Just for the record, EPA long ago noted that fracking is a bad idea in most of Pennsylvania and bordering oil fields in New York. Evidently the large number of abandoned old wells and maybe odd geology allows tracking products to contaminate water supplies.
In most other places, fracking is safe if regulations are followed. It might be wise to encourage it, especially for natural gas to replace coal and oil, cutting CO2 emissions per energy generated, in half. Also, a fracked well lasts 7 to 12 years for low investment. Much better for everyone than spending vastly more for opening new fields that could produce for generations.
Methane? It is an issue, but all methane emissions from oil and gas exploration, production, transport and use is far less than methane from landfilling domestic waste biodegradables alone... and domestic waste is dwarfed by farm waste.
Yeah, we should have been much further along in replacement technologies for natural gas. But the Democrats' policy seems about right to handle the issue now. The Republicans are crazy... and the Republican South and Midwest is particularly susceptible to floods, tornadoes and hurricanes. Go figure.
An illuminating presentation. It would benefit all of us to actually educate ourselves about all the issues and b options surrounding energy, rather than taking a stand and sticking to it, regardless. It is beyond argument that we need energy, and in ever-increasing amounts. Obviously, for so long, wealth, and the world, has moved on oil. Until, and unless we find ourselves a way to be pro the world and the future, and open to solving the problems, instead of piecemeal selfish solutions, we will continue to flounder. Is the answer “all of the above”?
“Plunderers of the earth” by Julius Reuchel is an interesting read on the climate change topic.
Just for the record, EPA long ago noted that fracking is a bad idea in most of Pennsylvania and bordering oil fields in New York. Evidently the large number of abandoned old wells and maybe odd geology allows tracking products to contaminate water supplies.
In most other places, fracking is safe if regulations are followed. It might be wise to encourage it, especially for natural gas to replace coal and oil, cutting CO2 emissions per energy generated, in half. Also, a fracked well lasts 7 to 12 years for low investment. Much better for everyone than spending vastly more for opening new fields that could produce for generations.
Methane? It is an issue, but all methane emissions from oil and gas exploration, production, transport and use is far less than methane from landfilling domestic waste biodegradables alone... and domestic waste is dwarfed by farm waste.
Yeah, we should have been much further along in replacement technologies for natural gas. But the Democrats' policy seems about right to handle the issue now. The Republicans are crazy... and the Republican South and Midwest is particularly susceptible to floods, tornadoes and hurricanes. Go figure.
An illuminating presentation. It would benefit all of us to actually educate ourselves about all the issues and b options surrounding energy, rather than taking a stand and sticking to it, regardless. It is beyond argument that we need energy, and in ever-increasing amounts. Obviously, for so long, wealth, and the world, has moved on oil. Until, and unless we find ourselves a way to be pro the world and the future, and open to solving the problems, instead of piecemeal selfish solutions, we will continue to flounder. Is the answer “all of the above”?