Report: Lifting fracking ban would create economic windfall in NY

Politics on the Hudson ^ | Jun 07, 2011 | Posted by: Jon Campbell

[thackney]

Sorry, we are now busy working in other areas that cooperated with business from the beginning. Maybe we can get to your state in a decade or so, after you demonstrate some common sense for a few years.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping AAC !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[thackney]

What simpering genius came up with the idea of a ban?

People who have their own water wells that are expensive and fragile.

We have used hydraulic fracturing in the country for 6 decades without creating problems with water wells. It is no more a problem than global warming. It is just the latest scam by environmentalists to hold back energy production in this country.

[thackney]

Until it comes out of the legislature as a law, there is no moratorium or ban.

If they don't issue the permits citing needs for more study, how is that different than a ban?

[thackney]

A team of Duke researchers showed that water wells located close to active drilling sites naturally occuring gas fields had methane levels 17 times higher than water wells located further away.

If it was due to hydraulic fracturing, they could measure chemicals for that operation. But they never have done so.

There has been methane recorded in water wells going back 100 years or more. Many sites in Pennsylvania and other locations have dealt with then long before there was drilling.

Duke Study on Methane in Water Wells
http://www.oilgaslawbrief.com/hydraulic-fracturing/duke-study-on-methane-in-water-wells/

The researchers stated that, despite widespread public concerns about drinking water contamination from hydraulic fracturing, such concerns "lack a strong scientific foundation."

For the wells they examined, the researchers found that methane concentrations generally were higher in samples from water wells located within one kilometer of an active gas well, as compared to samples from water wells located further from any active gas well. But there were exceptions. Further, the researchers found methane in 85 percent of the water wells they sampled, "regardless of gas industry operations." In other words, the researchers found methane in a large majority of the water wells they sampled in the Marcellus area, even when the water wells being sampled were not located near active gas wells.

[Scotswife]

Whenever I read articles like that - my first thought is always the situation in Dimmick pa.

[thackney]

Methane in Water Wells
http://www.drinknwaterplus.com/documents/Methane%20in%20Water%20Wells.pdf
FEBRUARY 1982

Methane gas can occur naturally in water wells and when it does, it presents unique problems for water well drilling contractors.

...

The gas that causes problems in water wells can occur in either bedrock or overburden wells. Methane is generated in source rock, then “stored” in a reservoir with some type of cap rock or impervious layer to contain the gas underground.

[thackney]

Natural Gas - the modern energy form
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vrIpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JuUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=960,3151007&dq=methane+in+water+wells+pennsylvania+history&hl=en
The Sydney Morning Herald - Jul 10, 1973

The modern history of natural gas began in the United States in 1821 when bubbles were noticed in a water well being drill at Fredonia, New York State. The well was only 27ft deep. William Hart, a local gunsmith, piped the gas into a nearby coaching inn to provide lighting using log “pipes”.