Sentences with phrase «to extract natural gas»

The day prior Quebec's environmental review board released a report finding that there are «too many potential negative consequences to the environment and to society from extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits along the St. Lawrence River.»

7 December 2011: Northern Ireland's Assembly has voted for a moratorium on «fracking», a method of extracting natural gas from shale, pending an environmental assessment.

Ernst, whose suit is still before the courts, is hardly alone in her concerns; regulators in both the U.S. and Canada, confronting such messy conflicts, are taking a much tougher look at a technique for extracting natural gas from shale or coal - seam formations using high - pressure infusions of water and chemicals.

For four years, the Cuomo administration has put off making a decision whether to lift the moratorium that stops drilling companies from using the hydraulic fracturing method of extracting natural gas in New York state.

«So I thank Governor Cuomo for being open to the economic, employment and energy benefits that would accrue from safely extracting natural gas from gas - bearing shale formations in New York State, but I am grateful that he has prioritized the health of New Yorkers and the long term protection of the State's irreplaceable natural resources over a short term energy and economic boost from hydrofracking.»

Fracking is a drilling method to extract natural gas found deep in shale formations.

Except that there are more and more examples of how extracting natural gas is terrible for communities - Just look at Penn..

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

It's an effort to preempt companies from starting to extract natural gas even if the state ends up giving them the green light to do so.

He said he spoke to the senator after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and at his district office on Long Island, where they spoke about fracking, a controversial method of extracting natural gas out of the ground.

Walker said he would emphasize that pipeline with Obama, as well as the state's need to extract natural gas resources and address financial challenges caused by low oil prices.

12:27 p.m. Updated In the final session of an environmental - science communication course that I co-taught at Pace University this spring, Thad Cook, a graduate student, gave a thorough overview of the issues raised by extracting natural gas from shale using hydraulic fracturing, the method now widely called fracking.

If China can build its capacity to extract natural gas without substantial emissions to the air (and with careful standards for drilling and water pollution — which is hardly a given!)

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo (@nygovcuomo) appears to be closing in on a plan for extracting natural gas while limiting environmental risks in the state, as reported today by Danny Hakim for The Times.

The letter says Moscow primarily targets innovative drilling techniques such as hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, that make it possible to extract natural gas deposits from shale formations.

Begley tells THR that if it looks like he's agreeing with faux Muhammad about anything, it's because the Tickells asked him to be polite so that they'd get their funding for a movie they're making called Fracked, a film that will argue a technique for extracting natural gas called fracking is bad for the environment.

On March 12, 2013, JOGMEC researchers announced that they had successfully extracted natural gas from frozen methane hydrate.

Most of the touted benefits of the NJ - NY Expansion pipeline simply gloss over the very important differences between extracting natural gas through conventional means and through hydraulic fracturing.

Of course I'm talking about fracking — technically known as hydraulic fracturing, a procedure increasingly being used to extract natural gas trapped in shale in many places of the world.

He says it's «not significantly better than coal in terms of the consequences of global warming» and is calling for a moratorium on extracting natural gas from shale, which requires more energy (and so emits more greenhouse gases) than extracting it from conventional natural gas sources.

Hydraulic fracturing is a process for extracting natural gas and oil by injecting water and chemicals deep underground.

There are serious discussions underway about rebuilding our state's aging infrastructure, mandate relief and safely extracting natural gas from the Marcellus Shale.

So I ask members of Congress and all the interested parties involved to keep at it, pass a bill that helps us achieve the goal of extracting natural gas in a safe, environmentally sound way.

In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has not yet decided whether to allow fracking - a drilling method to extract natural gas found deep in shale formations.

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.

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.

Besides banning fracking to extract natural gas, Cuomo's administration has denied permits, thrown up hurdles or delayed approvals for natural gas pipelines and storage facilities.

More than two dozen people stood outside the Gordon Student Center at OCC to protest hydrofracking, a deep - drilling method to extract natural gas.

On the issue of hydrofracking, 47 % of adults in New York oppose hydrofracking at the Marcellus Shale to extract natural gas.

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

The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale, state environmental regulators said on Thursday.

Since 2008, when hydrofracking became a matter of public debate in New York, we have counseled a patient, responsible, balanced and science - based approach to the controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock.

I would consider supporting the gas companies in their efforts to extract natural gas, if they would all just address the following: 1.)

At the same time, Fiala would not take a position on using gelled propane in extracting natural gas from below ground — a move that energy producers believe could be an alternative to high - volume hydrofracking, which uses a mixture of sand and water to release gas from shale.

Hawkins goes further, suggesting that Cuomo is not genuinely opposed to the controversial method of extracting natural gas from underneath shale deposits in New York state.

Gov. Cuomo's state Democratic Party chairman says, «Drill, baby, drill» when it comes to controversial «hydrofracking» to extract natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation on the New York - Pennsylvania border.

«My belief is if we can extract natural gas, which is a cleaner form of energy, from our land, reducing the import of foreign oil and the cash flowing out of our country, and make for cleaner air, improve the economy and not damage the water, I'm for it,» Jacobs continued.

ALBANY — A 1,000 - plus page scientific and engineering report to Gov. Cuomo recommends lifting the ban on the controversial «hydrofracturing» procedure for extracting natural gas from an upstate area that crosses part of the New York City watershed, sources said today.

The Environmental Integrity Project and 16 other organizations have petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency to require the oil and gas extraction industry, including those companies engaged in hydrofracking, to report a list of the chemicals they use to extract natural gas.

The commissioner of the state Department of Health in an interview on Monday said he is taking a look at the alternative method for extracting natural gas that could sidestep the state's ban on hydrofracking.

Less than a year ago, the Cuomo administration banned high - volume hydraulic fracturing in New York as a means to extract natural gas.

Drillers want to go ahead with fracking — a process that uses large amounts of water, sand and chemicals to extract natural gas from shale.

Horizontal hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, is an efficient means of extracting natural gas from shale deposits often otherwise unaccessible, but critics say the process causes environmental damage and can even possibly trigger future earthquakes.

ALBANY — A 1,000 - plus page scientific and engineering report to Gov. Cuomo recommends lifting the ban on the controversial «hydrofracturing» procedure for extracting natural gas from an upstate area that...

Mr. Dorego said the senator also told him that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo would be lifting a state moratorium on fracking, a method of extracting natural gas from the ground.

Hydrofracking is a controversial method of extracting natural gas from under shale deposits by shooting chemical - laced water deep into the earth.

Hydrofracking is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock by blasting a mix of water and chemicals at high pressure into underground wells.

Hydrofracking is a process used to extract natural gas.

Hydrofracking is a mining technique used to extract natural gas from deep in the Earth.

While I appreciate that Peter Aldhous's article was primarily concerned with the immediate health questions raised by the process of fracking, or cracking rock to extract natural gas from shale beds (28 January, p 8), its effects on climate change can not be ignored since that, too, is likely to be bad for our health.