Fracking Sands Articles & Analysis
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The plant was initially opened by another company in 2014 to produce ceramic proppants for use in oil and gas fracking operations, but an industry shift to sand proppants forced the plant to close just nine months later. ...
The US under Trump is going all out for fossil fuel extraction. Coal, tar sands, fracked gas: Trump is hell-bent on digging out as much as he can. ...
Additionally, the AOS Filter dismantles difficult contaminants such as napthenic acids from actual field samples of oil sands "produced water" as well as 1,4 dioxane, a solvent related to industrial production. ...
A judge has halted the approval of fracking operations in North Carolina until a higher court weighs in on the legality of the appointment of several boards that manage state resources and the environment. ...
Canada said Oct. 21 that a low price for carbon dioxide in carbon markets is hindering development of CCS technologies, but a Canadian delegate told a special roundtable on the topic that the country—criticized for widespread use of high-polluting oil sands and fracking projects—intends to be a leader in the use of carbon capture and storage. ...
At least four workers have died since 2010, apparently from acute chemical exposures during flowback operations, which involve transferring, storing and measuring fluids that return to the surface after fracking, NIOSH said in a blog post. The institute assessed worker exposure to other chemicals mixed into fluids that are injected into the earth during ...
The oil and gas industry has said the fracking chemicals are disclosed at tens of thousands of wells, but environmental and health groups and government regulators say a loophole that allows companies to hide chemical "trade secrets" has been a major problem. ...
The case has implications for the spread of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of injecting sand, water and chemicals to free the gas from shale rock deep underground. ...
It's a huge institutional failure," said Kassie Siegel, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. "Offshore fracking is far more common than anyone realized." Little is known about the effects on the marine environment of fracking, which shoots water, sand and chemicals at high pressure to clear old wells or crack rock formations to ...
Companies are doing the offshore fracking - which involves pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of salt water, sand and chemicals into undersea shale and sand formations - to stimulate old existing wells into new oil production. ...
"BioLargo has an environmentally sensitive answer to many of the problems associated with the controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking,' as well as other contaminated water treatment issues within various industries. Between the oil sands and the fracking waters, BioLargo has an important role to play in ...