Poll: Republicans Boost Opposition To Fracking

townhall.com ^ | 4/2/2016 | Matt Vespa

[rktman]

In Gallup's 2016 Environment survey, conducted March 2-6, Americans have a clearer position on fracking than they did a year ago. Last year, 40% said they favored fracking and 40% were opposed, with a substantial 19% not knowing about or having no opinion on fracking. In 2016, support for fracking has slipped to 36%, while opposition has climbed to 51%.

[wardaddy]

I don’t pretend to understand fracking but there are indications of some seismic activity in areas of intense fracking

Is it innocuous ?

Any dangers of aquifer contamination or do they drill too deep?

Does a driller directional drill and frack at same time?

It’s ironic considering I had extensive pipeline experience in my yute and board road building in Texas and Louisiana but never fooled around in actual drilling or production

Any experts here please fill me in

[wardaddy]

I saw a sign in Robertson county Tennessee north of Nashville on US 431 that claimed “no to proposed compression station”

[wardaddy]

I damn sure do

I owned some Austin chalk production rights back in the 80

15,000 apiece....I got back about half my investment then got a notice from a court I think near Llano that I was sold production from a guy in Amarillo who didn’t have the right to sell them

Tom Jones...like singer

He went to jail for about a 20 million dollar scheme

I was out on the deal by a Shamrock landman whose wife I’d grown up with

He got hosed too

My dad had similar experiences with a geologist in Dallas he’d gone to VMI with

Oil business?

Own the production outright

On leases...buy them from the deeded landowner who has them....yourself

Even pros get screwed

I would assume the modern database stuff online makes fraud harder no?

In the late 70s early 80s I knew folks made a fortune living in courthouses

High hourly wages and all expenses and benefits or paid by the lease or equity share

Folks lived on the road from Montana to Louisiana and even south Alabama and panhandle Florida scouring courthouses and making cold calls to farmers or timber people

On pipelines we farmed out leases....some smart pipeline owners bout leases while buying right aways

Talking about it I miss it a bit but I wouldn’t want to be away from home that much

[TheWriterTX]

You are right, even the pros get into bad deals. Invest heavy into a well that in the end doesn't produce; miss a small clause in a big contract that ends up costing them a bunch of money.

Most of the big producers honor their deals; it's the landmen who do a lot of damage with false claims. Some are pure pros and are upright and forthcoming; some are just sleazy liars. During the Shale boom, there were too many of the latter and not enough of the former.