Sentences with phrase «shale drilling method»

Diverting more gas from the domestic energy market would exert even more upward pressure on fuel gas prices, and with gas prices on the rise you're going to start setting more pushback from consumers and less support for fracking (short for hydrofracturing), the shale drilling method that has been causing so many problems in local communities.

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Sophisticated drilling techniques — including the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking» — have unlocked enormous energy reserves previously inaccessible in shale formations in North Dakota and elsewhere, making U.S. energy independence a real possibility.

Christian environmental groups have criticised the Church of England's stance on fracking, a controversial method of drilling for shale gas that has been linked by some anti-fracking organisations to water contamination.

Christian environmental groups have criticised the Church of England's stance on fracking, a controversial method of drilling for shale gas that has been... More

The illustration displayed here explains the conventional, vertical well method of extracting natural gas, and the unconventional, more recent method of extracting natural gas in shale via horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

New York State appears to be further slowing its effort to produce rules governing fracking, shorthand for the suite of drilling methods used to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits.

Since the peak of crude oil production a decade ago, the fossil fuel industry has been forced to resort to costly and unconventional methods of extraction — arctic drilling and shale gas fracking among them — giving rise to unprecedented economic and environmental hazards.

As politicians at all levels (including the president) will be deciding whether to embrace the controversial method of shale gas drilling in coming months, we asked two experts with divergent views to discuss the issue with us — and you.

A method used to extract natural gas from shale involving horizontal drilling, high pressures, lots of waters, lots of chemicals, resulting in toxic waste.

The method combines a new form of horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing — more commonly known as fracking GThe process blasts open fissures in underground shale - rock formations by injecting a high pressure combination of fluids, chemicals and proppants causing the fossil fuel to flow to the production well.