Sentences with phrase «over hydraulic fracturing»

Todd Wynn writes how «ALEC has been at the forefront of the effort to retain state sovereignty over hydraulic fracturing, and our recently adopted model bill, the Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).»

Fracking Bryan R. Walsh of Time Magazine has beautifully summarized energy issues that are simmering today as President Obama takes his education - oriented bus tour to Binghamton, N.Y., at the epicenter of the fight over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the gas drilling boom it has spawned:

The latest skirmishes over hydraulic fracturing in Florida and California are, at their core, about water.

Concerns over hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction method that injects millions of gallons of freshwater and chemicals into shale, have largely focused on potential impacts on water quality.

Similar pressures are at work in the debate over hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method of natural gas extraction.

Not exact matches

Continental's success for the second consecutive quarter over Whiting highlights the importance of improving hydraulic fracturing processes, including the use of larger amounts of sand, which the Oklahoma City - based company has helped pioneer.

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

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.

Common Cause: Pro-Fracking Interests Spent Millions on Politics A new Common Cause / NY report released Monday highlights the role that money plays in the policy debate over allowing hydraulic fracturing in New York.

Schneiderman is also suing the federal government over its review standards for hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas extraction process.

An East Rochester attorney waging a years - long battle over New York's hydraulic fracturing ban is taking a new approach, filing a lawsuit last week attempting to force the state to compensate him for the oil - and - gas rights on his land.

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.

Former Gov. David Paterson, the chairman of the New York State Democratic Party, clashed with his Republican counterpart Ed Cox over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision today to ban hydraulic fracturing — with Mr. Cox casting the Democrats as a troupe of business - hating eco-fanatics, and Mr. Paterson slamming Mr. Cox as a greedy energy tycoon.

The debate over whether a municipality can ban hydraulic fracturing within its borders was brought before the New York State Court of Appeals Tuesday afternoon.

Increased shale - gas production created a boom in some parts of the country but has also led to concerns over potential contamination of drinking water and possible human health impacts related to hydraulic fracturing.

The extraordinary growth in fracking — the hydraulic fracturing of deeply buried shale rock to extract natural gas — has transformed the United States over the past 15 years, boosting energy stocks, cutting pollution from conventional coal - power plants, and creating new jobs.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

Over the past ten years in the United States, hydraulic fracturing has experienced a meteoric increase.

While the study does not prove that hydraulic fracturing actually causes these health problems, the authors say, the hospitalization increases observed over the relatively short time span of observation suggests that healthcare costs of hydraulic fracturing must be factored into the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil drilling.

Over the past several years, the United States and other countries have undergone an energy revolution as new drilling techniques and a process called hydraulic fracturing have made it possible to recover vast amounts of natural gas.

The number of earthquakes within central and eastern United States has increased dramatically over the past few years, coinciding with increased hydraulic fracturing of horizontally drilled wells, and the injection of wastewater in deep disposal wells in many locations, including Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Ohio.

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.

Session Description: Improved capabilities for horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past decade led to significant increases in unconventional oil and gas production in several regions of the United States.

The study, conducted by researchers at Purdue and Cornell universities and other institutions, is one of numerous studies conducted over the past several years that have discovered methane leaking from oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and hydraulic fracturing operations.

According to Gupta, who is part of the research team, StimuFrac consistently outperformed conventional fluids used for hydraulic fracturing and «is believed to have lower critical pore invasion pressure that provides further advantage over conventional fracking fluids.»

A key element in the success of North American shale gas production has been combining cost - effective horizontal drilling, a technique developed over the last 30 years, with hydraulic fracturing, which has been practised since the 1940s.

The time is right because Jansa is in the running for a $ 10,000 grant from the Sprout Fund that could help her sustain and refine this effort to portray the many meanings and realities surrounding hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, in Pennsylvania communities scattered over the gas - rich Marcellus Shale.

The news comes a week after DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens announced that the agency will turn part of the review over to the Department of Health Commissioner Nirav Shah to address persistent questions about how shale gas development and high volume hydraulic fracturing will affect public health in communities where it is allowed.

Updates below Last year, after opponents of hydraulic fracturing made much of an unpublished paper by a doctoral candidate in economics who reported finding health impacts in infants from nearby gas drilling operations, I wrote a piece titled «When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in the Fight Over Gas Impacts.»

In the latter category, at the moment, is the recent burst of assertions and press coverage over the extent of climate impacts from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — centered on a new paper on this issue by Robert Howarth, a Cornell ecologist who makes no secret of his opposition to the gas - extraction method.

Reasons for the 2006 - 2012 trend include an increase in plunger lift use for liquids unloading, increased voluntary reductions over that time period (including those associated with pneumatic devices), and RECs use for well completions and workovers with hydraulic fracturing.

Now, fairness dictates I point out that George Mitchell didn't invent hydraulic fracturing or directional drilling — the two technologies that, when combined, have unleashed the surge in oil and natural gas production the United States has experienced over the last half decade.

Political divides over expanding the use of offshore drilling, hydraulic fracturing and nuclear power are consistent with past Pew Research Center surveys using somewhat different question wording and polling methods.

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.

On top of a very polluting and extraction process (especially if happening through hydraulic fracturing) the the phenomenon of methane leakage make so that over a period of twenty years, methane is eighty times more pollutant for the atmosphere and the climate than CO2.

There have been no confirmed cases of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing itself in the at least 2 million wells fracked over the past 65 + years

In fact, there have been no confirmed cases of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing itself in the at least 2 million wells fracked over the past 68 years.11

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.

Over the past several years, vast caches of natural gas trapped in deeply buried rock have been made accessible by advances in two key technologies: horizontal drilling, which allows vertical wells to turn and snake more than a mile sideways through the earth, and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Two big blows to the natural gas industry have come in less than 24 hours, with both the province of Quebec and New York state effectively banning shale gas extraction over concerns with the process of hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. «fracking»).

The pipeline would take natural gas extracted from hydraulic fracturing («fracking») in West Virginia and over environmentally sensitive areas.

Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes — hydraulic fracturing («fracking») for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal — the two battles are one in the same and direct parallels of one another.

High - volume hydraulic fracturing has been combined with horizontal drilling over the past decade to force oil and natural gas out of shale and other tight geological formations by fracturing the rock with high - pressure injection of water, sand, and chemicals.

What we're seeing, of course, are the positive supply impacts of the U.S. energy renaissance — dramatic increases in domestic oil and natural gas production over the past several years, thanks to the safe development of shale and other tight - rock formations using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

Most of the touted benefits of the NJ - NY Expansion pipeline simply gloss over the very important differences between extracting natural gas through conventional means and through hydraulic fracturing.

Another study showing how fracking is hardly an unqualified good as it's proponents would have you believe: A new study shows that while in the short term hydraulic fracturing wells will likely have little impact on tourism, over time the increased

Instead, the hydraulic fracturing revolution flourished because Congress specifically precluded the federal government from usurping the states» regulatory authority over groundwater.

Driessen got a first - hand look at hydraulic fracturing drilling in northern Pennsylvania noting the «signs of pride and prosperity were evident all over Williamsport.»

Modern hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in American shale deposits allowed companies to increase natural gas production 50 percent over the past decade:

Oversaw Drilling, Work - Over, Completions, Snubbing, Hydraulic Fracturing, and Construction operations where I ensured compliance for Chesapeake Energy on Marcellus Shale Projects