Sentences with phrase «of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas»

As expected, the DoE has announced its recommendations on what to do about the safety and environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, more commonly and colloquially known as fracking.

ALEC drafted a resolution (PDF) designed to limit federal oversight of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.

«Northeastern British Columbia is a region that supports the use of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.

One of the most contentious areas of debate over the expansion of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas concerns a spike in seismic activity in unlikely areas that have begun fracking nearby.

New York's health commissioner is still declining to speculate when his agency will finish a review of the health effects of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, meaning the state appears no closer to allowing the controversial drilling process.

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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.

And at the same time, he said he's going to increase hydraulic fracturing, which is the main reason that prices have gone down for natural gas and that's what put coal miners out of work,» Sandalow said.

• The exploration of land for natural gas by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is prohibited in the Town of Camillus.

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.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats are calling for new and stronger actions from the B.C. Liberals to ensure long - term sustainability and environmental quality, greater public accountability, and best practices in the natural gas industry as the practice of hydraulic fracturing...

The newly employed system of hydraulic fracturing has brought enormous supplies of natural gas to market already, and is about to do the same for oil.

Cuomo has «delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country,» Shafran said, listing the legalization of gay marriage, the new minimum wage law, a gun control law and the ban on hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas.

The performer's message, sent via the mayor's campaign listserv, recalled de Blasio's support for his pet cause: banning the use of hydraulic fracturing to access natural gas deposits in upstate New York.

He said Cuomo has «delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country,» listing the legalization of gay marriage, the new minimum wage law, a gun - control law and the ban on hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas.

It includes cutting taxes and spending and allowing for natural gas drilling using the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.

FILE - In this July 27, 2011 file photo, workers stand behind the top of a pump for the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. (AP Photo / Keith Srakocic, File)

She said she was most proud of fighting for the so - called Safe Act, a gun - control law that New York enacted after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and against hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a process known as fracking.

In particular, she blamed Cuomo's political machinations for the failure of campaign finance and ethics reform efforts, and for New York not outlawing natural gas extraction through the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.

His praise, however, came with a healthy dose of irony: Pegula owes much of his fortune to advancements of horizontal hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a controversial technique that Cuomo's administration has kept on hold in New York for years.

But with the possible start to drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation of the Southern Tier, Libous — who supports the use of hydraulic fracturing — said more information is needed.

New York environmental officials have released a revised set of proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing natural gas and will begin taking public comment on them in December.

The Town Board in Rush has voted unanimously in favor of establishing a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.

The poll showed only 2 percent of likely voters said hydraulic fracturing for New York's natural gas reserves — commonly known as fracking and tied up in studies of the potential health and environmental impacts — was their top issue.

For four years, the Cuomo administration has put off making a decision whether to lift the moratorium that stops drilling companies from using the hydraulic fracturing method of extracting natural gas in New York state.

Environmentalists cheered last December when Health Commissioner Howard Zucker urged Governor Cuomo to prohibit hydraulic fracturing for natural gas because of unknown health risks it posed to New Yorkers.

She's also been an advocate for property tax reform, she opposes high - volume hydraulic fracturing as a method of natural gas exploration and she'd like to take on corruption in Albany.

The risk of catastrophic danger to the environment, the health of New York State residents and adverse economic impacts that result from hydraulic fracturing far outweigh the potential for job creation and promotion of a natural gas alternative to oil.

ALBANY — State Sen. Greg Ball, a Republican known for his maverick sensibility, enhanced that reputation further with his introduction Wednesday of a proposed moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas drilling technique better known as hydrofracking that's under review by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Hydraulic fracturing is common in Oklahoma, the nation's third - largest producer of natural gas, and has taken place there for decades (pdf).

For the hydraulic fracturing system, the study estimated the toxicity of the fracturing fluid chemicals used to crack rock and release natural gas, as well as the wastewater associated with shale - gas extraction.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

Image courtesy: Top of the Mitt Watershed CouncilANN ARBOR — University of Michigan researchers today released the final version of a report analyzing policy options for the state of Michigan regarding high - volume hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas and oil extraction process commonly known as fracking.

Promised Land deals partly with the topic of hydraulic fracturing or «fracking,» as the process of using water and an assortment of chemicals to release natural gas from deposits thousands of feet below the Earth's surface has become popularly known, but it is simply the battleground for a host of conflicts.

Chip Northrup, a former oil and gas investor from Texas who now splits his time between Dallas and upstate New York, is an articulate and energetic opponent of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for the natural gas locked in deep shale layers in the state.

While in Washington to run a panel at an invaluable conference on disasters and the environment this week, I spent a few minutes in a studio to discuss the issues and opportunities surrounding hydraulic fracturing for natural gas (and oil) on the Current TV show The War Room, hosted by Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan.

The Department of Environmental Conservation announced late today that it was releasing a revised set of recommendations for managing, but not ending, natural gas extraction using the contentious hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, technique.

In addition, studies show that methane emissions are higher for hydraulic fracturing of shale gas than conventional natural gas production.

The techniques of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, in combination, have opened up vast new areas for natural gas production, and low - cost natural gas has altered the energy landscape in the United States.

With recent increases in natural gas extraction, largely from the combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, many states are confronting the need to regulate extractive industries for the first time, and others are seeing rapid increases in natural gas development.

The national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted March 27 - April 9 among 2,541 adults, finds pockets of partisan agreement over expanding solar and wind power, though wide political divides remain over increasing fossil fuels through such methods as coal mining, hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, a pattern consistent with a 2016 Pew Research Center survey.

(CNN)-- «I consider the people of New York my patients,» acting New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said this week as he cited health - related reasons for recommending New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ban hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to develop natural gas resources in the state.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique to remove natural gas and oil from shale formations, has been under withering assault from environmental groups for much of the last decade.

The proposal to allow horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling for natural gas involving the injection of millions of gallons of chemically laced water, has caused a furor around the state.

Even without the Clean Power Plan, coal's share of national electricity generation has been in steep decline for over a decade, dropping from 49 % in 2007 to 33 % in 2015, due largely to hydraulic fracturing, which has flooded the market with cheap, lower carbon natural gas.

Hydraulic Fracturing Considerations for Natural Gas Wells of the Marcellus Shale.

If lawmakers pursue energy policies that constrain domestic oil and natural gas production, particularly from hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, they could consign future generations of Americans and millions of people around the world to a less prosperous and productive future, because those energy production technologies account for the bulk of our nation's increased energy production.

Much of the story for the first part of the 21st century has been the replacement of coal with natural gas, with electricity generation from gas more than doubling from 2000 through 2016 as hydraulic fracturing (fracking) transformed the gas industry.

And even though fracking — high - pressure hydraulic fracturing of underground rock formations for natural gas and oil — might grab headlines, IEA sees its future impact as relatively small.

Hydraulic fracturing — fracking — has been successfully used for more than 60 years in this country (later refined by George Mitchell), capturing and sending to the surface more than seven billion barrels of oil and 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

«Due to advancements in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, the United States has become the No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas in the world, and the market has increasingly adopted natural gas for electricity generation.