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This day was intense!  It started at midnight with a call from one of the petroleum engineers I know. We had a chat and a good laugh about “a casual observer” we know and then I had a hard time going to sleep. At 9:00 AM a local TV news reporter called and wanted to do an on camera interview that you can see Monday night. At that time, I looked a lot like this guy.

I pulled it together, did the interview and answered about 500 emails and about 10 11 phone calls.

It took a while for Arlington, at large, to get clued in but now they are on fire. Industry is making enemies right and left and they only have themselves to blame.

So, there is a lot of information flying around and I’m missing most of it. I hope, Dear Readers, you know that, while I don’t post everything, I try to post goodies you can’t get just anywhere. But, I’m going to post a few items of interest here.

Hydrofracking impact on the health of livestock and humans– new study from two Cornell researchers

They wanted to cut down a bunch of old oak trees for an Eagle Ford Shale pipeline. Oak trees to be removed to make way for oil pipeline. But there was an uproar and now the pipeline company is changing the route.

North Dakota is just like the rest of us! Welcome to boomtown: oil production raises health concerns

Texas is getting another pipeline and a fractionator. Oneok to build NGL pipeline, fractionator. This pipeline will carry Asia’s gas, not ours.

Those whiny Texans are complaining about the damage done to their land by pipelines. Texas Ruling On Pipelines Is Challenged By Industry

The industry says its costs are soaring as landowners, bolstered by a recent appellate-court opinion, seek much higher payments for damage to their property values from pipelines and reject what they see as lowball offers from companies. Under Texas law, companies can build pipelines across private property over landowners’ objections, but must pay for use of the land and any damage to the value of the rest of the property.

A boxer is starting a fracking hunger strike. In the Clearing Stands a Boxer: One Man’s Fight Against Fracking

Fracking earthquakes and now landslides. Drilling Company Dealing With Landslides

This one really deserves some fanfare so ******Fracking Nonsense: The Job Myth of Gas Drilling******

Okay, there’s more but I have a glass of wine to drink and a weenie dog to pet and, I think, some mind-numbing TV is in order.

About Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.

Comments

  2. Kim Feil says

    Speaking of the “Job Myth in Gas Drilling”, check out the double whammy taxation myth being real once your well is productive….. http://arkansasnews.com/2012/01/12/opponents-of-oil-gas-royalty-taxes-lose-appeal/
    “The plaintiffs further alleged that the tax is a multiple tax because the oil and gas is subject to severance and income taxes; that the tax is not assessed on non-producing properties; that a tax on oil and gas royalties is a privilege or excise tax, not a property tax; and that tax rates do not reflect the actual prices paid for the oil and gas.”

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  1. […] Scientists say there is one way to minimize risks of even minor temblors                         With mounting evidence linking hundreds of small earthquakes from Oklahoma to Ohio to the energy industry's growing use of fracking technology, scientists say there is one way to minimize risks of even minor temblors. With mounting evidence linking hundreds of small earthquakes from Oklahoma to Ohio to the energy industry's growing use of fracking technology, scientists say there is one way to minimize risks of even minor temblors. Only, it costs about $10 million a pop. A thorough seismic survey to assess tracts of rock below where oil and gas drilling fluid is disposed of could help detect quake prone areas. But that would be far more costly than the traditional method of drilling a bore hole, which takes a limited sample of a rock formation but gives no hint of faults lines or plates. The more expensive method will be a hard sell as long as irrefutable proof of the link between fracking and earthquakes remains elusive. "If we knew what was in the earth we could perfectly mitigate the risk of earthquakes," said Austin Holland, seismologist at the Oklahoma Geological Survey. "That is something that we don't have enough science to establish yet." A 4.0 New Year's Eve quake in Ohio prompted officials to shut down five wells used to dispose of fluid used in the hydraulic fracturing process. That comes less than a year after Arkansas declared a moratorium due to a surge in earthquakes as companies developed the Fayetteville Shale reserve. Experts say the quakes do not necessarily appear to be caused during the process of fracking, a controversial extraction technique that involves injecting chemical-laced water and sand into shale rock to release oil and gas. Instead, it's the need to dispose of millions of gallons of contaminated fluid extracted from each drilling site, either to be recycled or trucked to a separate location to be pumped deep underground. The pressure caused by water pushed far below the surface for a long period has been linked to an increase in seismic activity, as water enters fissures and lubricates fault lines which can cause earthquakes in places otherwise free of them. Read more . . .   Bookmark this page and check back regularly as these articles update on a frequent basis. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Scientists sa…n] […]