Sentences with phrase «of fracking waste»

Though public awareness of the hazards of fracking waste has grown over the past decade, oil and gas wastewater that has nothing to do with fracking can be heavily polluted as well.

The bill would ban fracking on county land, bar spraying fracking waste on county roads, and ban transportation of fracking waste to county - owned sewage treatment plants.

County legislators viewed presentations on the risks of fracking waste products and heard from industry representatives during debate over the bill.

Meanwhile, under Governor Cuomo's watch, the oil and gas industry has been allowed to import and treat of fracking wastes from Pennsylvania in New York State.

Not exact matches

There are thousands of pages of fine detail to sort through, and we know much work remains, like banning other states» fracking waste from being dumped inside our borders,» said Water & Natural Resources Associate Liz Moran.

Though the fluids were natural and not the byproduct of drilling or hydraulic fracturing, the finding further stokes the red - hot controversy over fracking in the Marcellus Shale, suggesting that drilling waste and chemicals could migrate in ways previously thought to be impossible.

Fracking waste (currently not disposed of in Connecticut), has another level of health - damaging properties.

«We applaud Governor Cuomo for his promise to protect New Yorkers from the danger of tracking,» the letter states, «and urge you to fulfill that promise by ensuring protection from potentially hazardous fracking waste.»

Unless your definition of «fracking» only includes the instant when holes are blown in the pipe, every state has had water and ground pollution from spills, traffic accidents, poor casing jobs, attempts to process frack waste through biological waste treatment plants not designed for that, etc..

The Clinton County Legislature has approved a law banning the sale, transport, storage and disposal of fracking and other waste.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River from an oil train disaster and to keep fracking waste out of New York State.

The State Assembly, led by Democrats, passed a package of one house bills for Earth Day, including requiring private drinking wells to be tested before fracking occurs, and to classify fracking wastewater as hazardous waste.

«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River from an oil train disaster and to keep fracking waste out of New York state.

We've got all of the infrastructure for fracking up in New York State, even the waste from here is getting dumped up in New York State, permitted by our Governor, Governor Cuomo,» said Hawkins.

Hawkins says he would ban fracking in New York and prevent the import and treatment of out - of - state drilling waste.

I hope one of our dynamic local organizations will print NO FRACKING WASTE road signs.

A new report examines the possibility and practice of potentially radioactive out - of - state fracking waste getting dumped in New York despite Governor Cuomo's ongoing implementation of a ban on high - volume hydraulic fracturing.

A report from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Conservation — the state where fracking waste would most likely come from if coming into New York — also found that during 2011 - 2013, fracking waste of any kind was sent to six New York landfills, none of which were in Chautauqua County.

In addition, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation continues to permit fracking waste to come across the borders from Pennsylvania into our landfills.

Corning, NY — Prior to his press conference in Corning to discuss his plans to ban frack drilling wastes in New York landfills, Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor of New York, will tour the area around the Chemung County Landfill in Lowman.

What I want to make clear today is that I also oppose the import and treatment of out - of - state frack drilling waste in New York State.

His administration has also permitted fracking waste from Pennsylvania to be disposed of in New York, something even pro-fracking Astorino signed a law to prohibit in his own Westchester County.

Even the pro-fracking Republican candidate Rob Astorino signed a law as Westchester County Executive in December 2012 to ban the import and treatment of frack drilling waste in his county.

In an effort to ensure that AbTech filters would be used in the fracking process, the Capitol Group lobbyists reached out to Sens. Tom O'Mara, Tom Libous, and Michael Nozzolio, all of whom had areas in their districts that were susceptible to fracking to see how they felt about trucks transporting waste water in and out of their districts.

Adam Skelos stood to make $ 1 per barrel of waste from fracking, according to the document, on top of his already $ 10,000 monthly salary for being a consultant.

«Erie County residents have gotten what they expect and deserve: protection of their fundamental rights of health and safety from the dangers of fracking and fracking waste.

«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.

Since 2008, ProPublica has reported about hundreds of cases of water contamination in more than six states where drilling and fracking are taking place as well as the difficulties of handling the vast quantities of waste the drilling processes produce.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

An EPA review of 27 states found that none required regular air monitoring of fracking and other waste materials that could emit benzene and toluene

It involves blasting large volumes of water, sand and chemicals to release the gas, and has been linked to water and soil contamination when untreated fracking waste is improperly released into the environment.

This peer - reviewed study by a pair of researchers at Rice University in Houston shows that while fracking - produced water shouldn't be allowed near drinking water, it's less toxic than similar waste from coal - bed methane mining.

It would be a far better use of most scientists and PhDs time who comment on this forum and on others like Open Mind to just STOP wasting YOUR time arguing with idiotic «drunken» deniers, and spend their time much more effectively by scouring the internet for such «events» as «Gas Fracking reviews by Government» etc etc in all nations across the world and use your education and skills and knowledge and actually make a positive difference to AGW / CC action by sending them a FORMAL SUBMISSION or offering up YOUR OPINION and EXPERTISE to be considered in their deliberations.

In the push for quick deployment, and quick profits, we have cut corners in many areas (think deep sea drilling, fracking, interstate transit systems, waste handling, tar sands, the threat of [coronal mass ejections] to our electronic and power systems... this could go on...).

This came after 8 years of wasted time on the subject of AGW / CC Energy, and pipelines and Fracking by the Democrats and Obama, the so - called great communicator and Nobel Peace Prize winner ordering murders to be committed by US citizens and their Proxies all across the planet and repeatedly lying through his teeth about all manner of topics Geopolitical, War, and Economics and repeatedly interfering in other nations governments and «Democratic» elections.

I have no quarrel with those taking an absolutist «no fracking» stance, including the makers of «Gasland,» the searing documentary on fracking nominated for an Academy Award, as long as they come up with other energy options that can reduce dependence on oil or coal (and cutting energy waste, while vital, doesn't do the trick).

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil waste injection sites and a review of over 100 others in the Central Valley for fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids into drinking water aquifers.

Environmentalists have long been concerned about the risks fracking poses to drinking water via the vast amount of waste that it produces, and the potential for methane and other chemical migration into aquifers.

One of the major issues facing the southwestern US has been the fracking industry wasting huge amounts of water, which has rapidly drained local aquifers in Texas and New Mexico over the past two years.

The same guy that recently defended fracking in central Texas by pointing out how much water is wasted on residential lawn irrigation is today in Colorado outspending opponents of several local fracking initiatives by a 50 - 1 margin.

So we call on you once again to reverse course immediately on supporting fracked - gas pipelines and the improper burial of coal ash waste in our communities.

The climate movement is pointing out that unconventional fossil fuel extraction techniques (fracking, tar sands excavation, deep - water drilling, mountaintop removal coal mining) are leaving or will leave toxic wastes and scars on the landscape as the fossil fuel industry gouges and lacerates the earth in search of combustible fossil resources.

Also, in many cases today with fracking, natural gas is somewhat of a waste product going after the high value lighter oil.

A single hydrofracking treatment can yield 15,000 gallons of chemical waste from the fracking fluids.

This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.

Yet another waste of time movie filled with lies, distortions, and just plain made - up fiction designed to skew public opinion against fracking.

Injection of waste water from fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has been linked to increased seismicity in areas where the injection occurs.

A coalition of environmental organizations is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming federal regulators have for three decades failed to update rules for disposing of fracking and drilling wastes that may threaten public health and the environment.

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.