Comments on: EPA Lowers the Boom on Fracking in Wyoming

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:07:00 +0000

nice.

By: 204elliott

204elliott — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:57:00 +0000

It is not the franking that bothers me.It is that they use 2 million gallons to frack a well. The water goes in a injection well . The water will never go back to the water cycle!!!!!! They say they can clean it for refrack but they still have to mix fresh water with it so they can frack with it. So they can’t clean it. My body don’t run on oil. My garden don’t grow on oil.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:20:00 +0000

Thanks for reading my post. I agree with the first reason but actually the cost for LPG fracturing is only more expensive up front. The cost is less when well cleanup is included; especially so when new proposed regulations for air pollution control are factored in.The wells also produce better than hydro-fractured wells ; from 20% to 300% depending on the tightness of the formation, because the properties of LPG compare favorably to water [ multiple lower surface tension and viscosity ] Find that hard to believe? Check the 3rd quarter 2011 Corporate presentation of Seaview Energy page 11 online. Other examples are available. The industry, heavily invested in hydro-fracturing ,does not publicly want to acknowledge the many advantages of this technology. Happy Holidays !

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:22:00 +0000

I can think of two reasons:
1. It’s not sensational, visuals like setting your tap water on fire make a rather dramatic visual.
2. It’s more expensive, so unless companies are forced to use this technology, the bottom line is always more important than the people they inconvenience or harm.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:42:00 +0000

It is time the media starts talking about the alternative to hydro-fracturing that is environmentally friendly; LPG fracturing. It does not use water , does not use toxic chemicals, does not react with minerals in the rock formation so no salts, heavy metals or radioactivity are brought back to the surface. Virtually all the LPG is recovered after fracturing as a gas so there is nothing to haul away or decontaminate. It is safe, it is competitive and it is more effective than hydro-fracturing. Gasfrac Energy Services from Calgary , Alberta,Canada has been using this technology with dozens of companies in over 600 wells for the last 3 years. WHY IS THE MEDIA NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY?