GRAND PRAIRIE (CBSDFW.COM) – Riding across the lake to the Joe Pool Dam, Major Andrew Liffring with the Army Corps of Engineers found no reason to fear that it could suddenly give way. “It looks fine to me.”
Well, alrighty then. Must be fine right? Here are a couple of other things that also looked “fine” Major Liffring:
- Titanic
- Hindenburg
Something about this smells fishy. First, did you catch the part about Major Liffring’s “predecessor” who wrote the first letter from the Army Corps Of Engineers? What happened to that guy? Second, how do warning letters from engineers change so dramatically. The first letter elicited a “scary as hell” response from the Grand Prairie mayor. Suddenly, it all “looks fine…” Third, watch the video and think about body language.
eu tu Corps?
The bottom line is like everything else about this industry: We just don’t know. But, in America, we never consider employing the Precautionary Principle. If I lived in the path of Joe Pool Lake, I would get me a life raft.
Keep up with Grand Prairie drilling issues at Westchester Gasette blog.
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If you think drilling and fracking under dams is ill advised then drilling under Squaw Creek aka Glenn Rose Nuke plant should be out of bounds for sure! Wrong! http://gis2.rrc.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/wellattrs.cgi?apinum=42530261
Interesting article on the Global Water Crisis. And it doesn’t even mention the damage fracking will have on the country’s water supply. 40% of US rivers and 46% of US lakes are so heavily polluted the water isnt safe to drink or even swim in?!?! God help us after our century of Shale.
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/25-signs-that-a-horrific-global-water-crisis-is-coming
David: Unbelievable. Thanks for sharing that. (I think.)
I don’t understand your logic. The whole point is to confine the fracture to the producing zones. Anything else would be uneconomic. Wells are fraced that have multiple stages and each stage has a plug set in the casing and the casing is perforated shallower for the next stage. And 99 percent of the time there is not any evidence of pressure communication between stages. To think that fracing 10,000 feet under the surface would affect something on top of the surface is ludicrous. Where do you want to get our electricity? If you will examine the facts when it is really cold and when it is really hot wind power is ineffectual at best. I guess your solution is for everyone to just turn off their air conditioning when it gets to 108 degrees or not heat their houses when it is 2 degrees? You guys should be appearing in GEICO commercials. If anybody wants to check into it, every time the energy prices have incred substantially, we went into a recession. So let’s just FORCE ourselves into another one. Everyone is entitled to have an opinion and I just provided mine free of charge.
Logic? From your arguments–same old, same old–I can see why you don’t understand logic. Try some sometime.
Fracking cracks rocks–and when fracking gets out of hand and comes near the surface of the earth, it cracks stuff at the surface–Listen, listen!
I don’t think that fracking ever “comes near the surface of the earth.” I do think fracking causes uneven pressure that can cause the earth to shift, cause pressure on fault lines and cause earthquakes. But saying it comes near the surface is over-the-top hyperbole.