A Better Way to Frack? A new technique for natural gas extraction eliminates fears about...

Reason ^ | May 17, 2011 | Ronald Bailey

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. BTTT!

[bigheadfred]

Frack

[bigheadfred]

Mebbe you gots some pictures?

teehee

[Sonny M]

I can't say in the Senate that would include Juan McCain and Leslie Graham ( who got reelected only because he hide while Sarah Palin carried him and McCain but TRUST ME SOUTH CAROLINA will Not Elect him Again.

I pray your right, with "friends" like him, who needs enemies ?

He does more harm to the GOP being a republican then any democrat in that seat would or could.

[Smokin' Joe]

Even if we found a way to frack "safely" the environazis will simply complain about something else.

We've been fracking wells for 60+years.

So where are all the major complaints about safety?

The top five reasons we haven't had any widespread complaints until the anti-human green crowd weighed in:

5. Obviously, Everyone died.

4. People have been too busy snorting methane to get a buzz to complain...

3. The extra fizz really helps those flaming drinks.

2. The water works great in the Mountain House freeze-dried cherries jubilee.

1. You can run your car on water!

(Disclaimer: to the writer's knowledge, Mountain House foods does not produce a freeze dried Cherries Jubilee in their fine line of products.)

Seriously, methane and oil do occur naturally in water in some areas. That is also known as 'an exploration tool' in the industry--an indicator that there might be gas or oil in the area worth trying to produce.

While this application of fracking may be new to this geological situation (in Pennsylvania), that does not mean that hydraulic fracturing has not been performed on tremendous numbers of oil wells safely. In North Dakota, roughly 1000 Bakken or Three Forks wells were fracked last year without a major incident.