Sentence examples for methane contamination of from inspiring English sources
Hazards like methane contamination of drinking water wells, long known in regions where gas production was common, are spreading to populous areas that have little history of coping with such risks, but happen to sit atop shale beds.
Duke's Avner Vengosh presented on his data from Pennsylvania and New York that show some evidence of methane contamination of some wells near fracking sites.
At yesterday's workshop, Duke University's Avner Vengosh summarized his data from Pennsylvania and New York that provide circumstantial but not yet slam-dunk evidence of methane contamination of some wells in the vicinity of fracking.
In a study of the Fayetteville Shale in Arkansas, Warner et al. (2013b) suggested that methane contamination of shallow groundwater may not be a problem in certain shale formations.
In a recent study, Jackson found what he describes as "systematic evidence for methane contamination of drinking water associated with shale gas extraction" in aquifers overlying the Marcellus and Utica shale formations in northeastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York.
The Gypsy Council told the meeting that travellers have said they would not use the Creekmoor site if approved because of the "known threat of methane contamination" and risk of flooding.
Scenes that show residents able to set fire to their water supply because of methane contamination are the new face of shale gas exploration.
The re-injection strategies in each reservoir simulation case were designed to minimize the risk of methane contamination in the reservoir and maintaining the minimum level of CO2 in the production gas.
Evaluate the mechanisms of methane contamination in drinking water.
Another study carried out at Duke University highlighted the problems of methane contamination in the Marcellus shale basin in Pennsylvania.
More recently, as reported by the Associated Press on 17 June 2011, officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection began investigating reports of methane contamination in seven wells located in Lycoming County, near a drilling operation run by XTO Energy Inc., a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corporation.
