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Binghamton University Frack Busters Video

February 3, 2014
Binghamton University Frack Busters  Video

New York Shale gas potential - at Binghamton University in Vestal, New York, from The Vera. Tomorrow, Senate Hearing about all the shale gas that is not in New York. Watch for more Frack Busters Shows coming to a town near you. Check out NYC Show Q&A here.

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Frack Busters’ Methodology Confirmed

February 22, 2014
Frack Busters' Methodology Confirmed

By researchers at Princeton University and by the University of Texas. A similar peer reviewed study funded by Shell Oil and the Sloan Foundation will be ready on the Marcellus this year. What they confirmed is that the productivity of some shale plays are predictable with relatively simple scaling models - like the Acton Model - which classifies shale potential in tiers based primarily on thickness and depth - from the sweet spot to where the shale becomes uneconomic at almost any price. A concept that anyone that has seen a Frack Busters show would be familiar with. Thickness of the shale, specifically the target Union Springs section, is the key variable in the NE Marcellus. The only geological joker in the deck is thermal over-maturity. Look for the researchers’ work on […]

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Frack Busters Questions & Answers

February 3, 2014
Frack Busters Questions & Answers

Great questions from the audience at the New York City shale gas show. Great video by Team Owen. Check it out. Then come to the Senate Forum on the (un)Economics of Shale Gas in New York, Tuesday, Feb 4th, Hearing Room A at noon. Smart questions by an attentive audience close out this series of presentations on New York State’s shale gas potential. Watch the whole thing — it is riveting. But if you want to skip to a particular topic of interest, here are the links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6MWjfvjTM0&feature=share&list=PLcHngw3x1btk8Pt7zfko62obzTnhnWIHc&index=5 Does Gov. Cuomo know this? http://youtu.be/I6MWjfvjTM0?t=0s If there is no profit to be made, why is the Industry pushing to frack New York? http://youtu.be/I6MWjfvjTM0?t=1m8s Would NYS wells be profitable at global natural gas prices? http://youtu.be/I6MWjfvjTM0?t=3m43s Are companies pursuing fracking to maintain share prices? […]

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Fracking Chickenhawk Urges Followers to Duck Frackbusters !

January 30, 2014
Fracking Chickenhawk Urges Followers to  Duck Frackbusters !

Another boycott ? At least this time it’s from the frackers. Usually I just spoof the Disjointed Landowners, but this time, they spoof themselves by calling on their members to duck the Frackbusters’ Forum this Friday in their own home town ! What the frack are they so afraid of ? The fracking truth about their prospects of leasing any mineral rights any time this decade ? Go check out what this Paid Fracking Chickenhawk does not want his dues paying supporters to see. It might put the geological kibosh on their notion of getting Fracking Reparations from the State of New York. Everything in bold is mine, the rest is direct from the Head Chickenhawk hisself - who is now bankrolled by a Frack Industry Front Group. Dear Friends, Coalition Leaders, Landowners, and […]

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Broome County Frackbusters Show !

January 23, 2014
Broome County Frackbusters Show !

Come find out the facts of the matter in Vestal on January 31st. Bring a skeptic and a Frack Dream Believer. Broome County is not just one of the parts of Upstate that has any shale gas potential, but it may be the only part of New York with any shale gas potential. Catch is that not all of Broome County is created equal, shale-wise. And the potential is effectively gone before you get to the county line. Chenango County ? Ask Norse. Chemung ? Sullivan ? Schoharie ? No fracking way. Delaware County ? Not unless you can hit the river with a rock. Tioga County ? Maybe with a Napalm Clusterfrack. . . Videos from NYC Shale Mythbusters show here - where we explain why there’s more hot air in New York than shale gas. […]

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Shale Gas Mythbusters Puts NYS Frack Flacks In Tizzy

November 5, 2013
Shale Gas Mythbusters Puts NYS Frack Flacks In Tizzy

Peter Mantius’s take on the frackers reaction to the Fracking Reality Check presented at Cornell. Note the disconnect between the industry’s behavior - they came, they tested, they left - and the industry PR types left behind to continue to perpetuate the myth of of shale gas abundance in New York. The difference between the two - the major’s departure prior to the moratorium and the PR types covering their retreat - is 93.5% hot air. Jerry Acton’s model is presented here. More to come soon. My summary overview is here. http://www.the-leader.com/article/20131104/NEWS/131109940/2011/OPINION?tag=1#ixzz2jmNbqgpp Marcellus Watch: Mythbusters Tackle Frack Hype The peddlers of false hope are in a tizzy over the latest challenge to their myth that natural gas will be an economic “game-changer” for upstate New York By Peter Mantius Posted Nov. […]

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NY Fracking Village Idiots Propose Secession. Again. To the press. . .

February 19, 2015
NY Fracking Village Idiots Propose Secession. Again. To the press. . .

Instead of the more obvious solution: If you really don’t like living in New York, or can’t get a job, fracking move. Go get a job in Fracksylvania, your Fracking Dream Land. It’s not far. You can smell it when the wind’s from the south. And when you step in it, you’ll know you’ve arrived. Get a job on a non-working rig, get a job as a pole dancer, a Man Camp employee, or a toxic radioactive frack-filth shoveler. Go for it. Bye bye. Don’t forget to write ! And don’t let the swinging door hit you in the butt on the way out. But why stop with seceding to Pennsylvania ? Why not declare your own fracking country ? No taxes, no regulations, no land use restrictions, no liquor laws, no Medicare, no Social […]

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What the Frack Happens Now New York ?

December 20, 2014
What the Frack Happens Now New York ?

We won that battle. So relax. Take the rest of the week off. There will be plenty to do later on. Mean time, there will be no fracking “counter-attack” by the frackers. No big lawsuits. No Congressional action. Just some frak flaks whining and mouthing off. Here’s why: It’s simply not worth it to the frackers to take any more of a public caning. And they admit it publicly. Which is why there won’t be any meaningful lawsuits or legislation to challenge this. They not only lost, but they were chided in public by Governor Cuomo: the frackers failed to make their case environmentally in New York, economically in New York or scientifically via a preponderance of the peer-reviewed studies. Babbling (Governor Cuomo’s words) about how great fracking might be in a godforsaken […]

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Fracking Mirage

December 14, 2014
Fracking Mirage

New York farmers think that fracking is going to make unprofitable farms profitable. Actually no. That’s not how it works. If a farm is unprofitable, fracking won’t make it profitable. They also think that they have something worth fracking. Probably not. The leasing companies may have left because of the moratorium, but that does not mean that they will come back if the moratorium is lifted. What’s changed during the intervening years is that we know a lot more about where the shale is productive and where it is not. This is no secret, except, apparently, to the landowner coalitions hoping to sell out to the frackers. The farmers that wanted to lease never cared about the proposed regulations. They didn’t even bother to comment on the drafts. They just […]

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The Daily Frack - Nov. 4

November 4, 2014
The Daily Frack - Nov. 4

15 Arrested Protesting Gas Storage Facility in NY’s Finger Lakes Region Fifteen people were arrested this morning blockading the gates of Texas-based Crestwood Midstream’s gas storage facility on the shore of New York ’s Seneca Lake . This action marks the beginning of the third week of protests trying to stop major new construction on the gas storage facility authorized by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). “We’re standing on what used to be a part of my legislative district in Schuyler County . I am embarrassed and saddened to see what is going on here, I’m sad to see that some of the people in this district are actually supporting this endeavor to store gas in a very unstable salt formation,” said Ruth Young of Horseheads, a former member of the Schuyler County legislature and among […]

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