Sentences with phrase «with fracking companies»

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

But for several years, companies in southern Louisiana, where his business is located, have suffered along with the oil industry, which is affected by changes in global oil supplies and technologies like fracking.

When prices were high, producers launched countless new projects — with U.S. companies in particular using fracking and horizontal drilling to tap previously unreachable reserves.

That's left a lot of junk bond fund managers with plenty of exposure to the energy sector at a time when oil prices have crashed and defaults, particularly among fracking companies, are rising.

With Wall Street backing, the company leased land all over the country for fracking, including Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

An Oklahoma - based fracking company announced last week it had also signed a contract with PREPA.

A few days after the Whitefish deal was finalized, the Oklahoma fracking company announced that it had signed a multimillion - dollar deal with PREPA too.

The organization has also created model legislation with intended loopholes that allow energy companies to withhold names of certain chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

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.

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

A top Senate aide to former majority leader Dean Skelos set up a meeting on fracking with the state Department of Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption trial.

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.

State Republican Chairman Ed Cox spoke last night, speaking with the knowledge of a board member with a major company in the field and with millions of dollars in investments in fracking companies.

The catch: Democrats in the Hudson Valley Senate District are being targeted with the mailer, which also questions the clients in Wagner's law firm, which Ball's campaign says «protects fracking companies and other polluters.»

«It's not surprising that New York GOP Chair Ed Cox would be so enthusiastically supportive of fracking, given the substantial personal financial stake he has in its expansion as a Noble Energy board member with millions of dollars in company stock,» Mr. Paterson said.

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.

Adam Skelos, 33, had sought to profit from fracking through a contract with environmental company AbTech Industries, as Dean — then the Senate majority leader — tried to pressure the state to legalize the procedure.

Mark Boling is with the Texas - based gas drilling company Southwestern Energy, and he's also a member of the fracking advisory committee.

There is no shortage of articles available with actual facts on the companies and process involved with natural gas fracking.

Over a beer at a baseball game a few weeks later he mentioned it to a friend from a rival company who said they had had good results with watery fracks elsewhere.

Chevron and other giant energy companies are demanding a TTIP investment chapter that will allow them to sue governments if environmental or other regulations interfere with their expected future profits by, for example, restricting oil and gas drilling, imposing pollution and oil spill controls or constraining the use of hydraulic fracking techniques to extract natural gas and oil from shale formations.

Public opposition to fracking has escalated in recent months, with concerned residents and environmental and consumer advocacy groups campaigning against the practice in New Jersey and the surrounding states, where gas companies have been ramping up plans to drill in the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation which extends up the East Coast.

A British energy company admits they caused earthquakes with fracking, Lt. John Pike's pepper spraying is seen around the world, and an octopus walks on land: Find this and More.

A lighter take on a serious subject, one day before the official start of winter... The tune is familiar, the words clever and the cause serious: Fracking for natural gas, occurring in a number of places as fossil fuel companies try to to tap into the billions of dollars worth of natural gas trapped in shale deposits, using a technique with some environmentally dubious consequences — flammable drinking water, anyone?

The topic is increasingly in the spotlight as the land grab for gas leases — by drilling companies seeking to tap shale deposits via high - volume, hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling (fracking)-- continues through New York State and the nation.

Another project proposed by Heartland for 2012, The Hydraulic Fracturing Project (p. 18 - 19, «2012 Fundraising Plan») would «raise funds from businesses with a financial interest in fracking» by «approach [ing] dozens of companies and trade associations that are actively seeking allies in this battle.»

The incident that resulted in this lawsuit occurred when an employee of the other energy company asked him to clean up a spill of fracking liquid; however, the employee did not provide him with any protective gear.