"The earth has a fever will get coronary artery disease!"
Posted on 12/16/2010 3:34:50 AM PST by Puzzleman
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The Wall Street Journal however reports good news today in its story, "Edible Ingredients Used to Drill for Gas." Apparently Halliburton and Baker Hughes have developed fracking chemicals using fatty acids and other ingredients found in toothpaste, ketchup, ice cream and beer. The enemies of cheap natural gas of course won't congratulate Halliburton for being a good steward of the planet and switch their position. I wonder where the next attack will come from. Fatty acids in the edible fracking chemicals lead to an obesity epidemic in the caribou population?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
hmmm...I don't care about the stuff that's edible...it doesn't fix the stuff that's NOT! :-)
Also, this is the same Halliburton that admitted only a couple of years ago that they were still using diesel fuel to frack, despite promises given years earlier that they wouldn't do that anymore. And as Thackney illustrated, they and the industry groups are using misleading graphics still. It has been demonstrated recently in PA and NY that the actual fracking fluids being used don't match the graphics they show.
One of the chemicals in fracking fluids has a main purpose of inducing tumors in lab animals so anti-tumor drugs can be tested. Even consultants working for the gas companies have published results showing such things.
The problem is, fracking doesn't need to be banned...but the lies and misrepresentations of gas companies are just as bad as those on the other side. There's no way the government should block property rights of those who want protection of their groundwater just because someone wants to burn "clean natural gas" instead of "dirty coal".
Disclaimer: I have personal and professional interests that would be promoted by the increased exploitation of shale gas.
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I don’t think fracing fluid is going to be a popular drink just yet:
“Halliburton has introduced a hydraulic fracturing fluid formulation made with ingredients obtained from food suppliers. And no, the fluid is not considered edible.
Compounds used in fracing are under scrutiny as some members of Congress question its safety. The use of fracing in the US dates back to the 1940s. Currently, the development of shale plays and horizontal drilling has increased demand for frac services.
Halliburton said its CleanStim fluid system provides excellent pumpability, proppant transport, and retained conductivity. Laboratory tests showed over 90% retained conductivity after 24 hr of flow. The fluid can be applicable over a broad temperature range providing up to 30 minutes pumping time at 225° F.
CleanStim involves a gelling agent, crosslinker-buffer, breakers and a surfactant. Frac crews mix the CleanStim formulation with water at the job site.
Crews on conventional gelled frac jobs can use the CleanStim fluid. In addition, CleanStim components can provide friction reduction for water frac treatments commonly used in shale, Halliburton said.”
There is a long list of greases and lubricants that are used in the food industry that can be consumed. They don’t taste so hot, but they are edible.
I am really pleased to see this happen. Kudos.
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Exactly. I’ve got nothing against improvements, but to imply this stuff makes it all okay is flat-out wrong.
Does it get you 'high'?
"The earth has a fever will get coronary artery disease!"
“fuel produced in this way would make drivers obese. “
If someone threw enough money at it there could be study results that link bio-diesel emissions the smell like french fries to obesity via getting hungry from smelling it.
They are doing everything they can to stop it here in New York....
And those of us in other states who want the high paying jobs and increase economic growth in their state thank NY politicians for reducing the competition.
Maybe this will help speed up the growth of the Haynesville shale growing just 10 miles more to the south...
Retirement could come early then...
Right before you go blind!
Agreed. I had seen the Wall Street article before and it fails to note that while it has edible ingredients, it is still NOT edible. The Oil & Gas Journal article is written by a person familiar with the industry and all the other lame stream media types tend to ignore the science.
The person that wrote that O&G article has a new one out on water quality versus fracing here:
I thought of starting a new thread with it, but there is not a lot new in the article that I haven’t seen elsewhere.
That’s a nice chart. Helpful.
The Obama administration is saying good things about fracking, but regulators at many levels are becoming the problem:
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