Re: Results so far have been positive
Broadway
4/22/2011 10:37:48 PM
Scott makes a good point or two. Our economy is based on fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are dirty. At least when dine in the us, extraction can be done with more supervision than in, say, Nigeria or Kazakhstan.
One thing I'd be more concerned than water pollution with fracking is it's seismic effects. If fracking is activating otherwise slumbering faults, that's pretty scary and worth a pause.
Re: Results so far have been positive
mInvestor
4/22/2011 7:08:56 PM
You are probably right. The situation is a difficult one. People need energy to make more growth, or make our life better. Meanwhile, we can't just go straight to pollute our planet. A kind of compromise probably need to be made. We need to go ahead with a controlled pace.
Results so far have been positive
tokyogai
4/22/2011 4:19:29 PM
It makes sense to go forward with caution on any new technology that could have environmental impact. That, however, is not an excuse for doing nothing or studying forever and not allowing anything. Fracking has been used on different scales for a number of years now with few, if any problems. Given that we should find a way to move forward on a limited basis while measuring ground water . We can then increase the scale as we have results. That would seem to be a prudent way to move ahead.
Re: Global Controversy
TelecomFreq
4/22/2011 2:07:12 PM
Scott,
I really find it hard to believe that the energy industry could not find a way to Frack that would not cause harm to the environment. I do not know all of the engineering details of fracking, but it seems like the mix of what is used varies from company to company. That being the case I'm sure a safe mix could be found, its just a matter of finding a mix that makes economic sense.
A French guy is complaining? No way!
Here's the thing about fossil fuels: They're dirty. But some are cleaner than others. Until everything is solar, we have to work with what we have. The we have to figure out a way where there's balance where we can extract gas in a reasonablly economic way without doing something irresponsible to the environment. Very hard.
The alternative is to allow no drilling at all in the United States, in which case all of the energy business will move to places like the Gulf, South America, and Southeast Asia, and Afica, many places in which where there are very few environmental restrictions whatsoever. Our energy will be more expensive, the money will go somewhere else, and the environment will be in even worse shape!
Hopefully in the meantime some scientist is developing a magic super Bloom-box so that we can stop sending money to totalitarian Gulf states.
Global Controvery
Tenacious
4/22/2011 11:39:02 AM
Fracking has been drawing a lot of attention, largely unfavorable, in both the US and Europe. I just read this today:
In France, Jose Bove -- the French environmental activist, farmer, McDonald's Corp. antagonist, and onetime Presidential candidate -- has brought the nascent search for shale gas and oil to a halt. As Total SA (FP) and other energy companies readied rigs outside Paris and started to plan for drilling in southern France, local environmental groups began raising concerns about damage to water tables from the hunt for hydrocarbons locked in shale rock.
Even though natural gas seems to be a very good alternative to importing oil one has to wonder if the risk to our enviornment is worth it. Out country needs energy security, but at what price?
Perhaps the best way to go about this would be to place very strong regulations on the chemicals that could be used for fracking. If the motivation was put in place there is no doubt that the engineers in the natural gas industry could come up with a safe, non-toxic solution to the issue.
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