Posted on 08/21/2013 8:08:50 PM PDT by kkgurule
Arkansas, Colorado, Texas—all states of the historic western frontier. Conjuring up images of sprawling ranches, longhorn cattle, and cowboys, the relationship between the American west and the farming industry has endured for almost 200 years.
However, modern reality in the form of the race for shale gas, is quickly catching up. As perpetually dry western states close in on a third year of drought and record breaking heat waves, the hydraulic fracturing industry is quickly out-competing ranchers in the scramble for increasingly limited water resources.
"We’re not going to be able to raise the food we need," said Ben Rainbolt, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. "How are we going to produce this with less?"
As cries of protest from environmental and farming groups are on the rise, a new technology developed by GasFrac of Canada has the potential to make such concerns obsolete.
Liquid propane gas fracking, or LPG fracking, completely eliminates the need for water in fracking processes, leading inventor Robert Lestz to believe that the technology could have “a substantially game-changing impact on industry”.
**To read more about how LPG fracking is silencing environmental concerns and helping oil and gas coexist with agriculture, check out the full article "LP gas fracking" at www.frackwire.com.**
(Excerpt) Read more at frackwire.com ...
Sorry, it won’t silence them. The opposite are Luddites.
It will be something else they complain about; always is.
I frac by day, freep by night
God Bless your efforts sir.
heard about this technology a year ago....I wonder if they’re still testing in Canada.
Fracturing a well does not require potable water. But this is not mentioned.
Ping.
“The opposite are Luddites.”
Primarily they are watermelons.
This would be terrific.
True enough. They will find another reason to oppose fracking and make bad movies in Hollywood about it.
No doubt this process was discovered when they were “salting” bores.
propane? PROPANE???!!!
ARGH!!!!!!!
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They don’t have to find a reason. They just make one up!
My dream is to have the energy industry...the oil and gas industry, just shut down for, oh, two weeks. Just two weeks. Let the libs and the uninformed see what they’ll lose without it.
No gradual backing off...just cut it all off.
FREEZE IN THE DARK liberal schmucks!
True enough. However, I expect Al Gore has a huge generator in his gigantic mansion and he would travel to Europe in a private jet.
Al gore is a little fish that might avoid the net, sure. But his supporters? They need to taste a bit of the medicine that they advocate.
Thanks kkgurule. When Iran shuts off the oil tanker traffic, nothing will stand in the way of a massive increase in domestic production. Of course, we’ll be paying $10 a gallon for gas...
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