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		<title>By: &#8216;Fracknation&#8217; Seeks the Fracking Truth &#124; Maley&#039;s Energy Blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>&#8216;Fracknation&#8217; Seeks the Fracking Truth &#124; Maley&#039;s Energy Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Betsey Hons</title>
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		<dc:creator>Betsey Hons</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Cozzy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Ross Waldenberg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ross Waldenberg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Gaylord Anene</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Theron Rosenthal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: congressworksforus</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9174</link>
		<dc:creator>congressworksforus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I respect your qualifications to write on this subject (great diary, fwiw), I have to point out that your statement &quot;Fracking is new, and is a convenient scapegoat&quot; is incorrect.

The &lt;b&gt;term&lt;/b&gt; fracking is new; but hydraulic fracturing has been going on for decades.  In fact, according to the nice lady from some big oil industry org. who came to our group meeting a few months back (sorry, I forget her name and organization), we started &quot;fracking&quot; in Ohio in the 1950s.

Of course the second part of your statement &quot;convenient scapegoat&quot; is 100% correct; but they had to invent a new, scary term to make it so.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I respect your qualifications to write on this subject (great diary, fwiw), I have to point out that your statement &#8220;Fracking is new, and is a convenient scapegoat&#8221; is incorrect.</p>
<p>The <b>term</b> fracking is new; but hydraulic fracturing has been going on for decades.  In fact, according to the nice lady from some big oil industry org. who came to our group meeting a few months back (sorry, I forget her name and organization), we started &#8220;fracking&#8221; in Ohio in the 1950s.</p>
<p>Of course the second part of your statement &#8220;convenient scapegoat&#8221; is 100% correct; but they had to invent a new, scary term to make it so.</p>
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		<title>By: Xasteius</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9171</link>
		<dc:creator>Xasteius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The water in DC and Allentown, PA is horrible.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The water in DC and Allentown, PA is horrible.</p>
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		<title>By: vandalii</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9170</link>
		<dc:creator>vandalii</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with pretty much all the entertainment industry, getting folks to fork out money, either at the box office or in candidates&#039; coffers is their driving force.

Michael Moore, Al Gore, Oliver Stone, etc. etc. are in the business to sell their tripe to the mindless masses.  Science, actual economics or documented history seem to have no place in their minds filled with foregone conclusions and fantasies of prophetic prowess.

These kinds of films are intended &quot;raise public awareness&quot;, which literally means push their thoughts and opinions into the unthinking masses that attend these shows.

No, science &amp; Hollywood don&#039;t have much to do with each other.

PS:  Chicken Little is a Democrat ;-)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As with pretty much all the entertainment industry, getting folks to fork out money, either at the box office or in candidates&#8217; coffers is their driving force.</p>
<p>Michael Moore, Al Gore, Oliver Stone, etc. etc. are in the business to sell their tripe to the mindless masses.  Science, actual economics or documented history seem to have no place in their minds filled with foregone conclusions and fantasies of prophetic prowess.</p>
<p>These kinds of films are intended &#8220;raise public awareness&#8221;, which literally means push their thoughts and opinions into the unthinking masses that attend these shows.</p>
<p>No, science &amp; Hollywood don&#8217;t have much to do with each other.</p>
<p>PS:  Chicken Little is a Democrat <img src='http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: ew88</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9169</link>
		<dc:creator>ew88</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been looking for (not hard, but looking out for at least) the science on the subject for quite some time now. I&#039;m oh-so glad it&#039;s here and it agrees with the conservative position.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for (not hard, but looking out for at least) the science on the subject for quite some time now. I&#8217;m oh-so glad it&#8217;s here and it agrees with the conservative position.</p>
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		<title>By: cbartlett</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9168</link>
		<dc:creator>cbartlett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This link just goes to the website - you&#039;ll have to put &quot;Pickens&quot; or &quot;B P Capital&quot; in the search field to locate the video clip about fracking with T. Boone Pickens.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This link just goes to the website &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to put &#8220;Pickens&#8221; or &#8220;B P Capital&#8221; in the search field to locate the video clip about fracking with T. Boone Pickens.</p>
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		<title>By: cbartlett</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9167</link>
		<dc:creator>cbartlett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Wallace had a very interesting interview with T. Boone Pickens about this subject on Fox News Sunday.  He has very simple, understandable explanations for the economic and environmental issues involved.  
Going to try to imbed.....

Watch the latest video at &lt;a href=&quot;http://video.foxnews.com&quot;&gt;video.foxnews.com&lt;/a&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chris Wallace had a very interesting interview with T. Boone Pickens about this subject on Fox News Sunday.  He has very simple, understandable explanations for the economic and environmental issues involved.<br />
Going to try to imbed&#8230;..</p>
<p>Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: yoyo</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9166</link>
		<dc:creator>yoyo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;and coincidentally and satisfactorily, in the Navy, a &#8220;Green Weenie&#8221; is used to scrub toilets and urinals.</p>
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		<title>By: yoyo</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9165</link>
		<dc:creator>yoyo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would much rather have the State in the way than have the Feds in the way...  I can always move to another State....]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would much rather have the State in the way than have the Feds in the way&#8230;  I can always move to another State&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: kyle8</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9164</link>
		<dc:creator>kyle8</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[not far from the WV border. I know exactly what you are talking about. ten years ago an energy company came to his small community and offered to drill them a big water well and pump but it was up to the community to buy and lay the pipe to their homes. 

They did this, my Dad&#039;s old construction skills came in handy and he operated the backhoe that the company provided.

That company now employs several residents with it&#039;s NG wells. Pumpers and measurement men. 

All of this was done by private individuals and companies, The state did nothing but try to get into the way.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>not far from the WV border. I know exactly what you are talking about. ten years ago an energy company came to his small community and offered to drill them a big water well and pump but it was up to the community to buy and lay the pipe to their homes. </p>
<p>They did this, my Dad&#8217;s old construction skills came in handy and he operated the backhoe that the company provided.</p>
<p>That company now employs several residents with it&#8217;s NG wells. Pumpers and measurement men. </p>
<p>All of this was done by private individuals and companies, The state did nothing but try to get into the way.</p>
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		<title>By: renny</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9163</link>
		<dc:creator>renny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[but was tomented for years with anti-industry &quot;enviro&quot; propaganda that predicted not just water table contamination but seismic shifts in surface land and and earthquarkes in Northern Pennsylvania. 1000s of jobs have been provided, an entiiire section of a state opened for development, and none of the horror predictions have come true.

However, that does not stop the left (nothing does). Now, the Sierra Club and others are claiming the holding tanks employed to retain water uesd in the process could leak and AGAIN contaminate the water table it missed when it was first injected into the wells.

Another complaint is that too many wells were/are being drilled and capped off, proving something negative. Actually, the US is full of capped off oil wells, some kept for future use (see CA and all the oil reserved for the Army and Navy, yadda), some waiting to be tapped when the pipelines and other infrastructure are in place, and/or some other decision that has been made about individual wells.

Further, the &quot;greens&quot; and anti-nat. gas and all energy left hates the roads, housing, mini-malls, businesses, and increased population that didn&#039;t exist in N. PA before the Marcellus shale was tapped, because these people do not want ANY fossil fuel, any housing, or people, except themselves who get their own special dispensation to fly around a la Gore in first classs and denigrate all the rest of us peasants.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>but was tomented for years with anti-industry &#8220;enviro&#8221; propaganda that predicted not just water table contamination but seismic shifts in surface land and and earthquarkes in Northern Pennsylvania. 1000s of jobs have been provided, an entiiire section of a state opened for development, and none of the horror predictions have come true.</p>
<p>However, that does not stop the left (nothing does). Now, the Sierra Club and others are claiming the holding tanks employed to retain water uesd in the process could leak and AGAIN contaminate the water table it missed when it was first injected into the wells.</p>
<p>Another complaint is that too many wells were/are being drilled and capped off, proving something negative. Actually, the US is full of capped off oil wells, some kept for future use (see CA and all the oil reserved for the Army and Navy, yadda), some waiting to be tapped when the pipelines and other infrastructure are in place, and/or some other decision that has been made about individual wells.</p>
<p>Further, the &#8220;greens&#8221; and anti-nat. gas and all energy left hates the roads, housing, mini-malls, businesses, and increased population that didn&#8217;t exist in N. PA before the Marcellus shale was tapped, because these people do not want ANY fossil fuel, any housing, or people, except themselves who get their own special dispensation to fly around a la Gore in first classs and denigrate all the rest of us peasants.</p>
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		<title>By: yoyo</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/23/gaslands-josh-fox-cant-be-bothered-with-facts/#comment-9162</link>
		<dc:creator>yoyo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in North-Central West Virginia&#039;s bitum coal country (Randolph/Upshur/Barbor/Pendleton Counties) and remember quite clearly as a child when a lot of the mines went under (Bethlehem Coal in Upshur Co. at the Ten-Mile mine, for instance) and the State began reclaiming the strip mines around where I lived in the Elkins/Tygart River Valley portion of Randolph, Barbor, and Upshur Co.&#039;s.  It wasn&#039;t that there wasn&#039;t any coal (there was/is a LOT of coal - so much, in my back yard I could dig it from the ground with a pick), it was just that the market was influenced to make bitum too cheap to mine profitably.  A lot of families had it ROUGH, all because we mined &quot;dirty coal.&quot;  For a time, there was a whole lot of nothing.  
Then, NG wells began springing up.  At first, there was only a handful but that soon changed.  By the time I graduate HS (1991), NG wells were everywhere!  All of a sudden, families (landowners) who had watched their prospects for a prosperous future go the way of the do-do when &quot;Big Coal&quot; left now had NG exploration companies knocking on their door offering them free energy - forEVER - and a nice monthly check to develop and produce the gas buried deep under their feet.  Life, once again, began looking good.
The point of this rambling is this: Most of these families are subrural; they do not have &quot;city&quot; water, they have wells and pumphouses for water...and not one of them has ever complained (that I know of) about their water spontaneously combusting.
There are many jokes made about backwards-hillbilly-inbred hicks that supposedly live around the parts I grew up - but they are smart enough not to look the free-energy-and-a-monthly-check-for-life gift horse in the mouth.  Bottom line, NG production is safe, safe, safe, safe, safe.  It is safer than coal production (I have never heard of a dozen or so miners trapped in a NG well) and the benefits are DIRECT and TANGIBLE to the families that own the land (as opposed to working for a coal company in a mine digging coal for China and India.)
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I grew up in North-Central West Virginia&#8217;s bitum coal country (Randolph/Upshur/Barbor/Pendleton Counties) and remember quite clearly as a child when a lot of the mines went under (Bethlehem Coal in Upshur Co. at the Ten-Mile mine, for instance) and the State began reclaiming the strip mines around where I lived in the Elkins/Tygart River Valley portion of Randolph, Barbor, and Upshur Co.&#8217;s.  It wasn&#8217;t that there wasn&#8217;t any coal (there was/is a LOT of coal &#8211; so much, in my back yard I could dig it from the ground with a pick), it was just that the market was influenced to make bitum too cheap to mine profitably.  A lot of families had it ROUGH, all because we mined &#8220;dirty coal.&#8221;  For a time, there was a whole lot of nothing.<br />
Then, NG wells began springing up.  At first, there was only a handful but that soon changed.  By the time I graduate HS (1991), NG wells were everywhere!  All of a sudden, families (landowners) who had watched their prospects for a prosperous future go the way of the do-do when &#8220;Big Coal&#8221; left now had NG exploration companies knocking on their door offering them free energy &#8211; forEVER &#8211; and a nice monthly check to develop and produce the gas buried deep under their feet.  Life, once again, began looking good.<br />
The point of this rambling is this: Most of these families are subrural; they do not have &#8220;city&#8221; water, they have wells and pumphouses for water&#8230;and not one of them has ever complained (that I know of) about their water spontaneously combusting.<br />
There are many jokes made about backwards-hillbilly-inbred hicks that supposedly live around the parts I grew up &#8211; but they are smart enough not to look the free-energy-and-a-monthly-check-for-life gift horse in the mouth.  Bottom line, NG production is safe, safe, safe, safe, safe.  It is safer than coal production (I have never heard of a dozen or so miners trapped in a NG well) and the benefits are DIRECT and TANGIBLE to the families that own the land (as opposed to working for a coal company in a mine digging coal for China and India.)<br />
Frack baby, Frack!</p>
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