Sentence examples for urban drilling from inspiring English sources
Pittsburgh, facing the prospect of urban drilling, forbade it last year by a vote of the City Council.
California is a big oil-and-gas producer, too — the third largest in the United States — and Brown has so far declined to curtail even fracking and urban drilling, the dirtiest and most dangerous kinds.
"Every city has dealt with the issue of urban drilling differently and the industry will tell you they want certainty — boundaries established of what cities can do," Reed said.
The experience of Fort Worth the epicenter of so-called urban drilling in the United States offers a glimpse of the emerging issues and public debates around fracking.
CHENGDU, China — Like an urban drill sergeant, Tang Shenbin paced on a city square, sternly inspecting his nervous charges, issuing sotto voce commands with military authority.
VICE News visited Los Angeles, California to investigate how carcinogenic fumes from urban oil drilling are affecting local communities.
The City of Boston's earlier Urban Shield drills, one in May, 2011 and another inNovember, 2012, offer an ideal opportunity to consider how well the program functioned during a true-life emergency 'situation,' whether it is a valuable tool in terrorist situations and whether anything of significance has been accomplished to justify the dismantling of the nation's once-sacrosanct civil liberties.
They began with little equipment and no home field, and on the chilly afternoon I met these urban pioneers they drilled in descending darkness on a concrete basketball court.
As traffic backed up more than four miles into East L.A., the county Fire Department's Urban Search and Rescue team drilled holes in the overpass and inserted fiber optic cameras to determine whether the fire was burning, Flores said.
"There are real serious issues about drilling in urban environments," said Olive Talley, a George Polk Award winner who produced for NBC and ABC before joining Shale.TV as executive editor.
Support soldiers are also receiving added training for military operations in urban areas, which includes drills in how to enter a building held by hostile forces and to run convoys through contested territory.
