Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/18/2011 2:08:02 PM PDT by 92nina
Consider, if you will, a method of energy exploration which has produced over 7 billion barrels of oil and 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, supports hundreds of thousands of domestic jobs, and provides billions in state and federal revenue. It should come as no surprise that something so incredibly useful has made it to the top of Big Green’s hit list.
Hydraulic fracturing—or “fracking,” as it is sometimes called—is a process used to free deep reserves of oil and natural gasses which would otherwise remain inaccessible by standard drilling methods. Deposits are released by fracturing an entrapping rock layer with a highly pressurized water-based solution. This is typically a safe, environmentally friendly process. As recently as 2004, the EPA concluded that “the injection of hydraulic fracturing fluids into coal-bed methane wells pose little or no threat to (underground drinking water).”
Even so, the process has come under fire from certain environmental groups with leverage in the current administration. Although hydraulic fracturing is already regulated and monitored on the state level, these groups are demanding federal oversight...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/fracking-process-under-fire-left-a6070#ixzz1JuHwrVZn
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Delicious and Stumbleupon
Ping.
But it could get into the drinking water!!
Follow the money!
these people won’t be happy until the human race reverts back to cave dwelling, or the nomad life of the American Indian.
they are foolish dreamers... living in some kind of Utopia in their childish little dreaming heads.
meanwhile , billions of people and industries need energy and lots of it.
Liberals drink bottled water because they do not trust government water.
Frack the enviroweenies. I say blow’em out the airlock.
And somebody is using these people for their personal gain.
My well is less than 50 feet deep. I’ll risk the fracking.
Seeing several variants on the f word. Still lame.
They’ve watched too much Disney.
Somebody should let them know that people really don’t sing showtunes when they’re chopping down wheat with scythes.
True that ... I’m 80 ft.
(Yeah, I know you can't use it for horizontal wells, I just want to see the jaws drop and eyes bug out.)
Last paragraph. When its flowing out of the ground, fracking is the least of your worries.
Many of the early natural gas discoveries were most likely made not as a result of a search for oil or natural gas but were instead test wells drilled for salt or for fresh water. Strong flows of gas from water wells are not unusual in southeastern Michigan and sometimes the shallower rims of the basin can still provide a surprise. In the mid 1980s holes drilled to provide footings for a highway overpass in St. Clair County “blew out” with natural gas. The flow of gas from these early wells was usually quite small. The largest volume of natural gas was in St. Clair County were wells supplied “several families” in one case, “pumps, drills and two houses” in another case and “one house” in a number of instances.
Lol, the American Indian used to start forest fires to manage their woodlands. And I bet that once Indians got horses from the Spaniards, they polluted plenty of water sources, just like the Europeans.
The point about the Environmentalists being used is almost certainly right.
It’s only good when it’s a Battlestar Galactica reference.
The Democrat Party - Never met a job that they liked. Qualifications to be a Democrat are that you must be either on the dole or work for the government. Republicans will accept both and any in between.
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