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Energy expert Dr. Daniel Fine discusses North Carolina's Shale Gas and "Fracking"

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    "While North Carolina struggles with an ongoing abysmal employment situation, fracking is providing a welcome boon for North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, among others. Being a latecomer in the game could have its own benefits, however; as Daniel Fine of the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy has explained, North Carolina is well positioned to survey and adopt the best practices, the best technology, and the best legal landscape. And the Deep River Basin in Lee and Chatham counties offers an especially promising area for development."Fracking's promise of jobs, growth too compelling to ignore By Jon Sanders John Locke Foundation March 9

    Dr. Fine on You Tube (2 minutes) ---> http://youtu.be/4Lbn9diK1PA

    The full one hour video can be seen here-->"North Carolina's approach to natural gas fracking" ---> http://lockerroom.johnlocke.org/2012/02/27/north-carolinas-approach-to-natural-gas-fracking/

    Podcast: danielfine022712.mp4

    Dr. Daniel I. Fine works with the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy. He is a longtime research associate at the Mining and Minerals Resources Institute, MIT. Fine is also a policy adviser on nonconventional oil and gas. He is co-editor of Resource War in 3-D: Dependence, Diplomacy and Defense, and has contributed to Business Week, the Engineering and Mining Journal and the Washington Times. Fine has testified on strategic natural resources before the U.S. Senate committees on Foreign Affairs and Energy and Natural Resources. In this speech, he discusses "Shale Gas Wars: From Pennsylvania to North Carolina."
     
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    Multiple EPA reports have called it safe... yet the liberals still want to stop it.
     
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    of course they are , energy is the life blood of the economy and anything they can do to cripple the western world economies takes them closer to their goals. The USA has the largest oil shale reserves in the world yet the Democrats continually put up any roadblocks they can to prevent the development
     
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    This is what happened after they fracked. Tell me if this is safe.

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=con8vHdH5fs"]Watch water on fire - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    That has nothing to do with fracking. In many places, gasses get into the water supply and will burn. This happens naturally.
     
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    Who are these "they" that are trying to "cripple the Western world"?
     
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    well we can start with pseudo environmental groups like greenpeace. I am sure the muslims don't want to see the US develop energy independence either since that is their only source of power their pseudo religion has
     
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    Hahahaha.. Greenpeace has zero influence when it comes to ROI.. they are just noisy.
     
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    I'm glad you laughed at it. Hence at post 5 I posted this hilarious study, showing Fracking and the amount of damage it can do.

    Edit: it's post 6.
     
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    You didn't show anything that was associated with fracking, which is why the other poster laughed at you. Water lighting on fire happened long before fracking.
     
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    Paragraph 3 of my source.

    They also found that the type of gas detected at high levels in the water was the same type of gas that energy companies were extracting from thousands of feet underground, strongly implying that the gas may be seeping underground through natural or manmade faults and fractures, or coming from cracks in the well structure itself.
     
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    Yep, heard it all before. The fact is, it's not fracking that is causing it. ;)
     
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    You didn't even bother to read my source did you?
     
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    Nope. Don't need to. Thanks.
     
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    At least you're straight forward.
     
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    Yep, that's me. I've already looked into this issue and don't need to read any more biased sources.
     
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    I did. I am still laughing.
     
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    And then let's share the joke.
     
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    Wasn't it the same University, Duke, that did a study many years ago that said there was nothing all that harmful in smoking?

    I would like to see where the money came from for this "study".
     
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    The conversation is about regulatory authority by the state..................
     
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    Why would we expect otherwise? The EPA basically works for the energy companies. When the rubber meets the road, the EPA is the best friend this industry has ever bought.
     
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