Sentences with phrase «raised from shale»

The government has already promised 100,000 pounds in compensation funding for local communities as well as a share of revenue raised from shale gas sales.

Not exact matches

While I appreciate that Peter Aldhous's article was primarily concerned with the immediate health questions raised by the process of fracking, or cracking rock to extract natural gas from shale beds (28 January, p 8), its effects on climate change can not be ignored since that, too, is likely to be bad for our health.

Brain research raises the possibility of a very exotic future (this article assumes that such animals wouldn't be vicious or use their new - found smarts to drive other species to extinction) «Liberated» mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions Methane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowering them.

12:27 p.m. Updated In the final session of an environmental - science communication course that I co-taught at Pace University this spring, Thad Cook, a graduate student, gave a thorough overview of the issues raised by extracting natural gas from shale using hydraulic fracturing, the method now widely called fracking.

NPS also raised concerns about the potential water withdrawals from rivers, given that each well in the Marcellus shale requires about 4 million gallons of water.

Drilling for shale gas raises serious safety concerns and risks polluting water supplies — and it could take vital funding away from the clean energy solutions we know are safe and will work.