Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/05/2011 11:45:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is on course to kill any hope of a New York natural-gas boom with the death of 1,000 stalls.
The DEC is taking too long, and paying too much heed to disingenuous critics, in issuing rules to allow the key process of “fracking” — a k a hydraulic fracturing, which involves forcing water and chemicals at high pressure into shale-rock formations to release natural gas.
Last week, the DEC announced it’s extending for another 30 days the public-comment period on its proposed fracking rules. This, after already stretching the period from 60 days to 90 days — and after many hearings have turned out more like Occupy Wall Street protests than a sober assessment of safe and effective drilling rules.
The DEC’s latest delay dismayed the pro-fracking side. “While today’s extension of the comment period may seem inconsequential to some, it is in fact a continuation of the existing four-year ban on economic opportunity for upstate New York,” declared Brad Gill, executive director of the Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York.
It’s not just industry.
“New Yorkers need energy to live and work, and tapping into the vast potential in the Marcellus and Utica shales will help our economy by reducing the high cost of energy,” said Dean Norton, New York Farm Bureau president.
Robert Nichols, a Steuben County legislator and a town supervisor in Tuscarora, chimed in, “We’re hurting for jobs. We need this type of activity to create jobs and put people to work.”
The DEC claims it wants to give everyone a chance to voice their concerns about the drilling rules. But offering so-called experts like actor Mark Ruffalo the platform to demand that New York abandon natural-gas drilling in favor of solar power is a waste of time.
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Test program for EPA.
Cut off NYC from all NG from out of state, see how long it takes to start fracking. As they say, “In a New York minute”.
Baloney on a stick! New York State, every other state holding up fracking and the Democrat controlled EPA do NOT want good paying jobs if these are in the oil & gas industry, nor do they want our country to have cheap energy production. They must think the electricity for those “clean” cars will come out of Omama’s @ss.
Let the ba$t@rd$ freeze in the dark.
A proper use of an 80s redux, IMO. There are no others that so richly deserve that result.
My best ideas come to me very early in the morning before I am even awake. “Why not just use natural gas mixed with non-toxic fluids to frack the wells”?
This led to an early morning frantic web search on the topic. Of course, somebody (must smarter than I) already had similar thoughts.
I may buy stocks in this small energy company from Calgary.
Shale Gas Fracking Without the Hazards:
http://www.dailyyonder.com/getting-gas-without-hazards/2011/11/07/3590
must = much
point proven.
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