http://blog.unshackleupstate.com/2010/07/deal-or-no-deal/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:15:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blog.unshackleupstate.com/2010/07/deal-or-no-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-684 Brian Sampson Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:23:23 +0000 http://blog.unshackleupstate.com/?p=263#comment-684 What we are hopeful for is that before any drastic decisions are made, the NYS DEC be allowed to finish its study on the hydrofracking process. Once that is done, then the various parties can determine the best practice moving forward to ensure that we can utilize the resource but do so in the least intrusive way. But please understand, the economic impact this will have on an area in desperate need of a boost in quite significant. Penn State recently released a study, <a href="http://www.anga.us/2010/05/new-penn-state-study-revises-up-marcellus-shale-benefits/" rel="nofollow">http://www.anga.us/2010/05/new-penn-state-study-revises-up-marcellus-shale-benefits/</a>, identifying the economic impact for Pennsylvania. Wouldn’t it be nice to have that in NY as well? What we are hopeful for is that before any drastic decisions are made, the NYS DEC be allowed to finish its study on the hydrofracking process. Once that is done, then the various parties can determine the best practice moving forward to ensure that we can utilize the resource but do so in the least intrusive way. But please understand, the economic impact this will have on an area in desperate need of a boost in quite significant. Penn State recently released a study, http://www.anga.us/2010/05/new-penn-state-study-revises-up-marcellus-shale-benefits/, identifying the economic impact for Pennsylvania. Wouldn’t it be nice to have that in NY as well?

]]> http://blog.unshackleupstate.com/2010/07/deal-or-no-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-670 Edward Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:07:55 +0000 http://blog.unshackleupstate.com/?p=263#comment-670 You should check the facts from MIT and from studies that postdate the 2004 EPA statement. There is the fracking as practiced for many years to stimulate oil and gas wells drilled into sandstone reservoirs, and there is fracking as now practiced where the pressures are higher and the gllonage very much higher and where tight shales are broken up. So yes, past fracking was not a serious problem from what I have seen over 50 years. BUT the horizontal fracks are. You should check the facts from MIT and from studies that postdate the 2004 EPA statement. There is the fracking as practiced for many years to stimulate oil and gas wells drilled into sandstone reservoirs, and there is fracking as now practiced where the pressures are higher and the gllonage very much higher and where tight shales are broken up. So yes, past fracking was not a serious problem from what I have seen over 50 years. BUT the horizontal fracks are.

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