Sentences with phrase «shale gas come»

Moreover, in a world where fossil fuel resources are shrinking every year, and where the extraction of «residual» sources such as deepwater oil, tar sands and shale gas come with great environmental and safety risks, bioenergy production can also contribute to national energy security.

«Once the hedges roll off, it's all over», said one person very close to the original investors, «the single thing we got wrong was gas prices, no one saw shale gas coming».

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

Until, that is, the subject of environmental concerns and the media coverage of the shale gas boom comes up.

The movement to develop Western Canadian shale gas and export it across the Pacific has suffered a setback, but its time will come.

And second, competition will also be coming from China's own shale reserves, not to mention coal, which is the prime power - generating source gas producers aim to displace.

The extraordinary cost reductions achieved by North American oil and gas companies have likely reached their limit, and any boost in profitability for much of the U.S. shale and Canadian oil sands industries will have to come from higher oil prices, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.

Calpine's deal comes at a time when the U.S. wholesale power generation industry is struggling with margin pressure as cheap natural gas from shale fields in recent years has been driving down electricity prices.

The company last year said it would exit its underperforming U.S. shale oil and gas business after coming under pressure from Sydney - based Tribeca Investment Partners to sell the assets.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has come under increased scrutiny as questions have arisen over the agency's ability to oversee Hyrdraulic Fracturing, should the process of extracting natural gas from shale be legalized in the state.

Campaigners against fracking have been told they are ignoring the benefits that could come from the controversial technique of releasing shale gas.

«Our experience with shale gas shows us that the payoffs on these public investments don't always come right away,» he added.

«Because they allow us to distinguish if contaminants are coming from natural sources, fracking and shale gas development, coal mining, coal ash disposal, or other causes.»

Much of it comes from shale, deep petrified mud rich in organic matter that time, heat and pressure have turned into oil and gas.

Levels of contamination were just as high in wastewater coming from conventional oil and gas wells as from hydraulically fractured shale gas wells.

Similar rules covering shale gas will come a year later, after the agency gathers more data on discharges.

As some of the incentives for fracking come from the lower carbon emissions produced by gas - fired power stations, a key question is whether the extraction of shale gas has an additional impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The study came under heavy criticism from Cornell researcher Robert Howarth, who two years prior had published work that claimed methane emissions from shale gas operations were far more significant.

The results come as a natural - gas boom hits the United States, driven by a technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking», that can crack open hard shale formations and release the natural gas trapped inside.

May 7, 2012 • Cash - strapped states are embracing the millions of dollars in new tax revenue coming from shale oil and gas development.

Reject Greenhouse Gas emissions reductions schemes that come from high - risk technologies which create irreversible damage to human and planetary health including tar sands, shale gas, nuclear energy, and geo - engineeriGas emissions reductions schemes that come from high - risk technologies which create irreversible damage to human and planetary health including tar sands, shale gas, nuclear energy, and geo - engineerigas, nuclear energy, and geo - engineering;

The government is hoping that shale gas will be the cavalry coming over the hill to fend off these rising prices much as it has in the US.

However, in their recent publication in Climatic Change Letters, Howarth et al. (2011) report that their life - cycle evaluation of shale gas drilling suggests that shale gas has a larger GHG footprint than coal and that this larger footprint «undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over the coming decades».

The news comes a week after DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens announced that the agency will turn part of the review over to the Department of Health Commissioner Nirav Shah to address persistent questions about how shale gas development and high volume hydraulic fracturing will affect public health in communities where it is allowed.

So I came up with the idea of a sustained series of short documentaries that would allow me to listen to people's stories without taking a side, allow people to share their views on and experiences with shale gas drilling, and that would allow people to hear other perspectives.

The advantage of natural gas applies whether it comes from a shale gas well or a conventional gas well.

However, the competitive environment, government policy and available infrastructure mean that North America will dominate the production of shale gas and tight oil for some time to come....

You probably already read about California being added to the list of states facing the economic opportunities and environmental issues that come with abundant shale oil or gas (oil in California's case, because of the Monterey Shale).

Since most of the shale gas in the foreseeable decade is coming from Sichuan, expect that a majority of these demo projects happen (or don't happen) there.

Between January and May, U.S. carbon emissions fell to a 20 - year low; 48 percent of that resulted from substituting coal for cheap shale natural gas, while little, if any, came from deploying subsidized wind and solar, according to Michael Levi, the director of the climate change program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The costs of many offshore oil and gas projects have come down sharply in recent years, as companies try to ensure their viability in a shale - inspired lower price environment.

But the biggest factor making any shift possible is the abundance and affordability of natural gas coming from the country's shale fields.

All this development is coming to an economically depressed region that lies atop the Marcellus shale, a rock formation that produces more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.

This will likely lead to her coming head to head with climate denier Lord Nigel Lawson, an avid supporter of shale gas exploration.

What crushed green energy was the boom in shale oil and gas along with the steep decline in the price of fossil fuel that few saw coming just a few years ago.

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.

Squeezed out by an abundance of cheap shale gas and ever tightening pollution laws, it may be a harbinger of things to come for other fossil fuel markets globally.

It has all the hallmarks of a new industry with ups and downs, but it is clearly here to stay — even with cheap natural gas coming from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in shale formations.

The warning comes as the European Commission publishes a framework to guide member states on how to regulate shale gas which fails to provide mandatory protection for Europe's citizens against the environmental and health risks of fracking.

Some of the difference between the oil company scenarios and those from green NGO's and academics is due to fossil fuel lobby assumptions about demand and the role of gas (including shale gas), with CCS also seen as coming on line in a big way.

Two big blows to the natural gas industry have come in less than 24 hours, with both the province of Quebec and New York state effectively banning shale gas extraction over concerns with the process of hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. «fracking»).

Investigators were able to do a kind of «fingerprinting» to determine the source, and concluded the gas did not come from the Marcellus shale.

The American Gas Association (AGA), flush with cash from increased consumption of shale gas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISGas Association (AGA), flush with cash from increased consumption of shale gas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISgas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA).

Consider the Source (or, How to Swashbuckle Like a Pirate) The American Gas Association (AGA), flush with cash from increased consumption of shale gas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISGas Association (AGA), flush with cash from increased consumption of shale gas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISgas extracted through fracking, and all the political power that comes with it, makes no bones about wanting the repeal of Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA).

(In its 2005 energy bill, Congress included an exemption from SDWA oversight for the water put into the ground for hydraulic fracturing — a provision that has come to be known as the «Halliburton loophole» after the oil and gas industry service company that is active in the shale industry.)

Natural gas prices will likely rise, making the costs of production higher and, according to the recent PWC report, shale oil may depress world crude prices over the years to come.

When it comes to shale gas, the NY DEC is an environmental agency in name only http://www.scribd.com/doc/100132075/New-York-s-Nonexistent-Environmental-Agency Not much hard science necessary for that Some industry brochures sufficed for the dSGEIS

On the heels of the shale gas rush that's swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel - based projects is coming — a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush that environmentalists warn could make smog worse in communities already breathing air pollution from fracking, sicken workers, and expand the plastic trash gyres in the world's oceans.

«The US shale gas revolution, and the push to renewable energy, are also expected to dampen demand for coal in the decades to come.

With some encouragement for conventional North Sea gas producers and with shale gas development coming on almost everywhere, gas will remain cheap and plentiful for years.