My Uncle, God rest his soul, could set fire to his tap water for as long as I can remember, maybe even before there was fracking. Could someone tell me when fracking became available?
Oh frack, they’re at it again. Mind you, governments on all levels (with our tax dollars) are still pushing forward on the global warming green projects as if they are lemmings on the march.
Before the gas rich areas were being developed it was the presence of surface gas in marshes and wells that tipped people off to the presence of oil, coal and eventually led to the development of natural gas as a fuel.
There you go with facts and such!
I liked what one commentator said:
skeet shooter: “The two Satans of liberal “religion:” Global climate change and “fracking.”
I would also include for the two Satans of liberal “religion:” is facts and truth.
I as a southern Alberta boy with my buddies would lie on a small bridge over irrigation dithes and thow matches at the water surface where bubbles were perculating to the surface…pooffff!
Hydraulic fracturing has been commonly used since the late 40s in the US and since the 60s in Canada. Since then, more than 175,000 new wells have been fracked in British Columbia and Alberta “without a case of harm to drinking water,” according to regulating agencies in both provinces. That number constitutes more than a third of all new wells in this country in the last half-century. In New Brunswick there have been 49 fracking operations since the mid-1980s, all without a single report of water contamination. In the United States around 90 per cent of 493,000 active natural gas wells in the country, across 31 states, were fracked when they were drilled. These numbers do not constitute the unknown record of a new, untested technique that those concerned about its safety would have us believe. Rather, they indicate that concerns about the safety of fracking for water tables, while valid, are grossly exaggerated.
New wells require tests and inspections to ensure the well is safe to use hydraulic fracturing. That’s why there are no documented examples of newly drilled wells causing groundwater problems. The problems with hydraulic fracturing occur when old wells with damaged casing are fracked without testing first. This unregulated ‘cowboy’ fracking by small independent operators has become more frequent in the old oil fields of the USofA. That’s where the ‘fracking horror stories’ come from. When sorting truth from fiction, details are important.
“The two Satans of liberal “religion:” Global climate change and “fracking.”
Only two? What about homo-philia?
How are the Eco-Nuts even capable of lacing up their shoes…it boggles the mind.
If they would go to south western Ontario where they have had oil and gas bubbling out of the ground for over 100 years, have they not heard of Petrolia or Oil City. And yet generations have thrived amongst all this natural carnage. http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/OGSR/2ColumnSubPage/STEL02_167105.html
Maybe they should take a road trip to reality.
My husband worked for that dastardly 🙂 Halliburton in the late 60’s early 70’s and I believe they were doing some frack jobs here in Sask. at that time. Just wondered when it came into use. Thanks.
Nof60….but science is hard. Maybe small “c” conservatives should make cult activism and ignorant activism hard.
Early frac’s date from the the late 1890s. They used nitroglycerin Modern sand fracs started in the late 40s in the US. By about 1955 almost every well in pembina field was frac’ed, horizontal multistage fracing is about 2o years old now
Saudi is the biggest buyer of packers plus system. Indicated they are into the crap rock too
Regarding the final paragraph, and its reference to Centralia, one should be aware that while it is geographically close to Frackville the environmental problems of this town are of an entirely different nature. Wiki provides an excellent read and in no way colludes the troubles with fracking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
My Uncle, God rest his soul, could set fire to his tap water for as long as I can remember, maybe even before there was fracking. Could someone tell me when fracking became available?
Oh frack, they’re at it again. Mind you, governments on all levels (with our tax dollars) are still pushing forward on the global warming green projects as if they are lemmings on the march.
Before the gas rich areas were being developed it was the presence of surface gas in marshes and wells that tipped people off to the presence of oil, coal and eventually led to the development of natural gas as a fuel.
There you go with facts and such!
I liked what one commentator said:
skeet shooter: “The two Satans of liberal “religion:” Global climate change and “fracking.”
I would also include for the two Satans of liberal “religion:” is facts and truth.
I as a southern Alberta boy with my buddies would lie on a small bridge over irrigation dithes and thow matches at the water surface where bubbles were perculating to the surface…pooffff!
Hydraulic fracturing has been commonly used since the late 40s in the US and since the 60s in Canada. Since then, more than 175,000 new wells have been fracked in British Columbia and Alberta “without a case of harm to drinking water,” according to regulating agencies in both provinces. That number constitutes more than a third of all new wells in this country in the last half-century. In New Brunswick there have been 49 fracking operations since the mid-1980s, all without a single report of water contamination. In the United States around 90 per cent of 493,000 active natural gas wells in the country, across 31 states, were fracked when they were drilled. These numbers do not constitute the unknown record of a new, untested technique that those concerned about its safety would have us believe. Rather, they indicate that concerns about the safety of fracking for water tables, while valid, are grossly exaggerated.
New wells require tests and inspections to ensure the well is safe to use hydraulic fracturing. That’s why there are no documented examples of newly drilled wells causing groundwater problems. The problems with hydraulic fracturing occur when old wells with damaged casing are fracked without testing first. This unregulated ‘cowboy’ fracking by small independent operators has become more frequent in the old oil fields of the USofA. That’s where the ‘fracking horror stories’ come from. When sorting truth from fiction, details are important.
“The two Satans of liberal “religion:” Global climate change and “fracking.”
Only two? What about homo-philia?
How are the Eco-Nuts even capable of lacing up their shoes…it boggles the mind.
If they would go to south western Ontario where they have had oil and gas bubbling out of the ground for over 100 years, have they not heard of Petrolia or Oil City. And yet generations have thrived amongst all this natural carnage.
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/OGSR/2ColumnSubPage/STEL02_167105.html
Maybe they should take a road trip to reality.
My husband worked for that dastardly 🙂 Halliburton in the late 60’s early 70’s and I believe they were doing some frack jobs here in Sask. at that time. Just wondered when it came into use. Thanks.
Nof60….but science is hard. Maybe small “c” conservatives should make cult activism and ignorant activism hard.
Early frac’s date from the the late 1890s. They used nitroglycerin Modern sand fracs started in the late 40s in the US. By about 1955 almost every well in pembina field was frac’ed, horizontal multistage fracing is about 2o years old now
Saudi is the biggest buyer of packers plus system. Indicated they are into the crap rock too
Regarding the final paragraph, and its reference to Centralia, one should be aware that while it is geographically close to Frackville the environmental problems of this town are of an entirely different nature. Wiki provides an excellent read and in no way colludes the troubles with fracking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania