Guest post by David Middleton
First up: Yoko Ono and friends…
‘Fracking kills’: Yoko Ono joins star-studded cast fighting against hydraulic natural gas drilling in upstate New York
John Lennon’s son Sean Lennon, actress Debra Winger, songstress Natalie Merchant and “The Avengers” actor Mark Ruffalo have also spoken out in opposition to the extraction process criticized for potentially contaminating water supplies and damaging the environment.
By Glenn Blain / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Friday, January 11, 2013
ALBANY — Hydrofracking is not the most glamorous of issues but the gritty subject is bringing a lot of glitz to the state Capitol.
Yoko Ono, the widow of ex-Beatle John Lennon, and son Sean Lennon became the latest celebrities to visit Albany Friday to press for a ban on the controversial natural gas drilling.
“Fracking kills,” Ono said at a press conference with other drilling opponents. “And it doesn’t just kill us, it kills the land, nature and eventually the whole world.”
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Now it’s the 4th graders’ turn…
Fourth-graders have concluded fracking’s bad
By Steve Israel
Published: 2:00 AM – 01/13/13
If it were up to nearly four dozen future voters at a Middletown elementary school, fracking would be banned in New York — and the rest of the world.
Just listen to what those fourth-graders at Maple Hill Elementary School have to say about the controversial natural gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking:
“It could cause methane explosions, poison water and kill people. It killed cattle,” says 9-year-old Philip Gazer.
“Sometimes, because of fracking, earthquakes could happen,” says 9-year-old Sagnik Chakraborty, citing minor earthquakes in Ohio apparently caused by the underground injection of fracking waste.
Bottom line for the fourth-graders in the classes of Mary Hayes and Patricia McGorry?
“We don’t want to be poisoned by fracking,” says 11-year-old Nancy Jaime.
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There you have it. Yoko Ono is either not smarter than a 4th grader or she has a strong desire to spend winters freezing in the dark. The wellhead price for natural gas in the US is currently in the range of $3.00 to $3.50/mcf.
The shale boom is the single biggest reason why natural gas prices are so low in the USA compared to most of the rest of the world…
Without fracking, there would be no shale boom and US natural gas prices could be $8/mcf or higher.
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Ono smarter than a 4th grader? she isn’t even as smart as a glass of water. That list needs more Matt Dammmmmmmmon by the way. Try harder.
As for that 2.9 ‘quake’ in the UK, I was sitting smack bang in the epicentre (Loughborough) and I barely felt it with my feet on a metal bed frame. Had it been at 1720 rather than 0520 nobody would have noticed. If someone claims that CDs fell off of their bookshelf, I suggest they take some DIY classes. Or buy some glue. And maybe some screws.
@AnotherQlder:
So sand, water, some soaps and alcohols (antifreeze / viscosity modifiers), some lube, anti-corrosion stuff and some salts. Minor amounts of other things. A lot of it looks like the ingredients on a can of shaving cream. All in all, looks pretty much like nothing at all to worry about.
Folks prattling about that stuff ‘leaking’ need to realize that the dirt is already full of a lot of nastier stuff (like, oh Radon and anthrax spores – yes, every so often some cows near here get anthrax from the naturally occurring level in the soil, where there nose is when eating grass…). They also need to realize that a well that leaks all the way to the surface or surface waters means the well owner has his product being lost. No well operator wants an empty well…
I wish she would wind her neck in.
Fracking works so well and has such positive economic effects that all the fulminating of Tides and Yoko will be disregarded and discredited. The reality is just too obvious, too powerful, too beneficial.
Very, very easy to fix. States which frack should be BANNED from selling to states that consider this poisoning water, etc, no oil that is fracked should be sold to states that ban fracking, and all electricity cut off since it MIGHT have been produced by fracking. Come people, you can stop this nonsense in a week.