The EPA declared the hydraulic fracturing drilling process safe as recently as 2004.
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The company produces premium monocrystalline sand, which is used to improve the recovery of oil and gas during hydraulic fracturing drilling.
The two discussed a new health study on the hydraulic fracturing drilling method that could be thorough enough to trump all others in a debate that has split New York for five years.
People get agitated about hydraulic fracturing, drilling itself, even truck traffic.
Parts of the anti-fracking movement will never be reconciled to fossil fuel extraction, whether through hydraulic fracturing or conventional drilling.
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This kind of reform makes everyone in the state a stakeholder in America's energy renaissance from horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
The advent of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the U.S. has brought down the prices of some energy costs.
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Thanks to the development of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, the US has been able to exploit a massive and hitherto unknown resource.
With improvements in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, this cost gap may actually grow in the coming years, rather than decline as renewables advocates often assume.
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You are correct that the entire lifecycle of a gas well using current advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing needs to be safe and secure.
In Ithaca, NY, where we live, as elsewhere, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing to gain access to shale natural gas (fracking) is a hot-button issue.
It should stimulate a boom in construction of gas-fired plants, given the huge new supplies of shale gas unlocked by the combination of deep horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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The technique they developed, called hydraulic fracking, involves drilling 5, 000-9, 000 feet below ground (in the Marcellus shale), and then moving horizontally into the layers of shale rock where the hydrocarbons lie.
Mr. Lichter acknowledged filling the office space would be a challenge but said Akron has benefited recently from growth in the natural-gas sector, which is expanding drilling using hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking, " nearby.
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Avella, author of a bill to prohibit gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, asked Martens whether there was a separate health impact study being reviewed by Shah and a panel of outside experts.
The truth about the Texas Disclosure law and disclosure laws and regulations around the country is that they do not exist to address any real operational issue related to the oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing process.
The research outfit reports that thanks to the innovation of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling on private and state lands, the U.S. in fiscal 2012 produced 6.2 million barrels of oil daily, up from 5.1 million barrels as recently as fiscal 2007.
The wider use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has unleashed a vast supply of natural gas from the shale-rock formations across the U.S., forcing down domestic prices, cutting the need for overseas imports and making gas-exporting nations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean a less important piece in the U.S. energy puzzle.
The two most obvious current examples are the ongoing, seemingly endless, indecision by Governor Andrew Cuomo and his regulators on whether to allow natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing in New York State, and the ongoing, seemingly endless, indecision by the Obama Administration about whether to allow the construction of the northern leg of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
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For all the attention given to technologies like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, some of the greatest gains to be made in reducing the environmental risks of natural-gas production come from simple things like the proper pouring of cement well casings and the proper handling of chemicals and wastewater, so that they do not spill or seep into streams or water supplies.
But in recent years, domestic production boomed, with horizontal drilling techniques and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking, " helping producers unleash a flood of gas from shale formations in Pennsylvania, Arkansas and elsewhere.
About 52 percent believed that national regulations over a type of gas drilling known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking, " should be enacted, while 51 percent said the government should continue to subsidize the development of alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power.
But once again technology came to the rescue, with hydraulic fracturing and breakthroughs in oil drilling.
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Obama also backs the natural gas drilling boom brought about by hydraulic fracturing, but that boom is also responsible for releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
The bans stem from local residents' concerns about potential adverse impacts if the state lifts its 5-year-old moratorium on gas drilling using high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which frees gas from deep shale deposits by injecting wells with chemical-laced water at high pressure.
And they have deployed technologies like hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and horizontal drilling to produce gas from shale rock.
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New York has had a statewide moratorium on gas drilling that uses high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, since the Department of Environmental Conservation began an environmental impact study and regulatory overhaul in 2008.
The Cuomo administration has put off a decision on the drilling practice of high-volume hydraulic fracturing, also known as hydrofracking, as it awaits the results of a health-department review, and its uncertainty over the matter appears to reflect statewide sentiment.
Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, involves drilling down and creating tiny explosions to crack the hard shale rocks to release the gas inside.
The Department of Environmental Conservation had faced a deadline Wednesday to complete its comprehensive environmental impact study of drilling for gas using high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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