Sentences with phrase «to release natural gas»

Rep. Maurice Hinchey has called for hearings before the a House committee to discuss health and safety concerns over hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking» — a controversial process of releasing natural gas from rock formations.

The liquids create fissures that release the natural gas in the shale rock.

The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.

Power companies are rapidly shifting away from coal to cheaper and cleaner - burning natural gas, but the use of hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas deposits from shale formations has resulted in contamination of underground water, which harms rural communities that rely on well water.

FILE - In this July 27, 2011 file photo, workers stand behind the top of a pump for the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. (AP Photo / Keith Srakocic, File)

Hydrofracking is the practice of fracturing subterranean rock with a pressurized chemical mixture to release natural gas for extraction.

That's the sound of fracking — pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals a mile or more into the Earth to shatter shale deposits and release the natural gas within.

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.

Opposition to the hydraulic fracturing of deep shales to release natural gas rose sharply last year over worries that the large volumes of chemical - laden water used in the operations could contaminate drinking water.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves using millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals to break up organic - rich shale to release natural gas resources.

The only company in Britain using hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas from shale rock said Wednesday that the controversial technique probably did trigger earth tremors in April and May.

When Andrew Cuomo first took office as governor, he suggested he was open to using the fracking technique to release natural gas in the southern tier that borders Pennsylvania.

Water, sand and chemicals are pumped into wells under high pressure to break up or fracture shale, which releases natural gas.

Opponents of fracking, which blasts water, chemicals and sand into rock to release natural gas, say it risks contaminating ground water.

Fracking, as the technique is known, is the use of chemical - laced water injected deep underground to create fissures in underground rock formations and release natural gas and oil.

While high - volume hydraulic fracturing is banned in New York State, using propane to bust open shale formations and release natural gas is not.

Hydrofracking is a process that involves pumping water and chemicals into the bedrock to release natural gas and oil.

The process involves injecting large volumes of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, deep into the ground to break up rock formations and release natural gas.

The company developed a patented fracturing method that uses Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)-- plus three chemical additives — to break the shale and release natural gas, as opposed to conventional hydrofracking, which uses large amounts of water mixed with chemicals....)

The Department of Environmental Conservation will come out with a decision on whether the state should allow hydrofracking, a method of using chemically - laced water injected deep below the Marcellus Shale to release natural gas.

The debate around fracking in New York state has been mostly about hydraulic fracturing — using large quantities of water mixed with chemicals to break up underground shale formations and release natural gas.

Fracturing a deep shale layer one time to release natural gas might pose little risk to drinking - water supplies, but doing so repeatedly could be problematic

This unusual seismicity has led some to wonder about increased activity in the area related to fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, which uses millions of gallons of fluid to break apart rock and release natural gas.

There is no technical issue with fracking, the controversial technique of fracturing shale rock with high - pressure, chemically treated water to release natural gas.

That's when gas companies blast a concoction of water, sand and chemicals underground to split shale rock and release natural gas.

Fracking uses pressurised fluid to crack shale rocks, releasing natural gas.

For the hydraulic fracturing system, the study estimated the toxicity of the fracturing fluid chemicals used to crack rock and release natural gas, as well as the wastewater associated with shale - gas extraction.

Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to release natural gas and oil from underground rock.

This study is part of an ongoing series of studies into the costs and benefits of natural gas funded by the George Mitchell Foundation; Mitchell (now deceased) was the petroleum engineer and gas magnate who first popularized hydraulically fracturing shale to release natural gas but also donated some of his fortune to sustainability research.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

Promised Land deals partly with the topic of hydraulic fracturing or «fracking,» as the process of using water and an assortment of chemicals to release natural gas from deposits thousands of feet below the Earth's surface has become popularly known, but it is simply the battleground for a host of conflicts.

With all the promotion of NG, we're only now beginning to hear about the dark downside of hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» — using millions of gallons of water mixed with undisclosed chemicals and sand to release natural gas.

The main idea is that releasing natural gas (primarily methane, a potent greenhouse gas) is more problematic from safety and climate standpoints, thus flaring it is a better means of control.

In 2008, New York began an environmental review of fracking — a controversial practice that involves drilling through shale rock using a pressurized mix of water and chemicals to release natural gas.

Hydraulic fracturing sends «huge volumes of toxic fluids» deep underground at high pressure, to fracture shale rock and release natural gas, Food & Water Watch claims.

The report «Fact - Based Regulation for Environmental Protection in Shale Gas Development» was released in February during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, British Columbia, and suggested there is little or no evidence of a direct connection between groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing, which involves the injection of water, sand and chemicals to release natural gas from shale formations deep underground.

During the fracking process, millions of gallons of fracking fluid — a mixture of water, sand and toxic chemicals — are injected into the ground to break up the shale and release natural gas.

Concerns over fracking — the practice of injecting rocks with pressurized liquid to release natural gas — appear to be unevenly spread across the country.