The company produces premium monocrystalline sand, which is used to improve the recovery of oil and gas during hydraulic fracturing drilling.
The EPA maintains that two water wells in Parker County, west of Fort Worth, were contaminated by gas from hydraulic fracturing more than a mile below it.
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The U.S. is achieving many of the energy goals that it has failed to achieve through policy thanks to cheap natural gas from hydraulic fracturing of shale.
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The Sierra Club and other environmental activist groups have sent a letter to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie urging him to sign legislation banning the production of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing techniques.
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When opponents of the production of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing techniques (also known as fracking) present highly speculative environmental claims unsupported by sound science to shut down natural gas fracking, they are merely serving to increase the emissions of a multitude of pollutants and carbon dioxide.
Cuomo said late Monday that he hasn't given a deadline for the state health and environmental conservation commissioners he appointed to advise him on a decision on whether to drill for gas using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which injects a mix of water and chemicals thousands of feet underground to crack open shale and release natural gas.
Of course, the fly in the natural gas ointment is fracking, the hydraulic fracturing of underground rock to extract more gas and oil.
Opposition to natural gas development using high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to tap gas-rich shale deposits has been the primary focus of environmental groups in New York for years.
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.
Glutted with gas from the hydraulic fracturing of deep shale, the U.S. is positioned to shift from imports to exports.
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Moreover, although controversial, life-cycle analysis indicates that fugitive methane emissions make shale gas obtained by hydraulic fracturing as carbon-intensive as coal.
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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.
Libous provided the document to The Associated Press after published reports said he was part of a real estate firm that is buying Southern Tier property, which could significantly increase in value if hydraulic fracturing for gas is approved.
Recent shale gas wells are primarily horizontal and need artificial stimulation, like hydraulic fracturing, to produce natural gas.
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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.
Solving the mystery is important because of suspicion the quakes could be related to natural gas exploration nearby using hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, he said.
As hydraulic fracturing for natural gas has boomed in recent years, so too have the ranks of local activists, spurred by the new noise, air, traffic, and water pollution in their backyards.
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.
Before technological advances in hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas in the region had been considered too expensive for access.
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.
Chevron is also engaged in the exploration and production in neighboring Poland and Romania but has faced opposition from groups who argue that shale gas extraction, which involves hydraulic fracturing (fracking), has severe consequences on the environment.
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After suffering a punishing year because of low natural gas prices, the wind power industry is keeping close watch on the prospect that water pollution from hydraulic fracturing may lead to regulation of shale gas drilling.
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The Department of Energy has taken credit for laying the groundwork for the current natural gas boom, citing research and development dating back to the 1970s that led to today's hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, techniques of extracting gas from shale.
Every well that gets drilled into shale formations or other tight reservoirs requires hydraulic fracturing before the oil and gas will flow.
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But globally gas price rises have been curbed by increasing supplies of unconventional gas, driven from shale by hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.
Yet he pushes for new federal safety standards guaranteed to delay new fracturing projects and leave natural gas firms with large compliance costs.
The truth is that the opposition to hydraulic fracturing and the oil and gas industry in general is increasingly led by people on the fringes of the political spectrum, and the tactics they use to oppose oil and gas development are becoming more extreme over time.
Put another way, how are government regulatory agencies and legislative bodies to be expected to make rational decisions around the regulation of hydraulic fracturing and the oil and gas industry in general when they are bombarded on a daily basis by media reports, blog posts and emails from anti-fractivists that seem more than anything else designed to intentionally mislead them?
The company is gaining share in U.S. hydraulic fracturing markets used to produce natural gas and improving its seismic imaging, monitoring, and development business.
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