Sentences with phrase «where hydraulic fractures»

«The agency should include and explain the... investigations conducted in Dimock, Pennsylvania; Pavillion, Wyoming; and Parker County, Texas where hydraulic fracturing activities are perceived by many members of the public to have caused significant local impacts to drinking water resources,» states the advisory body's review.

«If one envisions a world where hydraulic fracturing is off the table, that would really change» the outlook, he said.

This share of production is even greater than the share of crude oil produced using that method, where hydraulic fracturing accounts for about half of current U.S. crude oil production.

Instead, they import most of their natural gas from states like Pennsylvania, where hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus shale has brought jobs, prosperity, and lower energy bills — New York's electric bills are 36 percent higher than neighboring Pennsylvania's.

The UT researchers took measurements at 190 natural gas production sites — and nearly 500 wells — in every region of the United States where hydraulic fracturing is occurring.

Not exact matches

But the contaminants can come from several sources: from the hydraulic fracturing process itself, from the waste water, from the pits where drilling chemicals are stored, or from transporting chemicals and wastewater.

However, it wasn't until the 1970s that large - scale hydraulic fracture became profitable, and more importantly, was being done in areas where the rock wasn't porous enough for conventional drilling to work at all.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fraccing, for coal seam gas uses a host of chemicals; however this type of mining operation has operated on organic farms where the farmer and company have been able to negotiate suitable arrangements and not compromised the organic integrity of the property.

High - volume hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, emerged as a huge issue in upstate New York, particularly in the Southern Tier where the 19th Congressional District stretches.

Among voters upstate, where high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale could create jobs, 46 percent support fracking, compared to 45 percent who oppose it.

There have been reports for some time now that the Cuomo Administration would soon begin to allow limited hydraulic fracturing by gas drilling companies in some Southern Tier in communities where most of the residents want fracking.

High - volume hydraulic fracturing relies on copious amounts of water, which is plentiful in states like New York and Pennsylvania, compared with western states where fracking is permitted.

Hawkins says he visited an area where they are drilling for natural gas using hydraulic fracturing.

What was happening in Pennsylvania is that the flowback water after hydraulic fracturing was being trucked to Ohio so that it could be injected into... permitted injection wells where the geology was better.

«Hydraulic fracturing rarely linked to felt seismic tremors: Researchers find only one hydrocarbon - producing area where production is linked to increased seismic activities at the regional scale.»

In Pavillion, Wyo., where residents have complained of nerve damage and loss of sense of taste and smell, EPA superfund investigators found benzene and other hydrocarbons in well water samples, as well as methane gas, metals, and an unusual chemical variant of a compound used in hydraulic fracturing.

To comprehend the long - term implications of hydraulic fracturing, you need to visit the region where gas drilling first boomed.

«While hydraulic fracturing consumes only a small fraction of the water used in other extraction methods, our analysis highlights the fact that it can still pose serious risks to local water supplies, especially in drought - prone regions such as the Barnett formation in Texas, where exploration and development is rapidly intensifying,» Kondash said.

«While we know pollution from hydraulic fracturing impacts our health, we do not yet know where that pollution is coming from — from the air or water, from chemicals onsite, or an increase in traffic,» said co-author Katherine Meckel, assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

That's the message coming out of the U.S. Geological Survey, which studied aerial photographs of a handful of Pennsylvania counties where gas companies are using hydraulic fracturing to tap deposits in the Marcellus Shale.

The news comes a week after DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens announced that the agency will turn part of the review over to the Department of Health Commissioner Nirav Shah to address persistent questions about how shale gas development and high volume hydraulic fracturing will affect public health in communities where it is allowed.

I was at the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday and officials there made a convincing case that the hydraulic fracturing study, due out in 2012, will clarify where real risks lie.

Quick, somebody tell officials in New York state — where they continue to ban hydraulic fracturing, the key to unlocking vast natural gas reserves located right under New Yorkers» feet, to the benefit of New York consumers, New York job - seekers and New York's environment.

The «comprehensive long - term energy policies and strategies» slogan also ignores where the real progress of recent years has been made: in the private sector, especially the petroleum industry, where revolutionary horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies have unlocked centuries of oil and natural gas worldwide.

We believe hydraulic fracturing should not take place where states and local communities oppose it.

Injection of waste water from fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has been linked to increased seismicity in areas where the injection occurs.

Where the Shale Gas Revolution Came From: Government's Role in the Development of Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale by Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus, Alex Trembath, and Jesse Jenkins, May 2012

Onshore and in shallow waters, oil companies use hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» techniques to blast cracks into source rock and release the oil, but fracking at the ocean depths where MacMullin and Wilson wanted to look is exceptionally difficult and expensive, and companies are only just starting to take it on.

High volume hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling introduces heavy industrial activity and hazardous substances into property owners» backyards across America where families raise their children and farmers raise cattle and grow crops.

Source: Alex Trembath, Jesse Jenkins, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger, «Where the Shale Gas Revolution Came From: The Role of Government in the Development of Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale,» May 2012.

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