Berardi said the utility stopped the flow of gas about 8 p.m.
Environmentalists have their misgivings about gas and about the methods used to get it out of the ground.
Coal now supplies about 40 percent of the electricity here while natural gas comprises about 30 percent, says the Energy Information Administration.
Most fortunately, America is blessed with vast amounts of coal (providing about 45% of our electricity in 2009) and natural gas (about 23% of power).
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Since power plants that burn natural gas emit about half the amount of the greenhouse gases as coal-fired power, some say that the gas drilling boom has helped the U.S. become the only major industrialized country to significantly reduce greenhouse emissions.
Natural gas emits about half as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as coal.
Gas emits about half as much carbon dioxide as coal per unit of energy produced.
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Currently, natural gas is about one-third the price of crude oil on a per unit energy basis.
But as a movie writer-director-editor, he lets himself gas on about it for two and a quarter hours.
Firmus is owned by Irish state company Bord Gais, and supplies gas to about 20, 000 homes and businesses across NI.
For coal, oil or natural gas, about two to three months of annual deliveries are in storage at any given time.
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It seems kind of crazy, because natural gas is about half the price of gasoline (on a per gallon basis) right now.
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But in terms of generation and distribution, electricity is 33% efficient and generation and distribution of natural gas is about 98% efficient.
He added that talks were continuing with the oil and gas industry about it also providing help when needed using its vessels.
Standard procedure before deploying tear gas is to order the crowd to disperse and warn them that tear gas is about to be used.
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Firmus supplies gas to about 20, 000 homes and businesses throughout Northern Ireland and competes with Phoenix, which has a customer base of about 130, 000.
For construction, gas requires about 1, 000 jobs per 1, 000 MW of installed capacity, wind requires 1, 000 jobs, coal 1, 500 jobs, and nuclear 5, 000 jobs.
Such unconventional natural gas releases about half the emissions as coal.
He buys gas in New Jersey because it's on his way to Albany, 170 miles each way, and the gas is about 30 cents a gallon cheaper, he said.
She made inquiries at the Gas Board about returning to a position similar to the one she had filled in the past, but for the moment there was nothing.
The Lipsky home in Parker County, Texas sits atop an area in the vicinity of horizontal fracking lines from two gas wells about a mile below the surface.
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For those who call such supply-demand projections folly, one need only look at the 50 percent decrease in the cost of natural gas brought about by a 20 percent increase in supply.
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Federal acreage onshore and offshore holds more than 2, 000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (about 75 years worth of current domestic consumption) and 229 billion barrels of oil (about 50 years worth).
If you care about the environment, if you care about gas prices, if you care about where our soldiers and navy may serve next, if you want the U.S. to remain strong and dominant in the world, look to the north this summer.
To put that figure in perspective, a Karma driver with a 40-mile commute who starts each day with a full battery charge will only need to visit the gas station about every 1, 000 miles and would use just 9 gallons of gasoline per month.
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This effort gained renewed urgency after militants -- upset at Algeria for allowing warplanes to use its airspace to launch attacks in Mali -- took hostage scores of Algerian and foreign workers at an Algerian gas facility about 60 kilometers (about 40 miles) west of the Libyan border.
Technically recoverable shale gas potential in Australia was put by the EIA at 390 trillion cubic feet of gas, about 45% of the 862tcf estimated for the U.S., but roughly double the estimate for France and Poland and 9-times the estimate for Ukraine which recently attracted an investment by Royal Dutch Shell.
It adds that shale gas had comprised about 23 percent of all natural gas production in 2010 and that it expects the fuel to make up roughly 46 percent of all such development by 2035.
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"Manx Gas is paying about 20% more today per unit of gas than we were a year ago and against that we are only increasing our prices for natural gas by 5.5%, " said Mr Nicholls.
Gasoline is unusual among the things that we buy for a lot of reasons, and here to help us understand why we feel differently about the price of gas than we do about just of anything else is Valerie Folkes from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
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