For anyone seriously interested in this subject please look up The Oildrum.com. The amount of misinformation in the main stream media is astounding.

D. A. Douthit

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On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Charles Dolci <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Interesting, but well fracturing has been employed for years. More than 20 years ago I worked for an oilfield services company that commonly used fracturing to make wells more productive. I don't know how old the technology is, but why has it become an issue all of a sudden? 
> Since it is a technology that has been widely used for years, is their actual, historical data to show that it is or has been a danger?
> 
> Chuck Dolci
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 6/8/11, Dennis Fritz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> From: Dennis Fritz <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: [EN] Fracking (off topic for electronics, on topic for the environment)
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 8:09 AM
>> Here in the US, we are getting ads
>> from energy companies outlining how much natural gas may be
>> obtained from sources to be developed by fracking.  I
>> think the general population has no clue about the potential
>> dangers to ground water, just that we should be developing
>> all the domestic (also meaning Canada) sources possible to
>> aleviate the $100/gallon crude oil price = $4.00 USD per
>> gallon of gasoline.  
>> 
>> At the same time, we hear about all the oil in the Canadian
>> tar sands, I guess meaning the US government should pressure
>> the Canadian government to allow energy companies unlimited
>> development of that energy source. 
>> 
>> Denny
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Ellis <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: EnviroNet <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 10:11 am
>> Subject: [EN] Fracking (off topic for electronics, on topic
>> for the environment)
>> 
>> 
>> Fracking or hydraulic fracturing has become a very
>> controversial method 
>> f obtaining "natural" gas from deep shale beds in the USA
>> and elsewhere 
>> n the Americas. New York State has promulgated a moratorium
>> on the 
>> rocess for fear that the drinking water of NYC may become
>> saturated 
>> ith methane and potentially other pollutants. The Province
>> of Quebec 
>> as followed and there is a movement in Canada to ban
>> fracking in all 
>> rovinces. There is an obvious conflict here between
>> environmental 
>> afety (drinking water and greenhouse gases) and big energy
>> business, 
>> ot helped by the Halliburton Loophole in the Energy Policy
>> Act of 2005.
>> Up to now, fracking has not touched Europe to any great
>> extent but it's 
>> n its way. Three experimental wells have been bored in a
>> densely 
>> opulated part of England, near Preston, Lancs. with fear
>> that the 
>> rinking water for a population of about 335,000 may become
>> 
>> ontaminated. Other proposals are being made in Germany,
>> Poland and 
>> ther EU countries.
>> I have written a referenced essay on fracking, mainly
>> describing, in 
>> asy terms, the process of how gas can be exploited and
>> outlining its 
>> otential environmental impact. It bears the title "Shale
>> Hydrocarbons" 
>> t http://cypenv.info/worldee/files/fossilfuel/shalehcs.aspx
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