Still on the block, some analysts say, are GE's appliance, lighting, industrial controls and water chemicals businesses.
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The group says forcing water and chemicals deep into shale deposits to extract gas threatens drinking water and the environment.
The process involves extracting gas from rocks by pumping in sand, water and chemicals.
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Fracking pushes water, chemicals, and sand into the well to expose the gasses trapped 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.
They do not thrive, at least not without massive applications of water and chemicals, in places like Houston, Los Angeles or Las Vegas.
Fracking is a technique of shale gas extraction that involves pumping water and chemicals into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas.
It extracts oil from the ground using a method called fracking - pumping down a mixture of sand, water and chemicals at high pressure.
About 25, 000 wells a year are being fracked, a process in which water, chemicals and sand are injected at high pressure underground to release trapped natural gas.
To get at the oil and gas trapped in shale, drillers use powerful hydraulic pumps to force water and chemicals through holes punched in the concrete-and-steel well casing.
Under the process of fracking, oil or gas is extracted from shale rock by pumping a mixture of sand, water and chemicals into the rock at high pressure.
Rather than pouring my milk into a separate container that requires cleaning (using water and chemicals) just insert a probe into the milk jug (or container) that you get from the store (or in my case dairy farm delivery service).
The industry has boomed in recent years, thanks to a stunning expansion of drilling in previously untapped areas because of the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which injects sand, water and chemicals to break apart rock and free the gas inside.
Many federal and state regulators say hydraulic fracturing, which injects a mix of water and chemicals thousands of feet underground to crack open shale and release natural gas, is safe when done properly and thousands of sites have few complaints of pollution.
The drilling technique, which uses sand, water and chemicals under high pressure to extract oil and natural gas from rock formations, has helped Eagle Ford oil production grow by 184% last year compared with 2011, according to the Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state's oil and gas exploration and production.
Water has been one of the key points of contention over fracking, both because the practice pollutes water with chemicals, salts, and radioactivity and because it consumes lots of H20: up to 13 million gallons to open a single well, according to an administrator on Texas Water Development Board cited by Bloomberg reporter Joe Carroll.
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.
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Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" is a process of forcing water mixed with chemicals through deep wells to shatter and crack hard shale rocks to release the gas inside.
Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that more than a week after Hurricane Katrina hit the region health officials still don't know if the water contains toxic chemicals.
Treatments such as diuretics (which speed up the elimination of water and salt), beta-blockers (which cause the heart to beat more slowly and less forcefully) and ACE inhibitors (which stop the production of water-attracting chemicals) have long been available.
Developers use a concoction of sand, chemicals and water to achieve those aims something that drillers say is safe and proven.
They took off loaded with fire retardant chemicals and water, dumped their loads, raced back for more, and this went on for nine hours.
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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There's no doubt that critics of hydraulic fracturing a practice colloquially known as fracking that involves injecting water, sand and chemicals into underground rock to free vast reserves of gas have some legitimate concerns.
Fracking, of course, is the controversial method by which producers extract tight oil and gas a process that uses a concoction of water, sand and chemicals to break those deposits free from the rocks where they rest a mile beneath the ground.
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