Posted on 03/22/2012 12:01:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Natural gas may be plentiful, cheap and inviting at the moment. But the fracking process to get it still fans the flames of environmental policy clashes.
At the Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics conference outside Santa Barbara, Calif., drillers and environmentalists debated over whether fracking posed a danger to the communities they serve. Drillers said that the amount of natural gas available –4,000 trillion cubic feet — can’t be ignored.
“There is so much there, which is shown by what prices are,” said Edward Cohen, chief executive of Atlas Energy .
But Paul Gallay, president of the environmental group Riverkeeper, challenged Cohen and Aubrey McClendon, chairman of Chesapeake Energy Gallay says countless environmental hazards are involved. He said there were high amounts of benzine in the air around the Fort Worth, Texas, area, where fracking has been taking place. There also have been problems in the air in parts of Colorado, where there are five times the number of pollutants compared with the national average.
“This is snake oil. This is not natural gas, folks,” Gallay said. He added once demand rises for natural gas, prices won’t be so cheap.
McClendon, however, said natural gas needs to rise by 800% in order to equal the cost of oil. And it’s needed in order to wean the U.S. off oil from the Middle East.
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Enviroweenies getting desperate.....
desperate because they are gonna turn Pennsylvania and Ohio into deep red states if they try and eff this up
Seeing some stuff in the comments also.
This gally doesn’t know my friend Jack...
This isn't about the environment. It's about Control and Domination. It's about the next dictatorship and the enslavement of a formerly free people.
I see the RiverGroup org is out of NY state.
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Shawn Holt
The debate needs to be re-framed. the debate should not be whether fracking is worth the environmental cost, it should be about how we can improve the environmental profile fracking. Look at what companies like GasFrac (www.gasfrac.com / GSFVF) are doing. They don't even use water and claim your 100% recovery using gel propane.this is a fantastic opportunity for innovation; doing what America does best.
Probably some Bankers behind them ..still hoping for trading Carbon Credits....
I guess that since their claims of groundwater contamination have been completely discredited, they have to move on to claims about air pollution.
What environmental cost does he refer to? He cites higher than normal levels in areas where no background levels were established.
Parts of Colorado have significant exposures of oil shale at the surface, and that could be the source, despite production of oil and gas from deeper formations.
The presumption that 'natural' is completely pure and all else is due to human activity is often incorrect.
What a bunch of crackpots.
See the related thread at link #3 above....for more about what civilization is doing to OUR ENVIRONMENT.
Git a rope! ;^)
I am a manager for an oilfield services company in Pennsylvania, working on the Marcellus/Utica shale.
There is no amount of evidence, fact or logic that will every convince most environmentalists that stimulation is safe and does not contaminate well water.
This is domestic energy, produced by American workers who earn above-average wages ($30K more than PA average). This is clean energy.
Chesapeake Energy just had over $300,000 damage to a tank liner from environmentalists. If there had been fluid in there, it would have been a spill to be blamed on the industry.
Numerous oilfield services trucks have been vandalized by environmentalists. Drivers are reporting multiple attempts at running them off the road by cars swerving at them.
These environmentalists are the racists of the 21st Century. Like those racists of the past, they are blinded by their hatred and see the industry and its workers as sub-human. They have no reluctance to cause injury or death.
See link to thread at post #3 for thread with the National Review article.
Commie Kennedy's bunch.
I wouldn’t want to argue with that hypothesis. I would probably lose. :)
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