The group says forcing water and chemicals deep into shale deposits to extract gas threatens drinking water and the environment.
It's dawning on a lot of MPs that they could well have to deal with proposals to bring "fracking", the controversial process to extract shale gas from rocks, in their constituencies.
He said the BNP was campaigning to lower bills in an attempt to reduce fuel poverty and that, particularly in the North West, its opposition to the process of "fracking" to extract shale gas should prove popular.
This has driven down demand and pricing for pressure pumping services like fracking that are used to extract gas from shale rock formations, severely impacting margins of most large oil field firms including Baker Hughes.
Chinese firms now are attempting to negotiate partnerships with FTS International, a Fort Worth, Texas, company that specializes in hydraulic fracturing, a process used to extract energy from shale, according to one person familiar with the matter.
At first Amgen tried using genetic engineering to create organisms that would extract oil from shale, man-made proteins that would make chickens grow faster and new specialty chemicals such as a cloned indigo, a substitute for the natural dye used to color blue jeans.
When the drilling is finished, water, combined with chemicals designed to reduce friction and serve other purposes, is injected from the surface into the well shaft at very high pressures, thereby fracturing the shale rock formations far below, and making it possible to extract economically the natural gas embedded in the shale.
Fracking is a technique involving pumping water and chemicals into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas.
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Fracking is a technique where water and chemicals are pumped into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas.
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Fracking is a controversial process that involves pumping water and chemicals into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas.
The technology use to extract the gas from shale is advancing daily.
Fracking is a technique of shale gas extraction that involves pumping water and chemicals into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas.
The invention of new ways to extract gas and oil out or shale formations means we now have hundreds of years of supplies of low cost, clean burning natural gas.
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Meanwhile, back in North America, new techniques were being developed to extract oil and natural gas from shale formations deep underground, from tar sands in Canada, and from deep water in the Gulf of Mexico.
They had been protesting at a site in Hesketh Bank operated by energy firm Cuadrilla which was given a licence in 2008 to extract gas by pumping water, sand and chemicals into shale rock at pressure.
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This recent article in the New York Times describes how American oil folks have figured out how to extract crude that is trapped in rock that is largely surrounded by shale.
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Innovations like hydraulic fracturing, known as "fracking, " have made it easier to extract oil and especially natural gas from energy-rich geological formations such as the Niobrara shale, which stretches from Wyoming to beneath the densely-populated Front Range of Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
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