Sentences with phrase «says fracking industry»

Brian McMahon, with the New York State Economic Development Council, a pro business and pro fracking group, believes that heritage tourism and the gas drilling industry can co exist, and he says fracking industry related jobs will pay workers a much higher wage and improve the overall health of the economy.

Not exact matches

Opponents say fracking poses a risk to public health and the environment but the industry says it is safe.

An industry lobbying group in North Dakota, where fracking is common, said the industry is doing what it can, but some mistakes are inevitable.

«This decision is a Waterloo for the fracking industry and a triumph for local democracy,» said Daisy Sands, Greenpeace UK energy and climate campaigner.

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.

Smith, with the gas industry lobby, says he hopes that does not mean going back to square one in a fracking approval process that began back in 2008.

Cox spoke at a natural gas industry lobby meeting, where he said Cuomo was «dithering» on a decision about allowing fracking in New York, by continuing to say he's waiting for his health commissioner to finish a review.

But not everyone thinks it's the best solution to upstate's continued lagging economy.EJ McMahon, President of the fiscally conservative think tank the Empire Center, says the building of resort style casinos won't generate as many jobs as some other industries, like opening up the state's vast shale resources to hydro fracking.

The nation's top energy - industry lobbyist said Cuomo's «knee - jerk» ban on fracking is being «cheered» by the gas and oil industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, all of which share the gas - rich Marcellus Shale region with New York.

«Ed Cox is simply a paid - for mouthpiece of the oil and gas industry,» said the group New Yorkers Against Fracking.

«The environmentalists who oppose all fracking are wrong, and the drillers who claim that regulation will kill the industry are wrong,» Bloomberg said in a prepared statement.

And New Yorkers aren't buying the notion that oil and gas industry - sponsored studies that say fracking is safe are legitimate.

McKay says although fracking proponents say the drilling will bring a new industry to underemployed upstate New Yorkers, there already IS a growing industry in many parts of the Marcellus Shale region, heritage tourism.

Jim Smith, with the Independent Oil and Gas Association, a lobby group for the gas industry, says recent events may be influencing New Yorkers to think more positively about fracking.

They say further delay in fracking is only hurting the state's small business community, which could see increased sales in hotels, restaurants and other service industries if the gas drilling begins, and they lament what they say has become a «hostile and extreme opposition».

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

The agency says encouraging more fracking in New York will lead to «growth in the natural gas industry,» with more pipelines and compressor stations that could harm state owned preserves, freshwater wetlands and forests.

Gas industry representatives, who say they've been waiting three years to extract the gas from the Marcellus shale reserves, say they'd like to move the process along without any further delays so that permits can for fracking can finally be issued.

Cuomo, who has never visited a fracking site, shocked industry observers on Wednesday when he said the state's long - awaited health study of fracking was due by the end of year.

Cherie Messore, with the Independent Oil and Gas Association, a gas industry lobby group that is helping pay for the ads, says the spots are aimed at showing there's support for fracking.

Industry and business groups that support fracking have been running advertisements for the past several weeks, featuring real people who live in the Marcellus Shale region in New York's Southern Tier and who say they want the natural gas drilling to begin.

Last Friday, Republican Gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino sent out a late afternoon press release saying that he would not be going on a gas industry tour of fracking sites in Pennsylvania until after the election because the company providing the tour — Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation — refused to allow members of the press on the tour.

Boling says «there was a feeling of being rushed» to meet state budget deadlines, and he says it's better that that pressure is now off, and that the process be done «right», even if it takes longer, because in order for the industry to proceed, the public needs to be «assured that hydraulic fracking is safe».

The link between earthquakes and the energy industry is growing clearer, but fracking itself isn't the culprit, experts said at the AAAS Annual Meeting.

Capturing and storing gases that are being vented during the fracking process is feasible, but industry says that these measures are too costly to adopt.

Environmental groups say fracking can contaminate water supplies, but the industry has argued that it does not hurt the environment.

Supporters of fracking say the industry is a valuable source of jobs and income for the state.

«The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies,» said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth U.S. «Rather than promoting dirty fossil fuels like tar sands and fracked natural gas, Obama and Barroso should be doing everything they can to keep these fuels in the ground and help avert climate catastrophe.»

«When it comes to climate action, Governor Brown talks a good game, but he has bent over backwards for the oil and gas industry and refused to protect communities from drilling and fracking,» said Mark Schlosberg, organizing co-director at Food and Water Watch.

But the industry as a whole has been recalcitrant «on this whole question of disclosing fracking fluids,» she said.

Amber Rudd, energy minister at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), said: «In the case of areas of outstanding natural beauty and national parks, given their size and dispersion, it might not be practical to guarantee that fracking will not take place under them in all cases without unduly constraining the industry.»

He also said he would abolish the Waters of the U.S. rule, which the fracking industry in North Dakota has opposed.

Regulators and the fossil fuel industry say offshore fracking operations have a good safety record and tend to be smaller in size compared to onshore operations, but environmentalists continue to worry about the chemicals used in the process because many of them are known to harm marine wildlife.

Then they contacted the schools and said it wasn't fair to give a one sided presentation to their kids, which I can see the point in that but the oil and gas industry do go into schools to convince kids Fracking is safe and are allowed to give kids brainwashing coloring books saying fracking iFracking is safe and are allowed to give kids brainwashing coloring books saying fracking ifracking is great.

Overall, however, the environmental impacts of fracking (a process that involves pumping chemical - laden water underground to extract oil and gas) on groundwater and air near drilling sites have played second fiddle to the industry's economic impacts in this election cycle, Kelsey said.

The unpredictable nature of the oil and gas industry makes it hard to say exactly how fracking will affect these farmers, but it's safe to say there's reason for concern — for organic farms especially because of the strict standards they have to uphold, but for any farmer, or consumer for that matter, who wants to ensure their food is grown in places unaffected by chemicals that for the most part are kept secret.

All of which to say, the Cuomo plan, while certainly better than permitting fracking wherever the fossil fuel industry can convince people to lease their land, is utterly fatalistic and short - sighted.

Of course, the industry says it is safe, going to far as to say that fracking «has been used for more than 60 years in more than one million U.S. wells without a single confirmed instance of groundwater contamination.»

That all said, the point that greenhouse gases aside, fracking can be safe is the genuine belief among the fossil fuel industry.