The old burning water trick;
Consider a celebrated case in Parker County, Texas. Resident Steven Lipsky had methane in his drinking water. The EPA fastened on the idea that Range Resources had contaminated his well through fracking, and hit the company with an endangerment finding and remediation order. But as Mario Loyola of the Texas Public Policy Foundation recounts, the EPA couldn’t actually defend any theory whereby the fracking had polluted the well.
Slowly, the agency retreated in ignominy. It turned out that the well wasn’t contaminated at all, but contained levels of methane typical in the area and below levels that the federal government considers a threat to health. “Area residents,” Loyola writes, “had found natural gas in their water wells years before any drilling for natural gas. Some water wells were even ‘flared’ for days after drilling, to release dangerous levels of methane. One area subdivision’s water tanks warn ‘Danger: Flammable Gas.’
Do any of these activist assholes EVER examine all the facts before they go off on their tirades?
In this case,I guess there’s too much money to be made spreading lies,so facts notwithstanding, “fracking’bad”!
I wish I had a well that produces both water and energy!
Where is the much ballyhooed ‘American ingenuity’? It would be a simple matter of pumping the water into a large sealed reservoir and drawing off the methane to fuel a genset, just like they do with pig manure lagoons on large farms.
So the EPA has been caught for the umpteenth time making specious ‘scientific’ claims. To paraphrase Inspector Renault “I’m shocked, shocked to find that the EPA report was not backed by sound science.”
“Your government salary, sir.”
“Thank you.”
This is what happens when your science degree is in Political Science.
Some Indian chief noticed an oil slick on the Athabasca River a few days ago. Alexander Mackenzie saw the same oil in 1788. No shortage of ignorant people ready to offer an opinion they pull out of their butt.
I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California and I can tell you that a lot of people have methane in their well. My brother’s well (which, ironically, is near the site of one of the first oil wells drilled in California) is so full of methane, that just about the time when he told our local well guy servicing his well “Perhaps you shouldn’t light up that smoke”, it the methane caught on fire and singed his hair and eye-brows. Apparently, his well is pretty infamous around these parts (as another well guy told me who was working on my well).
So much of the time, bureaucrats have absolutely no expertise is the areas they are tasked to regulate. Guess who pays the price (including their salaries)?
Exactly, and make no mistake the EPA has become an activist bureaucracy and works toward an agenda.
Scar, those with a handout or activist agenda choose to ignore facts of any sort.
Chris in Texas, exactly.
I once opened the cap on a recently installed small 2-inch diameter monitoring well adjacent to a landfill in South Jersey. The plug on that puppy shot up about 15 feet in the air. Pretty cool.
Ever heard of self-igniting bog phosphine?
Life is so full of hazards, I am surprised streets are full of people who dared to leave home.
How I managed to survive is probably beyond modern day’s bureaucrats.
In Jersey they had something called the “Regulator of the Day”. You would call the DEP, request to speak with someone about a question you had, they’d forward you to the ROTD. Never a straight answer, hardly ever could they specifically backup their answers, and typically you’d get 5 different answers form 5 different people. They make it up as they go along. Simply maddening when you’re trying to provide a service to your client.
Just think of the differing interpretations one will get when one calls about Obamacare. A 2,000 page bill. And how many tens of thousands of accompanying regulations? But FORWARD!
Yeah well, this is much like that Hollywood production “Frack Nation”….a psuedo documentary…..showed folks lighting their water taps….in a place called Burning Springs, Pennsylvania……..
The “Green Meanies” at work. A–Hole’s the bunch of them. I live near “Hobbiton”, otherwise known as Vancouver, where they just banned the shipping of coal. This will help entrench all George Soros dreams and Warren Buffet’s, ability to ship coal on his Burlington Northern Railway. Hobbiton has a screwball mayor. His (and Soros)plan is to make Hobbiton the greenest city in the world.
“in a place called Burning Springs”
And people were surprised by the flood in High River, Alberta?
So much of the time, bureaucrats have absolutely no expertise is the areas they are tasked to regulate. Guess who pays the price