What The Frack?

I see many a lib are all up in arms over the fracking. The benefits far out weigh the negatives. Then again, until we are riding bikes living in grass huts, they will never be happy!
http://www.rockymountainenergyforum.com/article/mit-report-finds-fracking-is-safe

MIT Report Finds fracking is Safe
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Bookmark Last June, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued a 178-page report called “The Future of Natural Gas” (a copy of the full report is embedded below). Somehow this report escaped MDN’s notice at the time. Seeing that it’s conclusions are that hydraulic fracturing is safe, MDN understands why mainstream media outlets don’t endlessly promote it and quote from it as they do from journal articles penned by anti-drilling professors like Robert Howarth and Tony Ingraffea making outrageous claims like natural gas is worse for the environment than coal (see this MDN story).

The report is the fourth in a series of MIT reports examining the role of various energy sources that may be important for meeting future demand under carbon dioxide emissions constraints. In each case, as with this report, MIT looks at what is needed for energy sources to remain competitive if and when CO2 emissions are taxed. That is, how will this energy source stack up if there’s a price on carbon dioxide emissions.

Among the many interesting findings in the report are these:

With over 20,000 shale wells drilled in the last 10 years, the environmental record of shale gas development has for the most part been a good one — but it is important to recognize the inherent risks and the damage that can be caused by just one poor operation. (page 39)

The fracturing process itself poses minimal risk to the shallow groundwater zones that may exist in the upper portion of the wellbore. (page 40)

The physical realities of the fracturing process, combined with the lack of reports from the many wells to date of fracture fluid contamination of groundwater, supports the assertion that fracturing itself does not create environmental concerns. (page 41)

Megadeath Speaks

Even long haired rockers are asking questions!
http://www.infowars.com/dave-mustaine-obama-staged-batman-massacre/

During a concert in Singapore, Mustaine remarked that President Obama was trying to pass gun control legislation.

“So he’s staging all of these murders, like the ‘Fast And Furious’ thing down at the border, Aurora, Colorado, all the people that were killed there, and now the beautiful people at the Sikh temple,” said Mustaine, before adding, “I don’t know where I’m gonna live if America keeps going the way it’s going because it looks like it’s turning into Nazi America.”

Mustaine has since been savaged by numerous media outlets for his comments despite the fact that the Fast and Furious program, which saw the Obama administration put guns directly in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, has led to the murders of hundreds of people.

However, Mustaine’s suspicion surrounding the recent mass shootings was echoed by Gun Owners of America director Larry Pratt, a respected voice in the gun rights movement, who himself shared his own suspicions about the ‘Batman’ massacre during an interview with Alex Jones last month.

The Hillbilly At The Huff Po!

This is where I am right now. I can only post the link, cause the Huff Po does not allow anything more to be reposted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/gasland-fracking-natural-gas_b_1795400.html

Happy Friday

Hope y’all have a great Friday and superb weekend. And here is something you might want to try: I have created an account at the Huffington Post! Yup, I am in the belly of the beast. And to my surprise, there are some conservative voices there. It is also interesting to see talk to people who truly believe that government is the answer to almost all of life’s problems. So I encourage you to create an account and make some comments. It is truly a learning experience. I post under jheatonjohn. Come join me, I need reinforcements!