But flaring could eventually become another environmental headache for an industry already under attack over concerns that hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, could jeopardize water quality.
It has become a scourge of wetlands, eroding their water-storage space, jeopardizing their water quality, and harming their biodiversity [4],[5].
A study released in Oakland by the advocacy group Environmental Defense suggests that the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, flooded in the 1920's as a reservoir for San Francisco, could be restored without jeopardizing most water and hydroelectric power supplies.
Opponents in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area, which also relies on the reservoir for its water, say that draining Hetch Hetchy will jeopardize the water supply for 2.6 million residents.
The tribe fears that the pipeline will jeopardize its water source and destroy sacred sites.
And he has begun to reverse a decline in YPF's production, repositioning the company to focus on fracturing in Neuquén which he argues will not jeopardize local water supplies.
Chief Siegel said a superior told him to revoke Captain Gatto's promotion to deputy inspector and to turn over the unit's investigations to local police departments, a move environmentalists say would jeopardize the water supply because local agencies lack the expertise to handle such cases.
Gov. James E. McGreevey has bet his political future on his commissioner's ability to check what he called, in his address to the Legislature in January, "unrestrained, uncontrolled development that has jeopardized our water supplies, made our schools more crowded, our roads congested, and our open space disappear".
Besides, the presence of residual solvent and fluid movement of dentinal tubules into the co-monomer mixtures of adhesives jeopardize the water replacement by resins into the collagen matrix, leading to an incomplete monomer infiltration [3].
If completed, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe maintains that it would jeopardize clean water for generations to come.
