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API Says Fracking Saved Public Schools $1 Billion Last Year - Businessweek
The report, (pdf) prepared by IHS, claims that local elementary and secondary schools saved more than $1.2 billion off their combined gas and electricity bills during the 2012-13 school year. Or, according to the report, enough money to hire 14,246 full-time teachers. State and local governments saved a total of $720 million due to cheaper gas and electricity, the report says, enough to hire an extra 11,000 workers.
API Says Fracking Saved Public Schools $1 Billion Last Year - Businessweek
The report, (pdf) prepared by IHS, claims that local elementary and secondary schools saved more than $1.2 billion off their combined gas and electricity bills during the 2012-13 school year. Or, according to the report, enough money to hire 14,246 full-time teachers. State and local governments saved a total of $720 million due to cheaper gas and electricity, the report says, enough to hire an extra 11,000 workers.
Amazing. Good reference as well, IHS does some cool reports, but generally you've got to pay for them.
I realize IHS puts a lot of work into gathering production ino, but geez the fees they charge for data.
I realize IHS puts a lot of work into gathering production ino, but geez the fees they charge for data.
I've got a $221k contract sitting on my desk awaiting signature for some of their info.
Hey- are you familiar with this? Check it out. It's freeeeeeeeeeee!
Illinois State Geological Survey Illinois Oil and Gas Resources (ILOIL) Interactive Map | ISGS
Obama will use the governments political arm called the EPA to stop us from Fracking.
EPA: Fracking may cause groundwater pollution
Obama will use the governments political arm called the EPA to stop us from Fracking.
EPA: Fracking may cause groundwater pollution
Well in my area, fracking would be a monumental mistake that would absolutely destroy the local economy--too much uranium could be released into the watershed.
Obama will use the governments political arm called the EPA to stop us from Fracking.
EPA: Fracking may cause groundwater pollution
Well in my area, fracking would be a monumental mistake that would absolutely destroy the local economy--too much uranium could be released into the watershed.
Fracking doesn't release uranium into the watershed unless you have some real idiot oil and gas reg's, and then it isn't industries fault for following the regs, but the morons who don't know anything about oil and gas production who built the regs.
Of course, those are also the same people usually afraid of hydraulic fracturing because they really don't know what it is....but now we have the dilemma...the issue isn't originating from those who know what they are doing, oil and gas companies drilling, completing and producing wells, but the morons with zero experience in the field who pretend they do.
Fracking releases uranium. Water will be contaminated with the residue. Uranium mining was blocked in my area even though we are sitting on a massive amount of it. It was done with political pressure by God-fearing conservatives, not lawsuits by granola-eating environmental whackos.
Fracking releases uranium. Water will be contaminated with the residue. Uranium mining was blocked in my area even though we are sitting on a massive amount of it. It was done with political pressure by God-fearing conservatives, not lawsuits by granola-eating environmental whackos.
Hydraulic fracturing doesn't "release" anything. Hydraulic fracturing is the point at which the hydraulic pressure created by the surface pumps and liquid loading on the formation exceeds the lithostatic pressure and the rock fractures, changing the volume of the system involved, at which point system pressure drops suddenly, and you throttle up on the pumps and you are off to the races. Sit in the frac van sometime, learn something.
That is hydraulic fracturing.
When the procedure is complete, you throttle back the pumps, the system goes back to static because you are no longer increasing the system volume through increasing frac lengths, and you close the frac valve.
You have just done a hydraulic fracture "event", if you were. The micro-seismic work can be processed, acoustic signatures end, and then all the usual cleanup work of a completion begins. Various configurations of flowback, letting the well soak (if you believe in that), if you are REAL lucky you can start flowing it straight to the production tanks.
The hydraulic fracturing does its job, and because it is complete with the closing of the frac valve, releases NOTHING.
See what I meant earlier, by people just not having a clue as to how these things work?
Now, if you wish to discuss NORM, and are concerned about such things, or want to discuss how poor regulations allow NORM to enter human infrastructure, that is a different issue, and not what otherwise appears to be yet another oil-ignorant attempt to blame oil field completion techniques for everything under the sun.
Now, if you wish to discuss NORM, and are concerned about such things, or want to discuss how poor regulations allow NORM to enter human infrastructure, that is a different issue, and not what otherwise appears to be yet another oil-ignorant attempt to blame oil field completion techniques for everything under the sun.
yes, you clearly are spinning to avoid the TE part of TENORM by pretending the NORM happens independent of the process.
sameech said:The process concentrates the naturally occurring radioactive material to the point that it is toxic waste even after 90% filtration and the crap gets dumped into surface water.
sameech said:Pennsylvania streams are already getting hit with the crap.
sameech said:By the time the biological magnification takes place and people see what these rackets are doing, the companies will be long since "closed" to be replaced by a new company with the same owners behind them, dumping the cost onto the public in multiple ways.
Now, if you wish to discuss NORM, and are concerned about such things, or want to discuss how poor regulations allow NORM to enter human infrastructure, that is a different issue, and not what otherwise appears to be yet another oil-ignorant attempt to blame oil field completion techniques for everything under the sun.
yes, you clearly are spinning to avoid the TE part of TENORM by pretending the NORM happens independent of the process.
Of course it happens independent of the process. The geologic processes that created the NORM did so long before you and I were born, and probably before mankind was even invented. If it didn't..it wouldn't be there to be called NORM.
Hydraulic stimulations themselves concentrate nothing. They split rock. And if idiot regulators allow radioactive material to be dumped into surface waters, I recommend you fire them all, prosecute them under applicable laws, and hire new folks with experience in the industry and brains.
sameech said:Pennsylvania streams are already getting hit with the crap.
I recommend they change the laws to not allow such things to happen then, and arrest those who are breaking the law...assuming Pennsylvania has such laws. I recommend you put the blame where it belongs...idiots who allow such things to happen or folks breaking the law. It certainly isn't the NORMs fault.
sameech said:By the time the biological magnification takes place and people see what these rackets are doing, the companies will be long since "closed" to be replaced by a new company with the same owners behind them, dumping the cost onto the public in multiple ways.
The companies that have been doing hydraulic stimulations are still here, Halliburton was doing acid completions in the 30's, and is still here after pioneering hydraulic stimulations in the 1940's. States have orphan well programs for a reason, and it turns out that they aren't really all that busy most of the time...wells not being given up easily. If your beef is with incompetent regulators and those ignorant of the steps available, and utilized, within industry to handle problems far worse than NORM, I recommend you go learn from those who do, rather than NIMBYs who specialize in whining.
So your whole position is that it is the local government's fault for not regulating that which you deny is even a problem. You must work for or have money invested in fracking.
Over the 3-1/2 day conference these teachers spend 8 hours in a laboratory setting and 12 hours in a classroom setting, learning everything from A-Z about the oil and natural gas industries. In addition we take them on a 10 hour field trip visiting a refinery, a drilling rig, and a production/storage yard.
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