With that in mind, the Environmental Defense Fund, Southwestern Energy and other progressive gas producers and environmental groups are working to develop a model regulatory framework for safe drilling that can serve as the foundation for better operations.
In fact, our oil production last year reached its highest level since 2003, and we want to encourage more safe, responsible drilling where we can.
This insures that drilling occurs in a safe and responsible manner, and that spills resulting from drilling are uncommon, if not entirely unheard of here.
The EPA declared the hydraulic fracturing drilling process safe as recently as 2004.
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But all drilling must be safe.
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But some petroleum industry experts maintain the technology for drilling deepwater wells is safe.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 exempted hydraulic fracturing operations from the Safe Drinking Water Act, freeing drilling companies from the obligation to disclose the chemicals injected into deep shale formations to shatter shale and convey gas back to the well.
Energy companies say that drilling for natural gas is safe and done in an environmentally friendly way.
Having said that, the drilling program we executed in 2012 was safe and successful.
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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.
Cuadrilla insists the process is safe, but says it has no intention "at the moment" of drilling in the area south of the village, where it has permission to drill a borehole for oil and gas exploration.
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