Sentences with phrase «not fracked wells»

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While the EPA did not find any clear evidence that fracking, properly executed, caused chemicals to seep through rock fissures into the water supply, it did document well failures and above - ground spills affecting drinking water.

And I think that's the best approach, because right now, there places where fracking is going on that are not sufficiently regulated.

Fracking technology now allows for horizontal drilling with preexisting wells which do not require new capital investment for greater production.

Further, the Duke study did not detect fracking fluids in any of the wells tested.

Gennaro, who has a bachelors degree in geology and environmental science and chairs the Council's Environmental Protection Committee, said as recently as March that Cuomo is «being ill - served by the people who are not being completely true to his good vision» on fracking.

And how can New York pretend it is safe to drill in some counties and not in others — especially when science shows the pollution problems are the result of drilling and fracking shale formations, not where or how deep these well bores go?»

«You can't come here to Buffalo and criticize this governor, who is doing his best to look at this issue of natural gas opportunities and options called fracking.

He obviously also does not realize that once this decsion was reached, a reversal would require changing again the SGEIS which will now presumably point out the problems with fracking as well as the Health Department's study.

Since 90 % of the drilling now involves fracking and federal well - drilling regulations hadn't been updated in 30 years, we were long overdue for some new rules.

Vocal activists in the Democratic base disagree, but fracking should be well - regulated and legal, not permanently off - limits.

But not everyone thinks it's the best solution to upstate's continued lagging economy.EJ McMahon, President of the fiscally conservative think tank the Empire Center, says the building of resort style casinos won't generate as many jobs as some other industries, like opening up the state's vast shale resources to hydro fracking.

Hydro - fracking is not just about drilling into the ground, but running hugely powerful diesel engines to create the necessary pressure to fracture the underground shale as well as fleets of heavy duty trucks criss - crossing rural and scenic roads carrying heavy equipement and toxic by - products, including uranium.

Ulster County resident and local author Marc Fried doesn't feel that hydro - fracking of natural gas is a good solution for energy problems.

Because Bobby Kennedy — who I know very well, know everybody very well, I know Cuomo very well, I know «em all — because Bobby Kennedy tells Andrew, «Don't frack.»

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.

I don't think hydro - fracking which has proven to be an extraction process that IS contaminating tax paying citizen's well water, in addition to lowering the value of their homes, security, and only assets, not to mention making their homes uninhabitable IS the answer.

Nixon gives Cuomo credit for banning fracking in New York in 2014, saying «it was good first step», but says it doesn't go far enough, because it continues to allow power plants and pipelines that rely on fracked gas.

«It wouldn't surprise me if that's why they announced the no fracking in the morning on the assumption that the good news would be about the casino in the afternoon, and the two would offset,» Gural said, recalling Dec. 17, when state officials also said they would not permit natural gas hydrofracking.

The later, administration - vetted version also includes a line that wasn't in the earlier draft, saying that methane pollution risks in fracking are mitigated by well - designed gas wells: «This risk can be reduced if the casing and cementing of wells is properly designed and constructed,»» the news report says.

«What's not being communicated well is the economic benefits of going to 100 percent clean energy by 2030 far outweighs any economic benefits we could get from fracking.

Cuomo said the views of localities who don't want fracking «should be taken into consideration» as well.

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.

«Governor if you want to run for president, having water contamination in New York, with some of the best water quality in the country, not a good thing,» Avella said.Multiple news sources, including public radio, have reported that Cuomo was soon to permit fracking on a limited basis in communities that desire fracking.

Meanwhile, the governor's budget proposal doesn't allocate any additional funding to deal with gas well permits, and Martens stressed that if fracking is allowed, it will be a slow process.

Long - time problems associated with HHF such as major spills including from pipelines or what to do with radioactive and toxic waste water from a fracked well have not been rectified.

As well as the fracking proposals, Mr Davies did not impress friends of mine who are constituents, with his apparent indifference to plans to convert farmland to a housing estate in Pontarddulais.

«I think he weighed the pros and cons and determined that fracking is not a good deal for New York.

Fracking wells should not go to 11.

Despite homeowner complaints, however, research on how such hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is impacting local water wells has not kept pace.

To their surprise, the researchers learned that the wells had not yet been fracked and were not producing gas.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

The good news is that the effects don't extend far beyond the fracking sites, Currie says.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Leaky drilling wells are not helping fracking's reputation»

THE act of fracking is probably not contaminating US drinking water — the real problem is leaky wells drilled to bring the gas the surface.

Some of the findings in the report also directly contradict longstanding arguments by the drilling industry for why the fracking process is safe: that hydrologic pressure would naturally force fluids down, not up; that deep geologic layers provide a watertight barrier preventing the movement of chemicals towards the surface; and that the problems with the cement and steel barriers around gas wells aren't connected to fracking.

Hock would not say whether EnCana had used 2 BE, one of the first chemicals identified in Pavillion and known to be used in fracking, at its wells in Pavillion.

The technology does exist, but it's obviously not as good a «get rich quick» option as fracking.

Now a study has shown that the real safety concern is the proximity of water wells to gas wells, and that fracking does not appear to increase the risk of water contamination.

Because the location of so many wells is not known - a common phenomenon in many regions where fracking takes place - the study uses a mathematical model to predict the likelihood that the hydraulically induced fractures of a randomly placed new well would connect to an existing wellbore.

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 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.

But Jackson says that the contamination may have come not from the fracking but from the wells themselves, which can serve as a conduit between geological formations if not properly sealed.

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.

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With the EPA out it was up to the states But they didn't have the money to investigate Sick people couldn't prove fracking was to blame All the while water wells were going up in flames

This is not a «no fracking» song; it's a song about taking responsibility for our energy choices, including gas, and making the best choices possible on the path toward an energy menu that works for the long haul.

And that's important — not just because good people doing good work deserve to be recognized for it, but because people fighting fracking across the country can learn from Helen and David.

«In their mad denunciations of fracking, the Greens and the eco-warriors betray the mindset of people who can not bear a piece of unadulterated good news,» he wrote in the Daily Telegraph.

The authors of the proposal did not demand the immediate cessation of all hydraulic fracturing activities by the oil and gas giant, but rather requested that the corporation provide better disclosures regarding its fracking activities.