Sentences with phrase «oil and gas wells near»

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.

Not exact matches

A bit of history: when the famous Leduc No. 1 well near Edmonton blew in 1947, launching Canada's modern oil and gas industry, the gusher pushing skyward was said to be light and pure enough to pour into your gas tank.

In a motion filed this week, lawyers for Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation, one of the biggest operators in Pennsylvania, asked the Susquehanna County court to find longtime activist Vera Scroggins in contempt of an injunction barring her from areas near its well sites.

Experts have not yet tied the quake to oil and gas production, but the epicenter is near wastewater disposal wells, structures that have been implicated in earlier quakes in the state.

This map shows the hundreds of oil and gas wells that exist on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado, and on other public lands straddling the Colorado - New Mexico state line near Durango, Colo..

Western gray whales are facing, the large - scale offshore oil and gas development programs near their summer feeding ground, as well as fatal net entrapments off Japan during migration, which pose significant threats to the future survival of the population.

If Chevron Corp. has caused climate change and needs to pay for its damage, so should pretty much every company that has ever explored for oil and gas near North America, as well as manufacturers of cars and equipment that burn fuel, plus consumers.

I work in the oil industry as a consultant and I help develop oil and gas prospects as well as squeeze the last remaining reserves out of oil and gas wells that are nearing the end of their economical life.

Since Boulder County's five - year embargo was lifted in May, there has been an application from 8 North LLC, a subsidiary of Extraction Oil and Gas LLC, for a state drilling and spacing order on a 1,280 - acre area between Arapahoe and Baseline roads in the Lafayette - Erie area; as well as a proposal from Crestone Peak Resources to drill on 12 square miles near U.S. 287 and Colo. 52 between Lafayette and Longmont.

(5) Whenever, before or during the drilling of a well not within the boundaries of an operating coal mine, the well operator encounters conditions of a nature which renders drilling of the bore hole or a portion thereof impossible, or more hazardous than usual, the well operator, upon verbal notice to the department, may immediately plug all or part of the bore hole, if drilling has occurred, and commence a new bore hole not more than 50 feet from the old bore hole if the location of the new bore hole does not violate section 3215 (relating to well location restrictions) and, in the case of a well subject to act of July 25, 1961 (P.L. 825, No. 359), known as the Oil and Gas Conservation Law, if the new location complies with existing laws, regulations and spacing orders and the new bore hole is at least 330 feet from the nearest lease boundary.

While increased oil and gas production may mean more wells are being drilled near homes, it may also mean that more homes are being built near wells.

By pairing these files with our housing data, we were able to map and then calculate the distance from each home to the nearest oil or gas well, locate any wastewater pits within 1,000 feet of the home, and determine whether the home had an active private water well permit.

In addition to safety issues and structural concerns, the property could be rejected if it's too close to an airport, has gas or oil wells onsite, has heavy traffic noise, or is near high - voltage power lines or a radio / TV transmission tower.