Fracking Fantasies

Shout Bits Blog ^ | 06/20/2011 | Shout Bits

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Long before drilling or gas was ever discovered, there have been Methane influxes in the ground water. (Especially near coal layers.) Like the Gulf region, drilling large areas has relieved formation pressures dramatically, which has in turn, reduced natural oil and gas migration/seepage to the surface. In some cases, natural seepage has completely stopped or has been greatly reduced.

In the PA field, (Marcellus Shale) there are impermeable layers above the fracked shale that will not allow it to migrate. Surface casing is also very carefully certified and installed to prevent contamination from gas wells.

(I am consulting in that field currently and have seen no evidence of these bogus claims being true. Our Directional, Intermediate and Surface program insures that even further.)

[dirtboy]

The images of burning well water in a glass in Gasland are from Colorado well water nowhere near any drilling activity. The reports of methane in PA groundwater in the recent Duke study likewise were found to be from natural sources closer to the surface.

I noticed myself in the NY Times 'expose' on radiation in fracking water that their supporting information on the worst wells was missing.

The amount of misinformation and slime being spread by the anti-fracking camp is staggering.

[raygun]

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[PSYCHO-FREEP]

One would think that logic would eventually win. Of course if we were in a logical world. But there are too many ignorant, brainwashed fools on the East Coast who believe every thing they are told or read.

In the end though, simply shut off their heat and electricity. It won't be long before they start screaming that somebody lower the price of energy so they can afford food again. Maybe then they can all be happy, knowing that the “Mother Earth” has been saved. (When it was never in trouble in the first place.)

[dirtboy]

The main problem is not, IMO, the big-city types in the cities. It is instead the big-city types who moved out into the country - you know, the same folks who move out to Lancaster County for the country ambiance and then complain about the smell from the dairy farms.

You have a lot of folks from NYC who bought homes in the woods in the Marcellus shale belt (including NE PA - the region is infested with them - they take busses to work). And now, egads, there are well pads just down the road from them. Ruining their country experience. So they see anti-fracking as their main NIMBY path.

Unfortunately for them, most of the old timers LIKE the jobs and revenues that drilling and production is creating - the old timers have tasted hard times for many years and like the smell of money that fracking represents. And the old timers are typically the county power structure. Hence the NIMBY folks shifting the battle to the media, where misinformation can get traction.

[Ditto]

Fracking uses nasty chemicals that have gotten into the local well water on too many occasions.

Far too many occasions? Can you document one example?

[Ditto]

So, renewable energy has next to nothing to do with wind and solar and is mostly replacing coal with natural gas.

Add 'Biomass' (or in laymen's terms, burning wood, dung or garbage) and hydroelectric which the Greenies also try to kill you and you have 95% of all renewable energy.

The only energy they support is the types that won't work.

They don't give a crap about the environment. Their goal is to destroy the economy so they can replace it with their Marxist utopia. Once that happens, you'll never hear a word about the environment again because the government will be the only polluter.

[Shout Bits]

“The only energy they support is the types that won’t work.”

I think that is my entire article in a nutshell.