Fracking Panel Warns Shale Gas Drilling Industry To Clean Up Their Act

nytimes.com:

Although President Obama's "fracking" panel offered few specifics today on how to make shale gas drilling safer, it delivered a warning to the shale gas drilling industry: Clean up your act or your business could suffer.

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Comments

[20thCentury Man]

01:52 PM on 08/12/2011

Another meaningless finger wagging by the Obama administration on environmental issues that is sure to be followed by capitulation.

[grrchrds]

11:16 AM on 08/12/2011

here comes the over regulation...Obama won't quit til we are back to burning lumps of coal in our furnaces.

[AnthropologistAmongApes]

12:45 PM on 08/12/2011

Ridiculous. You are parroting the talking points issued by CATO and Heritage.

[kwaut lizard]

10:02 PM on 08/12/2011

Honestly, have you bought that crap? If the choice were between burning lumps of coal and not having any potable water available ... I think I know which way I would go.

[ConnieDr]

10:16 AM on 08/12/2011

I'm sure the obama administration will do everything in its power to destroy this industry too! How dare we use natural gas! Wind mills are the answer! Every home needs to put a wind mill in its back yard or on top of the house and plug into it!

[AnaisNincompoop]

10:45 AM on 08/12/2011

You, madam, are an idiot.

[kwaut lizard]

10:04 PM on 08/12/2011

I second that!

[pita143]

07:47 PM on 08/22/2011

We have multiple alternatives to heat our homes, we have NO alternatives to fresh clean water. It has been proven REPEATEDLY that the Toxic Soup used in Hydrofracking gets into and contaminates the Water Table. In fact in one Town in Pennsylvania they can not even drink the water, they have to have water trucked into the town for them to use. The drilling polluted their water table to the point that people can not even take a bath in the water, let alone drink any.

[Moose Luck 99]

09:10 AM on 08/12/2011

http://transloading.org/propane-fracking-is-a-good-alternative/

The development of propane fracking has come a long way since it was first proposed many years ago.

This has and is still the only economical alternative to hydrofracking to help extract additional energy reserves from the ground, especially from shale rock formation. It is also considered a Green alternative to hydrofracking and is allowed to be used under the current New York moratorium on hydrofracking.

There are a few draw backs from using propane instead of water to pressurize the rock formation and form the necessary fissures in the rock to release the trapped oil and natural gas. To begin with the use of propane for fracing purposes is more expensive that hydrofracking.

Another issue with using propane is that its state has to be altered from a gas to a non-explosive gel. This is done by adding peroxides and other chemicals to the gas that help to make it a liquid.

The leading reason hydrofracking is not liked by many communities is the potential contamination of ground water sources. The big misunderstanding is that it is not the fracing that is causing the problem but the actual drilling of the wells. The oil and gas reserves are below the ground water tables so the wells need to penetrate this layer to reach the energy reserves. This has been the way of drilling for oil and gas since it first began over 100 years ago.

[Moose Luck 99]

12:36 AM on 08/12/2011

HEY FRACKING INDUSTRY STOP THAT!! STOP THAT!!!!

Super Congress To Target Second Amendment Alex Jones' Infowars ...
www.infowars.com/super-congress-to-target-second-amendment/ - Cached
Aug 1, 2011 – The Obama administration has already indicated that it will take the deciding vote as the de facto 13th member of the Super Congress.

[lightningbolt]

05:56 PM on 08/11/2011

The gas industry better clean up its act.  People cannot tolerate the continued destruction of their land, water and air for very long.  If the government doesn't act to stop the heinous practice of fracking, it may have to deal with riots soon.

[Malcolm Hensley]

06:40 PM on 08/11/2011

Yea, the ELF will show up with their pipe bombs to start. We don't need the facts, we don't want to be confused by research we have a movie that shows fracking is bad! What more could you need?
Why wait for the riots?

[LuridLight]

03:22 PM on 08/12/2011

unemployed, sick, homeless people won't riot. problem solved.