A judge in Casper has sided with the state of Wyoming and ruled against environmentalists who sought to make public the lists of ingredients that go into hydraulic fracturing fluids. Environmental groups had requested the ingredient lists from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, arguing that the public needs to know what chemicals companies are putting underground. Natrona County District Judge Catherine Wilking has ruled that Wyoming's state oil and gas supervisor was correct to withhold the ingredient lists as protected trade secrets. Specially formulated lubricants are used in fracking, which involves pumping water, sand and fracking fluids underground to split open oil- and gas-bearing rocks. Attorneys for Wyoming and oilfield services company Halliburton argued that public disclosure could allow competing companies to reverse-engineer fracking fluids.
Hey, no problem, T. Eight billion people on the planet...probably at least twice its sustainable carrying capacity. We've spewed every manner of pollutant into the atmosphere and water by the biilions of tons per year for a couple of hundred years now—thank you Industrial Age. Global warming? Nah, just a myth. Most of us seem to live by He/She who dies with the most toys wins. Those who don't are marginalized. We fuck with every eco system we can get to, and now we can get to ALL of them; no where is "safe". And on and on...
Oh, and there's no down side to drying the Ogalalla aquifer to an underground swamp, or drilling a couple miles deep to raise our havoc with shale. Out of sight, out of mind. The Earth has always acted to restore equilibrium with some correcting mechanism. It will again. Glad I probably won't live long enough to experience it.
Mild rant over now—please go back to your regulatly scheduled activity.
... The Earth has always acted to restore equilibrium with some correcting mechanism. It will again. Glad I probably won't live long enough to experience it. ...
Absolutely. Momma is still tallying up the bill. When she comes for payment, it ain't gonna be pretty.
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Dec 17, 2011 - 8:26pm
hippiechick wrote:
I knew T. Boone had something up his sleeves...
Hey, no problem, T. Eight billion people on the planet...probably at least twice its sustainable carrying capacity. We've spewed every manner of pollutant into the atmosphere and water by the biilions of tons per year for a couple of hundred years now—thank you Industrial Age. Global warming? Nah, just a myth. Most of us seem to live by He/She who dies with the most toys wins. Those who don't are marginalized. We fuck with every eco system we can get to, and now we can get to ALL of them; no where is "safe". And on and on...
Oh, and there's no down side to drying the Ogalalla aquifer to an underground swamp, or drilling a couple miles deep to raise our havoc with shale. Out of sight, out of mind. The Earth has always acted to restore equilibrium with some correcting mechanism. It will again. Glad I probably won't live long enough to experience it.
Mild rant over now—please go back to your regulatly scheduled activity.
Ohio is not exactly earthquake country, and yet the area near Youngstown has been struck nine times in eight months by seismic activity...
Seismologists found most of the quakes' epicenters coincided with the location of a 9,000-foot well near downtown Youngstown, into which went leftover liquids from fracking operations in Pennsylvania. "As the wastewater was injected into the well under pressure, the thinking went, some of it might have migrated into deeper rock formations, unclamping ancient faults and allowing the rock to slip," wrote Henry Fountain in The New York Times...
In Arkansas, state officials became so alarmed by a swarm of more than 700 earthquakes that in July they shut down one disposal well, while the operators of three others shut down voluntarily. Since then there has been a significant decrease in earthquakes.
Alarm has also been raised in Oklahoma, where a 5.6 earthquake, the state's largest in history, struck 30 miles east of Oklahoma City on November 5. Oklahoma, a major location for hydraulic fracturing, experienced between 2 and 6 earthquakes a year between 1972 and 2008. In 2010 there were 1,047...
