Someone alert the media, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo! A study funded in part by environmentalists finds that fracking is safe. You would think good news like this would be spread far and wide. Aren’t we trying to become energy independent? Oh well, we can always hope.
A new study shows that little methane, a strong greenhouse gas that occurs naturally in ground water, is released into the atmosphere during hydraulic fracturing.
So it must be OK to frack now.
In the first “Gasland” movie, environmental activist Josh Fox trumpeted flaming water taps in a Colorado town as evidence of fracking-induced water contamination. In fact, the areas in question had reported naturally occurring methane in their water for decades.
Whether naturally occurring or not, environmentalists claim that fracking would release huge amounts of what they consider the most potent heat-trapping greenhouse gas, far outweighing the value of producing huge quantities of clean-burning natural gas.
Now comes a study, conducted by scientists at the University of Texas and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — and co-financed by one of the highest-profile environmentalists in the country — that shows much smaller amounts of methane emissions associated with fracking, far less than environmentalists and the Environmental Protection Agency have contended.
Maybe we have more to fear from flatulent cows and other animals, which produced an estimated 137 million metric tons of methane in 2011.
Read the whole thing. Unfortunately, movies like Gasland, and the endless propaganda being spread by the anti-fracking zealots, really seem to have poisoned the well. Which is why we need to highlight news like this every chance we get.
And yet, one company that held leases on land in New York have finally gotten sick and tired of waiting for Hamlet Cuomo to make up his fracking mind and are leaving the state. Isn’t funny? Cuomo rushed through the unconstitutional, unenforceable NY SAFE Law. But something that would be a boom to the state’s economy he dragged his feet and dragged his feet. Funny, but sad. When it comes to making criminals out of law-abiding New Yorkers, Cuomo won’t let the grass grow under him. But something that would benefit the state, create jobs and wealth for the people of New York, Andrew the Pius can’t bring himself to act.
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By-product management IS a concern. That being said, those I know with wells on their property have no complaints. They really like the paycheck.
The movie GASLAND does raise some issues. IMO: corrupting the message with BS is an invalidation.
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How many studies do you need???
All issues were studied X-times and the serious result is:
YES, FRACKING IS SAFE!!!
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