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(pictured left to right) Miles McGonnigle, KU Association of Water & Environment; Andrew Toth, Dole Institute Student Advisory Board; Ed Cross, Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association (KIOGA); Joe Spease, Sierra Club of Kansas
Fracking: An Environmental Debate
with Edward Cross & Joe Spease
Monday, March 5, 2012 7:30 p.m.
at the Dole Institute
Hydraulic fracturing is a procedure that can increase the flow of oil or gas from a well. It is done by pumping liquids down a well into subsurface rock units under pressures that are high enough to fracture the rock. The goal is to create a network of interconnected fractures that will serve as pore spaces for the movement of oil and natural gas to the well bore.
Edward Cross serves as President of the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association (KIOGA) where he oversees all KIOGA business activities and programs. He is responsible for public policy advocacy and interaction with external stakeholders including elected officials, regulators, government decision-makers, and community thought-leaders. At KIOGA, Cross is director of staff, editor of the Association’s publications, serves as an industry spokesperson to media outlets and other forums, and is an industry advocate as a registered legislative agent. On behalf of KIOGA members, Cross lobbies in both Topeka and Washington, D.C.
Joe Spease is CEO of WindSoHy, an energy company, based in Kansas City, developing wind/Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) projects, wind/hydrogen (H2) projects, solar projects, and biomass/syngas projects. This follows his work as President of Pristine Power where he was responsible for developing large wind, solar, and hydrogen projects. Spease’s leadership in the field of renewable energy has taken many forms. He has published articles on wind, Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), hydrogen, and solar power, and provided frequent expert testimony on various energy-related issues before legislative committees and as a guest speaker at energy forums and conferences. He is Chairman of the Hydraulic Fracturing Committee for the Kansas Sierra Club and works to get regulations to prevent environmental damage from fracking.
Video available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsq6VcoIXQQ&list=UU-cOt_697Uh...
(pictured left to right) Andrew Toth, Dole Institute Student Advisory Board; Ed Cross, Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association (KIOGA); Joe Spease, Sierra Club of Kansas; Miles McGonnigle, KU Association of Water & Environment
Fracking: An Environmental Debate
with Edward Cross & Joe Spease
Monday, March 5, 2012 7:30 p.m.
at the Dole Institute
Hydraulic fracturing is a procedure that can increase the flow of oil or gas from a well. It is done by pumping liquids down a well into subsurface rock units under pressures that are high enough to fracture the rock. The goal is to create a network of interconnected fractures that will serve as pore spaces for the movement of oil and natural gas to the well bore.
Edward Cross serves as President of the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association (KIOGA) where he oversees all KIOGA business activities and programs. He is responsible for public policy advocacy and interaction with external stakeholders including elected officials, regulators, government decision-makers, and community thought-leaders. At KIOGA, Cross is director of staff, editor of the Association’s publications, serves as an industry spokesperson to media outlets and other forums, and is an industry advocate as a registered legislative agent. On behalf of KIOGA members, Cross lobbies in both Topeka and Washington, D.C.
Joe Spease is CEO of WindSoHy, an energy company, based in Kansas City, developing wind/Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) projects, wind/hydrogen (H2) projects, solar projects, and biomass/syngas projects. This follows his work as President of Pristine Power where he was responsible for developing large wind, solar, and hydrogen projects. Spease’s leadership in the field of renewable energy has taken many forms. He has published articles on wind, Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), hydrogen, and solar power, and provided frequent expert testimony on various energy-related issues before legislative committees and as a guest speaker at energy forums and conferences. He is Chairman of the Hydraulic Fracturing Committee for the Kansas Sierra Club and works to get regulations to prevent environmental damage from fracking.
Video available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsq6VcoIXQQ&list=UU-cOt_697Uh...
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This lady was joining many others outside County Hall Preston the other day as they protested against the proposed fracking in Lancashire.
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© Sopelako Udala. 2014ko abenduaren 12an presio hidraulikoa baliatuz lurzoruko arrokak hautsiz gasa ateratzeko "fracking" izeneko teknikaren kontrako lehenengo seinalea jarri zuen gaur Sopelako Udalak.
"The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown."
www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/25/idUS273153543620110125
The folks from big oil must be gnashing their teeth right now, as the film that takes them to task for trashing rural America has been nominated for a Best Documentary Academy Award.
"Gasland" has already won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
This is the film where the homeowner sets his own tapwater on fire as it comes out of the faucet. "Fracking" is slang for the hydraulic fracturing that breaks up shale deposits deep underground, allowing methane to be pumped out as natural gas... but also allowing methane to leak into groundwater.
The natural gas industry has launched a major counter-strike against the film, complete with its own website, "The Truth About Gasland". But watch out for the kind of "truth" they're peddling.
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission recently announced that they had debunked the movie, since two out of the three wells that "Gasland" featured were contaminated "biogenic" gas unrelated to oil and gas activity. But they didn't explain the coincidence that biogenic gas just happened to show up in peoples' drinking water, and why wells outside of areas hit by fracking operations don't seem to catch fire.
And if that well, indeed, was "drilled into a naturally-occurring methane pocket", why did it not show up for years - until after the nearby fracking operation started?
A 2009 study "examined over 700 methane samples from 292 locations and found that methane, as well as wastewater from the drilling, was making its way into drinking water not as a result of a single accident but on a broader basis." That study - which used isotopic fingerprinting to carefully match gas from surface leaks to deep formations, was also attacked by oil industry shills as "junk science".
They've also played fast and loose with the truth.
Fox narrates, "Because of the exemptions, fracking chemicals are considered proprietary, like the special sauce for a Big Mac or the secret formula for Coca-Cola."
Range Resources, an oil and gas company, called that claim "100 percent false," Matt Pitzarella, spokesman for Range, told ABCNews.com. He added that gas companies are required to submit a material safety data sheet to the Department of Environmental Protection every time they frack a new well.
That statement is true now - new rules were issued after the documentary was made (and industry fought those changes every step of the way).
Camp Frack mobilised over 100 climate activists and local residents against plans by Cuadrilla Resources to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, UK.
"Camp Frack", named after "fracking", the process of pumping vast quantities of water underground and fracturing rocks with chemicals to release shale gas, set up outside the Lancashire village of Banks, close to a drilling rig that Cuadrilla Resources is using to drill up to 3.5km deep.
Environmentalists have argued that the "fracking" process is inherently risky. In the US, where shale gas is being hailed by industry as a potential substitute for oil, fears have been raised about the effect of the chemicals used, explosions, links with seismic activity and allegations of illness. A Cornell University study also concluded that greenhouse gas emissions from shale gas are higher than those for coal.
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On the DC march against fracking, Heading for the American Petroleum Institute. We have a delivery for their water cooler.
The residents of the Riverdale Motor Home Park, on the banks on the Susquahanna River, face eviction from their homes to make way for a fracking pump station run by Aqua America in Jersey Shore, PA on June 4, 2012.
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The light on the horizon is a Fracking Well near my mum's house in western PA, there are so many wells in the area, ridonkulous.
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