Fracing (Fracking): The vital list for anyone to understand most of the unreported details and evidence so far ========== Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering at Cornell, Dr. Ingraffea: The complete technical evidence on fracking..... (part 1/3 - see related for parts 2&3) ------- Keynote address by Anthony Ingraffea at Marcellus Shale Exposed, held March 17, 2012 at Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA. In his presentation, Dr. Ingraffea decimates four myths central to the shale gas industry: (1) Fracing is a 60-year old, well-proven technology; (2) Fluid Migration from faulty wells is a rare phenomenon; (3) The use of multi-well pads and cluster drilling reduces surface impacts; and (4) Natural Gas is a clean fossil fuel. This video is in three parts. The first part deals largely with well integrity, or lack there-of due to inevitible cement failures and human health impacts The second part deals with methane emissions from the shale-gas industry, and the imperative of reducing this powerful greenhouse gas immediately. The last part is the Q and A, Dr. Ingraffea is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering at Cornell and a co-founder of Physicians, Scientists Engineers for Sustainable and Healthy Energy. His research and modelling of hydraulic fracturing, funded by Schlumberger, have been foundational. m.youtube/watch?v=7DK3fODCZ3w ================ Deborah Rogers: Shale Promises or Shale Spin? A Conversation with Deborah Rogers ------- Ms Rogers began her financial career in London working in corporate finance and later served as a financial consultant with Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney. She then started an artisanal cheese making operation in Texas and became interested in natural gas when an energy company planned 12 high impact wells next to her dairy property.After exhaustive research, she began speaking out in 2009 about anomalies she had identified in the shale gas industry, including false expectations of the yields and profitability of many shale gas plays and over-hyping of investments therein.Ms Rogers is the founder of the Energy Policy Forum, a prominent web site and blog for discussion on these and related matters.She was featured in a lengthy NY Times article by Ian Urbina on June 26, 2011 entitled Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush. m.youtube/watch?v=nxG4CpNSZTQ ================ Unnatural Gas: How Government Made Fracking Profitable (and Left Renewables Behind) -------- dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/unnatural-gas-how-government-made-fracking-profitable-and-left-renewables-behind ================= National Geographic: The New Oil Landscape - The fracking frenzy in North Dakota has boosted the U.S. fuel supply—but at what cost? -------- "Just don’t pass out on me,” Connell says, half in jest. We’ve scaled a steep stairway to a narrow steel catwalk 30 feet above the ground, but she’s not referring to the height. She says that one of the first times she opened the hatch atop a dirty water tank, she was overcome by fumes. “I fell to my knees.” No one had warned her about the dozens of chemicals in the water, including hydrogen sulfide, H₂S, its rotten-egg odor created by bacteria growing inside wells. In high enough concentrations it can be poisonous, even lethal. Ironically, the gas poses the greatest risk when it deadens your sense of smell, another safety lesson Connell had to learn on her own. Eventually someone gave her an H₂S detector, which she clipped to her collar whenever she approached a well that had turned “sour” enough to be hazardous. Once she was pumping dirty water from her tanker truck when the detector sounded. She scrambled away, thinking she’d escaped harm. But hours later she felt stabbing pains in her stomach, the prelude to a weeklong bout of vomiting. Her next purchase was a gas mask."...... "To appreciate the nature of the work, I visited a well northeast of Williston. A leak had developed at the bottom of the vertical leg, about two miles underground. To bring the pipe to the surface, a derricklike structure, similar to a drill rig but smaller, had been erected. On a deck about 30 feet up the rig, four roughnecks were removing the entire 10,750 feet of pipe, one 32-foot, 500-pound segment at a time, a task both tedious and highly dangerous. A device underneath the deck held each segment in place as it emerged, to prevent the pressure of the oil from sending all two miles of pipe, some 84 tons of steel, rocketing into the sky. As if to remind us of that possibility, a fountain of oil suddenly burst from the hole, covering the men, their hard hats, faces, everything. The odor of gas permeated the air." ngm.nationalgeographic/2013/03/bakken-shale-oil/dobb-text ================= Mortgages, Property values and Property insurance affected by fracking ... -------- m.theatlanticcities/politics/2013/08/how-fracking-boom-could-lead-housing-bust/6588/
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