[thackney]

Previous related FR article:

Unconventional natural gas reservoir in Pennsylvania poised to dramatically increase US Production
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955363/posts
Posted on 01/17/2008

[RSmithOpt]

Dumb f'n hillbillies. What do they know? 1/2 acre of 30% grade of 1/2 rock lot in western NC around Boone fetches 50-100k with no municipal water / sewer. Go figure. I've seen asking prices of $750K for 1.5 acres bottom land in Banner Elk with a crappy view of Grandfather.

We got plenty of natural gas in the Appalachians now...it's all in the heads of the tourons, real estate speculators, and folks that use to live in Silicon Valley until taxes went through the roof.

[shove_it]

Lookin’ good. I’m in CLNE and WPT.TO.

[Hacklehead]

Sorry, can’t use it, it’s got carbon in it.

Note: Defeating Hellary is the Prime Directive. End the Cult of KKKlinton.

[rwh]

Wow. this would be great for these Appalachian states as development would bring many high paying jobs. It will be interesting to find out if they will need to frac the wells to produce, as fracturing the wells is very expensive. I work in the Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields in Wyoming and every well needs to be fractured for production. Even though the price for natural gas coming out of these fields average $1-2 dollars lower per MMBtu than the national average, it is still more than economically viable for companies to produce these wells.

[decimon]

To me this looks far more promising than most of the maybe-someday-somehow possibilities that regularly surface.

[Poundstone]

500 trillion cubic feet. Anybody know what that represents in terms of natural gas usage in the US? How many cubic feet the US used, say, last year?

[tdscpa]

Shhhhh!

Loose libs sink ships! Keep this a secret. If the dems hear about it, they will prohibit exploiting it.