Sentences with phrase «shale fracking»

Many have expressed concern for these markets where shale fracking has spurred so much growth.

The question that «activists» other than Fox are asking now, which is more interesting given that the gas price bubble may have popped, is whether or not proper regulation is too expensive to continue the planned massive expansion of shale fracking.

Tar sands mining and other extreme forms of energy extraction like Arctic drilling, shale fracking, and nuclear power generation send us in the exact opposite direction that we, as a civilization, must go to ensure global survival.

A new report on the effects of Marcellus shale fracking found that communities in Pennsylvania suffered no negative health impacts and enjoyed a boost to the local economy.

The history behind the shale gas boom remained relatively unknown until late 2011, when researchers at the Breakthrough Institute conducted an extensive investigation revealing the role that federal agencies like the Department of Energy and the National Laboratories played in supporting gas industry experimentation with shale fracking.

It is illegal to run a horizontal well frack shallower than 2,000 feet in New York — and that will probably change to 3,000 feet, which would preclude horizontal shale fracking north of the area above I - 88.

China's and India's net emissions are growing dramatically and governments, most recently Japan's, are abandoning earlier pledges to reduce their nations» carbon footprints... And as the US shale fracking revolution shows, the most efficient way to cut emissions is not via command - and - control regulation but by allowing private drillers to expand natural gas production.»

The entire shale fracking endeavor began as a somewhat quixotic, patriotic ambition within fledgling federal energy research programs.

One of the most interesting changes afoot is the revolution in natural gas supplies linked to shale fracking.

Many fear that by - products of shale fracking — cracking the rock to release its gas — will harm their health.

Her letter, posted on her Facebook page, says in part «In order for the public to have confidence in in New York State's «health impact analysis» of shale fracking, a comprehensive public health impact study should be undertaken openly and transparently to resolve all shale fracking concerns once and for all.»

«This is exactly why shale fracking was originally put on hold,» he said.

Even the argument over fracking in Ohio's oil shale region plays to Romney, although the Obama administration has made only the subtlest moves against oil shale fracking.

Even Texas, the birthplace of shale fracking, recently passed a law requiring drillers to disclose the chemicals they use.

Not exact matches

The fracking - enabled boom in production of shale oil has filled the gap from coal since 2010.

As fracking became commercially viable, oil and gas drilling companies entered communities with shale gas resources, which can have a number of local effects.

To get the oil, producers fracture, or «frack,» the earth below with a high - pressure liquid mixture to untap oil and gas from shale rock.

The pace of oil and gas production gains has consistently surprised forecasters since horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, better known as «fracking», were pioneered in U.S. shale rock formations about ten years ago.

It's going to cost her $ 3,200 to get a lab to test for all the acids, detergents and poisons that companies say they use for fracking — or hydraulic fracturing — to break up underground shale and remove oil and natural gas.

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.

The national government in London supports hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to release gas from shale rock, and so did the planning staff of the Lancashire County Council.

But the council itself voted June 29 to reject the application by shale gas explorer Cuadrilla Resources to drill four wells in the region and to use fracking to test their ability to produce gas.

And not only is Britain thought to have generous reserves of gas trapped in underground shale formations, it is one of the few countries remaining in Europe not have banned fracking, as many of their neighbors on the Continent already have done, including France and Germany.

So far only a single shale gas well has been fracked in Britain.

Despite environmental concerns around fracking, production has surged because of the country's large shale reserves in places like North Dakota and Texas.

Fracking techniques spread to shales in Arkansas, Pennsylvania and British Columbia, increasing supplies and depressing prices.

People were beginning to get a glimpse of how fracking shale would rock our world.

But fracking opponents claim that, though natural gas is considered the greenest of fossil fuels, shale extraction is significantly more carbon - intensive than conventional production and may result in the release of large quantities of methane, itself a greenhouse gas.

Every shale - gas well that is fracked requires between three and eight million gallons of water.

His front - page articles on fracking and shale gas and oil introduced readers to the companies, technology, and personalities that changed the global energy landscape.

(Wealth of Common Sense) • The shale oil revolution is in danger (Fortune) see also 26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking's -LSB-...]

With fracking blocked in France, Scotland, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Germany, among others, the shale gas revolution has not spread to Europe.

The British government led by Prime Minister David Cameron has embraced fracking and shale gas development in a way that much of the rest of Europe has not.

After eliciting an admission from the agent that Mammoth believed it had discovered a substantial shale oil deposit suitable for fracking, Farmer drove a hard bargain for the drilling rights.

Oct. 4 2012: France will maintain a ban on fracking until there is proof that shale gas exploration won't harm the environment or «massacre» the landscape, President Nicolas Sarkozy said.

June 30 2011: The French parliament voted to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to «frack» Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling.

A drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing in shale rock formations — fracking — in the U.S. produced large amounts of crude oil, natural gas and other petroleum products.

Now, it is suddenly plentiful and relatively cheap in the U.S. due to hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, a process that has unlocked natural gas from massive shale formations, driving prices down.

A South African environmental group renewed its call for a moratorium on shale - gas fracking, as the government moves closer to a decision on whether to allow the process opponents say imperils water quality.

The Continent has been very slow to move on shale gas, and the U.K. has only lately, and somewhat reluctantly, started to embrace fracking.

However, the fact that the average quantity of frack sand used per well has more than doubled in recent years — which has helped lower the breakeven price of U.S. shale oil — should help insulate the industry from the worst of the oil crash.

You can see this paradigm shift in that many of these shale producers have gone out and invested a lot of capital over the years and now, over the next two years or so, we're going to start to see a free cash flow payback on that initial investment and infrastructure in fracking and developing their resource.

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

Fracking for shale gas is also being considered carefully.

Britain's # 50 Billion chemical industry has stated fracking for shale gas is of economic importance to the country, will protect jobs and can be done in a safe way that does not damage the environment.

Even though the governor has carefully avoided expressing a personal opinion on fracking, he has given every indication of being interested in seeing it approved in the Marcellus (and, by extension, Utica) shales — assuming, as he likes to say, that the «science» indicates it can be done safely.

As the recent court cases on force majeure point out, the gas industry could have been doing vertical shale drilling / fracking, as well as drilling in conventional formations, the whole time that the SGEIS / regulation process has been ongoing.