Sentences with phrase «of drilling permits»

And according to the Bureau of Land Management, the number of drilling permits issued on federally controlled onshore land dropped by 47 percent from 2008 to 2015.

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.

«The issuance of the drilling permit and plans for Phase 1 exploration drilling program at Copper Duke is a milestone for the company as it represents the beginning of testing of one of the world's best undrilled gold - copper porphyry targets,» said Core Gold CEO Keith Piggott.

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The federal government in Brasilia quietly reassured the oil community that drilling permits were under federal jurisdiction and that they should simply ignore the howls of discontent from local officials.

The Texas Railroad Commission has approved drilling permits from a total of 352 different private and public companies, ranging from supermajors to tiny private companies.

Drilling permits have been approved in all but five of these counties, though activity concentrates in a few key locations.

John Proust, Chairman and CEO of Japan Gold, stated, «Award of our first drilling permit is a significant milestone for Japan Gold.

A subsidiary of an Italian energy company has received a federal permit to drill the first oil exploration wells in U.S. Arctic waters in two years.

There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward - looking statements, including, but not limited to: uncertainties involving interpretation of drilling results, environmental matters, lack of ability to obtain required permitting, equipment breakdown or disruptions, and the other factors described in Paramount's disclosures as filed with the SEC.

«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.»

Jennings, councillor of Great Bend Borough, said there were 950 well permits and 400 drills in Susquehanna County.

The governor has said he'll decide whether or not to permit the gas drilling in the state by late February, when the 90 day extension of a rulemaking process runs out.

Cuomo should hand out some of those first 50 or so permits to drillers wanting to explore the natural gas potential of the Catskills.

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.

For months, the Cuomo Administration has been signaling that it might permit the gas drilling process known as hydro fracking in a few areas in the Marcellus Shale region where the majority of people in communities want the gas drilling process to begin.

If fracking is to take place, Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation has said it will need to increase staff beyond the present 16 employees who are authorized to issue gas drilling permits.

He says Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation needs to take historic resources into account when it finally issues well drilling permits, to determine when the number of wells reaches a tipping point, and then place limits if the concentration of industry will damage a region's historical character.

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.

For months, the Cuomo administration has been signaling that it might permit the gas drilling process known as hydrofracking in a few areas in the Marcellus Shale region where the majority of people in communities want the gas drilling process to begin.

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.

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.

One day after President Barack Obama touted hydrofracking of natural gas as a bridge fuel, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's environmental commissioner says it's extremely unlikely that permits for drilling wells will be issued in the next year.

When Antero Resources announced plans in the spring of 2009 to drill 200 more wells in Battlement Mesa, a golf - course community almost within sight of Wallace - Babb's old home, about 400 residents petitioned the county to study the potential health impacts before they permitted the drilling.

An analysis by an environmental group finds hundreds of cases in which drillers used diesel fuel without obtaining permits and sometimes altered records

She then compared birth weights of babies born in areas of Pennsylvania where a well had been permitted but never drilled and areas where wells had been drilled.

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

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But while drilling is permitted occasionally on federal reserves, only minimal amounts of oil and gas are produced.

In the meantime, The Times and International Herald Tribune have produced a hefty special section on global energy trends (some elements have enraged solar enthusiasts), the Obama administration has given BP its first post-spill permit to drill in the Gulf of Mexico and Michael Levi has roundly debunked a gushy jobs estimate from proponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

That's why I loved learning last year how Jamie Serra, a 26 - year - old employee of the state legislature in Pennsylvania, created the useful Web site Fracktrack.org as a way to organize masses of data on drilling permits, violations and other activities related to the natural gas drilling rush in that state.

The Secretary [of Interior] also recommends temporarily halting certain permitting and drilling activities.

Though the art piece is in the northern part of the lake and remotely - located from any town or road, the plans to drill for oil five miles out by Canadian company Amoco have sparked protest from across the world, prompting the state to postpone the decision for a permit.

But news releases on task force meetings reflect a focus on streamlining the permit process that, by speeding the expansion of drilling, could guarantee that innovations to cut flaring continue to lag.

«In the last four years, the Bureau of Land Management has issued 28,776 permits to drill on public land; yet, in that same time, 18,954 wells were actually drilled.

A driving force for coal in Europe is the combination of low prices for carbon permits and resistance to expanded natural gas drilling.

This week, he announced that the part of the agency which permits oil and gas drilling and collects royalties will be separated from the part of the agency in charge of inspecting the safety of oil rigs and platforms and enforcing the law.

[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.]

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.

Wells can be permitted and drilled quickly, and with horizontal drilling a single well has access to a large area of potential gas reserves.

The CEA supports lifting moratoria on offshore and land - based oil and natural gas drilling, encourages the creation and expansion of petroleum refineries and easing the permitting process for drilling.

But just four days later, he directly undermined his own message, when his administration issued the final permit allowing Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic, despite the administration's own assessment that the chances of a significant oil spill in the area were 75 % — not to mention that a good deal of existing known oil reserves must be left in the ground to protect against global warming.

Apparently, as Julia Olson points out, they do not want to count permits for extraction, drilling, exports and imports, transmission lines and pipelines, all to accommodate the fossil fuel energies, as part of the totality of national energy policies that the defendants are responsible for.

Subtitle A: Onshore Oil and Gas Permit Streamlining - Streamlining Permitting of American Energy Act of 2013 - Chapter 1: Application for Permits to Drill Process Reform -(Sec. 1111) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) to direct the Secretary to decide whether to issue a permit to drill within 30 days after receiving a permit applicaDrill Process Reform -(Sec. 1111) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) to direct the Secretary to decide whether to issue a permit to drill within 30 days after receiving a permit applicadrill within 30 days after receiving a permit application.

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.

Key state regulations include: Review and approval of permits; well design, location and spacing; drilling operations; water management and disposal; air emissions; wildlife impacts; surface disturbance; worker health and safety; and inspection and enforcement of day - to - day oil and gas operations.

Zero chance of offshore drilling permits.