Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, Feb. 26, 2013, explicates the pros and cons of fracking Marcellus shale for methane.
Many are familiar with 'fracking' for gas, but contemporary technology is altogether different: directional drilling, high-volume frac fluid, slickwater, multi-well pads. It's experimental, it's environmentally a disaster, and it's not realizing the big profits for those who signed over their mineral rights to Shell, BP and the big oil companies (or the 'bottom feeders') in the industry -- so says Prof Ingraffea, Cornell University shale expert. He notes also that in spite of natural gas's reputation as a clean energy, "the footprint of fracing is greater than that of any other fossil fuel, including coal."
Many in Western NY believe that fracking won't present a threat because it doesn't have Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale. However, the area does have Utica shale, rich in methane, though much deeper (7,000 feet or so).
Ingraffea's talk (Feb. 26, 2013) was sponsored by the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, the SUNY Fredonia Academic Cmty Engagement Center, and the Environmental Justice Ministry of the Unitarian Church. Filmed and edited by Snowshoefilms for Chan. 5 Public Access, Mayville New York.
/Part One of a 2-hour talk/
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