The growing opposition to the shale gas industry has conflicted with the need for domestic independence on energy and a reasonable debate is understandably created. Like a Pandora's box, a great and helpful technology has been afforded to the peopl Continue Reading...
Hydraulic Fracturing Fracking Fracking or hydraulic fracturing can be described as a process of drilling deep the earth after which a high pressure water mixture can be directed within the rocks for the gas trapped beneath the sand to be released. Continue Reading...
Anthropogenic Technologies Such as Fracking on the Environment The people living in the Midwestern United States and most especially Oklahoma have become increasingly alarmed by the number of earthquakes they have experienced in recent months due t Continue Reading...
Hydraulic Fracturing ("Fracking") The Legal and Environment Aspects Page 3 Introduction / What is Fracking? / Executive order Page 4 Department of Energy Advisors Page 7 Law Student Article -- Let States Regulate Page 8 European Union on Frackin Continue Reading...
For G&G personnel, it will provide an ability to recognize very early in the evaluation process the potential for fracturing to improve potential target formations, as well as learning what types of formations make the best targets for fracture Continue Reading...
Fracking in Colorado Hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is not a new approach to locating and exploiting gas and oil in the United States. It has been used as a strategy since 1949, according to Earthworks, an environmental group. Fracking is a strat Continue Reading...
Legal Issues in Hydraulic Fracturing Energy is major driving factor in all daily activities, from home use to industries. There are various sources of energy, the major one being natural gas and petroleum. Throughout the years, methods of harvesting Continue Reading...
Legal Issues in Hydraulic Fracturing This study provides a comprehensive elaboration of the legal implications of hydraulic fracturing. Moreover, it reviews the environmental issues associated with the process of hydraulic fracturing. The role of hy Continue Reading...
Pennsylvania Act 13? Compare it to Vermont's May 2012 legislation: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2012/Bills/Intro/H-464.pdf Compare these with the New York State decision on local control of fracking found in Doc Sharing at. The Pennsylvania Act Continue Reading...
Legislative History of Fracking Legislative history is a term used to refer to the background or events that contribute to the enactment of a statute (Taylor, p.1). This process includes various activities and/or events such as committee repor Continue Reading...
Shale Gas Analysis What is shale gas? According to Alexander et al., (2011), shale gas refers to a natural gas that stored in organic-rich, fine-grained rocks, including shale, laminated siltstone, or mudstone. It contains a mixture of hydrocarbon Continue Reading...
Hydraulic fracturing can be compared and contrasted in sharply different manners; rhetoric on both sides can go over the edge, and oftentimes such extreme rhetoric ensures that any type of sane or rational discussion is rendered virtually impossible. Continue Reading...
Shale Gas Reservoirs, Resource Estimation and Recoverable Volumes What is Shale Gas? Shale gas is best described as rich in organic content and fine-grained (Bustin, 2006). Shale, is however a very broad term, and gas found in any reserve is trappe Continue Reading...
Energy prices went up again in 2008. Drillers created 29,000 jobs for the people. And State and local governments offered $240 million worth of taxes (Sapien 2009). And modern technology was there to realize the dream. When asked about the initiati Continue Reading...
Business Rhetoric: Drilling in the Marcellus Shale and Environmental Politics Inexpensive energy sources are a requirement if the country is going to continue to thrive the way it has for more than 200 years. The United States is trying to decrease Continue Reading...
Title: Hydraulic Fracturing: Understanding the Controversial Extraction Method Introduction Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil from deep underground rock formations. This pr Continue Reading...
Hydraulic fracking of gas and oil wells in the northeast region of the United States is controversial, and it has the potential to create devastating and long lasting environmental damage and human health problems. How this part of the country been Continue Reading...
1. Executive summary While the extraction of natural gas by means of hydraulic fracturing is a decade- long practice, of late, it has witnessed immense development owing to advancements in the area of horizontal drilling which enables gas and oil op Continue Reading...
Environmental Management Read Instructions File #1 Files Attached Environmental management The Water Permitting Board Natural gas represents an important resource within the United States and more efforts are made to create energy sustainability u Continue Reading...
Hydraulic Fracking Issues There has been a great deal of controversy over the technique called hydraulic fracking, which environmentalists and others have claimed it is a dangerous procedure to extract natural gas from the earth. The industry insist Continue Reading...
Hydrofracking NY What is hydrofracking? To those who support the idea, hydrofracking is the next (and possibly only) real alternative to the U.S.'s continued dependence on the world's oil supply (Energy Vision, n.d:1). To those who doubt the viabil Continue Reading...
Fracking and Water Quality Ethics Literature Review What is Fracking? Fracking is used to extract natural gas from shale layers located deep in the ground. The impermeability of the shale layers leads to the gas being trapped. The rocks are blasted Continue Reading...
In such cases, production does not even cover operating costs. Yet, even hydraulic fracturing cannot help increase the overall productivity of wells in the form of these shales. In such cases, the best way to increase efficiency is to actually drill Continue Reading...
Groundwater Pollution Issues How does America's groundwater become polluted and what are the sources of pollution that goes into the groundwater? How important is unpolluted groundwater to the sustainability of communities? Also, what are the soluti Continue Reading...
Fracking and Ethics Introduction While “fracking”—the term applied to the practice of hydraulic fracturing of rock to gain access to the oil or gas underground—has been hailed as a revolutionary way for the oil industry to dra Continue Reading...
Future Supply and Demand of Natural Gas The technology developed in the United States has become available for application in other countries mainly through efforts of major service companies. Until the mid 1990s, Canada's gas production was predom Continue Reading...
Oil Industry For the corporation that has acquired another company, merged with another company, or been acquired by another company, evaluate the strategy that led to the merger or acquisition to determine whether or not this merger or acquisition Continue Reading...
Letter to the Newspaper Our community faces a public health crisis of unprecedented proportions. My research leads me to believe that the cluster of unexplained illnesses that the people of this town have experienced over the years are the direct re Continue Reading...
Fracking and Tar Sands The objective of this study is to examine the issues of fracking or hydraulic fracturing and tar sands or oil sands. Fracking is described as "the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure in Continue Reading...
Balancing the Needs of Today and Tomorrow: The Ethics and Philosophy of the Fracking IndustryIntroductionFracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has become an integral part of the global energy landscape. This process has allowed for the extraction of oil Continue Reading...
Tax Law Oil and Gas is currently at the core of Russia's economy, even though there has been talk at the head of the Russian federation of intentions to attempt to move the economy from one which is based solely in these natural resources, to one w Continue Reading...
Groundwater "Water is starting to become an issue" in Harper County, Kansas, where groundwater reserves are running dry (Vaidyanathan and Gilmer, 2012). Low rates of precipitation, coupled with diversion of groundwater to the oil industry, are threa Continue Reading...
Regulating Oil and Gas Drilling and Transport The American economy runs on energy produced from oil, coal, natural gas, hydroelectric power, nuclear power and renewable sources like solar and wind energies. In fact according to a report in the Congr Continue Reading...
d.). Following this period of exploration one must tackle the seismic interpreters with their predictions and drill exploration wells. If these wells are on-shore, then the cost can be modest, but if the prospected reservoir is off-shore in ultra de Continue Reading...
