Posted on 09/21/2011 5:08:02 PM PDT by decimon
An energy firm which has been test drilling for controversial "shale gas" in Lancashire has said it has found vast gas resources underground.
Cuadrilla Resources began testing for gas on the Fylde Coast in March, using a technique known as "fracking".
It said it had found 200 trillion cubic feet of gas under the ground, which if recovered could provide 5,600 jobs in the UK, 1,700 of those in Lancashire.
Opponents to the process believe it produces damaging carbon emissions.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
All the polluted water wells that the EPA and Eco-freaks are trying to say were polluted by fracking were not. In several of the cases, a water drilling company kept records of unsuccessful wells (ones that hit water AND gas) and produced them when the EPA and the property owners tried to sue. It was obvious fraud and the EPA and property owner should have been jailed for trying to perpetuate a fraud on the courts.
But it's still over one or two miles above the fracking strata.
Be advised that fracking began in West Texas and the Panhandle, where the agriculture of the High Plains is supported by the Ogallala Aquifer -- where the water table is up to 500' down. And, after 60 years, the Aquifer remains uncontaminated.
Your minerals you'll have to live with (or invest in some filtration). But fracking residues won't be joining them.
Good, and you?
Looking forward to a world with ample energy supplies. If the enviros will allow it...
When you drill a well you drill X number of feet below the fresh water table and set/cement a surface casing in place.
Your fresh water is then isolated for the rest of the drilling process.
The well is then drilled to the production depth.
You then set/cement, depending on the depth, at least one more casing in the well. It extends to the production zone.
Your fresh water is now isolated by several thousand feet of rock and at least two casings.
High pressure tubing is then lowered in the well to the production zone and mechanically set to isolate the production casing keep the fracking fluid from entering the casing.
You now have at least 2 casings and high pressure tubing, three steel pipes total, isolating the fresh water zone.
Possible but highly unlikely anything is going to get in the fresh water.
As an aside, the EPA's new regs have made them and Obama extremely unpopular here in KY. I know a number of guys whose families have been associated with UMWA for generations, and they are considering voting for a Republican for the first time in their lives.
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a proven and well-regulated technology. First used in the 1940s, hydraulic fracturing has unlocked massive new supplies of oil and clean-burning natural gas from dense deposits of shale — supplies that increase our country’s energy security and improve our ability to generate electricity.
http://energytomorrow.org/energy/hydraulic-fracturing?gclid=CLyq-oH1sKsCFQx3gwodKSgxcg#/type/all
Envirowacko won’t care about the truth. Their goal is to drive back tot he 7th century.
200 trillion cubic feet of gas... if recovered could provide 5,600 jobs in the UK, 1,700 of those in Lancashire. Opponents to the process believe it produces damaging carbon emissions.Opponents to the process believe it causes less dole.
Which goes to show how abysmally stupid they are. Whose money are they going to suck from the government teat when they've put all the producers of wealth out of business and out of jobs?
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