Sentences with phrase «pump millions of gallons of water»

To free the gas trapped in the Marcellus and other shale formations, drillers pump millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground under pressure.

The gas is extracted using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that involves pumping millions of gallons of water laced with chemicals deep underground to blast open the shale and release the gas trapped inside.

Instead of pumping millions of gallons of water and fracturing fluid into the earth, the company GasFrac used a liquefied petroleum gas gel — propane gas compressed into a thick fluid — to break up the rock.

Not exact matches

Among the items on display are a restored 115 - ton Corliss steam engine that was once used to pump 8 million gallons of water a day, a 13 - ton, 20 - foot - tall Nasmyth steam hammer, and the Scalamandre «White House» loom that made fabric for every White House presidency from Hoover to Clinton.

Yet due to age and lack of maintenance, the pipes, pumping 20 million gallons of oil and natural gas daily, are at risk of bursting — and therefore polluting the drinking water of the neighboring 30 million Americans and Canadians.

The $ 52 million round is divided between the two projects with $ 30 million going towards the West Lake Water Project, which includes the construction of a 120 million gallon water storage pond for snowmaking, three pump houses, new snowmaking pipelines, trail upgrades and a new ski lift to replace the aging Ski Baba Water Project, which includes the construction of a 120 million gallon water storage pond for snowmaking, three pump houses, new snowmaking pipelines, trail upgrades and a new ski lift to replace the aging Ski Baba water storage pond for snowmaking, three pump houses, new snowmaking pipelines, trail upgrades and a new ski lift to replace the aging Ski Baba lift.

The plant would pump millions of gallons a day of Hudson River water from Haverstraw Bay, treat it, and then sell the drinking water to Rockland County residents.

«When you go to Kpong in Tema, President Mahama has put in place equipment that is pumping 40 million gallons of water a day [uncharacteristic] of in the history of the nation,» he told teeming supporters of the NDC at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium during the party's National Campaign Launch Sunday.

During a cold snap in 2010, farmers in the state strawberry capital of Plant City pumped millions of gallons of underground water onto their crops to save them — but ended up causing dozens of sinkholes.

Needles, despite its proximity to the physical river itself, gets most of its water from underground — pumping hundreds of million gallons a year from four wells drilled into the local aquifer.

Millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and up to 300 tons of chemicals are then pumped into the well at high pressure to create breaks in the rock and release the gas.

Atlantis» 141 - acre waterpark, called Aquaventure, pumps more than 20 million gallons of water throughout its maze of water slides and lazy river.

Millions of gallons of pressurized water, sand, and chemicals are then used to create fissures in the rock and release oil, which is pumped out.

Developed more than 60 years ago, fracking involves pumping millions of gallons of chemically treated water into deep shale formations at pressures of 9000 pounds per square inch or more.

Even on a sunny day, nearly 13 million gallons of water are pumped from New York City subways.

October 13, 2015 This past spring, media outlets lit up with stories about Nestlé pumping of millions of gallons of water out of southern California's San Bernardino National Forest for bottling.

Along with human, mice, rat and lice DNA, they found evidence of flies and beetles, and even fish — likely there from the 14 million gallons of water that get pumped out of the subways daily.