Hundreds of thousands of faults, most poorly mapped, just waiting for a bit of lubrication-
We all know what causes earthquakes — preexisting long cracks in rock layers (faults) and enough pressure to make them slip. Most don’t slip very often though. Some will never slip because the pressure is just not, or ever will […]
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With the recent discovery of natural gas in southwest Idaho many residents are concerned about their local watersheds. They should be, fracking is an ugly business :
Before 2005, regulation of fracking took place under the Safe Drinking Water Act. EPA was […]
Continue Reading →Encana could add 3,500 gas wells SW of Pinedale, WY-
Already reeling from the massive Jonah gas field, now a new field covering 4 times as much area is planned. The “Normally Pressured Lance” natural gas field” (Son of Jonah, as some call it) comes at a time when the formerly pristine air of the […]
Continue Reading →Just a generation ago . . . cleanest air the West set against the highest mountains in Wyoming-
It was wonderful to backpack, fish, and climb in the Wind River Mountains in the day when they did not overlook a miasma of gas field air pollution.
“Fracking” is the latest assault on our land, water, wildlife and health-
Hydrofracking injects water and toxic chemicals deep into the rock to create pockets of volatile hydrocarbons (natural gas of a variety). Unfortunately, the toxic mess underground often doesn’t stay there. It comes out into surface waters, often carrying the original chemicals plus new […]
Continue Reading →The practice of fracking, or hydraulic fracture drilling has been a highly damaging practice wherever it is used and now Congress is asking the EPA to take a harder look.
Diesel Use in Gas Drilling Cited as Violation of Safe-Water Law.
New York Times
The news just keeps getting worse on this blowout-
Methane gas (natural gas) is what caused the explosion. Natural gas not only profoundly depletes oxygen in the ocean at this concentration, it is also a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. I have to wonder if a gas emission of this magnitude is a […]
Continue Reading →If not worse then just as bad.
A lot of energy has been expended to try to make natural gas look “green”. In fact many “green” groups and others are touting it as the “bridge fuel to a 21st-century energy economy” and claim that it is “cleaner” than coal. Well, it turns out that it […]
Continue Reading →24,000 more acres won’t be leased-
This is on top of the near million acres in the Wyoming Range, Salt River Range, and Commissary Ridge recently withdrawn from leasing by Congress in the Omnibus Public Lands Act.
BLM cuts energy leasing in Wyoming Range. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole Daily.
Continue Reading →John McCain and friends are banking this issue to save them, but there is so much they don’t know (or more likely chose not to mention).
This is another. Most of the drilling is for gas, not petroleum.
A Push to Wrest More Oil From Land, but Most New Wells Are for Natural Gas. […]
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