My bet is that this formation also extends "well" offshore.
It had to be said.
Posted on 06/11/2013 10:41:47 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Frack the Greens.
It is they only way state employee can expect to get their pensions. Purple isn’t that green.
Revolting Californians? What’s new?
Sounds like California Dems is Pennsylvania Dems.
Salivating at the thought of all the new revenue streams from fracking.
Burn the Eco-Zealots...
“It is they only way state employee can expect to get their pensions. Purple isn’t that green”
That is exactly it. California needs the money(green).
Maybe the private sector union goons are finally waking up and realizing that the oil industry creates good paying jobs including union jobs.
Also, the world's top scientist, al Gore, says that it's very bad, not only does it not make any money for him, it's doubleplus ungood!”
Gang Green? Frack em!
“but it turns out that enough of California’s legislators are at least somewhat tuned in to the economic realities of hydraulic fracturing,”
More likely the oil companies bought enough Dem votes.
California electric power production at least is very “green” as far as CO2 goes. There are no coal fired power plants in California. All in-state electric power is either nuclear, hydro or natural gas with some VERY minor wind and geothermal.
Some electricity is imported from Arizona that has a coal plant, and is rather hypocritically imported by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, aka the largest California public agency in the generation business and ostensibly the “greenest”.
California production of Nat Gas however will reduce out of state imports and so will have an effect, probably, in displacing other sorts of power plant fuels, but elsewhere.
Who would’ve believed that some common sense would reappear in CA?
A tiny ray of sunshine! We’ll take our victories where we find them! Thanks for the ping!
For those who want to see a short 6 minute video showing how horizontal drilling and fracking is done Northern Gas and Oil has done a great video.
This includes a piece on how groundwater contamination is avoided:
http://www.northernoil.com/drilling-video
Knowledge is power, keep the link and pass it on.
Except for one part, I agree with the video. An intermediate casing should have been installed and cemented from the base of the surface casing to the “kick off point” with the cement circulated to the surface in the annulus between the surface and intermediate strings.
My bet is that this formation also extends "well" offshore.
It had to be said.
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