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Poll shows most Ohioans think fracking should be halted
TweetPoll shows most Ohioans think fracking should be halted
COLUMBUS
A new poll shows that Ohioans are divided when it comes to fracking in
the Buckeye State.
A Quinnipiac University poll shows that 43 percent of polled Ohioans
think the practice, which involves blasting a mix of water, chemicals
and sand into shale rocks thousands of feet below the ground to unlock
natural gas and oil, will have a detrimental effect on the
environment.
Forty percent said they don’t know if the process will affect the
environment at all; 16 percent said it will not harm the ecosystem.
A majority of Ohioans think the fracking process should be halted,
however, until further studies determine its true economic impact.
Among Ohioans, 72 percent think the process should be temporarily
halted; 23 percent oppose a moratorium.
Vertical fracking has been commonplace for decades; there are tens of
thousands of vertically-fracked wells throughout Ohio.
Horizontal fracking, which allows for greater natural resources
extraction, has taken off in recent years thanks to the prospects of
the Utica and Marcellus shales.
Many Ohioans, however, lack any knowledge of the fracking process,
according to the poll.
Forty percent of respondents have not “heard or read anything” about fracking.
Comments
They did not include my opinion in the pole because it was not among the choice of answers.
I would expand the drilling program to the extent that it is financially profitable.
Drilling would subside when the supply of natural gas diminishes market price to the point that it approaches being unprofitable.
Miners used to bring canaries into shafts feared filled with deadly methane gas. They had enough sense to get out if the canary died. The Washington monument, a symbol of our nation (under God?), was seriously damaged by a man-made earthquake as were several properties in the Youngstown area after that man-made earthquake on New Years Eve. These are the functional equivalents of that dead canary. If We The People do not have enough sense to stop the fracking after these clear warnings then it will not be long before we join the dead canary. People before profit.
Wasn't there just another earthquake? 2.1 on the scale? Fracking is suspended and there was an earthquake? Come on....all I know is these companies, that want to bring jobs to the area, will think this area is full of hippies and protestors and will take their multi BILLION DOLLAR businesses elsewhere. People around here want jobs and when they are coming here, they want to "tree-hug" and blame fluke quakes on fracking!! Wake up and get with 2012.
What they need to do is keep on fracking, but they need to move it to Youngstowns south side. That way, if it is bad for the envirment, no one will be able to tell the difference. Plus, the earthquakes can know down some of those crack houses the city doesn't demolish.
Problem solved, you are welcome!
to JoeFromHubbard:
Well, thank goodness, because that sounds like a crazy, whacked out, and wholly irresponsible way of extracting a natural resource from our piece of earth in northeast Ohio. You wouldn't be saying the same thing if that last 4.0 earthquake toppled your chimney, or put a big crack in your dining room ceiling. Some of us had that kind of damage. What did D & L say? You would have guessed right if you said, "Go piss in the wind."
" The Washington monument, a symbol of our nation (under God?), was seriously damaged by a man-made earthquake "
ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD BELIEVE THIS.
They polled 1700 people , so that shows the majority Wow is there only 2000 peole left in Ohio. Would the last one out turn off the lights please.
Oilfield Review: Seismicity in the Oil Field
Seismicity in the Oil Field
Publication: Oilfield Review
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
Publication Date: 06/01/2000
In some areas, seismic activity, better known as earthquakes, can occur as a result of oil and gas production. In this article, we review the modern history of human-induced seismic activity, and present the findings of a recent project to monitor injection- and production-related seismicity. Scientists in Russia, in a cooperative project with Schlumberger, are analyzing the seismic energy recorded during these events to extract information about the reservoir, to more fully characterize the state of stress in the field and to optimize the recovery of reserves.
You can download the entire article at this link. The industry has known for YEARS that their activities, both fracking and injection wells can trigger earthquakes.
http://www.slb.com/resources/publicat...
To Southside_Res:
One should never "Go piss in the wind."
It should be done with the wind at one's back.
Indecently, the earthquakes have been circumstantially associated with injection disposal wells and not the wells producing natural gas.