Sentences with phrase «over fracking»

Concerns over fracking — the practice of injecting rocks with pressurized liquid to release natural gas — appear to be unevenly spread across the country.

Nearly 60 scientists from 18 states and 7 foreign nations have weighed in on the ongoing fight over fracking in New York state.

Though overshadowed by the contentious battle over fracking in the Marcellus Shale to the south, in New York and Pennsylvania, the Utica Shale is being eyed for exploration in a region in the St Lawrence River valley from Montreal to Quebec City.

However, the failure of the government and of industry to keep apace of the requirements posed by increased production, storage, and use of natural gas is rather astounding — particularly given California's overall environmental record, and the growing concerns over fracking.

The Obama administration took a heavy swing in the ongoing battle over fracking today by imposing new rules that would, for the first time, restrict the release of smog - causing pollutants from natural gas wells.

But the bonanza is not without controversy, and nowhere, perhaps, has the dispute over fracking grown more heated than in the vicinity of the Marcellus Shale.

A Durham - based activist sounds an alarm over fracking's methane leaks, but many still think drilling for more natural gas will help slow climate change.

Starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, this must - see is set in a rural Pennsylvania farming community and shows what happens when the natural gas industry and activists clash over fracking leases.

In Pennsylvania, groups won a state Supreme Court victory that affirmed local zoning rights over fracking operations.

Safety concerns over fracking are overblown — but so are the boosterish claims made for its environmental and economic benefits (see «Fracking could accelerate global warming» and «Frack on or frack off: Can shale gas really save the planet?

Can Trump get the EPA to take over all fracking regulations and take it away from states like NY that imposed their own ban?

Though he will likely be best remembered for heading the DEC during the long debate over fracking, which started during former Gov. David Paterson's administration — in other words, before Martens took the helm — a number of other environmental initiatives were started or accomplished on the outgoing commissioner's watch.

Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has claimed that the Greens «will win» the debate over fracking in the UK.

She claims that recent environmental disasters and the debate over fracking are beginning to turn public attention back on to the issue.

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.

A few front in the battle over fracking: A $ 750 million pipeline through Delaware and Schoharie counties that some worry will run through flood - prone areas.

Even the argument over fracking in Ohio's oil shale region plays to Romney, although the Obama administration has made only the subtlest moves against oil shale fracking.

«The controversy over fracking in the UK has deepened as Scotland imposed a ban on giving the green light to new schemes amid ongoing public opposition to the process.

-- Supports a price on carbon AND methane — Supports high labor standards in the development of renewable energy — Supports changing the Clean Power Plan to incentivize renewable energy over fracked gas.

Not exact matches

We have now completed several health studies in partnership with the Geisinger Health System, which provides primary care to over 450,000 patients in Pennsylvania, including many residing in fracking areas.

A common retort by the industry is that rates of the health outcome studied - whether it's asthma or preterm birth - are lower in fracking areas than in areas without fracking, or that the rate of the outcome is decreasing over time.

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

But for those who oppose fracking, there is this: Burning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burning coal.

I wouldn't be in favor of putting fracking over by the Finger Lakes.

The biggest hurdle for the pro-industry side: The rapid expansion of fracking over the last five years has resulted in confirmed cases of drinking water contamination, a house explosion, and air pollution.

With Wall Street backing, the company leased land all over the country for fracking, including Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking industry.

Over the past three months, U.S. Silica (NYSE: SLCA) continued its buying binge by adding more frack sand mines to its already industry - leading production.

You can see this paradigm shift in that many of these shale producers have gone out and invested a lot of capital over the years and now, over the next two years or so, we're going to start to see a free cash flow payback on that initial investment and infrastructure in fracking and developing their resource.

We're not extemists because we prefer clean air and water over greed, as it relates to the latest «gold rush», fracking.

Resources industry figures are angry over new Premier Steven Marshall's plans to impose a 10 - year ban on fracking in a 21,000 - square - kilometre region in South Australia's south - east, and say it undermines his mantra that the state is open for business.

The energy bill also goes to a second reading this week, where Liberal Democrats may raise concerns over the controversial plan to start fracking.

Andy Cuomo wants to fulfill his family destiny and make his daddy proud and be president someday and fracking upstate New York is one of the bodies he's willing to crawl over to get there

And while Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens hinted at a possible do over on the rule - making process for fracking, Cuomo says there's «no step back.»

Opponents of the project say they have the support of over 30 grassroots community and environmental organizations (attached list) and a petition with over 1300 signatures which they will deliver to Governor Cuomo, who banned fracking last month based on public health concerns.

The Cuomo Administration is currently reviewing over 40,000 comments submitted by the public about a draft environmental impact study on the effects of fracking on New York.

Arthur «Jerry» Kremer is a former state assemblyman and founding chairman of Empire Government Strategies, a state lobbying firm, and said fracking opponents like Avella used fear to convince voters over to their side.

Other stops on her whistle - blower tour included a Pennsylvania fracking site, «because Cuomo has taken over a million dollars in pro-fracking money,» Teachout said, and a Manhattan luxury tower built by developer Extell, inventor of the «poor door.»

Senator Reed seems to be losing his mind over the fact that the gas industry can't frack in New York.

He says the suit will in part focus on New York State's unprecedented delay in a decision about fracking, which has now dragged on for over five years.

Anti fracking activists, including Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, attempted to present the state's environmental agency with over 200,000 comments, on the last day of a public comment period on the gas drilling process.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said that the real scandal over the Buffalo Bills is not that Astorino prefers the Miami Dolphins but that the new owner made his fortune fracking for natural gas and contributing to climate change.

Now that elections are over, supporters and opponents of hydro fracking are wondering what will be Governor Andrew Cuomo's next move on the long stalled gas drilling process in New York State.

Cuomo, answering a question on whether fracking, which is on hold in New York, will begin in the next four years if he's re elected, says an over two year old health review will be concluded by the end of the year, though not before Election Day.

A Binghamton Assemblywoman who is on the Cuomo's Administration's hydro fracking advisory panel is asking for a do over of an ongoing heath review, saying the secretive process has compromised public confidence.

The debate over the environmental and economic impact of hydraulic fracking in New York State has raged for the better part of the last decade.

Over half of the wastewater from fracking, rough 2 - 6 million gallons, is often released back into the main supply with minimal treatment due to ineffectiveness of facilities to detect, let alone properly treat.

Of course, Libous will just say that DEC and Cuomo had final control over the decision to frack or not, not him.

The fracking advisory panel has met infrequently over the last several months and canceled scheduled meetings.