Tommy the Commie Mulcair blasts fracking plans in New Brunswick

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Blowouts? Explosions? Your kidding right? You just keep piling it on higher and higher.

Blowouts, often unreported, which spew hydraulic fracturing fluid and other byproducts across surrounding area
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Someone does not know what a blow out is.

Drill pad construction and operation
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Yup,thats why we strip the soils before building a lease,you would be hard pressed to find it 2 weeks after its reclaimed.
 
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petros said:
"Well, here's one tough question: If you think that your method of getting to that gas is safe, why won't you reveal the contents of the fracking fluid?" Mulcair said.

In New Brunswick, the provincial government has committed to requiring, "mandatory disclosure of fracture fluid additives."
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Research issues

Several organizations, researchers, and media outlets have reported difficulty in conducting and reporting the results of studies on hydraulic fracturing due to industry[54][55][56] and governmental pressure, and expressed concern over possible censoring of environmental reports.[57][58][54]

Researchers have recommended requiring disclosure of all hydraulic fracturing fluids, testing animals raised near fracturing sites, and closer monitoring of environmental samples.[59] After court cases concerning contamination from hydraulic fracturing are settled, the documents are sealed. The American Petroleum Institute deny that this practice has hidden problems with gas drilling, while others believe it has and could lead to unnecessary risks to public safety and health.[60]


Hydraulic fracturing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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This is a blowout.


 
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Water accounts for about 90 percent of the fracturing mixture and sand accounts for about 9.5 percent. Chemicals account for the remaining one half of one percent of the mixture. There are several ways oil and natural gas companies manage the use of fracturing fluids, depending on what specifically is in them, the presence of usable groundwater or surface waters, geography, and local, state, and federal regulations.

"It's our experience in Pennsylvania that we have not had one case in which the fluids used to break off the gas from 5,000 to 8,000 feet (1,500-2,400 m) underground have returned to contaminate ground water."
John Hanger, former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
 
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Spent or used fracturing fluids are normally recovered at the initial stage of well production and recycled in a closed system for future use or disposed of under regulation, either by surface discharge where authorized under the Clean Water Act or by injection into Class II wells as authorized under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Regulation may also allow recovered fracturing fluids to be disposed of at appropriate commercial facilities. Not all fracturing fluid returns to the surface. Over the life of the well, some is left behind and confined by thousands of feet of rock layers.

The Ground Water Protection Council and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission have created FracFocus, a hydraulic fracturing chemical registry website where you can search for information about the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells. Drilling companies have been strongly supportive of this registry.

http://fracfocus.org/
 
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Kakato said:
Blowouts? Explosions? Your kidding right? You just keep piling it on higher and higher.



Someone does not know what a blow out is.



Yup,thats why we strip the soils before building a lease,you would be hard pressed to find it 2 weeks after its reclaimed.
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Regardless there is enough information and reports that make it a legitimate concern. It is a contentious issue and should be addressed fully and in the open.
 
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Goober said:
I think that 10 penny and myself have figured it out.
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They take about 4 days for 2 wells where i'm at,were right in protected pasture land and theres 2 wells every 290 meters,this is prime duck habitat and lots of water and there has never been a problem with contaminated water.There wouldnt be so many ducks there if there was a problem.

Some of this water was undrinkable long before any drilling took place.

Tastes like crap!

I work in 2 provinces in gas and oil and not once have I seen any problems related to fracking so when I see all this fearmongering I have to ask WTF?
If you have natural gas coming out your cold water tap then you better phone a gas company and get them drilling that biotch as soon as possible!
Fracking has nothing to do with that and it's why most blowouts happen before a BOP can be installed,hitting gas right at the surface while drilling a caseing or pilot hole is why most blowouts happen.
 
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I for one have no problem with people being against fracking. The fact is we don't know
what the environmental impact is in the long term. Oh I am not talking about possible
earth quakes etc there are water and underground water concerns that have not been
addressed. In today's world we have to know the consequences before we commence
with new technology because we have seen what happens when we don't. To know the
past mistakes is not good enough, we have to learn from them and ensure we don't repeat
them with new mistakes.
Mulcair is not the saviour of the world, although I am starting to like him a hell of a lot more
that the guy we have at the top now, but Mulcair is questioning the methods of extraction
both in the West and in Eastern Canada. It is time to realize technology is a nation solution
and a national problem, it is not a series of regional issues. We need a national and consistent
policy on these issues.
 
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I'll have to back Mulcair on this one.

Until I see firm evidence that fracking isn't as destructive as it has been reported to be, whether Mulcair is playing the political balance game or not. I have no problems ending the practice of fracking.
 
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