Posted on 04/30/2013 8:28:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The climate is changing. Coal will one day be used up. We want to live in a clean environment. But the fact is that the imperatives of economic development often pose environmental challenges. Despite this, environmental protection remains important because we need jobs, security, better education and good quality of life. Natural resources are not our property – we took out a loan from future generations – and we should use resources sparingly and think about how our children will heat their houses and cook their food in 20 – 30 years.
The rush for cheap, reliable, clean energy resources has just begun. Does such an ideal source of energy exist? Visiting Dallas, Texas I heard people say, “yes, this is American shale gas: the world energy market game changer.” There I met the Head of the Energy Institute at Texas Christian University and managers from the Chesapeake company and their subcontractors. We spent a couple of hours together seeing the drilling sites and discussing issues related to shale gas. This is the picture that emerged after the meetings.
American industrial exploration of shale gas started in the 1970s, but, during the last 5-6 years, it has become the most rapidly developing source of energy. By now, there are 180,000 wells in Texas and 400,000 in the US. In the summer of 2011 in some US states 50% of electricity production was covered by shale gas sources and today’s US calculations predict that shale gas will remain an important energy source for the next 100 years.....
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Where I am from in NE Oh, the rail lines have been silent for 30 years.
Now they are running all the time with fracking supplies.
You’d thing this would make people happy in a place that has been economically dead since the 70’s, and where cheap fuel would be a blessing, but guess what?
Liberals are fighting it tooth and nail.
There are “NO FRACKING” signs in every other yard.
It's always changing, and we aren't causing it. What a bullsh!t way to start an article.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Now now, next thing you’ll be telling us the Great Lakes weren’t always there.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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