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DEC “Loses” dSGEIS Comments ?

August 26, 2013
DEC "Loses" dSGEIS Comments ?

As well as “losing” the 220,000 comments on the proposed fracking regulations. We received a comment on the post about how the DEC has effectively lost the fracking comments, since the proposed regs. are now past their expiration date. Here’s the post : http://www.nofrackingway.us/2013/07/13/dec-loses-220000-fracking-comments/ Evidently they have lost the comments on the dSGEIS as well. How convenient. And here is Mr Catterson’s comment on what the DEC told him about his comments on the dSGEIS: Tom Catterson, Clinton, NY “I submitted comments to the DEC on the SGEIS for the first deadline back quite some time ago. I never received an acknowledgement nor any note that my comments had been received. At some point in time, colleagues published an inquiry phone number related to the “public consultation process” and I called […]

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Utica Sour Spot in New York ?

July 24, 2013
Utica Sour Spot in New York ?

The City of Utica may remain the only Utica in New York state. The Utica shale is here, but it is remains conjectural as to whether it is economically viable. We know a lot more about the Marcellus. And what we now know indicates that the Marcellus’s productive extent in New York may be confined to a few townships on the Pennsylvania border. Results in Pennsylvania could be indicative of what to expect in parts of New York - since the key variables found in Pennsylvania are similar to those north of the border. Actual test results in New York have not found Utica shale potential. Utican potential likely peaks south of the border in Tioga County, Pa.   Shale Thickness New York state is shown in the upper right hand […]

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Why New York Won’t Get The Fracking It Doesn’t Deserve

July 22, 2013

Because there may not be much here to frack. Marcellus wise. As The Josh just learned in Wayne County, Pa., the best laid plans of fractavists can get a serendipitous assist from an unlikely source - petroleum reserve engineers - like the wonks at Netherland Sewell that do estimates on proven reserves in an oil and gas field. Not the kind of wingding hyperbolics from apologist geologists like “5 Tcf Terry” Engelder. Or “Rocks For Jocks” Don Siegel. But estimates you can take to the bank and borrow against for your drilling program. Catch is that, borrowing ain’t so easy with gas below $4 mcf in the middle of the peak electrical demand air conditioning season. If you want to wow the bank (or Wall Street or the analysts), you better have […]

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Frack Babies Taken In By “Takings Expert”

July 20, 2013
Frack Babies Taken In By "Takings Expert"

Read this post about how some New York landowners group that wants to get fracked have hired a “takings expert” to help them sue the State of New York for allegedly “taking” their right to frack themselves - while the state dSGEIS review puts a moratorium on HVHF permits. Catch is they did not hire a “regulatory takings” expert. They hired an eminent domain condemnations expert. Which is not the same as a regulatory takings expert. . . Meaning they went looking for a plumber and came back with an electrician. Maybe because a real “takings expert” won’t take the case. Because there is no case, no plaintiff, no precedents, and no constitutional law to support their allegations. Just some lawyers - doing some “taking” of their own. For a fracking publicity stunt. http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2013/07/19/landowners-higher-takings-expert-for-fracking-suit/ […]

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Explosive Frack Junk !

July 1, 2013
Explosive Frack Junk !

They have a lawyer. They have plenty of junk. All they need now is a plaintiff, a case and a plausible legal theory, and the New York Frack Babies may have themselves a lawsuit. Or at least an on-going publicity stunt. In the latest News of The Fracking Weird, the JLCNY (pronounced ‘jlcny’) is having a scrap drive to help pay for their much threatened Fracking Publicity Stunt Against the State of New York. While they are at it, they might get rid of some explosive junk frack pipe. In a safe place. Like Oklahoma. (You knew frack pipe was packed with high explosives, right ? ) http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20130626/NEWS01/306260034/Potentially-explosive-scrapped-fracking-pipes-spur-state-city-warnings Watch out for explosive fracking pipes on the side of the highway, at rest areas or other places where scrap fracking waste […]

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THE BIG FRACKING LIE

June 30, 2013
THE BIG FRACKING LIE

The big lie with smoking was simply: “Smoking doesn’t cause cancer.” The rationale for the lie was simple - the act of smoking did not cause cancer, the smoke did. Fracking has its own big fracking lie: “Fracks don’t contaminate groundwater.” Same PR firm, same rationale: the frack itself is only one quick part of the overall process - when it is the whole process or any part thereof - starting with the trucks and ending up with the rusting wellbore - that can contaminate groundwater. (And the air and the soil and you.) Focusing solely on fracking the well neatly ignores all the other problems with shale gas industrialization: Scamming landowners, bribing politicians, shooting seismic blasts without any regulations - then the frack truck convoys. . . etc. etc. […]

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Tilting at Wind Farms

June 10, 2013
Tilting at Wind Farms

Fighting a war on two fronts is not advisable. Ask Napoleon, Hitler or Bush 2.0. But that seems to be the premise of this rally on June 17th in Albany - which I support, at least half way. The fundamental premise of the rally - the need to extend the moratorium - is rock solid. But the wind farms advocacy may turn out to be a bit of a distraction. It is abundantly clear that New York has been teed up politically to get fracked by the same bag men that delivered Fracksylvania on a fracking platter to the easy money boys in Oklahoma and Texas. Klein and the IDC are making damn sure of that. So it’s more than worthwhile to get that right - which has been the […]

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Koch Sock Puppets Host Albany ClusterFrack

May 30, 2013
Koch Sock Puppets Host Albany ClusterFrack

The “Joint Landowners Coalition of New York,” (pronounced ‘jlcyny’) which once was a wannabe gas leasing consortium, then morphed into potential plaintiff in a threatened “takings” publicity stunt against the State of New York and then devolved into a bunch of fracking Sock Puppets for the Kooky Kochs are hosting a ClusterFrack in Albany. Courtesy of the Kooky Kochs. And no, you’re not invited. Only Shale Charlatans, Frak Flaks and the odd politician looking to pick up a fat envelope. Plus of course the fracking collaborators inside the DEC. http://www.newschannel34.com/news/local/story/Landowners-Allege-Fracking-Myths/oW8RfwoxQ0aJfnexs25Jrg.cspx The panelist include “Rocks for Jocks” Professor Don Siegel, Syracuse University’s very own Frackademic. Who never met a frack he didn’t like. An administrator from a hospital that is heavily subsidized by Cabot Energy as part of that firms “we frack ’em, you fix ’em, but […]

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Moratorium Extension as Lease Extender ?

May 28, 2013
Moratorium Extension as Lease Extender ?

Mike Bernhard sent out some thought-provoking comments on how a blanket moratorium extension on all drilling (if one even got out of committee in the state senate) might cloud the picture of force majeure claims in New York - since the extension bill would expand the moratorium to include vertical low permeability formations - probably because the only way to economically produce such wells would be to frack them horizontally, so a vertical shale well would in all likelihood be a test well for a horizontal completion. So a vertical test for a horizontal completion would be a worthwhile subject for state scrutiny - because it is a precursor to a horizontal well. . . . The controlling case in such claims, Aukema, is based largely on the fact that […]

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Exxon Trucking Frack Filth In New York

May 24, 2013
Exxon Trucking Frack Filth In New York

From Exxon’s shale well next to a trout stream in the Delaware Valley. Since they cannot find any place in Pennsylvania to dump it, because it is too radioactive and their waste hauler just got hauled off to jail. Ohio is full up. West Virginia and Idafrackingho are too fracking far away. So it’s headed your way New Yorkers. If you see one of these bad boys coming down the road, best pull over. Getting toxic radioactive sludge off your car can be really really tough. When Cuomo announced his Plan to Frack the Delaware Valley, he forgot to mention that you get to play Dodge The Exxon Frack Filth Convoy On Its Way Across the State . . . Look on the sunny side: Exxon is not proposing a tar pipeline through your town. Yet. Exxon’s Frack […]

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