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Energy Conference Focuses On Shale Gas Hot-Button Issues
New Mexico Tech ^ | 01/10/2012 | Thomas Guengerich/

Posted on 01/10/2012 9:19:37 PM PST by greenwill

SOCORRO, N.M. January 10, 2012 – As oil companies deploy hundreds of wells in northeast Pennsylvania to tap into the lucrative “shale gas” deposits, many are weighing the environmental impacts, the economic outlook and the regulatory climate related to the latest bonanza in domestic natural gas production.

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To: greenwill
“Fracking is controversial and it’s important to have a good scientific basis to understand it,” Romero said.

“We need to do a good job from a scientific and engineering basis as we proceed with development of these formations.”

I don’t care how well it is understood or how good a scientific and engineering basis they have for determining the safety of Fracking it will never be good enough for the Environmentalist idiots.

The Environmentalist idiots don’t care how much exploiting these gas resources will improve the lives of the people in the area, they don’t care that the schools in these areas are falling down around the children’s heads and that these gas wells will bring in tax dollars that will repair or replace these schools.

No all the Environmentalist idiots care about is that some one some where is making a buck and it has to stop.

2 posted on 01/10/2012 11:56:34 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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