Sentences with phrase «with fracking industry»

The 2013 - 2014 Broad Annual Report doesn't have him on the Board, but currently he is on The Broad Prize for Urban Education Review Board — which includes Condoleezza Rice, Ed Rendell, former Governor of Pennsylvania (who is also involved with the fracking industry), and Andrew Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union.

The anti-fracking activists got their message out early and loudly, making it difficult for Cuomo, operating in a deep blue state, to choose to side quickly with the fracking industry.

With the report of corruption with fracking industry, it seems we need a new governor who truly stands behind the people of New York.

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And we repeated our studies with other health outcomes we would not expect to be affected by the fracking industry.

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.

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.

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

Some of the industry's largest players are also investing in high - tech water recycling systems to frack with grey or brackish water.

And unlike with the oil industry, no «fracking» method has been invented yet to extract gold from hard - to - reach areas, though Barrick — the world's largest producer by output — has been experimenting with sensors at its Cortez project in Nevada.What Pierre is talking about, of course, is the idea of «peak gold.»

As a whole, the American fracking experiment has been a financial disaster for many of its investors, who have been plagued by the industry's heavy borrowing, low returns, and bankruptcies, and the path to becoming profitable is lined with significant potential hurdles.

However, with questions now being raised about the profitability of fracking operations as oil prices tumble, the industry appears to have inadvertently addressed Mitchell's concerns all by itself.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking industry.

American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard slammed Cuomo for his «shortsighted» delay on making a fracking decision, and for snubbing industry attempts to meet with and lobby him on the issue.

The chemical industry works closely with customers in selecting fracking chemicals.

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.

An advisory committee has been tasked with coming up with a fee structure to reap revenues from the industry and to pay for staff at the Department of Environmental Conservation to regulate the hydro fracking.

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.

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».

«Powerful businesses and industries which stand to benefit from fracking use campaign contributions to gain influence with their local lawmakers, candidates, and party organizations.

Their «frackademics» are bought and paid for to tout the industry as opposed to the real unbiased scientists who week after week are finding inherent problems with fracking that can not be prevented.»

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 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.

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.

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.

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 fracking.

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.

The DOE panel aligned with industry claims that the risk that fracking fluids could contaminate groundwater is remote.

Some of the findings in the report also directly contradict longstanding arguments by the drilling industry for why the fracking process is safe: that hydrologic pressure would naturally force fluids down, not up; that deep geologic layers provide a watertight barrier preventing the movement of chemicals towards the surface; and that the problems with the cement and steel barriers around gas wells aren't connected to fracking.

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Gasland Part II, the sequel to the groundbreaking documentary that exposed the risks associated with the natural gas industry's hydraulic fracturing method of gas extraction, known as fracking, will premiere tonight on HBO.

The aim is to bring academic discipline to the unresolved national debate, which pits an industry that denies any link between fracking and environmental contamination against those who assert that fracking poisons air and water with natural and man - made chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects and other illnesses.

The Orange County Register advocated for expanded use of the controversial drilling technique known as fracking by citing an industry - funded study — peer - reviewed by an expert with industry ties — that concluded fracking is safe for California.

It also puts the EPA at odds with the oil and gas industry and an incoming Trump Administration that has vowed to further deregulate fracking.

Our goal with this story map is to present an accessible and accurate narrative about the fracking industry in Pennsylvania, which begins with understanding what's actually going on now.

Past Speakers Oct 2 - Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin on Fossil Fuel Divestment Oct 3 - Massimo LoBuglio, Environmentalist and Social Entrepreneur Oct 4 - Dr. Radley Horton, Columbia University and co-author of the Obama Administration's Climate Assessment Report Oct 5 - Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers, author of the cutting - edge theory of Arctic Ice Melt and Extreme Weather Oct 9 - Opening Night with climate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father Paul Mayer

It's been a rough year or so for the fossil fuels industry, what with exploding fracking wells, massive coal ash dumps, and oil spills from pipelines.

Industry, with the full support of the administration, continues the fait accompli of radically expanded natural gas fracking across the country, with serious unresolved issues about fugitive atmospheric methane emissions and the potential for contamination of drinking water aquifers — and with no adequate federal regulatory structure in place.

Truthland, a 35 - minute compilation of interviews with fracking proponents, is being promoted by the oil and natural gas industry's PR arm, Energy In Depth, as an answer to the 2010 anti-fracking film Gasland.

It has all the hallmarks of a new industry with ups and downs, but it is clearly here to stay — even with cheap natural gas coming from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in shale formations.

ANGA is the lead lobby group for the fracking and shale industry, with a budget of $ 69 million in 2012.

Much of the story for the first part of the 21st century has been the replacement of coal with natural gas, with electricity generation from gas more than doubling from 2000 through 2016 as hydraulic fracturing (fracking) transformed the gas industry.

Two big blows to the natural gas industry have come in less than 24 hours, with both the province of Quebec and New York state effectively banning shale gas extraction over concerns with the process of hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. «fracking»).

Iconoclastic oilman George Mitchell, with years of effort that flew in the face of conventional industry wisdom, had earlier succeeded in coaxing gas out of the shale by hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Get a sneak peak into a family divided by the fossil fuel industry as a climate scientist struggles to tell the truth about global warming, his daughter struggles to save the frogs, while his sister wants to frack, with this live reading of excerpts from the upcoming play from the award - winning Three Theatre Collaborative.

The history behind the shale gas boom remained relatively unknown until late 2011, when researchers at the Breakthrough Institute conducted an extensive investigation revealing the role that federal agencies like the Department of Energy and the National Laboratories played in supporting gas industry experimentation with shale fracking.

EDF has a relatively solid reputation compared to other environmental groups, which is based largely on its comparatively pragmatic stance on fracking and natural gas, as well as its willingness to work with industry on methane research.

Given the fact that UK property owners don't have the same mineral rights as in the US — meaning that fracking appears mostly all risk with little reward to many homeowners — the early successes of the fracking industry in sparsely populated areas of the United States was always going to be hard to replicate in Britain and, presumably, many other parts of Europe.