Folks in this forum know me as not being hysterical about environmental issues as much as being interested in the facts.
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=3683.0Books that helped me understand risk vs reward were Dixie Lee Ray's "Trashing the Planet" and "Environmental Overkill".
I had been of the opinion that natural gas was one of our most important roads to energy independence. Having seen it offered at many gas stations in Utah, and the internet having a lot of cars and trucks for sale in Utah that run on natural gas, I thought it the perfect low cost low pollution solution to reduce our dependence on oil in the short term. However I was and am still of the opinion that nuclear power is the #1 best solution. Particularly with the advances in technology in construction and operation. I became even more convinced when I watched "Pandora's Promise" on Netflix that was done by a couple of former poster boys of the anti-nuke industry, who flipped when they actually investigated the facts, and then did a pro-nuke video. Just like in regard to the things of the Spirit of God, those that have overcome unsound doctrine, are some of the best among clarifying the truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_PromiseI was even more shocked (than the prior post in this thread of a few years ago), when a few nights ago, when I saw Gasland II.
(here's a trailer)
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/gasland-part-ii#/I had assumed that the gas in water wells in Pennsylvania, was the result of fracking shallow oil wells, and that fracturing making its way up to deep water aquifers. With the casings cemented firmly into place I was confident that the gas and drilling toxins could not migrate thousands of feet up into aquifers. Now here's the stunner that I would never have been able dream was the case.
The single most important take-away, if true, is that according to the industry itself, the cement sealing between the drill hole and the casing in 5% of gas wells, fails from the beginning. The industry further speculated that over time, 50% of those cement seals will eventually fail. But consider just the 5% figure. That means that 1 in 20 wells fail from the start, while dozens or hundreds of wells will be drilled through a single water aquifer.
answer to destroying the property value of entire areas including generational family farms? Buy the properties and silence the owners with gag orders as part of the settlement.
The massive volumes of methane that is casually vented off from these wells and installations, into our atmosphere, is stunning. It is unlikely that we won't pay a heavy price for this unnatural process of connecting high volumes of pressurized gas from thousands of feet down in the ground, directly to our atmosphere.
Mankind really has spoiled the place that God gave us. Not surprisingly the wealth gap continues to grow for the same reason.
