Sentences with phrase «shale gas drilling»

The World Bank reports that for the first time since 2008 global gas flaring has increased, with the blame placed on increased shale gas drilling in North Dakota.

Since New York has not yet experienced shale gas drilling, the USGS analysis captures a picture of conditions prior to such energy production taking place.

As Chinese companies gain experience producing from shale, the cost of shale gas drilling has declined.

Anthony Ingraffea is an engineer at Cornell University who is willing to go anywhere to talk to audiences about the geologic risks of fracking, raising questions about the threats that shale gas drilling could pose to water supplies.

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.

The Department of the Interior has just delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio «for up to six months» and an industry group estimates that drilling in the Utica shale affected by the delay would produce 204,500 jobs by 2015.

The agency began an investigation in 2010 after receiving complaints from residents about drinking water near Chesapeake shale gas drilling sites.

Ruffalo, who lives near the Delaware River in the upstate New York region that was targeted for shale gas drilling, is one of many prominent public figures who pressed Cuomo long and hard to ban hydraulic fracturing, popularly known as fracking.

These stories are not only about shale gas drilling, they are about energy policy.

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.

These kinds of personal stories are an easy introduction to people who are just starting to learn about shale gas drilling.

Energy policy impacts climate change and climate change impacts us all, so all of us should be interested in the issue of shale gas drilling, as well.

I saw it in Finland while doing stories on polarized issues like nuclear power or genetically modified food, and now here with the shale gas drilling, how things get stuck.

New York officials crafting policy to regulate shale gas drilling amid unanswered health concerns will likely re-open the process to public hearings, essentially guaranteeing more momentum for the movement that has effectively stalled the industry's advancement into the Empire State for more than four years.

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».

Opponents of expanded gas drilling have coined the term «frackademia» for university research on the potential impacts of the boom in shale gas drilling that involves industry money or experts with industry ties.

Environmental issues like shale gas drilling stay and people have to live with impacts even though the interest of the main media is already elsewhere.

I'm cross-linking because these posts relate nicely to examinations here of the «dread to risk ratio» in arenas ranging from shale gas drilling (a k a fracking) to nuclear power, toxic chemicals to climate.

Credit markets have been willing to support unprofitable shale gas drilling since the 2008 Financial Collapse.

«There are considerable issues about health effects,» said John Deutch, former director of the CIA and a professor of chemistry at MIT, who heads a Department of Energy panel examining the environmental effects of shale gas drilling, with an emphasis on hydraulic fracturing.

ALBANY — Opponents of shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing gathered in Albany on Monday to keep up the pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he prepares to decide whether to allow the practice after four years of studying its health and environmental impacts.

How can Governor Cuomo allow shale gas drilling in New York when he can see how many citizens and communities are getting sick, hurt and traumatized from the practice in other states?

Responding to pressure from environmental opponents and fearful residents, shale - rich Quebec, France, New York and New Jersey have all imposed moratoriums on shale gas drilling pending further study of environmental and health impacts.

The EPA has the authority to issue permits for such discharges, but current rules allow shale gas drillers to pass their waste through public sewage plants even if those plants are not equipped to remove pollutants.

Not exact matches

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

Pittsburgh - based EQT Corp. is poised to become the largest producer of natural gas in the United States after announcing it will acquire fellow shale driller Rice Energy.

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.

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.

The gas is there, quite possibly more than in Alberta — Apache Canada reported what it called «the most prolific shale gas resource test in the world» in B.C.'s Liard Basin a year ago — but at today's prices it's not worth drilling for.

Papa, CEO of Centennial Resource Development, is a closely followed figure in the U.S. shale drilling world, where producers rely on advanced techniques to coax oil and gas from tight rock formations.

Unconventional gas development (UGD), characterized by advances in engineering, including horizontal drilling and high volume hydraulic fracturing, enables extraction of large amounts of fossil fuel from shale deposits at depths that were previously unapproachable [1].

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

Every year, moreover, producers add to global reserves, whether through unlocking natural gas shale formations, oil sands bitumen plays, or drilling deep into the ocean floor.

This is a province with enough environmental mettle to turn its back on drilling for potentially rich shale gas reserves in the St. Lawrence Valley.

His company, Knightsbridge Risk Management, a private security firm in Dallas that serves the oil and gas industry, is getting calls from companies that want to plan ahead in case they shut down drilling operations in North Dakota and the Bakken shale formation.

The share price of Carrizo Oil & Gas, an Eagle Ford - focused shale driller, has plunged by as much as 15 percent over the past week.

The Argentina government has been keen on attracting some of the largest energy companies in the world to scale up shale oil and gas 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.

However, oil prices have been dropping like hot potatoes, almost 30 %, and with that energy stocks are tanking in unison and singing songs with same tune, along with drilling and exploration companies for shale oil or natural gas.

Johannes Teyssen, chief executive of Eon, said there were no obvious options for Europe to narrow the US advantage — whether by drilling for shale gas, importing more liquefied natural gas or importing inexpensive US supplies.

The original shale gas play, the one that kicked off the shale drilling bonanza a decade ago but then went into decline, is getting a new lease on life.

The crash in prices meant that shale drillers moved on to greener pastures, and most of them began looking for oil rather than gas because crude fetched $ 70 to $ 80 per barrel.

The coalition has made the exploitation of Britain's unconventional gas reserves a top priority, offering tax breaks to shale developers and promising big benefits to communities that host shale drillers.

In North America's most active shale fields, the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of new wells is directly placing older adjacent wells at risk of suffering a premature decline in oil and gas production.

In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy Renaissance, we highlight that just a few years ago investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but with the disruptive technology in shale oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades of drilling ahead.

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

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.

Gas drilling on campus (Politico) Pennsylvania's governor has a unique education plan: Gov. Tom Corbett told the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees that the state's universities could ease their financial woes by tapping into Marcellus shale deposits beneath their campuses.

With Pegula continuing to gain clout with his purchase of the Bills, both shale - gas - drilling advocates and opponents said they don't believe it will have an impact on the debate in New York.