In my quote I mention different fracking techniques only. You are the one conflating these different techniques with 'hydraulic fracturing'.
Ugh...hydraulic fracturing is reduced to "Fracking"....there are different fracturing techniques sorrounding fracturing that are not referred to as 'fracking'. I find your use of symantic arguements in this thread quite tiring...So when KenS said we don't know much about fracking (in reference to shalebed fracking) and you responded with
Who doesn't know a lot about fracking? The expertise and information is available.
you actually meant "We know alot about a semi-related process of fracturing and not 'fracking'"?. Please don't let me put words in your mouth, I'm still waiting to see this 'lots of available expertise'...link me if you can find anything that remotely backs you up.
to come back to it, you also said (and I missed it):
In the last ten years, industry has committed $40 billion in NE BC alone. Its huge and will alter the public revenue stream in a significant, positive way.
Please prove me wrong if you can...but I gotta call bullshit. Coalbed methane is barely 10 years old in theory....Shalebed fracturing is 2009+. Good to know industry is comitting billions to technologies yet to exist...and you're horribly idealizing industry partenering.
(edit to add....is this one of those times you were saying inudstry invested 40 billion, but referring to the entire industry and not fracking?..and you'll post a smug 'I meant the industry not just fracking :)' response?)
I can't speak to issues in New York or elsewhere. In my area, the extent of the shale gas plays encompass roughly 50% uninhabited bush and 50% farmland of varying degrees of usefulness from marginal scrub to fertile grain growing. At present, the water use by industry is of some concern as we have literally thousands of wells
Another one where I feel you're using invented numbers...Our knowledge in shalebed methane surveys is tiny as is, I've got no idea what you're looking at to be able to say 50/50% like this, and if there is something...please share.
Like I said...please prove me wrong and back yourself up, but I get the feeling you're full of shit in this thread.
Fracking isn't a new process.
I'll say it again, you're wrong with this. Fracking is brand new...don't try to use 'but we kinda used a sorta fracturing process in the past' as an arguement to say fracking is anything but brand new