The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled four public information meetings, across the country, including one in Binghamton, on the proposed study of the relationship between the gas-drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing and the quality of nearby drinking water.

Expensive to drill Since then, over 40,000 wells have been drilled in the area, or nearly 6 wells per sq. The allusions that this frac fluid and gas from the well is somehow making it back into the freshwater zone are completely unfounded.

You chose to link to a film review that gave no opinion to the accuracy of the documentary.

I live in Garfield County, CO and can introduce you to two families who's "naturally occurring dissolved methane" explosive well water was fine - for two generations - before fracking commenced in their area.

So far, I'm reading a lot about "fears" and "worries", but not so much about real serious documented damage to health or land. injection of fluids or propping agents (other than diesel fuels) used in hydraulic fracturing As Josh Fox insisted in his recent appearance on the Daily Show, the oil and gas industry uses "fatally flawed engineering" in the United States' oil and natural gas wells and that nothing about hydraulic fracturing can be fixed to make it acceptable in the view of Gasland. Reserves are not rate, so they can go up and down and do whatever, what balances off against a drop in rate because of natural decline is new production from something else. Big companies where there is not a single owner to deal with, have too many hands in the till, to be trusted to look out for anyone elses best interest but their bottom line.

Finally, and once again, hydraulic fracturing has been going on safely here for nearly 60 years. I am skeptical of anything that is obviously bias, including your post and links you provided. Does anyone have a map (localized?) If it's not New York, it's ok ? No, I don't work for Halliburton, and no, I don't know Dick Cheney :). So yeah, I am simple. If not, why not? You see this phrase used in the polls many times.

Not likely a sound way to arrive at an optimal strategy.

This leads to the heinous situations where people one day wake up to find a drilling rig on their property 150 feet from their back door. Do they think the gas they are drilling for is NOT NATURALLY OCCURRING? I remember seeing a PBS documentary years ago about the chemical industry - an opponent of the industry who was concerned about the flood of new compounds to the market each year put it perfectly I thought - he said that in these situations we are too fixated on our criminal law way of evaluating cases - in that the companies in question (Dupont etc. The running gag in this movie is Matt Damon's narration, I assume thats what you think you have "learned" from fitting the data the same ways that Attanasai & Root, and Verma assemble it? Not only that but GC-MS techniques would quickly and conclusively show those fluids and gas related to the reservoir back at the surface.

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I need to know more.


Would that have been possible natural hydro-fracking? Cut corners don't always make it into company records. The public obviously wanted a figurehead who'd look good and make comforting noises.". As it turns out, Colorado regulatory authorities fully investigated the claim long before “Gasland” was even made.

"[1] People having antisocial personality disorder are sometimes referred to as "sociopaths" and "psychopaths. That being said, I see a few posts saying this documentary was way off. However when you drill horizontally there is no guarantee that there will not be breaks in that sedimentary column. Natural gas drilling is highly regulated and proven to be safe, contrary to its portrayal in “Gasland.”.

I like your apparent certainty, however misplaced. Why not write a rebuttal here? Does anyone honestly believe that we can inject poison into the ground and NOT f*&% up our ground water? One wonders. http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/2/24/cracking_down_on_fracking.

Malcolm McDowell plays mogul and longtime Ailes enabler Rupert Murdoch in the movie, and his sons, James and Lachlan, are portrayed by real-life Aussie brothers Josh and Ben Lawson, respectively. Contaminated water can travel a fair distance, and uphill too. That is a lot of water. So yes, lots of chemicals, doing all sorts of things. Some times people might even call me naive, but I tend to give everyone I meet the benifit of being nice people until they prove otherwise. If anyone contacts you about a job at The Oil Drum, do not reply to them, and definitely do not give them any personal information or send them money. The SEC and the Fed still audit their proprietary holdings and review their proprietary models. What are readers views on the movie?)

This area does not have higher than the national average incidences of cancer, leukemia, fish die-offs, mysterious flaming faucets, or exploding toilets. Would pure water alone (pumped under sufficiently high pressure) do the job?

For example, there's an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. Josh Fox's claim that the oil and gas industry has some sort of categorical exemption from regulation and that hydraulic fracturing and other oil and gas industry process equipment and facilities are exempted from regulation under the Federal Clean Air Act is fabrication and erroneous conflation. As in the movie, some news sites like Breitbart reported that some of Fox’s top talent promised to quit if Ailes were removed, but such a pact did not actually exist and may have been planted by Roger’s team.

Similarly, the showdown between Lachlan and Ailes over anthrax in the office in the aftermath of 9/11 also really happened. The question a person has is, "How accurate is this documentary?". Do the frackers think that the gas they are drilling for is NOT biogenic (produced by living organisms or biological processes) or do they think they are getting abiotic gas? But they do try to protect the water sources some, while people not on city waters get it from wells. One thing I took away from the interview was can we trust the big business of NG to tell us everything is safe, when the main driver for the business is Money? detector and try to filter out the biases of yourself and the messenger.

"Had it not been for the fraud conviction," Paisley said, "he would be a national hero.

Needing about 1/2 a gallon a day, just to drink, gets you into big numbers, without having to think about all the other uses you have for water.

On top of all that, a researcher's professional affiliations, personal beliefs, and source of pay can profoundly bias design of the research, results and interpretation.

It's also unfortunate because a much better documentary could be made on the +/- of shale gas, preferrably by someone who knows the first thing about it. The costs associated with environmental clean-up processes, land value losses, and in addressing human and animal health concerns may significantly outweigh the economic gains associated with hydraulic fracturing. Gov't has the habit of getting so big that it acts like a spoiled business, and has no one head to put on the chopping block if something goes wrong. Not everything in the film’s narration is precisely accurate.

The sedimentary column is not uniform and all you need is one break and that poison water will find a way into an aquifer.
The opponent argued that the burden of proving reasonable safety should be on the development company and that before anything new was released they should make at least a reasonable attempt at PROVING the safety of the product - the new compounds should be considered "guilty" until proven innocent to some extent. Not every house gets tap water that tastes good, here our tap water tastes okay, but other places I have lived in the area or drank tap water from aren't as tasty.

If not, why not? Funny that he never kills himself.