On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:49:29 AM UTC-5, Stormin Mormon wrote:
In NYS, there is a public ed campaign going on,

about the "dangers of fracking". From what I can

figure, in PA, they do a LOT of hydro fracturing

to get the natural gas out of the ground, and no

one seems to think it's dangerous. In NYS, I used

to see a lot of signs with the circle slash "/FRACK/".

I suspect that's part of the admin's war on business

and war on cheap, effective products.



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"Stanley Schaefer" wrote in message

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Depends on where you are, gas is popular where gas is cheap, the

folks had gas water heating and a gas clothes dryer for 40 years, most

of the neighbors had the same. Newer parts of town had houses that

were all-electric, there was that scare back in the '70s where we were

running out of NG and they stopped permits for it.



Electricity is going to go nowhere but up, what with power plants

being shut down per Big O's war on coal. Unless he puts the skids on

natural gas exploration, gas will continue to be the cheaper option

along the pipelines.



Stan

The problem with fracking is the same as with any for-profit industrial process, where possible shortcuts are taken and risks undertaken to save a few bucks. For example, there is little risk if the well casings are properly done, and if the wastewater is safely removed from the site.

What tends to happen is they get sloppy with the wastewater, and the casings hold up long enough for production, but things go to **** after the well is out of service, often abandoned.

It's worth noting the industries claim of 'zero problems/issues/accidents/contamination caused by fracking' only refers to problems that occurred during the actual fracking pumping process, not to problems that occurred after the pumping process, but would not have occurred had fracking not been used.