We know what the risks are from fracking shale - truck traffic, leaking wells, frack flowback Some New York gassers pretend that there will be rewards - for some When this is simply not the case in most of Upstate. There isn't much shale gas. We already know where the Marcellus and Utica are probably not productive. The results of the test wells are in - and the gas ain't there. . . Two fracking fiascos - Gastem and Norse have proven … [Read more...] about No Fracking Rush
“Unearthed: The Fracking Facade”
Gas Wells Don't Pollute. And Cigarettes Don't Kill. . . Great new video that lays out the main fracking lies and the liars that tell them This time from South Africa : "Unearthed, The Fracking Facade" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPIEzSwPwT0&feature=g-all-a&list=PLAE6105D2BDA8309D They interview experts in the field (and me) and victims of fracking. They point out that the frack itself is one of the less likely source of pollution from shale gas drilling - The frack needs to … [Read more...] about “Unearthed: The Fracking Facade”
How To Frack An Aquifer
If you frack a horizontal well bore and that horizontal intersects a vertical fault that goes into an aquifer, you can inject frack fluid, gas, etc. into the aquifer. Piece of fracking cake. As this paper details http://www.scribd.com/doc/90528680/Fracking-Aquifers That is a distinct possibility in areas where high pressure fracks are being run on shale - in areas that are poorly mapped for faults. Kind of like this area right here in River City … [Read more...] about How To Frack An Aquifer
Chris Denton’s Napalm Clusterfrack
A funny thing happened on the way to the closing of the Tioga Landowners/ eCorp/ GasFrac Napalm Clusterfrack. Some of the landowners realized that a working interest in an oil or gas well is, under the law, a security . That exchanging a mineral right for a security requires an offering to potential investors - the mineral rights owners, the landowners. With disclosures of risks. And can only be offered to qualified, experienced investors. Not landowners who have zero experience in oil and … [Read more...] about Chris Denton’s Napalm Clusterfrack
Chesapeake: Adios Fracking Gas Holes
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304070304577396391732954530.html?mod=googlenews_wsj This fracking crock of flowback is imploding faster than I can type . . . http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201205021414/BUSINESS/120502032 As if we didn't know it was a scam . . . http://energypolicyforum.com/?p=401 As if some of us didn't know all this 4 years … [Read more...] about Chesapeake: Adios Fracking Gas Holes
Range Resources: Most Despised Frackers In US ?
We know that gas wells have a nasty habit of venting gas into groundwater. http://www.scribd.com/doc/65577477/How-Gas-Wells-Leak This becomes a real problem if you, your pets or your livestock drink from shallow water wells. (It's also hell on fish. . .) It's less of problem if your water well is mining water from deep aquifers - that are not exposed to leaking gas wells. In the relatively rare instances where people depend on groundwater wells - methane has sure enough shown up - released … [Read more...] about Range Resources: Most Despised Frackers In US ?
McClendon’s Minions at Town Boards
There are the mega shale $cammers - like Aubrey McClendon of Chesapeake Energy - the man who turned fracking shareholders into an art: http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/04/23/aubrey-mcclendon-must-be-stopped/ And then there are the local variety - the paid shale $hills that slink from one town board meeting to the next. http://www.scribd.com/doc/78149419/Energy-in-Depth-Tom-Shepstone The shale $hills in New York have two strategies to try to persuade towns to refrain from acting … [Read more...] about McClendon’s Minions at Town Boards
Tioga Napalm Clusterfrack DOA
Update: The commie napalm clustefrack is already starting to come apart http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201205011240/NEWS11/205010312 Imagine that . .. Who could have thought that exchanging fee interest in mineral rights for a working interest in a wildcat dry shale gas exploration well fracked with napalm was maybe a bit of a jinxy idea ? Maybe one of the landowners had an accountant. Or a lawyer. Here is the Tioga Propane Commie Clusterfrack deal terms as … [Read more...] about Tioga Napalm Clusterfrack DOA
Just Another Fracking Marionette
So the Park Foundation, a charitable foundation that focuses on the environment, donates to some 501 c focused on the environment. Where else would they donate ? As a charity, they are required by tax code to disburse funds. What better use for the funds ? Then there are the very direct links of the for profit corporations to the local shale $hills - seen any of those lately ? Energy in Depth - paid fracking … [Read more...] about Just Another Fracking Marionette
University of Buffalo Shale $hamstitute
Professor Robert "Fracking Earthquake" Jacobi has co-founded an "institute" at the University of Buffalo. Funded by the gas industry via a foundation to crank out reports favorable to . . . . the gas industry. The Shale $hamstitute says it will be "guided by science" A phrase formally reserved for politicians and DEC officials who have blissfully ignored science - when it comes to shale gas. Including Jacobi's own work on New York faults and seismic … [Read more...] about University of Buffalo Shale $hamstitute
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