archie bunker Loc: Texas

I know Willy. He is a product of.....jeez.....hate to diss his folks. But it is what it is! I would still buy him a beer, and kick him in the nuts though. Money well spent!

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Yea, i figure hes a Cosmo or a Shirley Temple kinda fella.....but a nut shot in the end woukd makes it all worth it

peter11937 Loc: NYS

It turns out that fracking was and is not the cause of OK's record earthquakes. That is the thrust of the article , noting that the first reports blaming fracking were wrong.
We either use fracking to get the necessary nat. gas to be completely energy independent or start using miniature nuclear power and / or very small nuclear power plants. Wind turbines, solar etc all are quite damaging to wildlife, are high maint. items , are only intermittent sources requiring major backup and so on. Very expensive too.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Agreed...my issue is more for the actual hydro mud used for the frack......my company had built a directional explosion chamber to store these chemicals used in this process, the recipes that are proprietary in nature( every company has their own recipe ).....the short time i spent with the design and on site changed my views a bit concerning fracking.......i don't care who says what about it...you cannot mix 127 highly toxic, flammable, reactive and explosive chemicals,then pump them into the ground and tell me its safe........NO!!! They do not get safer.
I signed a non disclosure that expired about a yr ago, i have no issue with telling the world what i had seen......the particular batch being mixed for a customer was 127 different chems, the batch master answered alot of my questions.....none of the answers gave me the warm fuzzies, i would not want this done near where i live.

I want you to take a peak at this pic, the reactivity tags are all 3s,5s and maybe an 8 or two.....this is part of the batch i spoke of...to hell with the quakes, these chems have no business being pumped into the earth...in my opinion that is.....just saying.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

I see a lot of those on trucks in my traveling area Willy. I've wondered ever since an injection well blew up at Glazier a while back. If they're just pumping salt water back into the ground, why would it blow up, and burn down.

You can look it up. It's called Glazier salt water dump. 10 miles north of Canadian. It burned to the ground. Why? Salt water doesn't burn.
Ya got me thinkin brother! Thanks!

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

It's nasty stuff Archie, the EPA knows this....they were on site many times making sure this energy company isn't spilling any around the fascility ( serious containment procedures in place)....but yet we can pump it underground...Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

They know

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Yeah they do. As an old school freight guy, placards mean....yick!
I looked those up, and they are not good! I wouldn't want to haul that!
I shouldn't say that though. I've hauled my fair share of nasty crap over the years.
If you wanna see mescins scatter, drop a drum of acid off the lift gate at a truck wash!😆
Yeah, I did that!!

peter11937 Loc: NYS

Why all the chemicals when water, soap and sand would and did work just fine.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

I admit to being ignorant on this Peter. Hoping to learn something here.

peter11937 Loc: NYS

Read...http://geology.com/energy/hydraulic-fracturing-fluids/ the other chemicals creeping into these wells is appalling. They need to get back to basics.

Bigfuzzy

aliens were doing it. sounds better than what they use now.

S. Maturin

"EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story confused the process of injecting waste water into waste water wells with fracking. The state on Monday ordered oil drillers on Monday to reduce the massive amount of waste water disposed of into underground caverns. This is a separate process from fracking, which was not affected by Monday's order. CBS News regrets the error.
© 2016 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. "

CBS... anyone foolish enough to believe, let alone quote it, cannot be concerned about being surrounded by intelligent, responsible adults long.

Those fault lines "laying dormant for thousands of years.." was included to tell the reader what- there will nevermore be earth quakes there again? Well, geologists and educated folk know better than that.

S. Maturin

I am sure CA has a huge mass of folks who believe that and are ready in a moment's notice to climb onto their roofs, get naked, and await 'deliverance'.

Robert Wilson Loc: Texas

Make shure Hollywood's liberals fall also.