Hydrofracing

[RoyJackson]

...then I'd have to conclude that you're just no good.

Well, he ain't no good...he can't figure out if he's from MD or PA!! Has a Kioti too...that's like being the spawn of Satan (just joking, Lockhaven).

I'm about 125 miles south of Williamsport but I was up there a couple weeks back. Seems like the folks I talked to either loved the fracking, or hated to whole thing...wasn't much middle ground.

 

[joemd11]

I'd guess there must be a lot of natural gas activity in the Williamsport area. That's where my grandson has been on a temporary assignment the last couple of weeks, but he works for a different company than the one the police raided for illegal immigrants.

Bird, I heard somewhere that Williamsport is the fastest growing city in the country:confused2:. Imagine that!

 

[Catfish Man]

I'm just going to get as much FACTUAL information as I can before I make a decision - hopefully the correct decision. This is a timely and important thread which I intend to follow closely.

That is a very wise decision, the problem is I have seen bogus information being spewed from both sides, for someone that is not familiar with the industry, I can imagine how confusing it would be.

I'm not trying to sway things one way or the other here. If all of these states banned drilling and or fracking today, I would be on a plane to Africa to work before the ink was dry on the paper.

 

[joemd11]

That is a very wise decision, the problem is I have seen bogus information being spewed from both sides, for someone that is not familiar with the industry, I can imagine how confusing it would be.

I'm not trying to sway things one way or the other here. If all of these states banned drilling and or fracking today, I would be on a plane to Africa to work before the ink was dry on the paper.

Thanks for the input Catfish. Info from those that actually work in the industry, and aren't at the very top (you don't own one of these companies do you), is much appreciated.

 

[Catfish Man]

No I'm a loooong way from owning a company.

If anyone has any specific questions I will be glad to answer them to the best of my ability.

I'm mainly involved with the drilling side of things, I'm usually gone before the fracking, completion and production begins. However I do know a fair bit about it just from being around the industry.

 

[Short Game]

To me the crux of the problem is the frac fluid. The drillers don't divulge what chemicals are used in the process. So if you find that your well has been contaminated, how do you prove it was the from the drilling?

There has been suggestions that the frackers are using this process as a cover for disposing of hazardous chemicals that simply need to be gotten rid of. Of course, with the exemptions from federal clean water law, and their so-called "proprietary" formulas, we might have a "because they can" situation here. When those big Halliburton tankers lined up to drive into the site down the road, no one here, or the workers on the rig for that matter, had any good ideal of what substances the fluids being pumped into the ground were comprised.

There in Central Arkansas where the bird kills happened up the same little road as the fracking well, and the earthquake swarm halted the drilling operations, we are left to make our best guesses what's been done below our feet in secret.

 

[Egon]

Information on Earth Quakes.

Arkansas Earthquake Swarms, New Madrid or Natural Gas? - Modern Survival Blog – surviving uncertain times

http://www.geology.arkansas.gov/maps_pdf/geohazards/CentralArkansasMediaMap.pdf

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/01/fracking-earthquakes-arkansas-man-experts-warn/

Wasn't there a time the Mississippi Flowed backwards. wondering how the Reelfoot lakes came about?
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[Catfish Man]

 

[Bigfoot62]

well I guess I am wrong about the gas industry,. . . Please forgive me

OK!

What? did I take your words out of context? That's not fair?

As Bird suggested, you paint with broad strokes. You cite a handful of troublemakers in an industry that represents millions of employees. I don't think that's fair either.
BTW, I'm a truck driver, and I don't ever recall running you or anyone else off the road.

This is one of those hot button topics where passion on both sides can run high. I'm just going to get as much FACTUAL information as I can before I make a decision - hopefully the correct decision. This is a timely and important thread which I intend to follow closely.

The truth often lies somewhere between the extremes.

Just realize that fracking a well, 2 or 3 miles down, deep in the earth, is a LONG way from the aquifers where we draw our drinking water.

 

[Wayne County Hose]

The Marcellus drilling doesn't bring local jobs? Google "Leeward Construction." They just had a huge ad in the local paper very specific that they needed loads of people for Susquehanna County Pa due to Marcellus gas construction. If all goes well, I will retire from my current job at the end the year at the ripe old age of 46. Drill baby drill. Actually well is in, waiting on the feeder line.