Sentences with phrase «of fracked gas»

Fracked gas pipelines are also a key component of the tar sands infrastructure: up to 60 per cent of fracked gas extracted in Canada is actually used to fuel other parts of the oil and gas industry, including the tar sands.

They allege that the agencies failed to assess the environmental and health impacts on families and communities along the route caused by construction and operation of the pipeline and its cumulative impacts such as climate extremes that are already impacting the region and are being made worse by the increased use of fracked gas.

As far as replacing coal with natural gas resulting in reducing CO2 emissions, the conventional environmental wisdom supports that, but that wisdom was developed without considering the additional greenhouse gas impact of fracking and the projected increase in the proportion of fracked gas as part of the US» overall natural gas supply.

He authored the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act, which would have expedited the approval of fracked gas pipelines.

Co-sponsored by Clean Water Action, Mothers Out Front, the Mass Power Forward coalition, Resist the Pipeline, Jamaica Plain Forum, Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, Boston Clean Energy Coalition You are invited to an evening with community leaders from the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania, at the other end of the fracked gas pipelines that connect to Massachusetts.

Duke Energy, Southern Company, NextEra Energy and Dominion Resources — four of the largest investor - owned utilities in the U.S., all headquartered in the Southeast — have simultaneously adopted a growth strategy reliant on large volumes of fracked gas.

Haymore's column more accurately reflects this Administration's approach to energy: a lot of fracked gas, tricked out with bright snippets of solar.

With that formerly dominant environmental matter largely settled in New York, the anti-fracking community has turned its energy to opposing the transport of fracked gas from other states — infrastructure that they argue enables dependency on insufficiently clean energy sources.

Before the methane storage project was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in October 2014, hundreds of citizens tried every possible legal means to prevent the expansion of fracked gas storage at Seneca Lake, a source of drinking water for 100,000 people and to object to a form of industrialization that places us in harm's way.

They have faulted Gov. Cuomo for continuing to promote the burning of fracked gas across the state, including his proposal to add two new gas turbines in Arbor Hill to heat the Empire State Plaza.

Not exact matches

Fracking is part of the problem, but the report states that most human - induced quakes are caused by the oil and gas industry's use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater - the contaminated liquid that gets pumped out of the well during oil and gas extraction.

The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.

The rise of fracking has unlocked vast natural gas reserves, allowing the US to import less natural gas in 2016 than in any year since the US Energy Information Administration started keeping track in 1973.

Fracking has helped to catapult the United States into the position of the world's largest producer of natural gas.

The promise of cheap energy supplies and jobs in the oil and gas sector have often overshadowed concerns over the environmental impact of fracking.

As fracking became commercially viable, oil and gas drilling companies entered communities with shale gas resources, which can have a number of local effects.

Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

Some states require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals and the amount of water they use in fracking operations on FracFocus.org, a website formed by industry and intergovernmental groups in 2011, but the statistics are not complete.

At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

The emergence of low - cost natural gas in the U.S., largely uncovered through fracking techniques, is one of the major reasons that the country has been able to lower its carbon emissions and has started to ween itself off of coal use.

It's not solar or wind power that is cutting into the coal industry — but the explosion in natural gas as a result of fracking.

The pace of oil and gas production gains has consistently surprised forecasters since horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, better known as «fracking», were pioneered in U.S. shale rock formations about ten years ago.

She agrees that this jar, by itself, proves nothing about the environmental impact of «fracking,» the drilling technology largely responsible for America's boom in oil and gas production.

As of August 2011, oil and gas companies still said there had never been a documented case of drinking water contaminated by fracking.

The national government in London supports hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to release gas from shale rock, and so did the planning staff of the Lancashire County Council.

And not only is Britain thought to have generous reserves of gas trapped in underground shale formations, it is one of the few countries remaining in Europe not have banned fracking, as many of their neighbors on the Continent already have done, including France and Germany.

Kvisle's aware of the pressure and the daunting odds against the natural - gas - weighted producer in an era of fracking - induced abundance and rock - bottom prices.

The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

This past April, the United States Energy Information Agency released an estimate that fracking has effectively increased the volume of recoverable gas in the world six times over, to the point where it could satisfy current demand for 250 years — and that isn't counting a number of countries including Russia where the necessary geological data were unavailable.

By the time the plant was complete in 2009, the fracking boom in the U.S. had suddenly created a giant glut of gas that sank the export scheme.

But by «fracking» horizontally in stages from a single drill hole and using sand to prop open the cracks, Mitchell now recovered unprecedented volumes of gas.

A majority of economists, business and energy analysts instead agree that coal's demise is due to a triple whammy: competition from much cheaper and cleaner - burning natural gas, proliferated by fracking technology; growth in the solar and wind energy production; and tougher environmental regulations.

But fracking opponents claim that, though natural gas is considered the greenest of fossil fuels, shale extraction is significantly more carbon - intensive than conventional production and may result in the release of large quantities of methane, itself a greenhouse gas.

Rather, its problems are related to the rise of fracking, which depressed the natural - gas prices that private - equity buyers had expected would climb and help the company boost revenue and service its debt.

Reports of environmental degradation have come out of many places where natural - gas drilling and fracking are going on.

Every shale - gas well that is fracked requires between three and eight million gallons of water.

Combine that with the glut of cheap natural gas from fracking, and coal production has plummeted:

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While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

Thanks to fracking, the U.S. has suddenly become the world's largest producer of natural gas, creating a massive glut that has more than halved the price of natural gas.

The British government led by Prime Minister David Cameron has embraced fracking and shale gas development in a way that much of the rest of Europe has not.

This could, of course, partly be due to the cheap natural gas made available by fracking.

Consider, for example, the effect of the development of fracking to produce oil and natural gas, which has given the US a huge production advantage.

A drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing in shale rock formations — fracking — in the U.S. produced large amounts of crude oil, natural gas and other petroleum products.

Meanwhile, although China will continue to burn lots of coal, it will begin shifting to gas including by tapping into its own tight gas reserves using new fracking technologies.

The giant natural - gas field, once one of fracking's hottest spots, is making a comeback after being sidelined.

The decision by the government of Australia's Northern Territory government to allow the resumption of fracking for natural gas will do little to immediately solve the country's energy woes, but Continue Reading

This report provides context and background for the growth of natural gas extraction, and examines trends and regulations concerning fracking and other methods and byproducts of natural gas extraction.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

In Australia, the decision by Northern Territory government to end a two - year moratorium and allow the resumption of fracking for natural gas will do little to immediately solve the country's energy woes, but will likely sharpen political battle lines.