Sentences with phrase «shale gas fracking»

Predictably, the UK's first shale gas fracking plant has become the site of «direct action».

Back in 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than coal.

A moratorium on Underground Coal Gasification was put in place on 8 October 2015, separately from the ongoing moratorium on shale gas fracking and coalbed methane extraction.

We look forward to the Scottish Government acting swiftly to ban shale gas fracking and coalbed methane drilling once it has finished its review.

In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than...

Mitchell Energy, rightly credited for pioneering shale gas fracking, was a medium - size firm in the oil and gas industry: big enough to invest substantial funds into R&D, but small enough as to have few alternatives other than to bet on shale.

Carbon Brief's new poll shows how little support there is for shale gas fracking in the UK.

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.

«With increasing shale gas fracking and many countries» interest in displacing coal generation with natural gas due to the lower greenhouse gas emissions, natural gas use seems well poised to grow,» the report states.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he'll make a decision on whether to allow shale gas fracking before the 2014 election.

One average shale gas frack job = 4.5 millions gallons of water.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It remains the only state with significant shale gas reserves to forbid energy companies from fracking.

in the Southern Tier, money will flow to landowners who won't get to cash in on shale gas exploration royalties, thanks to Cuomo's fracking ban;

With the State's moratorium on (fracked shale) natural gas production, the only way we can receive natural gas is from the Constitution Pipeline and local distribution from the Leatherstocking Company... It is also important to note that a state agency, Empire State Development, has provided a $ 750,000 grant... to assist in degrading the costs of bringing the Leatherstocking gas line to our new facility.

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

Ed Davey has dismissed the prime minister's claim that fracking has potential to «drive energy bills down» in a speech on shale gas development.

Horizontal hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, is an efficient means of extracting natural gas from shale -LSB-...]

Making fracking easier Extracting shale gas from the ground requires some genuine political courage, because there's deep suspicion across the country about what the process of hydraulic fracturing actually involves.

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey this morning announced that fracking for shale gas can resume in the UK, subject to new controls to mitigate the risks of seismic activity.

A ban on drilling for underground shale gas, otherwise known as fracking, has been lifted, the energy secretary has announced.

New York hasn't issued permits for shale gas wells using horizontal drilling and fracking since it began its review of the controversial technology in 2008.

New York has one of the nation's largest untapped reserves of natural gas and is the only state with a major shale gas formation to ban fracking.

The records cite emails beginning in «mid-2013» in which Adam Skelos began to push to position the company to sell products needed in fracking for natural gas trapped deep in shale deposits upstate.

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 issuGas 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 issugas 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.

David Cameron claims there is a «huge amount of myths» about fracking and a «far better job» is needed to tell people about the benefits of shale gas extraction.

If the Department of Environmental Conservation ever makes good on Gov. Cuomo's promises and produces reasonable regulations on fracking, shale - gas wells and pipeline projects will need hundreds of roustabouts.