The more and more I read about this fracking garbage, the more mind-boggling this fiasco sounds.
Who is looking out for the interests of the people of Ohio? In a recent Quinnipiac Univ. poll, 72% of Ohioans want a stop to fracking until further studies can be completed.
YET, not only have our voices been ignored, we are further insulted by gag orders on physicians to protect industry secret chemicals when Ohioans are exposed to them. We are at the height of insanity. Write your congressperson and say enough is enough!
And you are an educated authority on energy? Anyone still touting fossil fuels as the next best thing is clearly washed up like the dirty energy they promote. You are more of the same, not on the cutting edge that you seem to think you are.
“The people here seem to be less trusting of the oil and gas companies than in other areas,” Brown said.
People in general are becoming less trusting and more weary of the fracking process as more information becomes available. Vermont just joined a list of areas outright banning fracking.
Not only are the leases being sold to foreign corporations, the gas will be sold on the international market where it commands 3X the price. Industrializing rural Ohio to export to Japan and Spain, for example. What an utter shame.
@sheepleherder, please site the study not funded by the oil and gas industry that explains the huge amount of those jobs you think are coming our way. You, ironically, sound like the sheeple.
Like Mr. Beck, I too am very concerned about the future of rural PA and Ohio. I'm sure he could stand to make a large chunk of change, but instead hasn't become drunk over dollar signs. It shows a person of character and principle.
I was also initially intrigued by fracking, but became skeptical of all the lofty claims and brisk speed the process was being implemented. A little research told a far different story than the sparkling headlines.
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer
Minus VINDYAK's comment, everyone's comments are so predictable.
The other commenters would rather side with faceless multinational corporations who could care less about the diminished enjoyment of property and property destruction of your fellow neighbors that will follow with fracking.
You all are what the fat cats bank on, non-critically thinking, shortsighted folks who will eat up any promise fed to them. Good thing we have those banning together and reading information not spooned fed to us by big oil and gas.
Shame on for being cheerleaders for the massive industrialization of rural Ohio.
Dwight: Fracking is a boom and bust industry. It will be over and gone leaving us with the mess to clean up before anyone learns a trade. Besides, if you dig a little deeper, you'll see the hope of jobs is not much more than a fairytale.
PA which is in full fracking mode, and according to the Penn State (funded by oil & gas), there were going to be 200,000 jobs attributed to fracking, however the Bureau or Labor Statistics accounts for a mere 4000 and change in the oil and gas industry. Which I believe even went on to state most were workers from out of state. I can't remember off the top of my head.
Not sure I'd want to dump tuition money into this trade.
This gas is going to be EXPORTED on the international market the highest bidder. How does this end our dependence on foreign energy sources? It isn't to keep this energy here at home, it's obviously going to sold to Europe and Asia where it will be bought for double and triple the price. Google fracked natural gas exportation.
Doesn't it make anyone upset that our property values are potentially going to plummet and we all are risking water contamination so that our resources can be exported? Why isn't any of this information being brought up to landowners in our area?
Seems everything has to be fast fast fast, hurry up and sign, just do it, everyone else is, your neighbors have probably already have, if you don't sign, they'll frack anyway, nothing will happen, we promise. None of this settles well with me.
Certainly anything obtained cheaply is not of value and all that glitters is not gold.
The fracking-creates-gazillions-of -jobs propaganda continues.
Take a look at hard data from PA. Fracking is in full swing there.
In a study, commissioned by the Marcellus Shale Coalition, researchers with Penn State University estimated that gas drilling would support 216,000 jobs in Pennsylvania alone by 2015. HOWEVER, the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show employment in the oil and gas industry to be 4,144 in Pennsylvania.
In addition, a survey of gas companies, conducted by the Marcellus Shale Education & Training Center, showed that 70 to 80 percent of workers were out of state. Including the many truck drivers bringing in fracking water and trucking out the fracking wastewater to be deposited in underground wells in Ohio.
Fracking brings NO good to Ohio, unless breathing methane gas, earthquakes, the industrialization of rural Ohio, contaminated drinking water, and decreased property values makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
@SolitudeIsBliss: What did the findings of your personal research on fault lines, tectonic plates and seismic activity show? Us uneducated and stupid people, as you call us, are just wondering. In the meantime, seismologists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory stated, “The location of the earthquake was sufficient evidence that there could be a link.” Let us know what your personal research concluded.
Ohio doctors cannot reveal drilling chemicals to public
The more and more I read about this fracking garbage, the more mind-boggling this fiasco sounds.
Who is looking out for the interests of the people of Ohio? In a recent Quinnipiac Univ. poll, 72% of Ohioans want a stop to fracking until further studies can be completed.
YET, not only have our voices been ignored, we are further insulted by gag orders on physicians to protect industry secret chemicals when Ohioans are exposed to them. We are at the height of insanity. Write your congressperson and say enough is enough!
May 25, 2012 at 4:04 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Cashing in on the shale boom
UticaShale,
And you are an educated authority on energy? Anyone still touting fossil fuels as the next best thing is clearly washed up like the dirty energy they promote. You are more of the same, not on the cutting edge that you seem to think you are.
May 22, 2012 at 7:36 p.m. permalink suggest removal
French company receives its stakes in leases
“The people here seem to be less trusting of the oil and gas companies than in other areas,” Brown said.
People in general are becoming less trusting and more weary of the fracking process as more information becomes available. Vermont just joined a list of areas outright banning fracking.
Not only are the leases being sold to foreign corporations, the gas will be sold on the international market where it commands 3X the price. Industrializing rural Ohio to export to Japan and Spain, for example. What an utter shame.
May 22, 2012 at 7:19 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Steve Beck
@sheepleherder, please site the study not funded by the oil and gas industry that explains the huge amount of those jobs you think are coming our way. You, ironically, sound like the sheeple.
Like Mr. Beck, I too am very concerned about the future of rural PA and Ohio. I'm sure he could stand to make a large chunk of change, but instead hasn't become drunk over dollar signs. It shows a person of character and principle.
I was also initially intrigued by fracking, but became skeptical of all the lofty claims and brisk speed the process was being implemented. A little research told a far different story than the sparkling headlines.
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer
April 10, 2012 at 1:10 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Gas and oil industry yields 115 new businesses in county
Fracking is a boom and bust industry. As quick as it comes, it will leave. Fracking is more of the same: Burning fossil fuels for another quick fix.
Short lived jobs will hang around for a bit, unless you consider the clean up nightmare after all is said and done.
April 9, 2012 at 11:34 p.m. permalink suggest removal
From Doom To Boom
Minus VINDYAK's comment, everyone's comments are so predictable.
The other commenters would rather side with faceless multinational corporations who could care less about the diminished enjoyment of property and property destruction of your fellow neighbors that will follow with fracking.
You all are what the fat cats bank on, non-critically thinking, shortsighted folks who will eat up any promise fed to them. Good thing we have those banning together and reading information not spooned fed to us by big oil and gas.
Shame on for being cheerleaders for the massive industrialization of rural Ohio.
April 9, 2012 at 11:23 p.m. permalink suggest removal
BP’s $331M investment in Trumbull will spur growth in Ohio, leaders say
Dwight: Fracking is a boom and bust industry. It will be over and gone leaving us with the mess to clean up before anyone learns a trade. Besides, if you dig a little deeper, you'll see the hope of jobs is not much more than a fairytale.
PA which is in full fracking mode, and according to the Penn State (funded by oil & gas), there were going to be 200,000 jobs attributed to fracking, however the Bureau or Labor Statistics accounts for a mere 4000 and change in the oil and gas industry. Which I believe even went on to state most were workers from out of state. I can't remember off the top of my head.
Not sure I'd want to dump tuition money into this trade.
March 28, 2012 at 9:43 p.m. permalink suggest removal
BP’s $331M investment in Trumbull will spur growth in Ohio, leaders say
This gas is going to be EXPORTED on the international market the highest bidder. How does this end our dependence on foreign energy sources? It isn't to keep this energy here at home, it's obviously going to sold to Europe and Asia where it will be bought for double and triple the price. Google fracked natural gas exportation.
Doesn't it make anyone upset that our property values are potentially going to plummet and we all are risking water contamination so that our resources can be exported? Why isn't any of this information being brought up to landowners in our area?
Seems everything has to be fast fast fast, hurry up and sign, just do it, everyone else is, your neighbors have probably already have, if you don't sign, they'll frack anyway, nothing will happen, we promise. None of this settles well with me.
Certainly anything obtained cheaply is not of value and all that glitters is not gold.
March 28, 2012 at 9:35 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Don’t blame quakes on fracking
The fracking-creates-gazillions-of -jobs propaganda continues.
Take a look at hard data from PA. Fracking is in full swing there.
In a study, commissioned by the Marcellus Shale Coalition, researchers with Penn State University estimated that gas drilling would support 216,000 jobs in Pennsylvania alone by 2015. HOWEVER, the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show employment in the oil and gas industry to be 4,144 in Pennsylvania.
In addition, a survey of gas companies, conducted by the Marcellus Shale Education & Training Center, showed that 70 to 80 percent of workers were out of state. Including the many truck drivers bringing in fracking water and trucking out the fracking wastewater to be deposited in underground wells in Ohio.
Fracking brings NO good to Ohio, unless breathing methane gas, earthquakes, the industrialization of rural Ohio, contaminated drinking water, and decreased property values makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
February 7, 2012 at 11:17 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Mahoning Valley isn’t the only Ohio area with recent seismic activity Another community rocked by quakes
@SolitudeIsBliss: What did the findings of your personal research on fault lines, tectonic plates and seismic activity show? Us uneducated and stupid people, as you call us, are just wondering. In the meantime, seismologists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory stated, “The location of the earthquake was sufficient evidence that there could be a link.” Let us know what your personal research concluded.
January 16, 2012 at 6:16 p.m. permalink suggest removal