leakage rates of methane from natural gas fracking operations are lower than previously stated by US ENew York Times and the Wall Street Journal today reported on a new study by the University of Texas that found leakage rates of methane from natural gas fracking operations are lower than previously stated by US Enew study by the University of Texas that found leakage rates of methane from natural gas fracking operations are lower than previously stated by US EPA.

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Even though the de facto moratorium on high - volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing in New York State continues, the disposal of waste from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations is occurring in New York now and deserves our attention.

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.

Louise Johnson of SkyHill Farm talked about the highly vulnerable aquifers in her region, Wenonah Hauter of Food & Water Watch said that sustainable farming is the future of Upstate New York, not extractive drilling, and Hilary Baum of Chefs for the Marcellus pointed out that farms could be stigmatized if fracking operations move in nearby.

To date, more than three dozen lawsuits and 10 class actions have focused on contaminated drinking water from fracking operations in Colorado, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.