[Smokin' Joe]

With the EPA in control of hydrofracking under the Clean Water Act, it'll stay in the Marcellus, and the Bakken, and elsewhere.

Many of these unconventoional reservoirs will not be produced without the frac job, and the apparent goal is to stop that, claiming danger to fresh water aquifers.

With the Bakken, the aquifers are usually somewhere on the order of 9500 ft. above the casing shoe, and in no danger of contamination by the frac.

[scooby321]

Just a Theory, We will go deep into debt ( that is not a theory).

States and the Federal Government will kill two stones with opening up drilling. ( see California and New York) two extreme environmentalist states)

[Pietro]

"With the EPA in control of hydrofracking under the Clean Water Act, it'll stay in the Marcellus, and the Bakken, and elsewhere"

They're drilling like there's no tomorrow in W PA right now.

[saganite]

Thanks for the info. I just ran across the frac act while looking up some info on the Haynesville shale. From what I read it looks like it’s being watered down somewhat but I don’t know enough about it to figure out if it will stop the drilling in these new shale formations. It seems the govt hasn’t met an energy source it likes with the exception of solar and wind which are totally useless.