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And they fear that the new roads and water disposal required to more than quintuple the number of producing wells to a planned 51,000 will compound the damage."

Good points. As I stated, it makes no difference where exploration is done, they fight us tooth and toenail.

In northern Michigan since 1987 we have drilled approximately 8,000 shallow Antrim Shale wells, from Traverse City to Alpena. The gas from those wells will supply Detroit with enough gas for at least ten more years.

Due to Enviro lawsuits, the DNR passed policies that have increaed the cost of drilling those wells from around $150,000 to almost $250,000. At least half of that increase is directly due to the Enviros.

In the past I have driven reluctant landowners from TVC to Alpena and pointed out that can't see more than 10 wells while driving through the heart of the fields. Out of hundreds of people contacted. I have only had two turn me down.

Good for you driving those people around to see for themselves. I was thinking that the land owners with those gas wells in this thread, as pictured, should make them miny oasis sites with trees, brush and even water for the critters. If done right in a couple of years, you wouldn't notice them. The critters would make these mini oasis sites part of their life like the caribou have made our pipelines in Alaska.

The enviral whackos are against any real effort to make us less dependent on hydro carbon fuels from the Opec Princes and Iran/Iraq. They seem to really hate local hydro carbon energy like what you posted in your reply:

Due to Enviro lawsuits, the DNR passed policies that have increased the cost of drilling those wells from around $150,000 to almost $250,000. At least half of that increase is directly due to the Enviros.

>/b>They obviously don't want Detroit to have a local 10 year supply of Natural gas at reasonable price. So they want their cut via these law suits.