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LOL WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS ARTICLE?!
Is it acknowledging the undeniable necessity to drill our petroleum reserves or claiming that it isn't environmentally worth the trouble??? Boutons do you even read what you post?
No. Its just another worthless spam thread now.
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Confirmed: Billions of Gallons of Fracking Waste Contaminate Drought-Ravaged California's Aquifers
Almost 3 billion gallons of oil industry wastewater have been illegally dumped into central California aquifers that supply drinking water and farming irrigation, according to state do ents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity. The wastewater entered the aquifers through at least nine injection disposal wells used by the oil industry to dispose of waste contaminated with fracking fluids and other pollutants.
The do ents also reveal that Central Valley Water Board testing found high levels of arsenic, thallium and nitrates — contaminants sometimes found in oil industry wastewater — in water-supply wells near these waste-disposal operations.
“Clean water is one of California’s most crucial resources, and these do ents make it clear that state regulators have utterly failed to protect our water from oil industry pollution,” said Hollin Kretzmann, a Center attorney. “Much more testing is needed to gauge the full extent of water pollution and the threat to public health. But Governor Brown should move quickly to halt fracking to ward off a surge in oil industry wastewater that California simply isn’t prepared to dispose of safely.”
The state’s Water Board confirmed beyond doubt that at least nine wastewater disposal wells have been injecting waste into aquifers that contain high-quality water that is supposed to be protected under federal and state law.
Thallium is an extremely toxic chemical commonly used in rat poison. Arsenic is a toxic chemical that can cause cancer. Some studies show that even low-level exposure to arsenic in drinking water can compromise the immune system’s ability to fight illness.
“Arsenic and thallium are extremely dangerous chemicals,” said Timothy Krantz, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Redlands. “The fact that high concentrations are showing up in multiple water wells close to wastewater injection sites raises major concerns about the health and safety of nearby residents.”
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/n...0-06-2014.html
State Commissioner: If You Oppose Fracking in North Carolina, Your Comment "Doesn't Count
“About half are repe ive ‘don’t frack’ comments,” said Commissioner James Womack. “They don’t really count, if you know what I mean.”
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/11/state-commissioner-if-you-oppose-fracking-north-carolina-your-comment-doesnt-count
the Confederacy! what a ing joke
Report: New York Governor’s Office Altered And Delayed Fracking Study
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/06/3576356/cuomo-fracking-report/
Cuomo is in Wall St pockets, looks like he's in BigOil pockets, too
if this pos and anybody like him/her wasnt in politics, would they give a about protecting t heir own interests $$$ in these companies...
just another POS who says one thing to get voters votes into politics, then selling them out cause of the money they receive under the table
politicians implement the policies paid for by their (big) donors, not by voters.
fracking kills, just collateral damage, nothing to see.
In Texas, Traffic Deaths Climb Amid Fracking Boom
The death toll on Texas highways had been falling for decades, as car companies built safer vehicles. But that trend shifted into reverse as the boom in fracking began to heat up.
The Texas Department of Transportation says that between 2009 and 2013, the state's traffic fatalities rose by eight percent, even as those in most other states continued to fall. And deaths linked to commercial vehicle crashes, like trucks, soared by more than 50 percent over the same period.
The boom has triggered a huge demand for both tractor-trailers and drivers.
"People who've never been in the seat of a truck before go to school for two weeks, and they graduate, and now they're a truck driver, you know," says Larry Busby, the long-time sheriff of Live Oak County in the Eagle Ford shale region of South Texas. "Well, they're not a truck driver yet. They've just passed the school."
http://www.npr.org/2014/10/02/352980...-fracking-boom
Or how about have not gone to trucking school at all.
Twenty-One Defendants Charged for Corruption at Two Southern California DMV Offices
United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced today that employees at the California Department of Motor Vehicles (“DMV”) in San Diego County were charged in a criminal complaint for their involvement in a long-running bribery conspiracy that resulted in the production of hundreds of fraudulent driver licenses for applicants who had failed—or not taken—the required driver license tests.
The complaint alleges that DMV officials at the El Cajon DMV office, located at 1450 Graves Avenue, El Cajon, California, and the Rancho San Diego DMV office, located at 1901 Jamacha Road, El Cajon, California, falsely entered both “passing” written and “passing” driving test scores for applicants in exchange for bribes ranging up to $3,000 per license.
In addition to the DMV employees, 16 other defendants were charged in the complaint. According to the charging do ents, these 16 other defendants are applicants who paid bribes to receive fraudulent driver licenses, or recruiters who brokered the corrupt deals for fraudulent licenses by getting money from the applicants and paying the bribes to the DMV employees. According to court do ents, the corruption scheme involved the fraudulent production of both Class C (regular) and Commercial Class A driver licenses. Hundreds of applicants paid recruiters approximately $400- $500 for each fraudulent Class C license, which the conspirators produced at the El Cajon DMV. The complaint alleges that the DMV employees named in the complaint accepted bribes paid by these applicants despite the obvious public safety risk posed. For example, one DMV employee admitted to a recruiter that an applicant taking a driving test was so dangerous that she was “gonna kill someone.” The DMV employee, however, provided a fraudulent license to the dangerous applicant in exchange for a bribe the recruiter because he “need[ed] cash.”
According to the complaint, applicants seeking Commercial Class A licenses, produced at the Rancho San Diego DMV, typically paid recruiters $2,500-$3,000. Commercial Class A driver licenses allow the licensee to drive commercial vehicles weighing more than 10,000 pounds, which can cause enormous harm to the public if operated incorrectly by an unqualified driver. The complaint further alleges that DMV employees entered false passing test scores that allowed applicants to fraudulently obtain additional certifications for specific operations of the commercial vehicles, such as transporting hazardous materials or towing multiple trailers. The United States Attorney emphasized that these fraudulent certifications posed a significant threat to public safety, given that an unqualified driver could then transport hazardous materials or tow multiple trailers on the public roads.
For both Class C and Commercial Class A licenses, the recruiters told the applicants that, if they paid the fee, they would not have to take any of the required tests in order to receive a license. The complaint alleges that the recruiters made good on their claim as Jim Lynn Bean, Jeffrey Thomas Bednarek, Scott David Friedli, and Marco Beltran took advantage of their positions as DMV employees to enter fraudulent passing written and driving test scores into the DMV database. These DMV employees were responsible for conducting driving tests for driver license applicants, but by entering false information, cir vented the DMV’s driver license application process.
All 21 defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and to produce unauthorized identification do ents, in violation of le 18, United States Code, Section 371. In addition, defendants Bean, Bednarek, Friedli, and Beltran were charged with one count of bribery, in violation of le 18, United States Code, Section 666(a)(1)(B). The operator of the U.S. Driving School in El Cajon, Kuvan Adil Piomari, was charged with one count of bribery, in violation of le 18, United States Code, Section 666(a)(2). The defendants taken into custody today are expected to make their initial appearances before United States Magistrate Judge William V. Gallo on May 3, 2012.
United States Attorney Duffy commented that this criminal complaint and arrests are the result of an active, ongoing criminal investigation. If anyone in the community has information about corruption at the DMV, they are asked to contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation at 1-877-NO-BRIBE (662-7423), or the DMV’s Investigations Branch-Office of Internal Affairs at 626-851-0173.
Criminal Case No. 12MJ1576
Defendants Jim Lynn Bean Age: 33 Kuvan Adil Piromari Age: 42 Jeffrey Thomas Bednarek Age: 53 Scott David Friedli Age: 32 Marco Beltran Age: 41 Gabriela Villanueva Age: 30 Bashar Asaad Azaria Age: 34 Reenan Esa Kuza Age: 29 Usman Aliyev Age: 29 Abdulmajed Alhokair Age: 21 Ahmad Alarbeed Age: 20 Mohammed Alsuwaidi Age: 18 Ali Rashid Al-Sowaidi Age: 22 Khalid Abdulaziz Al-Sowaidi Age: 22 Talal Bass Almousharji Age: 19 Virginia Pena Age: 32 Yontar Gizem Age: 19 Douri Zafer Age: 43 Asiel Bahjat Tomika Age: 30 Angel Salvador Astimibay Age: 50 Bekzad Mirhanov Age: 31
Summary of Charges
http://www.fbi.gov/sandiego/press-re...ia-dmv-offices
heard a guy on NPR say oil at $80 means no more fracking wells.
Saudis Deploy the Oil Price Weapon Against Syria, Iran, Russia, and the US
Asian stock markets continued to fall today, propelled at least in part by the adverse reaction tothe Saudi announcement yesterday that they would let oil prices fall to $80 a barrel. And further reports indicate that the Saudis intend to keep oil prices low enough to force a realignment of prices not just among various grades of crude, but also for intermediate and long-term subs utes.
It is critical to remember that the Saudis have no compunction about imposing costs on other nations to maximize the value of their oil resource long term and hence the power they derive from it. The 1970s oil shock produced a nasty recession in the US and most other advanced economies and gave a further impetus to inflation, which was already hard to manage and dampened growth by discouraging investment.
The current alignment of factors gives the Saudis the opportunity to make life miserable for a long list of parties they would like to discipline, including the US.
The sharp rise in the dollar means that lowering the price of oil in dollar terms is unlikely to leave the desert kingdom worse off in local currency terms. But it
undermines US energy development, both fracking and development in the Bakken, as well as more development by the majors, who were regularly criticized by analysts for how much they were spending on exploration when the math didn’t pencil out well at over $100 a barrel.
Countries whose oil is output is mainly heavy, sour crude, like Iran and Venezuela, find it hard to sell their oil when prices are below $100 a barrel (or at least when the dollar was weaker, but the $80 price point, even with a strong dollar, may be low enough to cause discomfort).
In other words, this is a classic case of predatory pricing: set your price low enough long enough to do real damage to compe ors, and reduce their market share, not just immediately, but in the middle to long term.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/...+capitalism%29
Sounds like amazon's business model.
Amazon doesnt run, screaming like a 9 year old child when the missles fly tho. $80 bl will vaporize immediately when hostilities escalate.
The price of a booming economy in this case is getting killed on the highway. In a very short period of time I have already seen 3 trailer trucks owned by small business jackknifed because they don't understand that slight mistakes at 75 towing heavy machinery in a crappy old setup is really dangerous. These are not even the 18 wheelers mentioned above.
Stay behind the keyboard ST people. There are things much more likely to get you dead. I'm glad I spend more time on terrorist ridden airplanes. And , this Ebola... You want to get dead in Texas, drive. Now go ahead and mention that giant spiders are hiding only on fast moving large vehicles and problem solved.
I tend to agree with the NPR guy except that I think the US is complicit with the Saudi's in the price drop. The O administration hates US fracking anyway, and $80 oil punishes the Russians for the Ukraine because the Rusians need $100 oil to be able to sell at a profit.
I have no problem with fracking or even with coal, if they would stop thermally, chemically, etc polluting air, water, land.
I read few weeks ago that the Really Big Wall St commodities trading criminals, the speculative Market Makers looting actual oil users, had quit oil market. Looks likes they had the insight, very probably with insider info from the govt and BigOil, into the near future.
Plus, cheap gas is a consumer "feel good" for the November election.
Thanks, Obama!
Will low oil prices take a bite out of the US shale boom?
Oil prices continue to fall, putting pressure on US drillers who need oil prices to remain relatively high to make production profitable. Low oil prices are already reducing the number of active drilling rigs in the US.
There were 19 oil rigs that were removed from operation as of Oct. 17, compared to the prior week. There are now 1,590 active oil rigs, the lowest level in six weeks.“Unless there’s a significant reversal in oil prices, we’re going to see continued declines in the rig count, especially those drilling for oil,” James Williams, president of WTRG Economics, told Fuel Fix in an interview. “We could easily see the oil rig count down 100 by the end of the year, or more.”
U.S. drilling companies could begin to seriously start removing rigs from operation if prices drop to around $75 per barrel. Some of the more expensive shale regions will not be profitable at current prices. For example, the pricey Tuscaloosa shale in Louisiana breaks even at about $92 per barrel.
in North Dakota’s prolific Bakken formation, an average rig is producing over 530 barrels per day from a new well in October. Less than two years ago, that figure sat at around 300 barrels per day. Extracting more barrels from the same operation improves the economics of drilling, which means shale producers are not as vulnerable to lower prices as they used to be.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment...-US-shale-boom
But BigOil is still pushing to export US crude (aka sell to foreigners and deplete USA's natural resources to hasten supply well down the peak oil curve and sooner up the oil price curve)
And for some reason, BigOil can justify the economics of drilling in the Arctic and VERY deep ocean wells
Dear Reader ,
Greetings from London.
All eyes are on a small college town just outside of Dallas, Texas, whose claim to fame is three-fold: It is the home to the Barnett Shale; it is where hydraulic fracturing debuted; and now some fear it could be where fracking meets one of its greatest enemies, while conspiracy theories of Russian infiltration abound.
On 4 November, the residents of Denton will vote in a local ballot on whether or not to ban fracking within the city limits, and there is a flurry of activity on this battleground that is not likely to end with the vote itself, but will be dragged through the courts in the aftermath.
While Denton is but a small college town, this small-town referendum has much larger implications. If Texas bans fracking—even on this small scale—it could snowball and empower other anti-fracking movements and efforts.
The local government has the right to invoke home rule, which empowers a local municipality to control zoning ordinances and override state rules. This is what has the oil and gas industry worried, as it threatens to reshape the fracking debate country-wide.
The campaign for a referendum on banning fracking was initiated by the Denton Drilling Awareness Group, whose pe ion for a ban turned up enough support to force the city council to hold a Council vote in July, which ended up being 5 to 2 against the ban. The ban failed to pass, but was put on a November ballot as a public referendum.
In July, when things started heating up, the Russian conspiracy theory entered the equation, first spread by the Railroad Commissioner. The fight has become dirty, as it is wont to do in the oil and gas business, and now takes on geopolitical proportions, catapulting this small Texan town into a new sort of fame from which it will not recover for some time.
Pro-fracking groups quickly latched on to the Russian conspiracy, recognizing the convenience in this during a time of high-tensions with and sanctions against Russian oil and gas interests, who have in the past been accused of supporting Western anti-fracking groups in order to slow down the American shale boom.
Anti-fracking supporters are referring to these tactics as “McCarthy-era”, as the pro-fracking campaign is now suggesting that anyone who thwarts fracking is supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin, turning anti-fracking sentiments into treason.
A report by the Perryman Group argues that a ban on fracking within the Denton city limits will cost the city millions of dollars, while supporters of the ban argue that fracking’s benefits are outside the city limits, noting that only 0.2% of city jobs are related to the industry. They also claim that elected officials and industry leaders, not Denton, are benefiting from the fracking, with Texans for Public Justice stating that lawmakers had received nearly $12.2 million in contributions from oil and gas interests between January 2011 and June 2014.
There have been other tense votes on fracking in the US. North Carolina had a moratorium on fracking for two years, but then reversed that earlier this year. New Jersey—which isn’t home to any shale in the first place—is facing pressure to ban fracking waste disposal coming from shale-rich Pennsylvania, but so far nothing has come of this. Culver City, California, is considering a ban on fracking, but movement towards this has been slow. Colorado only narrowly averted an anti-fracking vote in September.
The only truly successful bans on fracking have been in New York, which has a moratorium on the process in place since 2010, Pittsburgh, which was the first US city to bank fracking in 2010, and Mora County, New Mexico. In Texas, the Dallas city council banned fracking in December 2013, but a lawsuit filed by Trinity East Energy LLC has placed this in jeopardy.
The Denton vote is by far the most dangerous for the industry, laden as it is with politics and geopolitics, and due to its location at the heart of the start of the shale revolution.
When oil-friendly Texans stand up and take an interest in something that works against the oil and gas industry, the rest of the country listens—and that’s what has the industry concerned.
What the industry is banking on is that even if the Denton referendum turns up a ‘yes’ vote to ban fracking, the state of Texas will sue to stop it.
That’s it from us this week. I hope you enjoy the report below and have a great weekend.
Best regards,
James Stafford
Editor, Oilprice.com
Future of Fracking Not Nearly as Bright as Forecasted
By 2040, production rates from the Bakken Shale and Eagle Ford Shale will be less than a tenth of that projected by the Energy Department. For the top three shale gas fields—the Marcellus Shale, Eagle Ford and Bakken—production rates from these plays will be about a third of the U.S. Energy Infromation Administration (EIA) forecast.
The three year average well decline rates for the seven shale oil basins measured for the report range from an astounding 60 percent to 91 percent. That means over those three years, the amount of oil coming out of the wells decreases by that percentage. This translates to 43 percent to 64 percent of their estimated ultimate recovery dug out during the first three years of the well’s existence.
Four of the seven shale gas basins are already in terminal decline in terms of their well productivity: the Haynesville Shale, Fayetteville Shale, Woodford Shale and Barnett Shale.
The three year average well decline rates for the seven shale gas basins measured for the report ranges between 74 percent to 82 percent.
The average annual decline rates in the seven shale gas basins examined equals between 23 percent and 49 percent. Translation: between one-quarter and one-half of all production in each basin must be replaced annually just to keep running at the same pace on the drilling treadmill and keep getting the same amount of gas out of the earth.
http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/27/fracking-forecast-post-carbon/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=4e24aaf94a-Top_News_10_27_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49 c7d43dc9-4e24aaf94a-85879165
So the "red queen", heard elsewhere, eg above, is in play.
Looks like domestic oil and gas will around enough, enriching BigOil with $Ts, to delay switching to other energy sources by a couple decades.
the EV (electric/battery) vs FCV (fuel cell) race will be highly entertaining, exciting. Expect one or the other to have major breakthrough(s) in energy production, storage.
If only we'd quit wasting $Ts on the MIC, but the MIC and BigCarbon buy govt policies against the country's best interests.
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Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater
After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water and farm irrigation, the EPA ordered a report within 60 days.
It was revealed yesterday that the California State Water Resources Board has sent a letter to the EPA confirming that at least nine of those sites were in fact dumping wastewater contaminated with fracking fluids and other pollutants into aquifers protected by state law and the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity, reveals that nearly 3 billion gallons of wastewater were illegally injected into central California aquifers and that half of the water samples collected at the 8 water supply wells tested near the injection sites have high levels of dangerous chemicals such as arsenic, a known carcinogen that can also weaken the human immune system, and thallium, a toxin used in rat poison.
Timothy Krantz, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Redlands, says these chemicals could pose a serious risk to public health: “The fact that high concentrations are showing up in multiple water wells close to wastewater injection sites raises major concerns about the health and safety of nearby residents.”
The full extent of the contamination is not yet known. Regulators at the State Water Resources Board said that as many as 19 other injection wells could have been contaminating protected aquifers, and the Central Valley Water Board has so far only tested 8 of the nearly 100 nearby water wells.
Fracking has been accused of exacerbating California's epic state-wide drought, but the Central Valley region, which has some of the worst air and water pollution in the state, has borne a disproportionate amount of the impacts from oil companies' increasing use of the controversial oil extraction technique.
News of billions of gallons of fracking wastewater contaminating protected aquifers relied on by residents of the Central Valley for drinking water could not have come at a worse time.
Adding insult to injury, fracking is a water-intensive process, using as much as 140,000 to 150,000 gallons per frack job every day, permanently removing it from the water cycle.
Hollin Kretzmann, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, says these new revelations prove state regulators have failed to protect Californians and the environment from fracking and called on Governor Jerry Brown to take action now to prevent an even bigger water emergency in drought-stricken California.
“Much more testing is needed to gauge the full extent of water pollution and the threat to public health,” Krezmann says. “But Governor Brown should move quickly to halt fracking to ward off a surge in oil industry wastewater that California simply isn’t prepared to dispose of safely.”
http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/10/07...ref_map=%5B%5D
Fracking pollution just went airborne
From contaminated groundwater to polytechnic displays at the kitchen faucet, most of the major concerns around fracking have centered around how fracking fluids and methane could be polluting our water supply. But we’ve started to suspect that fracking impacts the air, too, and a new study published this week in the journal of Environmental Health adds one more piece of evidence to the pile.
David Carpenter, director of the Ins ute for Health and the Environment at University at Albany, State University of New York — and the lead author of this study — says his findings support mounting evidence that fracking is a significant public health risk. Of particular concern is that fracking sites could become cancer clusters in years to come.
Carpenter’s study found eight different poisonous chemicals near wells and fracking sites throughout Arkansas, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wyoming that exceeded federal limits, including levels of benzene and formaldehyde — both known carcinogens, Carpenter told reporter Alan Neuhauser for U.S. News and World Report:
“Cancer has a long latency, so you’re not seeing an elevation in cancer in these communities. But five, 10, 15 years from now, elevation in cancer is almost certain to happen … I was amazed,” Carpenter says. “Five orders of magnitude over federal limits for benzene at one site — that’s just incredible. You could practically just light a match and have an explosion with that concentration.”
http://grist.org/list/fracking-pollu..._campaign=feed
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