Fracking offers the prospect of economic and environmental benefits, but it also presents environmental risks.
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For as well as posing environmental risks, a gas boom would bring an important environmental benefit.
But coal mining and combustion produces health and environmental risks that dwarf those associated with natural-gas production.
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Environmental risks are not the only sort that that cause rationality to be put to one side.
To minimise the environmental risks, the pipeline is to be buried, and to follow existing rights of way.
Greens warn of environmental risks in developing them: a big oil spill would be disastrous for fragile Arctic ecosystems.
The Obama Administration has dismissed spent-fuel reprocessing systems already used in France and Japan because of security and environmental risks.
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In the past, that has applied to, say, environmental risks or lawsuits, but not to political risk or national security.
Rondeli, the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies analyst, says the geo-strategic benefits of the pipeline outweigh the environmental risks.
It is worth noting that shale exploration onshore requires much higher prices to be profitable and has its own environmental risks.
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The former Labour cabinet minister said the process was capable of causing environmental risks, but with careful monitoring these may be overcome.
Shale oil and gas is extracted using a method called fracking, but the process has been controversial because of the environmental risks associated with it.
Franco Porcellacchia told the BBC that environmental risks were key concerns.
When integrated into modern disaster risk management schemes, traditional management techniques have proven to be efficient and cost-effective tools to mitigate environmental risks and reduce vulnerability.
Getting neutral advice on the environmental risks is not easy.
The NSR's shortcomings are considerable: a short sailing season, the cost of hiring icebreakers, the operational hazards of extreme northern waters and the environmental risks of oil spills, collisions or sinkings.
The only people who really seem to benefit are the farmers who grow the crops and seed companies who provide the seeds, while there are environmental risks that affect us all.
Mr Noda has pressed President Barack Obama for approval, but faces American opposition over the environmental risks and from those who say it will push up the domestic price of gas.
Several environmental risks are associated with extracting oil shale.
For example, the the G2A2, an alliance of CEOs committed to addressing climate and environmental risks, will launch the Green Investment Report with precisely the goal of "unlocking finance for green growth".
Investors, too, demand quarterly performance and generally fail to examine how companies are preparing to manage climate and other environmental risks or even to exploit promising opportunities in clean energy innovation that are our best defense against catastrophic climate change impacts.
In the past couple of years, dozens of localities, anticipating that the state will eventually allow drilling, have enacted local bans or moratoriums on drilling at the request of residents who have petitioned town boards saying such heavy industrial activity is inconsistent with the community character and that they fear potential health and environmental risks.
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.
Kent Olsen, who heads the Route 125 venture, says government should cover environmental approval risks.
Big business -- namely, the gas industry -- is aggressively objecting to the allegation in "Promised Land" that fracking poses environmental and health risks.
It means CEOs and top management must educate themselves about these risks and opportunities and put their companies in a position to adapt and succeed in a world of growing environmental and other sustainability risks.
With environmental costs and legal risks rising, share prices for some oil companies have deservedly plummeted.
Environ specializes in toxicological analysis with the aim of reducing health risks and environmental contamination and ensuring compliance with regulatory goals.
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Kabat is a cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology.
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Kabat is a cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Everyday Life and the Science of Epidemiology.
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