John Bussey writing in the WSJ calls out the Shale Gas Revolution Myth

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Re: John Bussey writing in the WSJ calls out the Shale Gas Revolution Myth

If this is the case, then the drilling for water itself would cause leakage between zones.

Yes it could. I am not sure if it is you who mentioned this but bad cement jobs of the casing could be the mechanism of contamination of water zones and not soly the frac jobs. This could certainly be one mechanism or the frac job busts the cement job in the well could be another scenario!!! Any way you cut it, if the people are complaining then there is a problem and it must be hell being ignored by multinational corporations when you are just a Joe Shmow from Pokipsy.

However, I have yet to see a single instance of fracking chemicals themselves actually being detected - every single case to date has been NG.

Wish I could fairly comment on this but I too far from this issue. I am at the wellhead. I have no doubt in my mind though that Joe Shmow is the one that needs to do the proving. Even then he will have a hell of a fight to be compensated.

It is sort of like the Tobacco companies in the past. United they fought every case in court against them to the death or with a buy out but would do everything possible never to allow a loss if possible. They succeeded for a long long time but then the truth came out.

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Re: John Bussey writing in the WSJ calls out the Shale Gas Revolution Myth

It is sort of like the Tobacco companies in the past. United they fought every case in court against them to the death or with a buy out but would do everything possible never to allow a loss if possible. They succeeded for a long long time but then the truth came out.

It would only be comparable if the fracking companies knew for a fact that leakage was occurring, had evidence, but suppressed it and also lied in front of Congress under oath multiple times.

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Re: John Bussey writing in the WSJ calls out the Shale Gas Revolution Myth

I made a mistake: "(Jeff Rubin, a former chief economist and chief strategist at CIBC World Markets Inc., is the author of “Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller.” This is the first of four excerpts from his new book, “The Big Flatline: Oil and the No- Growth Economy,” which will be published Oct. 16 by Palgrave Macmillan. The opinions expressed are his own. Read Part 2 and Part 3.)"
Jeff Rubin seems to have nothing to do with Robert "Robert Edward Rubin (born August 29, 1938) served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton administrations ...".
Sorry.