Our Love/Hate Relationship With Natural Gas
Posted by Terrah Baker |
“Greed beyond need has driven gas producers to woo and win foreign investors with very deep pockets to help pay for over-expansion.
Fracking in Arkansas
Drilling Deep “Down Under”
Posted by Terrah Baker |By Joyce Hale It is a rare occasion that I wander far from the Ozark Hills and even more unusual to wind up in a distant land. But I blocked out the month of November to join husband, Jay, in Australia, where he was working with a group of scientists to photograph a total solar…
Welcoming Baby New Year
Posted by Terrah Baker |By Joyce Hale 2013 should be The Year of the Child. Imagine what the future would be if our political leaders measured risks and benefits of all their actions by the impact it will have on children. This would require long-term thinking and the precautionary principal. Today, our society claims a special devotion to the…
Massaging the Message
Posted by Terrah Baker |By Joyce Hale No one likes to think they have been suckered by a snake oil sales pitch. Yet in our collective desire to avoid energy realities, too many Americans have bought into natural gasclaims that should have been questioned from the start. The industry has adopted four simple conceptsthat should be posed as questions…
Casings — A Cause For Concern
Posted by Terrah Baker |By Joyce Hale The purpose of casing conduits that pass thousands of feet down into the ground is to create a permanently isolated free-flowing path for gas to come to the surface. The casing must be capable of blocking high pressure injections of fracking fluids, being injected into rock formations deep under ground during well…
Putting A Muzzle On “Fraccidents”
Posted by Terrah Baker |By Joyce Hale “Nondisclosure agreements and exclusivity agreements. Think like a corporation, lady. They’ve proven much better at enslaving the masses and pushing home their agenda than all of the terrorists in the history of the human race put together.” — Joseph Lallo, Unstable Prototypes If natural gas development is as bad as some people…
Where Are The Watchdogs?
Posted by hufford |“The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains.”
Alexander Cockburn, journalist
Headed For Greener Pastures
Posted by hufford |Parting is always sweet sorrow, especially when the flow of money goes, too.
Sticking Our Heads in the Sand
Posted by smclaughlin |Fracking requires up to4 million pounds of silica sand per well.
Putting On A Brave Face
Posted by hufford |The Arkansas Chamber of Commerce wants you to know the latest numbers resulting from the economic impact of natural gas production in the Fayetteville Shale.