Fracking has been used to drill more than 170,000 wells across Alberta

[jonesy]

man, i would have taken him up on his offer to look at the drill logs and try to figure out the real problem. Imagine if you could solve the mystery.

Also, I assume this 'girl' isn't 80 years old so maybe before her time there were other intermittent problems she just doens't know about.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Fracking is to Fracing as Tar Sands is to Oil Sands...

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by fotze

Is that the Jenny McCarthy movie on fraccing?

I remember this documentary about fracking that I saw one time. It focused on a farm somewhere in the midwest, with this retired pastor, his kids, and his brother living on the farm. I think the brother was a baseball prospect at sometime. The boy in the family had asthsma, which may have been related to the fracking, or maybe not, and sometimes the daughter could taste things in the water that tasted different. Few others could taste it, but she could. It was hard for her to drink a whole glass of water... a couple sips and then she'd need to put the glass down. She started getting symptoms of chronic dehydration. Then their cornfields were damaged. They started to get really paranoid about everything. Their dog died, and the local vet left to go live near a lake for the clean water. Then an evil alien showed up, and all the fracking chemicals in the water burned its skin! So it actually worked out for them pretty well in the end.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by fotze

To illustrate how unrelateable this province is to the Gasland experience, check out Backyard Oil on Discovery.

In Kentucky, the surface owner owns the minerals so there are basically no regs and you can drill in your own back yard. Its ridiculous.

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/backyard-oil

Backyard Oil follows the fortunes of the most boot-strappin’ oil men in all of Appalachia – magnate Jimmy Reliford, and his howling sidekick Mad Dog; greasy ol’ polecat Coomer -- who’s raking in a tidy $300K per month thanks to an oil strike in his own backyard; a bearded hillbilly named Rascal, who uses a set of brass rods to dowse for oil; and the Page Boys, a father-son team who can’t help but bicker about everything...except finding that sweet, sweet crude!

Hellfire, boys. We’re gonna be richer than...aww come on, YOU know!

Now that oil fetches close to $100 a barrel, there’s a modern day oil boom hittin' these hills, and folks are a-clamorin' to enlist the services of our heroes...at $25,000 a pop. These are the Newbies, a motley lot whose future rides on a jet of "black gold" spewing from that blowpipe. If they hit, it’s a gilded trot up Easy Street. If they don’t...well, shoot. Better luck next time! You ain’t a real oilman till you’ve lost money in this here game.

Play your cards right, and you’ll laughing...all the way to the bank.

No different than those gold mining shows where they are absolutely destroying pristine wilderness for a couple hundred thousand dollars. There's a creek here, just run the bulldozer through it, now there's silty runoff going everywhere, ahhh screw it.

[Sample00]

for those of you that dont know what fracking is, here is a great animation of it.
http://www.businessinsider.com/marat...acking-2012-8#

[photon]

Every time I see the thread title...

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Sample00

for those of you that dont know what fracking is, here is a great animation of it.
http://www.businessinsider.com/marat...acking-2012-8#

I really thought Terry the Fracosaurus explained it best.

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[Rennip]

Originally Posted by fotze

Cementing is a huge issue where the gov't could get the more bang for their buck. Maybe the NDP would be wise to ask about the 24 year old cementing guide.

Exactly, these multistage fracs are pretty taxing on the cement jobs.

[DuffMan]

Funny, Exxon CEO sues to stop fracking near his home. Wonder why?

Exxon Mobil CEO: No fracking near my backyard

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...cking/5726603/

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

Funny, Exxon CEO sues to stop fracking near his home. Wonder why?

Exxon Mobil CEO: No fracking near my backyard

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...cking/5726603/

If I was CEO of an oil company, I wouldn't want my competition drilling near my back yard.

Just as if I was CEO of Loblaws I wouldn't want to have a Sobey's open up next to my house.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

If I was CEO of an oil company, I wouldn't want my competition drilling near my back yard.

Just as if I was CEO of Loblaws I wouldn't want to have a Sobey's open up next to my house.

Ah ok, makes no sense, but whatever.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I'm about to head to bed so I haven't read the article yet.

Could be a quality control worry, could be an attempt to block competition drilling, could have issues with water in the area, could be that the CEO isn't confident in fracking.

Without reading the article (yet) any of those are fair possibilities.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

Funny, Exxon CEO sues to stop fracking near his home. Wonder why?

Exxon Mobil CEO: No fracking near my backyard

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...cking/5726603/

Per the article he doesn't want a 15 story water tower to be built near is ranch. I doubt that it is for tracking has anything to do with it.

Its just classic nimbyism.

[DuffMan]

He made 40 million last year by telling people/families with the exact same concerns to go fawk themselves.

[Flames in 07]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

He made 40 million last year by telling people/families with the exact same concerns to go fawk themselves.

maybe but that's not relevant.

You basically did another "I know for a fact" when you tied the lawsuit to the fracing. However as you scratch the surface you find out that he doesn't want a massive water tower outside his property.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Flames in 07

maybe but that's not relevant.

You basically did another "I know for a fact" when you tied the lawsuit to the fracing. However as you scratch the surface you find out that he doesn't want a massive water tower outside his property.

Yes, that's the point. Why should anyone care. He doesn't gaf about all of the people he fracks. Why should anyone care about an eyesore in his neighbourhood. When he can light his drinking water on fire, hopefully nobody cares again.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

Yes, that's the point. Why should anyone care. He doesn't gaf about all of the people he fracks. Why should anyone care about an eyesore in his neighbourhood. When he can light his drinking water on fire, hopefully nobody cares again.

He should have the same rights as any other citizen who wants to me a Nimby. I think it is disingenuous to try to link his objection to fraccing.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by GGG

He should have the same rights as any other citizen who wants to me a Nimby. I think it is disingenuous to try to link his objection to fraccing.

Sure.

[JD]

That story is classic spin. Exxon CEO is against a water tower being built near his home. The water tower will bring trucks that come to get water. Some trucks may be transporting water to frac sites. Therefore, the CEO is against fracking.

And of course it means he can light his water on fire.

On another note, I always find it odd that in Texas, as you fly into any of the cities, there are water towers all over the place. I had no idea their use was so prevalent.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by fotze

Is that the lady who lights her tap on fire in Alberta on that W5 special? Her water well is actually drilled and completed in coal seams. But it's fracking that causes her to trespass on gas rights she does not own and vent illegally and not pay royalty. Again fracking might be an issue but a disgruntled former encana employee with a bone to pick illegally flaring gas she doesn't own isn't the best ambassador.

No.