Sentences with phrase «on hydraulic fracture»

The current boom in natural gas production, based on hydraulic fracture, is fiercely opposed by many environmentalists.

The biggest challenge facing the new government will be the scale of its Soviet - like subsidies for shale gas development and the missing science on hydraulic fracturing.

The report said a price recovery is expected to cause the most pain among companies drilling in the United States, who rely mostly on hydraulic fracturing, which isn't profitable unless the average global price of oil is around $ 60 per barrel.

A government that knows how to gain social licence to move LNG forward would today be leading an evidence - based discussion with communities on hydraulic fracturing as it is conducted here in B.C. to identify and mitigate any impacts.

«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.»

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 public comment period for the draft environmental impact statement on hydraulic fracturing should be extended because of the ongoing flooding in upstate, Assembly Energy Committee Chairman Kevin Cahill.

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.

The spilling of several thousand gallons of chemicals at a natural gas well in northern Pennsylvania shows a ban on hydraulic fracturing is necessary, Sen. Tony Avella, D - Queens, said this afternoon.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens, second from let, talks on hydraulic fracturing during a cabinet meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration will move to prohibit fracking in the state, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the widely used gas - drilling technique.Acting health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker is seated left.

Others were upset by the ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, because they believe the gas drilling process would boost that region's struggling economy.

The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale, state environmental regulators said on Thursday.

In 2009, Hinchey authored the appropriations language that initiated the EPA's current national study on hydraulic fracturing.

Governor Cuomo's health commissioner is expected to release a health report on hydraulic fracturing soon, at least according to a timetable announced in late February.

Seggos succeeds Joe Martens, who announced his departure earlier this year just days after the state formalized its ban on hydraulic fracturing.

First, it determined that VOTE / COPE Committee, which has attacked Republican Assemblyman Sean T. Hanna's positions on hydraulic fracturing, women's health and gun control, is actually the political arm of the teacher's union, New York State United Teacher.

Cuomo's support for charter schools, tax cuts for the wealthy, and indecisiveness on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has fueled progressive discontent with his reign.

Green party candidate for Governor Howie Hawkins also disagrees with Astorino's stance on hydraulic fracturing saying there are better and safer ways to create jobs.

He is running on issues that resonate with the left, including a ban on hydraulic fracturing, a $ 15 minimum wage and more progressive tax structure («Tax the Rich - Share the Revenues» reads his web site).

In the rest of the region, the results could be influenced by Sanders» focus on hydraulic fracturing, which he opposes and Clinton has supported.

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

Lead by 17 - year - old senior, Anna Wysocki, who served as spokesperson for the student panel cited the governors endorsement of the ban on hydraulic fracturing in New York State because of the danger the drilling process posed to the safety of drinking water.

At the session on tick - borne illness — a major district concern that has earned Gibson votes from the left and right — she led off by pointing to New York's ban on hydraulic fracturing as evidence of what a groundswell of opposition can do.

Wolf restored a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking», in state parks and placed a moratorium on the death penalty within Pennsylvania.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's health commissioner is expected to release a health report on hydraulic fracturing soon, at least according to a timetable announced in late February.

The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York is demanding the release of the state's environmental impact study on hydraulic fracturing, and are threatening to take legal action if the state doesn't release the report.

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.

«There are considerable issues about health effects,» said John Deutch, former director of the CIA and a professor of chemistry at MIT, who heads a Department of Energy panel examining the environmental effects of shale gas drilling, with an emphasis on hydraulic fracturing.

Of particular concern were compounds called adamantanes, a natural hydrocarbon found in gas that can be used to fingerprint its origin, and 2 - BE, listed as a common fracturing fluid in the EPA's 2004 research report on hydraulic fracturing.

Researcher Developer Dr Rachel Westwood, Research Fellow Mr Sam Toon, and Emeritus Professor Peter Styles from Keele's School of Geography, Geology and Environment — together with Professor Nigel Cassidy who is now at Birmingham University — have published their study advising on hydraulic fracturing safety guidelines for legislative bodies, including governments, environmental agencies, health and safety executives and local planning authorities.

«I think there is no question that gas growth in the United States in unconventional [plays] is all dependent on hydraulic fracturing,» Gruenspecht said.

The new prime minister will have a lot of sway over how the United Kingdom formulates domestic policies to replace European policies, like the E.U. ban on hydraulic fracturing.

Polis, the first openly gay man elected to Congress, supports legalizing marijuana, stricter regulations on hydraulic fracturing, and closing the achievement gap in K - 12 education that separates low - income and minority students from other students.

The breakthrough on hydraulic fracturing came in the late 1990s.

That's an unanswered question, but it also enable frackers to get around New York state's moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.

Fox and crew, reportedly filming a follow - up to their hit documentary on hydraulic fracturing, were ejected from the public hearing.

But any quick sift of the Web provides a pretty solid sense of the range of views — from environmentalists pursuing an outright ban on hydraulic fracturing and related processes, widely called fracking, to landowners seeking the freedom to benefit from their mineral rights.

This weekend, Governor Paterson ordered a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, that will last until July.

Surveying U.S. media coverage on hydraulic fracturing, George Mason University professor Robert Lichter found that, by a ratio of 12 to 1, major media outlets reported on the negative Cornell study while ignoring Carnegie Mellon's.

In June 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft of a major study on hydraulic fracturing and drinking water.

Well, the science and policy of a state ban on hydraulic fracturing is easy compared to the complexities of understanding the global climate system.

Interestingly, in Denver several involved committees, after a long drawn out dithering and lamenting, approved an ACS Policy draft on Hydraulic Fracturing, which I found rather benign and not living up to the angst (of which there was plenty) surrounded its creation.

They can be seen on the Hydraulic Fracturing section of API's website.

The Environmental Protection Agency's anti-coal aero - pollution rules, intense opposition to the Keystone pipeline, and looming restrictions on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas are already further impairing electricity and other energy availability and reliability.

Fracking lives to see another day in Britain as MPs overwhelmingly reject a proposal to place a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for shale gas.

Bruno Van Peteghem, 2001 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for Islands and Island Nations, celebrated a victory as the French government recently adopted a nation - wide ban on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial natural gas extraction method frequently known as «fracking.»

In an editorial, WSJ comments on a bipartisan vote in the state assembly to defeat a ban on hydraulic fracturing:»... about one - third of the active wells now use this innovative drilling process... A moratorium would throw thousands of Californians out of work.»

In its online debate this week on hydraulic fracturing, The Economist poses this question: «Do the benefits derived from shale gas outweigh the drawbacks of fracking?»

The Associated Press (7/19/13) reports: «A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy -LSB-...]

Much of their recent attack has focused on hydraulic fracturing because the term «fracking» makes it sound like it is a bad thing.