The Facts About Hydraulic Fracturing (with video)

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The Facts About Hydraulic Fracturing’s Record of Safety Continue to Mount

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http://www.energyindepth.org/2010/08/
read-all-about-it-the-facts-about-hydraulic-fracturing%e2%80%99s-record-of-safety-continue-to-mount/

Tags: Bakken shale, Barnett Shale, Bruce Vincent, Chris Kulander, Energy In Depth, Hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus shale, shale gas
26.August.2010admin

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The positive and overwhelming economic and energy security benefits enabled by hydraulic fracturing – a tightly regulated 60-year old energy stimulation technology – continue to be realized across the nation. These benefits – affordable supplies of reliable homegrown energy and thousands of good-paying jobs – are a reality in major energy-producing states, particularly North Dakota and Texas.
And while New York was the birthplace of natural gas production, a de facto ban on Marcellus Shale production through the use of 21st century horizontal drilling technology continues to deny landowners their right to responsibly develop privately-owned, clean-burning, job-creating resources.
Facts are stubborn things, as they say. So for your edification, here are a few about fracturing.
In a Fort Worth Business Press column today, Bruce Vincent, chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of American (IPAA) and president of Swift Energy, underscores the critical role that fracture stimulation has played, and continues to play, in safely producing homegrown, job-creating energy oil and natural gas resources over the past 60 years. Here are key excerpts from Vincent’s column, which speaks directly to the devastating consequences that bills like the FRAC Act would introduce to American consumers:

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read-all-about-it-the-facts-about-hydraulic-fracturing%e2%80%99s-record-of-safety-continue-to-mount/