Sentences with phrase «with fracked gas»

We need to complete the job since Cuomo wants to flood the state with fracked gas from places like Pennsylvania.

Not exact matches

The first states to begin unconventional natural gas development with fracking have cited potential economic, energy and community benefits.

As fracking became commercially viable, oil and gas drilling companies entered communities with shale gas resources, which can have a number of local effects.

Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

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.

U.S. President Barack Obama has made clear that when it comes to «fracking,» he is siding with the oil and gas industry.

Combine that with the glut of cheap natural gas from fracking, and coal production has plummeted:

Of much more importance, by accepting the policy of the Clark government you must be accepting fracking, a process which involves drilling vertically, then horizontally to oil and especially natural gas by pumping huge quantities of water laced with deadly chemicals.

With fracking blocked in France, Scotland, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Germany, among others, the shale gas revolution has not spread to Europe.

With that said, I am an environmental engineer who specializes in reducing greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from coal fired power plants, natural gas fracking sites, and landfills.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

New York Water Rangers is calling on state Sen. Tom Libous to recuse himself from fracking deliberations after his ties to a real estate company with a natural - gas lease were disclosed.

On the controversial question of fracking, the largest plurality ever in a Siena poll has said «no» to the natural gas drilling technique, with 45 percent opposed and 37 percent in favor.

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

The 56 - year - old Cuomo will begin his second term with a long list of challenges, including the implementation of a new medical marijuana law, a decision on whether to allow fracking for natural gas and the selection of up to four new casino operators upstate.

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.

And while he likes to proclaim himself as a national leader on climate change, he is flooding the state with imported fracked gas, giving billions of dollars to old nukes, and is getting only 3 to 4 % of the state's electricity from renewables,» noted Hawkins.

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.

Although the State Department of Environmental Conservation continues to move along with its evaluation of fracking, the governor has said repeatedly that he won't go ahead with the gas drilling until all the facts are known.

What this will point out is not the danger of fracking but the stupidity and political pandering that the man - child Cuomo and his toadys Martens and Sucker are guilty of, and how out of step they are with other gas producing states.

In this rare instance, Frack Action would have to agree with Tom West, an attorney and lobbyist for the gas industry in Albany, about both the purpose and the legality of this plan.

Smith, with the gas industry lobby, says he hopes that does not mean going back to square one in a fracking approval process that began back in 2008.

She sat down with Katie Cusack and David Howard King last week to discuss that saga, her take on the Cuomo administration's plan to construct a microgrid in Downtown Albany that will be fueled partially by fracked gas, and her take on just how disastrous Donal Trump's presidency and Scott Pruitt's time at the head of the EPA (so far) has been for the environment and how long it will take us to recover from the administration's setbacks.

Anti fracking activists, including Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, attempted to present the state's environmental agency with over 200,000 comments, on the last day of a public comment period on the gas drilling process.

Julia Walsh, with Frack Action, says she hopes that the governor will now act to stop the expansion or building of new gas pipelines in Westchester County, near the Indian Point Nuclear power plant, and upstate across Schoharie, Albany and Rensselaer counties.

Colleen Deacon, Eric Kingson and Steve Williams said they support a bill in Congress banning gun sales to suspected terrorists, an increase in the federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, increased spending on roads and bridges, a ban on fracking for natural gas, and replacing the elevated portion of Interstate 81 in Syracuse with a boulevard.

«It would repeal a national model to fight climate change and replace it with more expensive, dirty fuel and fracked gas.»

The nation's top energy - industry lobbyist said Cuomo's «knee - jerk» ban on fracking is being «cheered» by the gas and oil industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, all of which share the gas - rich Marcellus Shale region with New York.

The state Democratic Committee, in turn, has accused Cox of pushing the fracking issue because of his ties to the natural gas industry, with some lawmakers, including IDC Leader Jeff Klein, to call for an investigation of the financial relationship with Noble Energy.

They appear no less prone to the Jekyll and Hyde approach to green issues than other parties, with a 100 % renewables pledge, and a ban on fracking, sitting incongruously alongside a promise to «keep the pressure on the UK Treasury to do all it can to protect... investment in the oil and gas industry».

The fight against fracking in New York has now become a fight against natural gas infrastructure — this time with more lawmakers joining the fray.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The trustee of New York's $ 150.1 billion pension fund has reached an agreement with Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. to disclose what it's doing to reduce risks of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

There's been increasing signs that the state might more slowly phase in the permitting of new gas wells, with preference going to communities or regions of the state that are more receptive to hydro fracking.

Jim Smith, with the Independent Oil and Gas Association, a lobby group for the gas industry, says recent events may be influencing New Yorkers to think more positively about frackiGas Association, a lobby group for the gas industry, says recent events may be influencing New Yorkers to think more positively about frackigas industry, says recent events may be influencing New Yorkers to think more positively about fracking.

Brian McMahon, with the New York State Economic Development Council, a pro business and pro fracking group, believes that heritage tourism and the gas drilling industry can co exist, and he says fracking industry related jobs will pay workers a much higher wage and improve the overall health of the economy.

With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into the earth, fracturing hard rock to release oil and gas.

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 agency says encouraging more fracking in New York will lead to «growth in the natural gas industry,» with more pipelines and compressor stations that could harm state owned preserves, freshwater wetlands and forests.

Howie is on to talk about the fact that Cuomo tried to have Fracking environmental studies changed before the were published with regards to methane gas.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he may not decide whether the sate should go ahead with hydro - fracking for natural gas until after the November 2014 elections.

Avella opposes gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a position that puts him at odds with Republicans who dominate the Senate's ruling coalition.

If you're a green governor you should kind of know better than to bring fracked gas to a low - income minority community in downtown Albany that's already suffered years ago with the Albany ANSWERS garbage incinerator.

We see it with more fracking and gas drilling on our public lands.

While Cuomo says it is okay to proceed cautiously, some landowners with gas drilling leases are growing impatient for fracking to begin.

Half a dozen women wore white T - shirts printed with «Gas Fracking Brine» superimposed with a red circle with a slash through it.

With a campus controversy about natural gas fracking, the University at Buffalo is taking a look at the way it reports donations from industry for research.

«I want to see proper environmental safeguards and generous community benefits for the areas where fracking will take place, but does my right hon. Friend agree that shale gas has the potential not only to lead an industrial renaissance in this country but to play a serious part in dealing with fuel poverty?»

Cherie Messore, with the Independent Oil and Gas Association, a gas industry lobby group that is helping pay for the ads, says the spots are aimed at showing there's support for frackiGas Association, a gas industry lobby group that is helping pay for the ads, says the spots are aimed at showing there's support for frackigas industry lobby group that is helping pay for the ads, says the spots are aimed at showing there's support for fracking.

What's more, the source said, Cuomo has turned down offers to tour ongoing fracking operations just across the New York border in Pennsylvania and, in at least one case, «insulted» a major energy - company president by not even responding to a formal letter requesting a meeting on the gas - drilling issue with the governor.

While Cuomo says go it's OK to proceed cautiously, some landowners with gas drilling leases are growing impatient for fracking to begin.