Posted on 01/20/2011 4:56:42 AM PST by thackney
There will be no oil and gas industry representatives in the peer-review panel that will examine a study on hydraulic fracing being conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan Review Panel was narrowed to 23 members from a list of 88 nominated candidates. A majority of the members are affiliated with universities and none are employed by an oil and gas company.
The panel will be headed by David A. Dzombak, professor of environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and includes five other Pennsylvania scientists. The panel is expected to review the techniques and analyses the EPA is using uses to draft a study of the potential environmental and health impacts of hydraulic fracing, and will also review the results and conclusions of the study, which will be completed by 2012.
A 2004 EPA study of hydraulic fracing in coalbed methane wells found little or no threat to drinking water aquifers.
They know everything, anyway.
Why on earth would they need someone with “practical” knowledge and experience?
A 2004 EPA study of hydraulic fracing in coalbed methane wells found little or no threat to drinking water aquifers.
Now, study it and get the “right” people involved until you kill it.
This is the perfect premise for calling the EPA before Congress to explain their kangaroo court process. Void of fact, science, balance, or fairness.
It is like having a medical board review your doctor's surgery recommendation, without including doctors, only accountants and lawyers.
Something about the liberal mindset where technical knowledge on the subject matter disqualifies one from any decision making process. The same mindset has also infiltrated corporate management in some places.
EARTHWORKS - Hydraulic Fracturing 101
Hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking, which rhymes with cracking) is a technique used to create fractures that extend from the well bore into rock ...
www.earthworksaction.org/FracingDetails.cfm
Lots of info available at:
http://www.halliburton.com/public/projects/pubsdata/Hydraulic_Fracturing/index.html
High Country News
http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/fracking-fracing-or-fraccing
Fracking, fracing or fraccing?
Ed Quillen | Jun 25, 2009 11:57 AM
“As nearly as I can tell, there’s no general agreement on how to spell fracking.”
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(note- they never asked an oily, they created the term.)
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