My US Senate and C-Span Debut

Ya'll were impressed, right?

There I was, at the US Senate joint committee about fracking for natural gas. Gotta admit, it really was quite different than the state senate. Definately swimming with the big fish in this hearing.

Since there was a c-span camera pointed at me most of the time, I very carefully kept everything out of my nose, and scratched no itches. :-) Seriously, apparently I am on the c-span footage somewhere.

Sometimes, keeping a straight face was hard to do, darn hard.

Nice.

Keeping a straight face? Was one of the guys really funny-looking? Kept cracking jokes?

Are you on the "do it!" side or the "hell no!" side?

Two things, first my geekdom interfered. Being a BSG fan I interpreted fracking as berkeleying momentarily. Totally different meanings. Second, congratulations your face is now encased in the C-SPAN archives in my neck of the woods. Though C-SPAN does now have their own building for their archives. I remember way back when I was working as a janitor for Purdue when the archives were housed in a room in one of the campus buildings. Though, 20 years of beta tape on library racks were kinda interesting.

We frack up here, why can't you guys frack down there?

You need to up that to YouTube so we can all look.

And the 3 sentence executive summary?

By the way, Arkansas recently made the drilling companies stop reinjecting their waste frac water and THE EARTHQUAKES STOPPED.

HiTempguy wrote: We frack up here, why can't you guys frack down there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQMA0zwMM4

huge-O-chavez wrote:

HiTempguy wrote: We frack up here, why can't you guys frack down there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQMA0zwMM4

LOL, that is an extreme example, but most acreages in Alberta you can do that whether frac'ing has been done or not. Then again, from my limited knowledge of the oilfield biz, we've been doing this a lot more than you have for a long time, so I can understand being cautious about it. Natural gas is a fantastic source of energy s'all I can say (its cheap and there is kajillions of it lying around doing nothing)!

Actually, it is a huge issue in my home state...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110408/sc_ac/8251071_pennsylvania_to_begin_extensive_testing_on_possible_frackingcontaminated_water

What the Frack?!

huge-O-chavez wrote:

HiTempguy wrote: We frack up here, why can't you guys frack down there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQMA0zwMM4

Is that where the natural gas people push water/chemicals down the natural gas well to break up the rock media holding the gas to release it?

Sounds concerning but natural gas is a huge commodity the US cannot ignore. I guess the industry is going through a huge renaissance with new technology, I think they also do horizontal drilling to get at gas pockets. Interesting.

And the 3 sentence executive summary?

Lies and posturing.

I guess the industry is going through a huge renaissance with new technology

Not really. More simply moving into new neighborhoods, and therefore new problems.

Dr. Hess wrote: You need to up that to YouTube so we can all look. And the 3 sentence executive summary? By the way, Arkansas recently made the drilling companies stop reinjecting their waste frac water and THE EARTHQUAKES STOPPED.

that is interesting, since i've spoken with chesapeakes' seimologist and they have a couple years worth of records of nearly daily earthquakes from before the even started injecting wastewater.

AND there have been earthquakes recorded in AR for as long as there has been record keeping on it.

huge-O-chavez wrote: Actually, it is a huge issue in my home state... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110408/sc_ac/8251071_pennsylvania_to_begin_extensive_testing_on_possible_frackingcontaminated_water

So, what I got out of it was that government and companies weren't doing their due diligence, so you can't do it anymore? Or am I confused?

The fact that the waste treatment plants accepted it says a lot, that definitely is NOT how it works up here!

I used to frack in Oklahoma, but then I got a new job.

bravenrace wrote: I used to frack in Oklahoma, but then I got a new job.

I believe I may have seen a video of you fracking, wait... nope, that was a King of the Hill rerun.

I forgot Iggy was from PA.

huge-O-chavez wrote: Actually, it is a huge issue in my home state... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110408/sc_ac/8251071_pennsylvania_to_begin_extensive_testing_on_possible_frackingcontaminated_water

And it sound like PA is pretty well fracked too.