Sentences with phrase «water drilling site»

During my own most recent trip, I visited a village water drilling site and a prison, both targeted with US - made precision - guided weapons.

Not exact matches

«It is a full - fledged boom,» says Dale Redman, chief executive of Propetro, a Midland, Texas, firm that supplies heavyduty horsepower to drill sites, where energy companies coax crude from the ground with sand and water.

If approved in the Legislature, the resolution would fund the unit — responsible for drilling monitoring wells to evaluate groundwater pollution across the county at sites like the former Grumman facility in Calverton — using money from the water quality fund, a fund established by a voter - approved, quarter - penny sales tax.

Eliminate mosquito breeding sites by emptying standing water from flower pots, buckets, barrels; Drill holes in tire swings so water drains and keep children's wading pools empty and upside down when not being used.

«Finally, the Cuomo administration has embraced what we have known all along — that fracking pollutes the air, land and water, posing incalculable risks to families and business across New York, especially those near drilling sites, «said GPNY Co-Chair Gloria Mattera.

In practice, however, the ban — which applies to wells using more than a certain amount of fluid — will eliminate the most attractive sites because drillers now won't «have enough water» to operate effectively, says Robert Jackson, a professor of environmental earth system science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

During the six - week expedition, the team plan to drill at 11 sites in water depths of 720 to 1,770 metres and recover cores between 50 and 70 metres in length.

Its mineral veins, laid down in long - ago water, are different from those I found near my first drill site.

Since these gases are leaking as they are piped to the surface, rather than seeping up through the ground from deep fracking sites, improving the integrity of drill holes and pipelines could curb the problem of water pollution.

Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.

At the proposed site, the Tohoku fault lies under 7 kilometers of water and some 700 meters of Earth's crust, so a huge drill string will be needed.

A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

It is not uncommon during drilling for a site to have at least 10 trucks with 1,000 - horsepower pumps and for dozens of tanker trucks to make 800 to 1,200 trips transporting water if there is no on - site source.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

These are the same waters where the hotly debated oil and gas drilling has been proposed, but the sites are unlikely to overlap, say wind developers.

To measure the forecasted inflow of warm water under the Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf, in the past two Antarctic summers scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the British Antarctic Survey drilled through the ice at seven sites to deploy oceanographic recording devices below it.

At the site, they used a special hot water drilling system to dig into the ice.

Among the highlights of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.

This site - specific installation features an immense field of water that harnesses light, reflection, music, and sound to amplify and transform the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, encouraging viewers to acknowledge their surroundings and reexamine one of the most historic spaces in New York.

A large amount of water is needed for oil drilling and site development, but water resources are much more limited in the 1002 Area, compared to areas to the west at Prudhoe Bay and the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska.

A borehole was drilled at Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1361 (fig. 1), in 3,465 m of water, situated 310 km offshore of the Adélie Land margin of East Antarctica.

Once they reach a good sampling site, they set up camp nearby and get to work, drilling through the ice and the water below until their equipment reaches sediments.

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

Other impacts of tight oil include potentially significant water, air, and noise pollution around drilling sites, and the risk of oil spills by the trucks, trains, and pipes that transport extracted shale oil to refineries.

Since the proposed drilling sites in the Bight are in Commonwealth waters, NOPSEMA approval is required for drilling to go ahead.

In the U.S. the Obama Administration has granted sweeping approval to a wide swathe of drilling sites in its Arctic waters, despite widespread condemnation from environmentalists and northern indigenous communities.

Overall, however, the environmental impacts of fracking (a process that involves pumping chemical - laden water underground to extract oil and gas) on groundwater and air near drilling sites have played second fiddle to the industry's economic impacts in this election cycle, Kelsey said.

The Associated Press (7/19/13) reports: «A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy -LSB-...]

Further evidence for the difference between methane from water wells near active drilling sites and neighboring nonactive sites is the relationship of methane concentration to δ13C - CH4 values (Fig. 4A) and the ratios of methane to higher - chain hydrocarbons versus δ13C - CH4 (Fig. 4B).