Concerns Spread over Environmental Costs of Producing Shale Gas

Scientific American ^ | July 9, 2010 | Joel Kirkland

[Sacajaweau]

Back to back???....These two places are about 70 miles apart.

Since they are occurring at relatively the same time...maybe one might consider.....sabotage!!!

[TigersEye]

The 0bama-Democrat-RINO (Progressive) "No Domestic Energy Policy!"

• No domestic drilling.
• No new refineries.
• No new nuke plants.
• No new dams for hydro-electric.
• No coal.
• No shale.
• Deplete the SPR.
• Let Iran get nukes.
• Let Iraq fall to Iranian domination.
• No Canadian tar sands oil.
• Loan billions to Brazil's Petrobras for offshore drilling in Brazil.
• Carbon caps and taxes to make what's left sky rocket in price.

[Gorzaloon]

Or, two sudden news releases from the Ministry of Propaganda.

The oil industry is sabotaged, the nuclear industry is in suspended animation, and there have been a flood of stories about how Shale Gas can greatly help our energy situtation.

Can't have that. Expect more of these.

[bagman]

Psst, it’s a secret but the nuclear industry is not in suspended animation. This is just between you and me. Don’t let anyone else know.

[Sacajaweau]

It’s time to attack windmills. How does Bald Eagle medallions with parslied potatoes sound?

[mortal19440]

John Hanger

Talk about a crook. Check out his investments and see what DEP is doing to the townships. Does Hanger have any skin in the game? Yo bet!!!

[rmh47]

I'm old enough to remember when Scientific American was a really good science magazine -- without the propaganda. But that was many decades ago.

Sad.

[GladesGuru]

Since they are occurring at relatively the same time...maybe one might consider.....sabotage!!!

Well, considering that they are timed to reinforce the Cloward/Piven-ing of American oil and gas production, and given the anti-American bias of the Regime, arguably, one should be considering treason instead of sabotage.

Carol Browner was a hard core enviro-commie when she was in Florida. Not surprising Obama wanted her.

[epithermal]

“On the record of safety and performance associated with hydraulic fracturing:

“Just a note about fracking: First of all, it’s standard operating procedure in Pennsylvania. And it’s important to point out that we’ve never seen an impact to fresh groundwater directly from fracking.”

“If there was fracturing of the producing formations that was having a direct communication with groundwater, the first thing you would notice is the salt content in the drinking water. It’s never happened. After a million times across the country, no one’s ever documented drinking water wells that have actually been shown to be impacted by fracking.”

“A lot of folks relate the situation in Dimock to a fracking problem. I just want to make sure everyone’s clear on this – that it isn’t. What happened in Dimock was that a company was drilling in the Marcellus, and they encountered a shallow gas producing formation … which is common in this area of Pennsylvania. … It wasn’t a fracking problem.”

“How many wells has fracturing damaged? I assume you’re referring to ‘how many drinking water wells.’? And in our experience, it’s been zero.”

http://marcelluscoalition.org/2010/05/in-his-own-words-pa-dep-regulator-separates-fact-from-fiction-on-the-marcellus/

[goldfinch]

Making energy more expensive is a goal of liberals. Naturally, the media arm of the Democratic party will search out these kinds of incidents no matter how insignificant.

[bert]

Bull shit spreads in Pennsylvania as a new front in the war on America opens.

The only good greenie is a nonbreathing greenie

[driftdiver]

Condor goes better with potatoes.

[4buttons]

I’m sympathetic to this subject, and I want to know more so I can form an opinion- but I wouldn’t use a copy of Scientific American to wipe my can.

[Gondring]

But [fracking] has been standard operating procedure in Pennsylvania since the ‘50s and … almost 100 percent of the wells drilled in Pennsylvania have been hydraulically fractured using the same [materials] that are being used with the Marcellus today.”

Wow! Fast Eddie must really want this to go through...he's got regulators lying through their teeth. Many of the compounds used in fracking weren't even around in the 50s. (And Halliburton and BJ claim they stopped using diesel fuel in fracking fluids two years ago. :-)

[epithermal]

Yeah, there are some pretty bold statements being thrown around and I imagine you know the players better than me. I am not sure if they were fracking anywhere in the 50’s, at least not at the scale they do today. Maybe he is referring to when they used to drop dynamite down a hole?

Anyway, I am still not finding any site specific information that is easily accessed from the internet. Still an interesting problem so I will keep looking.

[an amused spectator]

Cool! Haven't see a Willie Green post in a while! (Cut down my FR surfing time)

Of course, we didn't see any "concerns" about the CFL mercury bomblets until AFTER the Greenies conned us into legislating the incandescents out...

[Gorzaloon]

Psst, it’s a secret but the nuclear industry is not in suspended animation. This is just between you and me. Don’t let anyone else know.

What's the average age of our installed base?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Rationing is their middle name.

[Gondring]

Carol Browner was the one in the Clinton Adminstration who decided that the EPA won't regulate hydrofracturing for oil/gas. Of course, that was before the newer techniques that use higher pressure and more additives...but that was addressed about 5 years ago.