Posted on 11/25/2016 6:17:22 AM PST by rktman
Since Donald Trump's election, environmental zealots have mostly had a very rough two weeks — and Donald Trump has had nothing to do with any of it.
Two developments they consider really bad (meaning good for the rest of us) far outweigh the single item they're celebrating. First, in Wyoming, just two days after the election, their "fracking is bad" Exhibit A in Pavillion, Wyoming was completely discredited. Second, in Texas this week, a huge oil discovery was reported — so big and unprecedented that the only commenter at the Associated Press's coverage of the story at the Washington Post wrote: "This ... should be front-page news given its economic and geopolitical impact" — but of course it's not.
Neither good-for-us, bad-for-them story is getting adequate press attention.
The one item the "keep it in the ground" crowd can celebrate as good news for them (and bad for the rest of us) is the Obama administration's arbitrary and disgraceful Arctic offshore drilling ban. As Jazz Shaw at Hot Air wrote: "Barack Obama seems determined to leave some unpleasant going away presents for his successor on the domestic energy front." Given that he didn't think there would be any need to handicap his successor, it seems likely that Obama and his outgoing administration are just warming up.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
” Yeah heard about the Wolfcamp discovery a little over a week ago and
just today it occurred to me that I haven’t heard anything about it since.
So yeah, our wonderful left-wing liberal Democrat press doesn’t want
us to know about it. They dutifully reported it once and then crickets.”
Not a new discovery, we’ve been drilling into the Wolfcamp for over 50 years here in the basin. USGS is so far behind it’s amusing.
Frankly, I'm not sure the public was ever given a clear reason. Exxon just locked the gates and walked away, taking losses that had to run in the billions.
An old Exxon hand said the company gave the “extraction” process several names as it matured. I think they were close to something...maybe using the process insitu, without all the breaking.
Exactly correct.
And even the US most environmentally strict state agency in Minnesota supports allowing microbes to eat small oil spills.
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