Frack Off

[heironymouspasparagus]

One thing is beyond doubt - regular people are gonna get screwed again...if they haven't already.

[Townsend]

A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark



http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a-mysterious-patch-of-light-shows-up-in-the-north-dakota-dark?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130116

What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking. Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas. One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, have flooded this region, drilling up to eight new wells every day on what is called the Bakken formation. Altogether, they are now producing 660,000 barrels a day, double the output two years ago, so that in no time at all, North Dakota is now the second largest oil producing state in America. Only Texas produces more, and those lights are a sign that this region is now on fire ... to a disturbing degree — literally.

[TheArtist]

A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark



http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a-mysterious-patch-of-light-shows-up-in-the-north-dakota-dark?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130116

Kewl, and Wow.

[Teatownclown]

The issue is all that contaminated waste water and pouring it back into the water tables.

http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/01/fracking-wastewater-threatens-drown-ohio

" Because of fracking, gas extraction is up 570 percent since 2004 in the Marcellus shale region, which means that there's a whole lot more wastewater overall to deal with."
"Pennsylvania's 6,400 active wells created 20 million barrels of wastewater in 2011, and about 35 percent of it—7 million barrels—was disposed of in injection wells in Ohio, accounting for more than half of the wastewater Ohio dealt with."

Defend the water and air.

[heironymouspasparagus]

But think of the jobs...


Jobs.  Jobs.  Jobs.  Jobs.


Say that over and over for about 3 minutes and you get this weird sensation of how meaningless the letters are.  The word just blurs into a mush of irrelevance without any other context.  No input about quality of life.  Living standard.  Balance of work and family.  Also, a good a way to live vicariously as a Republicontin; not to be confused with a Republican....

[sauerkraut]

That is the light from the oil rigs, there are alot of big oil rigs there with light shining up into the sky. It's a big oil patch.

[sauerkraut]

But think of the jobs...


Jobs.  Jobs.  Jobs.  Jobs.


Say that over and over for about 3 minutes and you get this weird sensation of how meaningless the letters are.  The word just blurs into a mush of irrelevance without any other context.  No input about quality of life.  Living standard.  Balance of work and family.  Also, a good a way to live vicariously as a Republicontin; not to be confused with a Republican....

Better than having no jobs and being unemployed and homeless.

[Townsend]

Better than having no jobs and being unemployed and homeless.

Mary, for goodness sake, get back to work.

[sauerkraut]

Frack on, frack off, The Fracker! I think I just invented something new!

[heironymouspasparagus]

Frack on, frack off, The Fracker! I think I just invented something new!

FINALLY!!  And better yet, it's almost humorous!!!!!

[DolfanBob]

This sheds a little more light on the lights.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269517/The-picture-space-shows-U-S-oil-field-burning-gas-power-Chicago-AND-Washington-cheaper-selling-it.html

[patric]

This sheds a little more light on the lights.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269517/The-picture-space-shows-U-S-oil-field-burning-gas-power-Chicago-AND-Washington-cheaper-selling-it.html

Perhaps the most damning:

"the abundant supplies of gas it has unlocked have outpaced development of infrastructure needed to store and pump it to populations."
i.e., it's cheaper to just let it burn than try to sell it.

If they have no means to transport the gas, then why are they continuing to drill eight new wells every day?

[Teatownclown]

If they have no means to transport the gas, then why are they continuing to drill eight new wells every day?

Because of oil...not gas. Most wells come in at 500+ BOPD and then taper off to 100-200 BOPD ....the wells have a sharp decline curve. It's easier to burn the gas off than to try to build pipelines.

[Conan71]

Also, burning off well head gas is nothing new, it's been done for decades.

[DolfanBob]

Also, burning off well head gas is nothing new, it's been done for decades.

Probably just not at this large of numbers in one place.