Fracking Ads and Paid Surveys

I just finished taking one of those paid surveys - well - I didn't finish, it "timed out" after I had answered 46 of the 65 questions. This survey was put out by the "2nd largest producer of natural gas in the US." If you're wondering what the 2nd largest producer of natural gas in the US pays for a 65 question survey, the amount is one dollar.

So darn, I won't get my one dollar since the survey timed out and they got thought-out, well-considered answers to 46 two-part questions. That's okay, I'll be okay without the dollar and it was interesting and informative seeing the process they use to develop ads that will sway people to allow them to drill on their property.

The questions they asked were written to only partially  inform and to totally sway landowners and community stakeholders to allow drilling. They wanted to know which ads would inspire "me, the survey-taker" to allow them to drill in my community.

The survey also asked, the second part of each question, how I felt after reading each proposed ad. Did I feel threatened? Did I feel curious? Did I feel unconcerned? Did I feel indignant? Did I feel hopeful?

I varied between threatened, curious, and indignant, because, truly, nothing about hydro-fracture gas drilling leaves me feeling hopeful or unconcerned.

A lot of the ads talked about how the drilling process is 100% safe IF the casing is properly cemented and IF half a dozen other things go 100% perfectly. Well, how often is anything this life is 100% anything? And, how often in this life does everything go 100% perfectly?

A couple of the proposed ads mentioned the recycling of water, but even then, at some point the contaminated water is going to find its way to a disposal site, and then the list of "safety IFs" begins again. IF the injection well is properly cased... IF the well did not break through the water table and contaminate the local wells when originally dug it MIGHT be safe to dump toxins into it... I could go on and on, but that's the gist of it.

So to round up this slightly rambling post, don't just believe the propaganda that's handed to you. If someone is trying to hand you propaganda, there is almost always more to it. These companies are researching to find the ideal ads to sway residents into signing without thinking. It's how they make their money, and lots of it.

Whether you are for or against this type of drilling and the completion fluid disposal that follows, you owe it to yourself to be an informed citizen. If a company tells you something is 100% safe, check around. If it was 100% safe, this site and the many, many other sites like it would not exist.

Ohio Department of Natural Resources Recommendations for Well Water Testing Before Gas and Oil Drilling

I apologize for this post's long title. I couldn't decide which part should be left out to make it shorter.

ODNR has released information for concerned Ohio residents regarding the proper procedure for testing well water.

Basically, they ask residents to foot the bill to have their water tested before drilling begins (if they are lucky enough to have advance notice of drilling or fracking brine dumping in their area), only by OEPA certified water testing labs the ODNR approves, and then pay again after drilling or dumping to have that same lab test the well water again.

Here is why it has to be labs they specify (direct quote from ODNR document)... "Samples should be submitted to an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) certified drinking water laboratory. The laboratory should be certified for each chemical parameter to be tested. Without attention to these details, water analyses will be of little or no value in an oil and gas water contamination investigation or a legal proceeding."

I'm not arguing the wisdom of having your water tested before and after drilling or dumping, assuming you are forewarned. I just think it's a little disappointing that the very agencies charged with protecting the public good are telling residents not only, that they are on their own as far as water testing, but also if the residents don't send their cash to the lab the governmental agencies choose they will have very little legal recourse after their water has been contaminated.

Anyway, I invite you to check out the document, and, if your interpretation of the document varies from my own interpretation, you are welcome to stop back and leave a comment voicing your thoughts on the document, or anything about this topic.

Controversies Involved in Natural Gas Drilling

I selected this article for Ohio, Frac, and the Environment because, while I feel the author is pro-fracking based on his link to an oil-well selling site, he did a nice job with the article and he presented his information objectively.

Author: Andrews Boaz

The modern era has seen most of the countries, desperately searching for the deposits of oil and natural gas. Indeed drilling for gas has taken an upper hand, ever since it was found that the natural gas was much superior to that of the crude oil. This is because of the reason that, when a comparison is made among all the fossil fuels, it is the natural gas that is found to releases less of the harmful gases that harm the atmosphere on combustion. This has made it a star among all the fuels present on earth.

Because of this environmental friendliness, natural gas has become a champion fuel as far as the modern world is concerned. Drilling for gas has since then picked up on a worldwide level, with most of the companies getting involved with explorations in the natural gas field. Currently it is a period of recession, that most of the people worldwide are undergoing and certainly most of them have lost jobs. In this modern world the usage of oil has become essential and the oil wells for sale has emerged as the leading and most lucrative business and details about Oil Wells for Sale and oil well companies for sale can be obtained here.

Thus the natural gas drilling companies with their new projects can very well provide employment to the people who are located near the natural gas fields and this opens this sector, with plenty of job opportunities. Drilling for gas has its own set of disadvantages, when it comes to the areas that are located near the natural gas fields. This is following several reports which suggest that, the drilling for gas has resulted in polluting the ground water in several places. The gas drilling companies nowadays drill the shale rocks, to release the gas deposits that have been locked within the rock crevices, for millions of years.

Subsequently when the natural gas company start drilling for gas within the shale rocks, they use a method called as fracting that is most commonly employed, whenever a horizontal drilling process takes place. During the process of fracting that is employed during the drilling for gas several chemicals are used to fasten the process and this result in polluting the water table present in that locality. It is this fracting process, that most of the environmentalists and also the local groups are against, since it can cause health hazards to the local residents. Thus though gas drilling has picked up steam in most parts of the world, there are some places where the environmental groups and natives do offer stiff resistance, that blocks the prospects for drilling for gas near impossible in such areas.

Hence it is totally up to the natural gas drilling companies, to win the confidence of the people as well as the environmental groups and negotiate with them to make drilling possible. Apart from this, the gas drilling companies have to be very transparent about the drilling processes and the methods that they really intend to employ for their operations. They should in turn use the safest methods that do not harm the environment. This would instill confidence and the support for the drilling projects from the local groups.

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