Shale gas "worse than coal" for climate

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Is it just me or is the likelihood of shale not being used incredibly low?

*Raises eyebrow at BSG nerds in the energy industry.*

I do wish that people would quit mixing up names, but hey, journalists.

And why the hell do they keep calling it shale gas? It's just methane extracted from shale, nothing more. I didn't see any mention of other environmental effects from something besides the CO₂ levels.

edited 13th Apr '11 11:47:11 PM by Deboss

If the documentary Gasland is to be believed, fracking is...bad. Very harmful to water supplies, but in a way that most people aren't aware of. It certainly scared me...

^ Fracking is done all the time in Colorado. The only real effects it has on water supplies is basically it turns it to soda. Half the wells in the southern part of the state near the mountains all have natural gas in them either naturally (the vast majority of cases) or from local mining.

All you do when you get natural gas in well water is let it set for a minute. The stuff dissolves right out of it. No harm to anyone or anything.

Activists are trying to get fracking banned here citing it harms local ecology...riiight. They fail to account for the fact that fracking operations are done hundreds to thousands of feet underground far below where life can survive. (Basically they're blasting bedrock) Basically all activist attempts at banning it are the result of sheer ignorance and stupidity failing to do any research into the technique whatsoever.

edited 14th Apr '11 11:02:54 AM by MajorTom

• Gasland site
• here is another, more mainstream news - style, documentary on it

• Fracking defined
• Newsweek's take
• MSNBC

Any chance of getting a better site, like Wired?

Only bit from Wired They describe a few things in the vid. It is from the Gasland vid.