Fracking - where is it headed ?

[xoxoxoBruce]

No Griff, his audience was pretty slackjawed... you know, Farm Show zombies.

[ZenGum]

Must be the effects of all those chemtrails, eh?

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, sensory overload from trudging around 30 acres of concentrated indoor fair, for hours on end, carrying your winter coat, after getting up in the wee hours to drive there.

Today they had several teams taking wool fresh from the sheep, carding, spinning, dyeing, and weaving into a proscribed size shawl, in like two hours.
Then they auctioned them off for charity, bringing between $900 and $2500 each.

[glatt]

North Dakota Fracking fields can easily be seen from space at night and are as bright as a major city.

Lots of pictures at NPR.


These lights weren't there six years ago.

[BigV]

unemployment in some of those boom towns is as low as 0.1%. A tenth of a percent.

[ZenGum]

Well, if you didn't have a job keeping you there, would you stay in Bumtuck, North Dakota?

[tw]

Originally Posted by BigV

unemployment in some of those boom towns is as low as 0.1%. A tenth of a percent.

A boom is followed by a massive bust. Once wells are installed, contractors move on. Towanda PA is already seeing that boom start to crash.

A problem is that many 'boom town' citizens forget. A resulting crash will follow as the wells pump out natural gases with little need for humans.

[busterb]

Link to page about frackin, and other oil things. Maybe BS?
http://priceofoil.org/2013/02/20/bew...le-gas-bubble/

[xoxoxoBruce]

That sounds grim, Buster.

[Griff]

"Although shale gas production has grown explosively to account for nearly 40 percent of U.S. natural gas production; its production has been on a plateau since December 2011."

That may be a price artifact. Some wells around here have been turned off or finished and but not hooked to the pipelines apparently because gas is too cheap.

[xoxoxoBruce]

From Chemical & Engineering News;

Sewage Plants Struggle To Treat Wastewater Produced By Fracking Operations
When energy companies extract natural gas trapped deep underground, they’re left with water containing high levels of pollutants, including benzene and barium. Sometimes the gas producers dispose of this contaminated water by sending it to wastewater treatment plants that deal with sewage and water from other industrial sources. But a new study suggests that the plants can’t handle this water’s high levels of contaminants: Water flowing out of the plants into the environment still has elevated levels of the chemicals from natural gas production (Environ. Sci. Technol., DOI: 10.1021/es301411q).

When I first saw this I thought, well crap, sewage treatment plants aren't designed to handle this stuff.
But it says "plants that deal with water from other industrial sources".

Hmm, does that mean this stuff is harder to clean up, or maybe nobody has been checking to see how well they clean the stuff, "from other industrial sources"?

[xoxoxoBruce]

We have a leak, I guess... of something... from somewhere.

An unidentified “liquid natural-gas product” is flowing freely into the shallow ground near a creekside gas processing plant in rural western Colorado. After 11 days of cleanup operations and investigations, the source and precise contents of the toxic spill remain a mystery.

60,000 gallon of something.

[Griff]

http://www.pressconnects.com/viewart...heast-Pa-wells

MONTROSE, PA. — Gas drilling isn’t to blame for a high-profile case of methane contamination in northeastern Pennsylvania, state environmental regulators declared Monday, but a homeowner with fouled water vowed to press on and said she doesn’t trust the agency.

[Undertoad]

Now take a Google search of "tammy manning methane", restrict it to from a year ago to a few days ago before this finding, and determine who was fibbing about it all along.

Such as Bloomberg:

Robert Poreda, an earth and environmental sciences professor at the University of Rochester, said his researchers have made their own analysis in Franklin Forks and found evidence that the gas seeping into the water table there is from the Marcellus Shale, indicating an impact from gas drilling and not natural causes.

Liar liar tap water on fire.

[xoxoxoBruce]

And of course the state Department of Environmental Protection is as pure as the driven snow, unaffected by politics or money.