[ExI] Hydraulic Fracturing [WAS Re: Cephalization, proles...]

[Richard Loosemore]

Damien Sullivan wrote:

> Fracking isn't the problem, drilling is:

[snip]

I think that the situation can fairly be summed up in this way.

Most of the "official" studies, investigations and official reports are 
questionable, for the simple reason that they often come to conclusions 
that seem carefully constructed to focus the best possible light on some 
narrow aspect of the technology, while pretending that other aspects (of 
far greater significance) simply do not exist.

Example:  discussing the leakage of water from deep underground as a 
result of seepage up a completely ideal drill hole (with perfect 
casing).  Under those circumstances, leakage is almost non-existent! 
But real wells, drilled by real operators who don't actually bother with 
proper casings, etc etc, do blow out and release vast amounts of waste 
water.

That is just one example of turning a blind eye to the real world (there 
are so many others that I would be here all afternoon writing them down, 
if started).

And these bogus reports have (almost all) been happening in situations 
where the agencies commissioning them have been bought by the industry.

As witness, the UK government committee that reported today and gave the 
green light to fracking in Britain.  That report was essentially a joke: 
  fracking, it said, is okay in Fairyland.



Richard Loosemore