When is Hydraulic Fracturing going to be prosecuted by State Attorney Generals for the deceptive practices that exist in the LACK of education of the public and potential lease holders to the dangers of these practices by the industry that propagates the damage? Once Hydraulic Fracturing occurrs the land is virtually worthless. Once has to wonder if that is what the 2008 Housing Bubble was all about? Wall Street knew the 2005 Bush/Cheney Energy Bill was catatrophic to land values by these practices and decided to get what they could and get out. Why invest in a wasteland?
Black shale is an interesting topic. It isn't all methane, sometimes it is uranium. But, methane beds cannot exist without it. Believe me the natural gas industry is fully prepared to have a very condesending discussion with those whom's lives they will destroy. Isn't agricultural produce and crops important to people? No one minds eating food contaminaed with methane? See, if all this land is contaminated and there is food that is needed to be produce, what choice is left, but, to eat it.
...However, the “gas rush” (click title to entry - thank you) in the Marcellus Shale formation in upstate New York and Pennsylvania has caused hydraulic fracturing to bubble to the surface of public consciousness: it may now come into widespread use in a densely populated region unaccustomed to fossil fuel resource extraction. Since the process—like most large-scale industrial processes—can have negative consequences, the near-certainty of its widespread adoption in this region has resulted in public controversy, as people weigh the benefits of economic gain against health and environmental risks.
And the debate has been loud, as would be expected when enough natural gas to satisfy US demand for at least a decade is set against possible harm to the water supply for almost 10 million people in one of the world capitals of media,
finance, and law. It’s not natural gas per se that’s sparked a firestorm of controversy, it’s the technique—hydraulic fracturing—used to extract it....
Environmental & Economic Interests Clash Over Marcellus Shale (click here)
The problem with the exploitation of the public in relation to Hydraulic Fracturing is that when they sign on the dotted line, they haven't got a clue what they are signing on for.
There is also a difference in the 'content' of Devonian Black Shale. (Devonian is a period of Earth's history. Prehistoric. The reason there is Devonian Black Shale in Jordan and the USA at probably the same surface depth, is becuase of Plate Techtonics.) It si widely known in the Middle East, oddly enough. Interesting isn't it?
31°12'50'' N / 35°52'06'' E
(section OS in Lüning et al. in prep.)
The Campanian Maastrichtian is organic-rich in several parts of North Africa and Arabia. As in this example from Jordan, such "black shales" are often asociated with phosphorites.
Spectro-gamma-ray measurements. Note that both organic-rich and phosphoritic strata tend to enrich uranium which complicates the use of U as a proxy for either TOC or phosphorite concentration.
You know. It is really unfortunate Columbus discovered America before Wall Street had a chance to exploit it. Huh?
