The proposal, which would also cover other forms of gas drilling, comes as the Cuomo administration seeks to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, widely known as hydrofracking.
"So far we have only seen [canisters] with CS on them," said Karim Medhat Ennarah, a political and security reform researcher for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, which has spent the past two days seeking evidence of other forms of gas being used.
Shale gas and other forms of tight gas are referred to as "unconventional" because of their atypical reservoirs, which require new production techniques.
In general, coal can be considered a hydrogen-deficient hydrocarbon with a hydrogen-to-carbon ratio near 0.8, as compared with a liquid hydrocarbons ratio near 2 (for propane, ethane, butane, and other forms of natural gas) and a gaseous hydrocarbons ratio near 4 (for gasoline).
(Coalbed methane sells for slightly less than other forms of natural gas). And for the year, Mr. Olsen said, the tax incentive amounted to an after-tax benefit of $1.26 for every thousand cubic feet.
Jacoby and Deutch agree this is not sustainable, and that there is a great incentive to continue to tap into the shale market — with Deutch calling shale "remarkably inexpensive" compared to other forms of natural gas.
The system, which the Pentagon says can be operated within 10 days of being shipped to a new location, would be used to neutralize the large quantities of "precursor" chemicals that could be used by the Syrian government to make sarin and other forms of poison gas and thus replenish its chemical weapons arsenal.
The terms, "hydraulic fracturing" or "fracking" are regularly used in the popular media as umbrella terms to describe the entire process of obtaining shale gas, as well as other forms of unconventional natural gas development, from land clearing and well spudding to transmission of natural gas to market.
The term unconventional resources is applied to a broad category of fuels like shale gas, tar sands and other forms of oil and gas that require sophisticated technology to extract and are typically more expensive to develop.
Three Los Angeles City Council members want city, state and federal groups to look into whether hydraulic fracturing and other forms of oil and gas "well stimulation" played any role in the earthquake that rattled the city early Monday morning.
Three Los Angeles City Council members want city, state and federal groups to determine whether fracking and other forms of oil and gas "well stimulation" played any role in the March 17 earthquake.
