Google map I-45 at Fairfield, Texas, look at the satellite view just to
the south where 179 crosses I-45, all of those light colored rectangles
are gas wells.
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Orgrease
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [BP] State parks, sites among most endangered
On 5/20/2010 4:50 PM, Rudy R Christian wrote:
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> Something tells me they aren't really more endangered than the Gulf
Coast
> from Nawlins eastward.
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> Rude E
>
You mean... like this?
MAP-Tompkins - Home http://bit.ly/cQDnn3
The Marcellus Accountability Project for Tompkins County
Gas drilling is coming soon to the Finger Lakes Region. Rumors abound,
but one thing is sure: in the next few years residents will see a
dramatic transformation of the local area to a more industrial
landscape. How many wells will be drilled? How rapidly? Economic
uncertainty makes answering these questions difficult, but predictions
range from hundreds to thousands of wells over the next 5 to 20 years.
Gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale will be by hydraulic fracturing
("hydrofracking"). Unlike conventional drilling, hydrofracking involves
pumping vast amounts of water laced with toxic chemicals into the ground
under high pressure to fracture the shale. At some sites, loud
compressors run nonstop to move the gas into a pipeline. The process
creates all kinds of adverse environmental and health impacts, and has
triggered outrage and action from citizens groups and even local
governments throughout the country, wherever it has been used.
The gas industry has spent millions of dollars quietly leasing private
and public land in our area, and is well-positioned to begin large-scale
gas extraction. Because of the infrastructure involved (pipelines,
compressor stations, gas and chemical storage facilities), companies
prefer to drill thousands of wells systematically throughout an area to
"fully extract" gas from shale (read: make the most profit).
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