0.5% Chemicals is PLENTY to be fearful of. Many chemicals can have detrimental toxological effects at fractions of parts per BILLION, let alone parts per million. And sure, natural gas fracking can be better than oil fracking, but it still drains a lot of water away from agriculture, which we particularly don't need in colorado!
Somewhere theirs a nice lil BP oil rig vid telling how safe it is, of course if everything is perfect & theirs no such thing as the unknown or accounted for or human error that is. What created slavery is alive & well, if u forget it, were condemned to repeat. Money over lives. Forget this world is not ours alone & its not this gerations alone & youll repeat. Lax the EPA rules give em a inch 7 theyll take a mile, gasland isnt quaint, it isnt flawed, its a warning. I can lite my well water, yet
Nice Video That You Share , So Very Nice Thanks You In order to maximize the production potential for a natural gas well, the shale formation must be hydraulically fractured.
Read about "Bush Cheney Loophole" (or"Cheney Loophole", or"Halliburton Loophole"):
"...In 2001,a special task force on energy policy convened by Vice President Dick Cheney recommended that Congress EXEMPT hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. /../
The oil -gas industry is THE ONLY INDUSTRY EXEPT FROM THE SDWA"
google: "Gasland: Dick Cheney Poisons Your Drinking Water Too"
I know how dependent we our on natural gas but fracking should be monitored better. I don't think that fracking companies should be able to bypass the EPA because of a law that Bush passed. There are several cases where peoples lives have personlly been changed because of this. Some of those chemicals are known carcinogen that are leaking into groundwater used in citizens drinking wells. I am not saying that fracking is completely bad, it is essential for our economy.
All we ask is,"Who will be held accountable to our aquaphores when they get contaminated by a possible fracing accident on the drilling site ?" This is a simple question,that the only answer I recieved was that "The driller will be held accountable". One guy,theres no way one man can be held accountable for a community having an aquaphore contaminated by the chemicals in hydro-fracing. Then,who is going to be held accountable ? Responsible ?
Iv have been doing extensive research on hydrologic fracturing and I have found that the fluids are improperly disposed of. The waste water created by the fracturing is dumped into rivers, streams, basically any natural body of water.
It is my well. They trucked the contaminated water to a reclaimation site where it is filterd and purified. It is then pumped into a resevior. All water and waste for that matter is tested before and after treatment and released back into fresh water sources. Big Gov, is not trying to harm people. I am definatly not a Big Government supporter, but I believe the government means well when it comes to our health.
NO!!!! fracking MUST stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its is destroying every layer of ground it drills through oer a mile of soil is being posioned and so is the water supply!!! if we dont stop fracturing MORE people will be killed by your damn CEO's ignorance to realize what ur doing, every single human being involved in this cruel sick crime should be tried for crimes against humanity!!!!!!!!
2) Saying everyone involved should be punished makes you sound ignorant , this isn't Nazi Germany, these are working class American people you're talking about, you know the kind of people this country was built around?
Hydrogen Sulfide is extremely dangerous in 10+ parts per million. Please do all you can to research this. I have and found that the Government has made a deal with the media and energy companies to keep this quiet. Hydrogen Sulfide is the chemical causing the fish and bird die offs on a world wide scale of G20 countries. It has already caused many deaths in the USA & also explains why many people have gotten dizzy and lost consciousness. H2S waste product was injected and now it’s leaking out.
The point I was trying to make in the first post about the bs movie Gasland is that it's purposely misleading and malicious.
Very similar to that movie "Loose Change" the government destroyed the WTC. People making these movies are NOT experts in the field they are critics of. They are just trying to make a buck off your ignorance and fear.... sad facts
Penn state area is geographically different. In most cases horizontal drilling is applied several layers past water table. Water wells are very much shallow than oil/gas.
Research how many deaths and serious injuries horizontal drilling have caused in the U.S. post your findings. Companies are delivering water because of complaints not because of any injuries as far as I know.
@marauderRaine did you know that movie is purposely misleading and just trying to scare people? For instance the guy lighting his water on fire in Colorado. That area has natural gas in the water table and it has nothing to do with hydro fracking.
@T2ENT How about the people in PA who have the same problem? Is that also because there is natural gas in the water table? If there is no connection between fracking and water contamination, then why are the energy companies providing potable water to the effected residents? Fun questions.
"...In 2001, a special task force on energy policy convened by Vice President Dick Cheney recommended that Congress exempt hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. /../
The oil-gas industry is the only industry exempt from the SDWA"???
-( more about "BushCheney Loophole" - GOOGLE: "Gasland: Dick Cheney Poisons Your Drinking Water Too")
im in the natural gas industry. so screw all of you who like cheep energy but dont like fracking. and by the way most water wells are fracked you reatards. furthur more i know people who can light there water on fire and noones fracked within 500 miles of them. gas forms in shale
Great Animation to show how fracturing works. I work for ExxonMobil Production Germany and unfortunately we are not allowed to do frac jobs anymore, because the people have no tolerance and no idea about it. even you tell them, that the frac jobs take place in 6000m (18.000ft) depth, they think the frac fluid can damage the free water formations... in 20 years, when the price for 1bbl crude oil is on more than 200 dollars they will understand.
Well, it's a good thing Exxon has stopped. Have you watched the documentary Gasland? Is it any coincidence that people have been finding that their groundwater was contaminated right after these oil industries are done drilling? Do you know how many LETHAL chemicals are pumped down there? There's a reason they don't do it in Germany. It's dangerous.
You talk about the price of gas. Is gas really so important that you're cheating your people and permanently ruining land to get it? No.
There actually is no evidence of ground water contamination from hydraulic fracturing, and Germany does use hydraulic fracturing. They have been using fracking techniques for years in the West German Basin for exmaple, which is south of Hamburg. Also, water and other fluid injection wells are a type of fracture stimulation and have been used for decades all around Europe and North America. So Modern hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells is becoming safer and more precise.
But you're sending billions of chemicals down there and, 20%-40% stays down there. You can't tell me that, that fracking fluid won't have any adverse effects on the environment at all. They also don't safely dispose of the water they take out, hurting people's health. Why is it that gas companies won't disclose the names of the chemicals in the fluid? The only reason we know anything about the chemicals in the fluid is because of the EPA. Benzene, a carcinogen; doesn't sound safe to me.
I love how you say that it's good that Exxon stopped with out giving not a single shred of evidence as to why you think they did the right thing. Not only is fracking safe to the environment, but it can also be a huge money make for state and local governments. And could offer thousands of jobs to out of work workers. It's sad that you see Gasland and think it is the reigning word on all fracking when it was done by a resident of PA with absolutely no background in fracking.
Did you not read my previous comments on fracking? What about the way they dispose of produced water, huh? They put it on top of pit liners that will eventually degrade/tear and seep into the ground. Josh Fox may not have had any background in fracking, but he put up some pretty darn good arguments. You can't just let carcinogens seep into the ground water and then tell me it's safe to the environment. If we're so interested in creating jobs, create eco-friendly ones.
If fracking is so "safe to the environment" as you put it, why won't companies disclose what chemicals they're using? What's there to hide? And to places that have already been fracked. Once they are, do you see any plants or animals growing back/returning? It's a clear sign from nature. People start to have flammable water after hydraulic fracturing. That's no coincidence. I've had friends who've had their land fracked. Their land's just not the same.
@MarauderRaine I had my land fracked in Ohio back in 2010. It took them about 3 months to finish and clean up. Since then, My grass has grown back, and I have planted crops with no problems. My water has not changed, its still "copper water" that I had before the Frack process. I have no complaints what so ever. And i get a nice check every 4 months!
@MarauderRaine It's heavily biased; the wells shown in the video were probably very early ones, ones that wouldn't include new innovations in pollution control.
Well considering fracuring a natural gas well consists of water and sand, there is no damage done to the land, in oil fracuring yes chemicals are used,and if you dont like what is being done to the land, then stop driving your car, stop using electricity, because gas and oil consist of all of those, gasland is a oneside bs story, come out to wyoming and see a natural gas well fractured first hand before watching one documentary and thinking you know everything
@tiny6903 NonsenseStop driving your car isnt a excuse to relax the clean air and water act. Its always about spin, spin asbestos spin vioxx & spin fracking so u get what u want, intimidate with data dribble & arrogance.. Co2 is natural, get to much with a generator in your home & your dead or brain damgd (like Cabot oils ceo) If u dont question the GOPs insanity with lax EPA & FDA, if u let money rule the day, you will pay, people will die & theyll spin until their stopped,
@MarauderRaine These wells run 10000 to 12000 ft deep, water aquifers and water tables are with in your first 1000ft the likely chance of the fracturing reaching your water is pretty small. I work as fracturing engineer and the movie Gasland makes for a interesting piece a lot of his information has been spun for entertainment purposes and mainly invalid.
@MarauderRaine As far as the chemicals go its 95% water 4.5% proppant (sand) and 0.5% other chemicals. Also Germany has been fracturing shale bed gas for over 30 years(just type in hydraulic fracturing in Germany, its the second one from the top). Unless you want to heat your house with whale oil, fire wood from depleting forests, or coal based electricity its an efficient way of extracting energy
Actually I've been reading a lot about shale NG and a good number of industry insiders are saying that there is a lot of hype going on around it by the companies that are developing these shale plays in order to help raise capital to drill these wells, that the economics are still in the proving stage, and they suspect declines in well production will be much faster than in conventional NG fields. As well current NG prices won't help matters. Just google "shale gas economics" for more info.
@hugoboss408 I agree! No more helium baloons for kids! Helium is the rarest gas in the universe and the earth is running out. Stop wasting our precious resources for a fleeting moment like a child's birthday!
@deq47 LOL!!!! the water that was just introduced turns to steam!!!! that's how they are extracting the gas from non porous shale! the fractures do "heal" under heat and pressure that's where the decline in production comes in. @deq47 i think you're talking about things you don't understand. You might want to read a book or two.
@radrobbmx Your spelling is awesome, and not all of it turns to steam, why don't you try doing a little more research there buddy. Where do the pools of frack water come from at the surface? Fractures heal at a rate that is irrelevant to what we are talking about, healing way to slow. If the water turns to steam, then why do they have clean up crews that take the frack water to waste sites? Is this imaginary frack water they are cleaning up?
@Dwq47 well since most companies recycle their water in a closed system the water in the frac pool is probably from a truck that brough it in for fracking! Fractures do not close up slowly sand which is glass fills those holes like glue and production declines so either you refrac or re stimulate. You try keeping a crack open 1 mile under the ground with all that weight and heat with some water and glass. Read some physics material. You never answered how a fracture reaches the surface.
@radrobbmx Those frack pools of water are from what comes outta the ground, and everything you just "explained" I already know. The fracture doesn't need to reach the surface, but It's obviously not good if it gets into the water table. They frack through the water table, so tell me how do you think it reaches it.... the shale is the only thing keeping it down there, why do you think natural gas and oil form near shale???
@Dwq47 Point 1: i said the water comes from a truck in a closed loop system so we agree it comes from out of the ground. Point 2 How deep do you think the water table is? in Pa due to glacial till it's very close we might as well say surface. Point 3 How many rock layers do you think there are in 1 mile of rock? the only thing between the water table and the fractured layer is 1 MILE OF SOLID ROCK!
@radrobbmx Frack water comes out of where they frack, !!! The water table isn't deep,im talking about juvenile water.If natural gas doesn't come outta the ground into the water table and such, then why does natural gas only form under shale? Thats because its not permeable!!! You ask how the fractures reach the surface, they don't (because you don't need fracures to reach the surface for gas to escape) because of such things as porosity and permeability like YOU mentioned before.
@Dwq47 Anthracite: one example of where methane or natural gas comes from. It's also called Coal. It's everywhere in NY to WY. Ask any coal miner about gas build up. And its close to the surface where the water table is. if i was to place my bet on where methane in water table came from i'd look at a map of all the coal operations (which is available though public data sets to be viewed). When those were going good there was no EPA making sure of containment. I'd place my bet and be right
@radrobbmx Hmmm lets see what coal is made out of... oh that's right it's carbon... hmm lets see what the fracking fluid is made of... oh 595 chemical and produces over 600 bi-products. Yes in nature, natural gas will get into wells, and into water tables, but why should we add to it? There are chemicals that are known carcinogens being pumped into the ground. Water is also becoming a very important, why waste that as well. Oh they clean the frack water, ok you drink it then.
@Dwq47 That's the 2nd time you agreed so thank you. To answer your question on why take risks? Because we don't want to be like the SUDAN. If we don't take any risk we don't advance. If you are so passionate then "Be the change you want to see in the world" and get to building turbines. currently we use 28 thousand TerrawattHrs. US population of over 300 million you need 58 million turbines...IF GE could produce 6MW tubines (current max is 4. Plus look at that footprint! Per BTU gas is greenest
@radrobbmx We should be concentrating on discovering/inventing new green ways of making energy, not use a non-renewable source like Natural gas, which is like using gasoline. It would be nice to use the natural gas in the mean time to add jobs, making the US more independant/less dependant on foreign oil but the method of extracting the gas makes it not worth it. If they come up with a LESS contaminating way of extracting the gas, I might be for it. However there's no such thing as clean energy
@Dwq47 UNTIL THEN....WHAT? It would take 15 to 20 years to implement something on a macro scale. You need to think bigger. Sure i wish the world would convert to running on moonbeams and lollipops but you have to think globally. Unless we live in a world with NO MONEY we will not implement what you're talking about. Do your part and don't condemn others for doing there's. Natural gas improves the current system of coal to energy generation. What is your National solution? Can people afford it?
@radrobbmx I am thinking on a big scale, our environment is pretty important. You think things that are in equilibrium that are disturbed go right back to equilibrium? No not always and they don't usually go right back to the state they were in. Your only thinking about the economy, not the environment, there are plenty of field of thinking you are just leaving out. Hydrofracking is also an eye sore, just like the oil rigs out in the desert, but it's the desert.
@Dwq47 Let me get this straight. You have no solution. Except to complain. Yes, i think the earth will return to equilibrium. Always has always will. If you studied geology you would know that. We are really insignificant (humans) in the geologic time scale. I am part of the solution not on the sidelines. I have 10K in green stocks so what now? A windmill in the ocean is an oil rig in the desert depending on your perspective someones eyesore
@radrobbmx You sound like someone who does a lot of googling but has no college education, am I right? A real world system never truly reaches equilibrium, ask an ecologist. I told you a solution, either make extracting the natural gas cleaner or concentrate on a real long term solution. I said nothing about windmills, and 10k in green stocks? Correct me if Im wrong but don't windmills go along with green stocks?
@Dwq47 I think i've been correcting your mistakes too much. I am college educated. And it may surprise you but i invest in all green stocks Geothermal (htm) wind (fan), ge, as well as natural gas. Your idea isn't a solution its nothing more than an unfinished thought. I am a scientist we go beyond hypothesis to empirical, qualitative, measurable data and solutions. Once again put your money where your mouth is and be the change you want to see in the world.
@Dwq47 I think i've been correcting your mistakes too much. I am college educated. And it may surprise you but i invest in all green stocks including natural gas. Your idea isn't a solution its nothing more than an unfinished thought. I am a scientist we go beyond hypothesis to empirical, qualitative, measurable data and solutions. Once again put your money where your mouth is and be the change you want to see in the world.
or better yet how about the christmas tree farms on the east coast which are causing cancer and directly affect the water table. If you truly care about you water stop using real trees!
anyone interested in what chemicals are in which wells go to (frac focus org) [all one word it won't let me add the link ]If you live in the east coast i'd be more worried about all the buried underground storage tanks which are leaking gas in your water table which are directly linked to causing illness and disease.
"oil and gas service companies used hydraulic fracturing products containing 29 chemicals that are known or possible human carcinogens, regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) for their risks to human health, or listed as hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act."
"Thank you for the comment. For our part, we believe that natural gas is a vital part to battling increasing energy costs, providing jobs and reducing our country's dependence on foreign oil."
How does natural gas allow for dependence on foreign oil? We do not use natural gas to drive the majority of our vehicles. You use diesel to move the chemicals in an out of the well. The process of extracting the natural gas is dirtier than burning coal.
@TheLupy1234 Exactly. We believe we should be using natural gas in transportation. Visit CNGnow[dot]com for more information. Also regarding extracting natural gas vs. coal - there is even debate at Cornell regarding the findings of that study.
ok sorry for t his misinformed i used to frac i did it for years and unntill u get away fromt he media and learn what is going on u will always be miss informed the chemicals are not what yall think yes it also differes from state to state i fracked in pa near towanda the worse chemical we used was hydrochloric acid look up whatitis used in it is used to make shooting clays corn startchand syrup who hera eats white bread? it is used to in white bread it is also
@dannyboy5064 used in soybean oil production im sory but yall are wrong and wont research it for your self from state investigators or go and learn on site like i did
Greedy, greedy, greedy! :/ They are all greedy lairs - the politics and the oil companies, and the corporations, banks,,, ... all they do is about the $ and the profits.. .,,,, :/ they don't care about you or me or anybody... don't care about Earth.,,, we need to wake up... ... 'couse we are more!,, &*;)
Seriously though, I thought the video was made by Cheapskate Energy at first. How about you look into the solar panel industry? They are making huge improvements in their efficiency.
I am going to be a student learning about and hoping to get a job in the natural gas industry. Im sitting here reading these really rude comments made toward Chesapeake and am astonished....These companies spend billions trying to get the loads of gas out of the ground to benefit our country (USA) and youjust complain...Sure there are some chemicals (some can be found in ur home) but the employees are being very careful with what they do. Nothing is hurting our H20.
311 the World woke up and decided NO NUKES and NO FLUKES We ask for the END OF THE NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE ON EARTH. We DEMAND THE END OF TOXIC POWER SYSTEMS ON EARTH. Let us BAN HYDRO FRACKING IN AMERICA as this POISONS MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER Let us DEMAND THE END OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATE COMPLEX NOW. Let us DEMAND THE END OF ENDLESS WARS ON HUMANKIND Let us DEVELOP IN UNITY the Energy of SOLAR, MAGNETIC, WIND TURBINE,GEO THERMAL& HYDRO KINETIC4ALLPOWER
The public should realize that Chesapeake will be cheating them out of their hard earned money, just like they have hundreds of mineral owners in Michigan. Here is a recently widowed 92 year old lady they, and RedSky Land (Rick Dawson, Joe McFerron, Adam White) cheated out of her rightful money.
For everyone who is bashing Chesapeake Energy I can understand why you are against Fracking. In fact I am not 100% convinced it should be allowed. However, I also know the importance that creating a safe technology to extract this is important. I see the work of many different oil and gas companies using this technology and overall I think it can be safe and a useful tool when used to help extract oil or natural gas. I hope that this technology can become safer in the near future.
The difficulty in just accepting the idea that this is a safe technology is that even if everyone on all sides of this argument is being completely honest and has the best intentions, there's not much accounting for an honest mistake or miscalculation. As citizens who could be risking the safety of our public water supply, we need to know exactly what the chemicals are and what sort of fail-safes are in place to prevent the worst from happening. We must demand full disclosure.
GET THE AMERICAN FRACKING OUT OF IRELAND. THE IRISH WILL NOT BENEFIT. WE WILL BE HARMED BY THIS AMERICAN COMPANY , PLEASE HELP IRELAND, AND STOP THIS HELL ENTER IRELAND ,
There Has been No KNow Proof that it is Harmless.There Has Been Real Life Evidence that the Hydraulic Fracturing causes Harm to People andEarth.The People who were answering these comments, have no real answers,that it is harmless,As Now They ARE AWARE OF THE EFFECTS! IF THEY CONTINUE TO BE INVOLVED WITH THE GREED OF THESE FRACKING COMPANY'S. THEY WILL BE COMMITTING NEGATIVE ACTIONS, AS CAUSING HARM TO THE EARTH AND PEOPLE. THEY WILL HAVE THE NEGATIVE HARMFUL EFFECT ON THEM, IF THEY DO NOT STOP
@670Kiester - If you really want to make a difference and hit the oil and gas companies in their pockets, you and your friends should quit cooling your homes in the summer, quit heating your homes in the winter, and stop filling up your gas tanks and see how that works out for ya.
.."a small amount of chemicals"...Oh as long a it's only a 'small' amount then that's totally fine...um except...the differences in testosterone vs Estrogen in any persons system is measured in parts per million...that's a very small amount and it makes a damn big difference,
Or maybe a 'small' amount is relative term..i.e compared to the amount of toxic chemicals now in the gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon?
@670Kiester 98% of fracturing fluid is water and sand with 2% of chemical additives. Many of the ingredients of fracturing fluid are present in common household items. There's a list of ingredients that are sometimes used at Hydraulic Fracturing dot com and a list of ingredients on a well by well basis at Frac Focus dot com.
@HellhoundMaster Many of the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process can be found in common household items. You can view many of the fracturing ingredients at Hydraulic Fracturing com and see what is used on a well by well basis at Frac Focus org.
Where is the evidence this is unsafe? Who is financially backing the individuals spreading these half-truths? I am starting to become sceptical; something is suspicious about the whole situation. I can’t find any peer reviewed scientific studies, analyses or reports that show findings/eveidnnece/proof directly linking Fracking to these water supply concerning, the 2010 EPA report on the issue lists it as one of several possible sources but states very directly it is inconclusive.
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Here's my take. What about the 3D animators who used their considerable skills to create this video. Maybe they grew up, like me, as Star Wars fans. Perhaps they learned 3D modeling and film making in film school. But then, who doesn't want to make a buck. So they took those skills as 3D animators and put them to use for the people who like to inject your drinking water with chemicals that a meth addict wouldn't put in their body. Way to go animators! Hope you can sleep well at night.
@thebloggerlaureate The hydraulic fracturing process takes place an average of 8,000 feet below free water formations. Chesapeake does not conduct any production or fracking activities in fresh groundwater aquifers which are separated from natural gas formations by thousands of feet of protective rock barriers. There's more information we encourage you explore at Hydraulic Fracturing dot com and Frac Focus dot org.
Didn't Chesapeake just get fined again, this time for gas leaking into a well? Chesapeake claimed that it was the casement and cementing but if that is true why does it happen over and over again. The gas industry claimed that the movie Gasland was wrong and yet Josh Fox answered you with a 29 page rebuttal. Now the share holders of two gas companies are voting with 30-40% to find out about the process and its negatives. The truth will out!!
@brajdl There are several inaccuracies in Gasland. We encourage you to visit Hydraulic Fracturing dot com and the article about Gasland at Energy in Depth dot org.
@brajdl Do you have a specific concern or question that we can help you with? Hydraulic fracturing dot com and Frac Focus dot org are great resources as well.
im only 19 and im extremly ill and im not saying it was cause of you or even your company but my life has been hell and i know i have disease becuase of chemicals. why not use your money to help and create a new way to produce energy? then youll be ever richer and youll die a happy respected man
@MrBmeat Chesapeake’s Green Frac® program was founded in October 2009 to evaluate the types of additives typically used in the process of hydraulic fracturing. Green Frac calls for the elimination of any additive not critical to the successful completion of the well and determines if greener alternatives are available for all essential additives. To date, we have eliminated 25% of the additives used in frack fluids in most of our shale plays.
mr chesapeakenergy.you and i both know what youre doing isnt considered safe at all..what baffles me is that even though you are making tons of money, how can you not care? youre not making only making us sick and our children sick and destorying the earth, but youre also MAKING YOURSELF, YOUR OWN CHILDREN AND YOUR LAND SICK. what are you going to do when you or your family or your kids or any of your loved ones become fatally ill? are you going to try to pay god to give you another chance..
@MrBmeat For a better understanding of the process, its regulation and its impact, we recommend you check out the Groundwater Protection Council website as well as Frac Focus dot org.
Bloody money, greed, super rich familys and dynasties that dont give a rats &%^ for anyone or anything other than they're own personal gain.. Public listed companies and the stockholders that want returns on they're investments ...... Its just money.. and US you & me ..... we let them get away with it, time and time again.. the most fundamental problems of this world can be solved if the brainwashing ceased and the greed card wasnt played by so many...
@freedomisametaphor Thank you for the comment. For our part, we believe that natural gas is a vital part to battling increasing energy costs, providing jobs and reducing our country's dependence on foreign oil.
@ChesapeakeEnergy THanks for allowing comments and addressing some of the criticisms. With that, I have some questions of my own. Do you have any idea on how people get the notion this process pollutes their groundwater? If this does not have any risks of that, than what is the actual cause? Since this will last so long, do you think this could create an unstable region much like the Middle East of today with all their oil once middle eastern oil runs out? What will we do when we're out?
"dont give a rats &%^ for anyone or anything other than they're own personal gain"
I think you forgot about the personal gain of the gas customers - i.e the people who purchase natural gas. Do you think that people who use natural gas for heating their home, for riding in public transportation, or for consuming electricity appreciate an increase in the supply of natural gas and a decrease in cost?
These technologies are developed because people want energy.
If you find oil or natural gas it's most likely under shale. Really Unless you bind the casing to the shale you're gonna get leakage. Then again the method for drilling and hydofracking is flawed, there is no safe way to drill for natural gas unless you don't use chemicals. Do I think they can safely drill for natural gas- No. But if im getting paid to say it's safe like most scientist/geologist employed by natural gas companies, then oh shit theres nothing wrong with hyrdofracking! cha-ching
@Dwq47 It looks like you might have some misinformation about the drilling and completion process. We have several detailed videos on our channel that better explain the process. You might also check out the Groundwater Protection Council website for a third party description of the process.
Yeah natural gas leaks out of the ground naturally, just like oil does, but fracking adds to the leaks, creating new fractures and making the old ones bigger. Hence the gas leaks are greater! Oil in saudi arabia is drilled in the desert, not next to peoples' homes. A soap can form from the 596 chemicals, soaps have phospates in them and cause high production of algeas (Dunkard creek). As far as the condensation tanks, some chemicals evaporate into the air but some don't like heavy metals.
@Dwq47 Again, it looks like you've gotten a hold of some misinformation about the process. Fracking happens several thousand (sometimes more than 10,000) feet below the surface and is separated from aquifers, etc by thousands of feet of impenetrable rock.
@Dwq47 Dunkard creek was caused by a coal mining operation. Don't believe it just because an activist group tells you it's true. There isn't a Chesapeake location I've ever seen without level safety switches and level sensing monitoring on the condensate tanks. And no, I'm not defending Chesapeake, they declined my contract bid, I just feel that if you are going to accuse someone of something, at least base it on facts.
As a college student studying environmental studies/geology I fully understand what is going on. When you pump 596 chemicals into the ground that has over 900 chemical bi-products it's impossible to remove that out of the ground. It gets into the water table, and the natural gas that leaks into the water table. You can't safely get gas from the ground! The geologist that say it's safe are obviously being led on by big money, money runs the world.
@Dwq47 As a college student i'm dissappointed in your teachers! have you heard of a capstone? did you learn about permeability and porosity? did you know if you fracture rock at depths over a mile the fractures "heal" because of the extreme heat and pressure? Do you remember learning about rocks being plastic at depth? Here's a physics question for you. How much energy would it take to create a fracture that extended from 1 mile below the surface all the way to the surface?
@radrobbmx That would be true if the lithosphere was only a mile deep lol and how do you hydrofrack through rock that behaves like plastic???? You don't. So you are trying to say that this is safe? And as far as the capstone, they vent the wells...into the air, so who cares if they use a capstone. If the rock was to "heal" than what would be the point of fracking, because if it closes then they don't get any gas. You ask a lot of questions but you don't answer them.
@Dwq47 you can frack a well more than once. There is no point in fracking if its not economically viable. so someone makes that decision if it's worth being fracked. and process in the earth don't happen over night they are sometimes slow. Did you know glass is not a solid? if you set a glass cup down on a table and wait a while its also acts "plastic" and will move off the table. (i wouldn't hold your breath though we're talking geologic time)
@radrobbmx Well you just proved me right, hyrdofracking is bad for everyone. Over a very very long period of time, it "heals" itself, which is useless to us.
I feel torn here. Obviously, there's some down sides to the collection of all energy sources. Natural Gas does seem like a cleaner alternative than most, but at what cost to locals and their drinking water and farms that are ever dwindling from the country's landscapes. Is wind turbines a better choice? But they kill thousands of bats, which in turn may increase the bug population, which in turn can damage crops. Or do we rely on oversea oil. I'd hate to think that's the solution.
@Sparkimatic Thanks for your comment. For our part, we believe that natural gas is a vital part of the solution to skyrocketing energy costs and dependence on foreign oil.
Have you seen these recent Exxon commercials featuring "Senior Engineer" Erik Oswald who claims that natural gas fracturing is completely safe? Some of the chemicals used in this process have been shown to have high levels of cancer causing carcinogens. Also this process has been proven to cause dangerously high levels of natural gas seepage into the environment.
@poeticeclaire Oh you know, those regulations set up with out the proper foresieght to predict such irresponsible actions. As for the chemicals....well I guess little white lies don't kill TOO many people.
@RandomConcepts You’re an idiot -- it’s not about political parties. Obama supports “fracking” -- and Obama supported BP:
1. Of all US politicians, Obama received the most money from BP.
2. BP was also a finalist for Obama’s DOI “Outstanding Safety and Pollution Prevention” award. When the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 10 days before the winner was to be announced, Obama had the announcement “delayed.”
3. And in 2009, Obama actually recognized that very same rig for being a model of safety.
@chenzy22 We have a list of fracturing additives available online. Also, have you been following the EPA reports out of PA regarding water testing for radioactive elements?
@ChesapeakeEnergy The chemical Radium 226 has been tested by the Environmental Protection Agency and is said to be radioactive and toxic. It is over one million times more radioactive than the same mass of uranium and reacts violently with water to create radium hydroxide. It has a half life of 1,601 years. Can you read that?
@ChesapeakeEnergy This story is going national -- it's on Drudge now and the WSJ. I'm all for American energy independence, and in many ways, I think the EPA has definitely overstepped its mandate. That said, I just hope you are prepared to answer the coming onslaught of questions, especially the ones related to the specific dangers posed by your "intellectual property" of chemicals.
0.5% Chemicals is PLENTY to be fearful of. Many chemicals can have detrimental toxological effects at fractions of parts per BILLION, let alone parts per million. And sure, natural gas fracking can be better than oil fracking, but it still drains a lot of water away from agriculture, which we particularly don't need in colorado!
kanekronik 2 days ago
Somewhere theirs a nice lil BP oil rig vid telling how safe it is, of course if everything is perfect & theirs no such thing as the unknown or accounted for or human error that is. What created slavery is alive & well, if u forget it, were condemned to repeat. Money over lives. Forget this world is not ours alone & its not this gerations alone & youll repeat. Lax the EPA rules give em a inch 7 theyll take a mile, gasland isnt quaint, it isnt flawed, its a warning. I can lite my well water, yet
guitargold77 1 week ago
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lupabuatchannel 1 week ago
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cenedywong 2 weeks ago
Nice Video That You Share , So Very Nice Thanks You In order to maximize the production potential for a natural gas well, the shale formation must be hydraulically fractured.
melisantika 2 weeks ago
I Really Like The Video From Your This video outlines and demonstrates the hydraulic fracturing process in Chesapeake Energy natural gas operations
pemburuiklan 2 weeks ago
Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing Chesapeake Energy hydraulic fracturing method
anakmudajaman 2 weeks ago
poison is being pumped into the land and poisoning the people and surrounding area.. i tell it like it is
excriminal1 2 weeks ago
I am I the only one worried about the fact they put fractures in to the shell. Wouldn't that cause earthquakes in the near future.
sarajohnson6 3 weeks ago
A small amount of chemicals... which have ruined the water supply in some regions.
HWGuyEG 1 month ago
@miserable, LOL
Gthang817 1 month ago
Cancer, Cancer, get yer Cancer!!
MiserableOldFart 1 month ago
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GAS GATE: Dark Gas in the White House
Before You'll be killed by Poison Water…
DON'T WAIT !!!
Read about "Bush Cheney Loophole" (or"Cheney Loophole", or"Halliburton Loophole"):
"...In 2001,a special task force on energy policy convened by Vice President Dick Cheney recommended that Congress EXEMPT hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. /../
The oil -gas industry is THE ONLY INDUSTRY EXEPT FROM THE SDWA"
google: "Gasland: Dick Cheney Poisons Your Drinking Water Too"
aleklaser1 1 month ago
@tiny6903
I know how dependent we our on natural gas but fracking should be monitored better. I don't think that fracking companies should be able to bypass the EPA because of a law that Bush passed. There are several cases where peoples lives have personlly been changed because of this. Some of those chemicals are known carcinogen that are leaking into groundwater used in citizens drinking wells. I am not saying that fracking is completely bad, it is essential for our economy.
FreshPrinceOfFair 1 month ago
All we ask is,"Who will be held accountable to our aquaphores when they get contaminated by a possible fracing accident on the drilling site ?" This is a simple question,that the only answer I recieved was that "The driller will be held accountable". One guy,theres no way one man can be held accountable for a community having an aquaphore contaminated by the chemicals in hydro-fracing. Then,who is going to be held accountable ? Responsible ?
whipkeys 1 month ago
its not a blunder..its a blender..!!
far5555555 1 month ago
Very Well Done!!!!
adambarger 2 months ago
49 Dislikes unknown meaning of this methods
Anarainaz 2 months ago
This is pure genius. Water can be manipulated in so many ways.
drainocleanser 2 months ago
looks like environmental terrorism
meathead0724 2 months ago
Iv have been doing extensive research on hydrologic fracturing and I have found that the fluids are improperly disposed of. The waste water created by the fracturing is dumped into rivers, streams, basically any natural body of water.
district6sa 2 months ago
It is my well. They trucked the contaminated water to a reclaimation site where it is filterd and purified. It is then pumped into a resevior. All water and waste for that matter is tested before and after treatment and released back into fresh water sources. Big Gov, is not trying to harm people. I am definatly not a Big Government supporter, but I believe the government means well when it comes to our health.
napalmloveskids 2 months ago
God you critics are truly ignorant
ChazBroMKE 2 months ago
I work for a company makes manifold trailers, the kind of tailer that's the middle.
martlabutler 2 months ago
NO!!!! fracking MUST stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its is destroying every layer of ground it drills through oer a mile of soil is being posioned and so is the water supply!!! if we dont stop fracturing MORE people will be killed by your damn CEO's ignorance to realize what ur doing, every single human being involved in this cruel sick crime should be tried for crimes against humanity!!!!!!!!
FutureSEAL23 3 months ago
@FutureSEAL23
@futureSeal23
Being a bit dramatic aren't we?
1) The newer fluid used for fracking is not poisonous as you claim, the CEO drank some of it at a conference for Halliburton Co.
ChazBroMKE 2 months ago
@FutureSEAL23
2) Saying everyone involved should be punished makes you sound ignorant , this isn't Nazi Germany, these are working class American people you're talking about, you know the kind of people this country was built around?
ChazBroMKE 2 months ago
@FutureSEAL23
3) you sound like woody from toy story " they're poisoning the water supply" haha
ChazBroMKE 2 months ago
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Hydrogen Sulfide is extremely dangerous in 10+ parts per million. Please do all you can to research this. I have and found that the Government has made a deal with the media and energy companies to keep this quiet. Hydrogen Sulfide is the chemical causing the fish and bird die offs on a world wide scale of G20 countries. It has already caused many deaths in the USA & also explains why many people have gotten dizzy and lost consciousness. H2S waste product was injected and now it’s leaking out.
altgeldrarities 3 months ago
The point I was trying to make in the first post about the bs movie Gasland is that it's purposely misleading and malicious.
Very similar to that movie "Loose Change" the government destroyed the WTC. People making these movies are NOT experts in the field they are critics of. They are just trying to make a buck off your ignorance and fear.... sad facts
T2ENT 3 months ago
Penn state area is geographically different. In most cases horizontal drilling is applied several layers past water table. Water wells are very much shallow than oil/gas.
Research how many deaths and serious injuries horizontal drilling have caused in the U.S. post your findings. Companies are delivering water because of complaints not because of any injuries as far as I know.
T2ENT 3 months ago
Criminals!
51516 3 months ago
@marauderRaine did you know that movie is purposely misleading and just trying to scare people? For instance the guy lighting his water on fire in Colorado. That area has natural gas in the water table and it has nothing to do with hydro fracking.
Fun facts
T2ENT 3 months ago
@T2ENT How about the people in PA who have the same problem? Is that also because there is natural gas in the water table? If there is no connection between fracking and water contamination, then why are the energy companies providing potable water to the effected residents? Fun questions.
bmpskier 3 months ago
Have any of you people talking about poisoning the water and suing Dick Cheney had ANY 1st hand experience with fracking?
Your likely spewing the ignorant liberal agenda thats been force feed to you... lol
T2ENT 3 months ago
SUE FRACKING COMPANIES - HALLIBURTON AND DICK CHENEY - YOU ARE KILLING OUR WILDLIFE AND POISONING OUR WATER!
worldpeace2u 3 months ago
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"...In 2001, a special task force on energy policy convened by Vice President Dick Cheney recommended that Congress exempt hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. /../
The oil-gas industry is the only industry exempt from the SDWA"???
-( more about "BushCheney Loophole" - GOOGLE: "Gasland: Dick Cheney Poisons Your Drinking Water Too")
aleklaser1 3 months ago
im in the natural gas industry. so screw all of you who like cheep energy but dont like fracking. and by the way most water wells are fracked you reatards. furthur more i know people who can light there water on fire and noones fracked within 500 miles of them. gas forms in shale
rmaiii504 4 months ago
Go Cheasapeake. Fuel America!!!
sherrick13 4 months ago
Altering the Earth forever!
eddie054 4 months ago
"and a small amount of other chemicals" Yeah but what are those chemicals? They don't want to say lol. This is a very bad idea.
thesparitan 4 months ago
Great Animation to show how fracturing works. I work for ExxonMobil Production Germany and unfortunately we are not allowed to do frac jobs anymore, because the people have no tolerance and no idea about it. even you tell them, that the frac jobs take place in 6000m (18.000ft) depth, they think the frac fluid can damage the free water formations... in 20 years, when the price for 1bbl crude oil is on more than 200 dollars they will understand.
PS: 1l gasoline cost 2,25$ in germany (1,61 Euro)
Marthaz89 5 months ago
@Marthaz89
Well, it's a good thing Exxon has stopped. Have you watched the documentary Gasland? Is it any coincidence that people have been finding that their groundwater was contaminated right after these oil industries are done drilling? Do you know how many LETHAL chemicals are pumped down there? There's a reason they don't do it in Germany. It's dangerous.
You talk about the price of gas. Is gas really so important that you're cheating your people and permanently ruining land to get it? No.
MarauderRaine 3 months ago 10
@MarauderRaine
There actually is no evidence of ground water contamination from hydraulic fracturing, and Germany does use hydraulic fracturing. They have been using fracking techniques for years in the West German Basin for exmaple, which is south of Hamburg. Also, water and other fluid injection wells are a type of fracture stimulation and have been used for decades all around Europe and North America. So Modern hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells is becoming safer and more precise.
8Erock 3 months ago
@8Erock
But you're sending billions of chemicals down there and, 20%-40% stays down there. You can't tell me that, that fracking fluid won't have any adverse effects on the environment at all. They also don't safely dispose of the water they take out, hurting people's health. Why is it that gas companies won't disclose the names of the chemicals in the fluid? The only reason we know anything about the chemicals in the fluid is because of the EPA. Benzene, a carcinogen; doesn't sound safe to me.
MarauderRaine 3 months ago
@MarauderRaine
I love how you say that it's good that Exxon stopped with out giving not a single shred of evidence as to why you think they did the right thing. Not only is fracking safe to the environment, but it can also be a huge money make for state and local governments. And could offer thousands of jobs to out of work workers. It's sad that you see Gasland and think it is the reigning word on all fracking when it was done by a resident of PA with absolutely no background in fracking.
TheNismo350guy 3 months ago
@TheNismo350guy
Did you not read my previous comments on fracking? What about the way they dispose of produced water, huh? They put it on top of pit liners that will eventually degrade/tear and seep into the ground. Josh Fox may not have had any background in fracking, but he put up some pretty darn good arguments. You can't just let carcinogens seep into the ground water and then tell me it's safe to the environment. If we're so interested in creating jobs, create eco-friendly ones.
MarauderRaine 3 months ago
@TheNismo350guy
If fracking is so "safe to the environment" as you put it, why won't companies disclose what chemicals they're using? What's there to hide? And to places that have already been fracked. Once they are, do you see any plants or animals growing back/returning? It's a clear sign from nature. People start to have flammable water after hydraulic fracturing. That's no coincidence. I've had friends who've had their land fracked. Their land's just not the same.
MarauderRaine 3 months ago
@MarauderRaine I had my land fracked in Ohio back in 2010. It took them about 3 months to finish and clean up. Since then, My grass has grown back, and I have planted crops with no problems. My water has not changed, its still "copper water" that I had before the Frack process. I have no complaints what so ever. And i get a nice check every 4 months!
napalmloveskids 2 months ago
@napalmloveskids
Do you own a private well or do you get water from the city? How did they dispose of the produced water?
MarauderRaine 2 months ago
@MarauderRaine It's heavily biased; the wells shown in the video were probably very early ones, ones that wouldn't include new innovations in pollution control.
Lworld63 2 months ago
@MarauderRaine
Well considering fracuring a natural gas well consists of water and sand, there is no damage done to the land, in oil fracuring yes chemicals are used,and if you dont like what is being done to the land, then stop driving your car, stop using electricity, because gas and oil consist of all of those, gasland is a oneside bs story, come out to wyoming and see a natural gas well fractured first hand before watching one documentary and thinking you know everything
tiny6903 1 month ago 6
@tiny6903 I have a better idea. Why don't you take a few gallons of fracking fluid, and drown yourself and do the world a goddamed favor?
MiserableOldFart 1 month ago
@tiny6903 NonsenseStop driving your car isnt a excuse to relax the clean air and water act. Its always about spin, spin asbestos spin vioxx & spin fracking so u get what u want, intimidate with data dribble & arrogance.. Co2 is natural, get to much with a generator in your home & your dead or brain damgd (like Cabot oils ceo) If u dont question the GOPs insanity with lax EPA & FDA, if u let money rule the day, you will pay, people will die & theyll spin until their stopped,
guitargold77 1 week ago
@MarauderRaine they don't do it in germany because they have nuclear power.
pokefriend3 1 month ago
@MarauderRaine These wells run 10000 to 12000 ft deep, water aquifers and water tables are with in your first 1000ft the likely chance of the fracturing reaching your water is pretty small. I work as fracturing engineer and the movie Gasland makes for a interesting piece a lot of his information has been spun for entertainment purposes and mainly invalid.
habby21938 1 week ago
@MarauderRaine As far as the chemicals go its 95% water 4.5% proppant (sand) and 0.5% other chemicals. Also Germany has been fracturing shale bed gas for over 30 years(just type in hydraulic fracturing in Germany, its the second one from the top). Unless you want to heat your house with whale oil, fire wood from depleting forests, or coal based electricity its an efficient way of extracting energy
habby21938 1 week ago
nytimes(dot)com/2011/06/26/us/26gas.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Go to second paragraph. Click on link "hundreds of industry emails" and read that for a real eye opener
gigie555 5 months ago
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Actually I've been reading a lot about shale NG and a good number of industry insiders are saying that there is a lot of hype going on around it by the companies that are developing these shale plays in order to help raise capital to drill these wells, that the economics are still in the proving stage, and they suspect declines in well production will be much faster than in conventional NG fields. As well current NG prices won't help matters. Just google "shale gas economics" for more info.
gigie555 5 months ago
Ah! So this is why there are chemicals in my tap water. Thank you Chesapeake! :D
EatMySchwartz61 5 months ago
Hydrolic Fracturing is all bad. STOP depleting our Earth of its natural gases. Natural Gas is to the Earth what blood is to humans.
hugoboss408 5 months ago
@hugoboss408 I agree! No more helium baloons for kids! Helium is the rarest gas in the universe and the earth is running out. Stop wasting our precious resources for a fleeting moment like a child's birthday!
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx It's pretty crazy to think we are running outta helium.... if only it weren't so fricken light!
Dwq47 5 months ago
@deq47 LOL!!!! the water that was just introduced turns to steam!!!! that's how they are extracting the gas from non porous shale! the fractures do "heal" under heat and pressure that's where the decline in production comes in. @deq47 i think you're talking about things you don't understand. You might want to read a book or two.
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx Your spelling is awesome, and not all of it turns to steam, why don't you try doing a little more research there buddy. Where do the pools of frack water come from at the surface? Fractures heal at a rate that is irrelevant to what we are talking about, healing way to slow. If the water turns to steam, then why do they have clean up crews that take the frack water to waste sites? Is this imaginary frack water they are cleaning up?
Dwq47 5 months ago
@Dwq47 well since most companies recycle their water in a closed system the water in the frac pool is probably from a truck that brough it in for fracking! Fractures do not close up slowly sand which is glass fills those holes like glue and production declines so either you refrac or re stimulate. You try keeping a crack open 1 mile under the ground with all that weight and heat with some water and glass. Read some physics material. You never answered how a fracture reaches the surface.
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx Those frack pools of water are from what comes outta the ground, and everything you just "explained" I already know. The fracture doesn't need to reach the surface, but It's obviously not good if it gets into the water table. They frack through the water table, so tell me how do you think it reaches it.... the shale is the only thing keeping it down there, why do you think natural gas and oil form near shale???
Dwq47 5 months ago
@Dwq47 Point 1: i said the water comes from a truck in a closed loop system so we agree it comes from out of the ground. Point 2 How deep do you think the water table is? in Pa due to glacial till it's very close we might as well say surface. Point 3 How many rock layers do you think there are in 1 mile of rock? the only thing between the water table and the fractured layer is 1 MILE OF SOLID ROCK!
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx Frack water comes out of where they frack, !!! The water table isn't deep,im talking about juvenile water.If natural gas doesn't come outta the ground into the water table and such, then why does natural gas only form under shale? Thats because its not permeable!!! You ask how the fractures reach the surface, they don't (because you don't need fracures to reach the surface for gas to escape) because of such things as porosity and permeability like YOU mentioned before.
Dwq47 5 months ago
@Dwq47 Anthracite: one example of where methane or natural gas comes from. It's also called Coal. It's everywhere in NY to WY. Ask any coal miner about gas build up. And its close to the surface where the water table is. if i was to place my bet on where methane in water table came from i'd look at a map of all the coal operations (which is available though public data sets to be viewed). When those were going good there was no EPA making sure of containment. I'd place my bet and be right
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx Hmmm lets see what coal is made out of... oh that's right it's carbon... hmm lets see what the fracking fluid is made of... oh 595 chemical and produces over 600 bi-products. Yes in nature, natural gas will get into wells, and into water tables, but why should we add to it? There are chemicals that are known carcinogens being pumped into the ground. Water is also becoming a very important, why waste that as well. Oh they clean the frack water, ok you drink it then.
Dwq47 5 months ago
@Dwq47 That's the 2nd time you agreed so thank you. To answer your question on why take risks? Because we don't want to be like the SUDAN. If we don't take any risk we don't advance. If you are so passionate then "Be the change you want to see in the world" and get to building turbines. currently we use 28 thousand TerrawattHrs. US population of over 300 million you need 58 million turbines...IF GE could produce 6MW tubines (current max is 4. Plus look at that footprint! Per BTU gas is greenest
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx sorry rounding error 5.8 million
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx We should be concentrating on discovering/inventing new green ways of making energy, not use a non-renewable source like Natural gas, which is like using gasoline. It would be nice to use the natural gas in the mean time to add jobs, making the US more independant/less dependant on foreign oil but the method of extracting the gas makes it not worth it. If they come up with a LESS contaminating way of extracting the gas, I might be for it. However there's no such thing as clean energy
Dwq47 5 months ago
@Dwq47 UNTIL THEN....WHAT? It would take 15 to 20 years to implement something on a macro scale. You need to think bigger. Sure i wish the world would convert to running on moonbeams and lollipops but you have to think globally. Unless we live in a world with NO MONEY we will not implement what you're talking about. Do your part and don't condemn others for doing there's. Natural gas improves the current system of coal to energy generation. What is your National solution? Can people afford it?
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx I am thinking on a big scale, our environment is pretty important. You think things that are in equilibrium that are disturbed go right back to equilibrium? No not always and they don't usually go right back to the state they were in. Your only thinking about the economy, not the environment, there are plenty of field of thinking you are just leaving out. Hydrofracking is also an eye sore, just like the oil rigs out in the desert, but it's the desert.
Dwq47 5 months ago
@Dwq47 Let me get this straight. You have no solution. Except to complain. Yes, i think the earth will return to equilibrium. Always has always will. If you studied geology you would know that. We are really insignificant (humans) in the geologic time scale. I am part of the solution not on the sidelines. I have 10K in green stocks so what now? A windmill in the ocean is an oil rig in the desert depending on your perspective someones eyesore
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx You sound like someone who does a lot of googling but has no college education, am I right? A real world system never truly reaches equilibrium, ask an ecologist. I told you a solution, either make extracting the natural gas cleaner or concentrate on a real long term solution. I said nothing about windmills, and 10k in green stocks? Correct me if Im wrong but don't windmills go along with green stocks?
Dwq47 5 months ago
@Dwq47 I think i've been correcting your mistakes too much. I am college educated. And it may surprise you but i invest in all green stocks Geothermal (htm) wind (fan), ge, as well as natural gas. Your idea isn't a solution its nothing more than an unfinished thought. I am a scientist we go beyond hypothesis to empirical, qualitative, measurable data and solutions. Once again put your money where your mouth is and be the change you want to see in the world.
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx nigger faggot
RudeViewer 5 months ago
@Dwq47 I think i've been correcting your mistakes too much. I am college educated. And it may surprise you but i invest in all green stocks including natural gas. Your idea isn't a solution its nothing more than an unfinished thought. I am a scientist we go beyond hypothesis to empirical, qualitative, measurable data and solutions. Once again put your money where your mouth is and be the change you want to see in the world.
radrobbmx 5 months ago
or better yet how about the christmas tree farms on the east coast which are causing cancer and directly affect the water table. If you truly care about you water stop using real trees!
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx If you're talking about pesticides then possibly, but fake christmas trees are worse than real.
Dwq47 5 months ago
@Dwq47 yes i am talking about the pesticides used to keep all those trees pretty. Look up cancer clusters and christmas trees.
radrobbmx 5 months ago
anyone interested in what chemicals are in which wells go to (frac focus org) [all one word it won't let me add the link ]If you live in the east coast i'd be more worried about all the buried underground storage tanks which are leaking gas in your water table which are directly linked to causing illness and disease.
radrobbmx 5 months ago
"oil and gas service companies used hydraulic fracturing products containing 29 chemicals that are known or possible human carcinogens, regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) for their risks to human health, or listed as hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act."
XtremePacifist 5 months ago
"Thank you for the comment. For our part, we believe that natural gas is a vital part to battling increasing energy costs, providing jobs and reducing our country's dependence on foreign oil."
How does natural gas allow for dependence on foreign oil? We do not use natural gas to drive the majority of our vehicles. You use diesel to move the chemicals in an out of the well. The process of extracting the natural gas is dirtier than burning coal.
TheLupy1234 6 months ago
@TheLupy1234 Exactly. We believe we should be using natural gas in transportation. Visit CNGnow[dot]com for more information. Also regarding extracting natural gas vs. coal - there is even debate at Cornell regarding the findings of that study.
ChesapeakeEnergy 2 months ago
What chemicals are use? It is not just sand and water.
TheLupy1234 6 months ago
@TheLupy1234 Visit FracFocus[dot]org and you can view on a well-by-well basis.
ChesapeakeEnergy 2 months ago
ok sorry for t his misinformed i used to frac i did it for years and unntill u get away fromt he media and learn what is going on u will always be miss informed the chemicals are not what yall think yes it also differes from state to state i fracked in pa near towanda the worse chemical we used was hydrochloric acid look up whatitis used in it is used to make shooting clays corn startchand syrup who hera eats white bread? it is used to in white bread it is also
dannyboy5064 6 months ago
@dannyboy5064 used in soybean oil production im sory but yall are wrong and wont research it for your self from state investigators or go and learn on site like i did
dannyboy5064 6 months ago
Greedy, greedy, greedy! :/ They are all greedy lairs - the politics and the oil companies, and the corporations, banks,,, ... all they do is about the $ and the profits.. .,,,, :/ they don't care about you or me or anybody... don't care about Earth.,,, we need to wake up... ... 'couse we are more!,, &*;)
vp1my3uku 6 months ago
I work for this company and I like it. Very safe on the sight
foxynhound11 6 months ago
@Superhowie007 ww.youtube.com/watch?v=qYJj-1jNOxE&NR=1
Seriously though, I thought the video was made by Cheapskate Energy at first. How about you look into the solar panel industry? They are making huge improvements in their efficiency.
M4y0rMcCh335E 6 months ago
Solar...Magnetic...Wind Turbine... Geo Thermal...Hydro Kinetic
Ban Nuclear....Ban Mountain top Coal Mining...Ban Hydro Fracking Gas
Support clean Air, Water and Earth Soils NOW.
OnenessNow 7 months ago in playlist Energy
I am going to be a student learning about and hoping to get a job in the natural gas industry. Im sitting here reading these really rude comments made toward Chesapeake and am astonished....These companies spend billions trying to get the loads of gas out of the ground to benefit our country (USA) and youjust complain...Sure there are some chemicals (some can be found in ur home) but the employees are being very careful with what they do. Nothing is hurting our H20.
Superhowie007 7 months ago
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311 the World woke up and decided NO NUKES and NO FLUKES We ask for the END OF THE NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE ON EARTH. We DEMAND THE END OF TOXIC POWER SYSTEMS ON EARTH. Let us BAN HYDRO FRACKING IN AMERICA as this POISONS MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER Let us DEMAND THE END OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATE COMPLEX NOW. Let us DEMAND THE END OF ENDLESS WARS ON HUMANKIND Let us DEVELOP IN UNITY the Energy of SOLAR, MAGNETIC, WIND TURBINE,GEO THERMAL& HYDRO KINETIC4ALLPOWER
OnenessNow 7 months ago in playlist Energy
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The public should realize that Chesapeake will be cheating them out of their hard earned money, just like they have hundreds of mineral owners in Michigan. Here is a recently widowed 92 year old lady they, and RedSky Land (Rick Dawson, Joe McFerron, Adam White) cheated out of her rightful money.
MrKevinBKoonce 7 months ago
For everyone who is bashing Chesapeake Energy I can understand why you are against Fracking. In fact I am not 100% convinced it should be allowed. However, I also know the importance that creating a safe technology to extract this is important. I see the work of many different oil and gas companies using this technology and overall I think it can be safe and a useful tool when used to help extract oil or natural gas. I hope that this technology can become safer in the near future.
Stansen141 7 months ago
The difficulty in just accepting the idea that this is a safe technology is that even if everyone on all sides of this argument is being completely honest and has the best intentions, there's not much accounting for an honest mistake or miscalculation. As citizens who could be risking the safety of our public water supply, we need to know exactly what the chemicals are and what sort of fail-safes are in place to prevent the worst from happening. We must demand full disclosure.
cyanmanta 7 months ago
Interesting video. Now I have an idea of how this process works.
Look at all the fear mongers here...
ShredaSpud 7 months ago
GET THE AMERICAN FRACKING OUT OF IRELAND. THE IRISH WILL NOT BENEFIT. WE WILL BE HARMED BY THIS AMERICAN COMPANY , PLEASE HELP IRELAND, AND STOP THIS HELL ENTER IRELAND ,
DamianDoubleday 7 months ago 2
There Has been No KNow Proof that it is Harmless.There Has Been Real Life Evidence that the Hydraulic Fracturing causes Harm to People andEarth.The People who were answering these comments, have no real answers,that it is harmless,As Now They ARE AWARE OF THE EFFECTS! IF THEY CONTINUE TO BE INVOLVED WITH THE GREED OF THESE FRACKING COMPANY'S. THEY WILL BE COMMITTING NEGATIVE ACTIONS, AS CAUSING HARM TO THE EARTH AND PEOPLE. THEY WILL HAVE THE NEGATIVE HARMFUL EFFECT ON THEM, IF THEY DO NOT STOP
DamianDoubleday 7 months ago
@mrhahaawesomeness That is actually mentioned at point 1:05 when the video explains that proppant and chemicals are mixed in the blender.
ChesapeakeEnergy 7 months ago
@670Kiester - If you really want to make a difference and hit the oil and gas companies in their pockets, you and your friends should quit cooling your homes in the summer, quit heating your homes in the winter, and stop filling up your gas tanks and see how that works out for ya.
sotex80 8 months ago
.."a small amount of chemicals"...Oh as long a it's only a 'small' amount then that's totally fine...um except...the differences in testosterone vs Estrogen in any persons system is measured in parts per million...that's a very small amount and it makes a damn big difference,
Or maybe a 'small' amount is relative term..i.e compared to the amount of toxic chemicals now in the gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon?
In short: Frack you Chesepeak Energy
670Kiester 8 months ago
@670Kiester 98% of fracturing fluid is water and sand with 2% of chemical additives. Many of the ingredients of fracturing fluid are present in common household items. There's a list of ingredients that are sometimes used at Hydraulic Fracturing dot com and a list of ingredients on a well by well basis at Frac Focus dot com.
ChesapeakeEnergy 7 months ago
Drill baby drill!!!
bcomber38 8 months ago
@ChesapeakeEnergy You STILL dodge the question of what the chemicals are and the detrimental effects they have
HellhoundMaster 8 months ago 2
@HellhoundMaster Many of the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process can be found in common household items. You can view many of the fracturing ingredients at Hydraulic Fracturing com and see what is used on a well by well basis at Frac Focus org.
ChesapeakeEnergy 7 months ago
Where is the evidence this is unsafe? Who is financially backing the individuals spreading these half-truths? I am starting to become sceptical; something is suspicious about the whole situation. I can’t find any peer reviewed scientific studies, analyses or reports that show findings/eveidnnece/proof directly linking Fracking to these water supply concerning, the 2010 EPA report on the issue lists it as one of several possible sources but states very directly it is inconclusive.
Guynamejoe 8 months ago
This is beautiful.
rsp196607 8 months ago
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Here's my take. What about the 3D animators who used their considerable skills to create this video. Maybe they grew up, like me, as Star Wars fans. Perhaps they learned 3D modeling and film making in film school. But then, who doesn't want to make a buck. So they took those skills as 3D animators and put them to use for the people who like to inject your drinking water with chemicals that a meth addict wouldn't put in their body. Way to go animators! Hope you can sleep well at night.
thebloggerlaureate 8 months ago
@thebloggerlaureate The hydraulic fracturing process takes place an average of 8,000 feet below free water formations. Chesapeake does not conduct any production or fracking activities in fresh groundwater aquifers which are separated from natural gas formations by thousands of feet of protective rock barriers. There's more information we encourage you explore at Hydraulic Fracturing dot com and Frac Focus dot org.
ChesapeakeEnergy 7 months ago
@ChesapeakeEnergy Correction: "8,000 feet below fresh water formations." Sorry for the typo.
ChesapeakeEnergy 7 months ago
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@ChesapeakeEnergy "8,000 feet below fresh water formations."
...because chemicals cant travel 8,000 feet through shattered rock?
OBAViJEST 6 months ago
Didn't Chesapeake just get fined again, this time for gas leaking into a well? Chesapeake claimed that it was the casement and cementing but if that is true why does it happen over and over again. The gas industry claimed that the movie Gasland was wrong and yet Josh Fox answered you with a 29 page rebuttal. Now the share holders of two gas companies are voting with 30-40% to find out about the process and its negatives. The truth will out!!
Callenge1 9 months ago
@Callenge1 For more detailed information about the process Frac Focus dot org is a great resource regarding your questions and concerns.
ChesapeakeEnergy 7 months ago
WATCH THIS VIDEO for the TRUTH
GASLAND — ReThink Review
brajdl 9 months ago
@brajdl There are several inaccuracies in Gasland. We encourage you to visit Hydraulic Fracturing dot com and the article about Gasland at Energy in Depth dot org.
ChesapeakeEnergy 7 months ago
Fracking is terrible
brajdl 9 months ago
@brajdl Do you have a specific concern or question that we can help you with? Hydraulic fracturing dot com and Frac Focus dot org are great resources as well.
ChesapeakeEnergy 7 months ago
@ChesapeakeEnergy You have destroyed our water supply, stop the fracking, you are ruining america.
OutlawAirsoftPA 4 months ago
@OutlawAirsoftPA fracking takes place thousands of feet below the aquifers you idiot.
njdevil281 4 months ago
this is the face of evil.
TheManolakis 9 months ago
@TheManolakis If you have any questions about the process, please visit Hydraulic Fracturing dot com.
ChesapeakeEnergy 7 months ago
im only 19 and im extremly ill and im not saying it was cause of you or even your company but my life has been hell and i know i have disease becuase of chemicals. why not use your money to help and create a new way to produce energy? then youll be ever richer and youll die a happy respected man
MrBmeat 10 months ago
@MrBmeat Chesapeake’s Green Frac® program was founded in October 2009 to evaluate the types of additives typically used in the process of hydraulic fracturing. Green Frac calls for the elimination of any additive not critical to the successful completion of the well and determines if greener alternatives are available for all essential additives. To date, we have eliminated 25% of the additives used in frack fluids in most of our shale plays.
ChesapeakeEnergy 9 months ago
mr chesapeakenergy.you and i both know what youre doing isnt considered safe at all..what baffles me is that even though you are making tons of money, how can you not care? youre not making only making us sick and our children sick and destorying the earth, but youre also MAKING YOURSELF, YOUR OWN CHILDREN AND YOUR LAND SICK. what are you going to do when you or your family or your kids or any of your loved ones become fatally ill? are you going to try to pay god to give you another chance..
MrBmeat 10 months ago
@MrBmeat For a better understanding of the process, its regulation and its impact, we recommend you check out the Groundwater Protection Council website as well as Frac Focus dot org.
ChesapeakeEnergy 9 months ago
Bloody money, greed, super rich familys and dynasties that dont give a rats &%^ for anyone or anything other than they're own personal gain.. Public listed companies and the stockholders that want returns on they're investments ...... Its just money.. and US you & me ..... we let them get away with it, time and time again.. the most fundamental problems of this world can be solved if the brainwashing ceased and the greed card wasnt played by so many...
freedomisametaphor 10 months ago
@freedomisametaphor Thank you for the comment. For our part, we believe that natural gas is a vital part to battling increasing energy costs, providing jobs and reducing our country's dependence on foreign oil.
ChesapeakeEnergy 7 months ago 2
@ChesapeakeEnergy THanks for allowing comments and addressing some of the criticisms. With that, I have some questions of my own. Do you have any idea on how people get the notion this process pollutes their groundwater? If this does not have any risks of that, than what is the actual cause? Since this will last so long, do you think this could create an unstable region much like the Middle East of today with all their oil once middle eastern oil runs out? What will we do when we're out?
The6millionpesoman 4 months ago
@freedomisametaphor
"dont give a rats &%^ for anyone or anything other than they're own personal gain"
I think you forgot about the personal gain of the gas customers - i.e the people who purchase natural gas. Do you think that people who use natural gas for heating their home, for riding in public transportation, or for consuming electricity appreciate an increase in the supply of natural gas and a decrease in cost?
These technologies are developed because people want energy.
perfectdark111 7 months ago 3
If you find oil or natural gas it's most likely under shale. Really Unless you bind the casing to the shale you're gonna get leakage. Then again the method for drilling and hydofracking is flawed, there is no safe way to drill for natural gas unless you don't use chemicals. Do I think they can safely drill for natural gas- No. But if im getting paid to say it's safe like most scientist/geologist employed by natural gas companies, then oh shit theres nothing wrong with hyrdofracking! cha-ching
Dwq47 10 months ago
@Dwq47 It looks like you might have some misinformation about the drilling and completion process. We have several detailed videos on our channel that better explain the process. You might also check out the Groundwater Protection Council website for a third party description of the process.
ChesapeakeEnergy 9 months ago
Yeah natural gas leaks out of the ground naturally, just like oil does, but fracking adds to the leaks, creating new fractures and making the old ones bigger. Hence the gas leaks are greater! Oil in saudi arabia is drilled in the desert, not next to peoples' homes. A soap can form from the 596 chemicals, soaps have phospates in them and cause high production of algeas (Dunkard creek). As far as the condensation tanks, some chemicals evaporate into the air but some don't like heavy metals.
Dwq47 10 months ago
@Dwq47 Again, it looks like you've gotten a hold of some misinformation about the process. Fracking happens several thousand (sometimes more than 10,000) feet below the surface and is separated from aquifers, etc by thousands of feet of impenetrable rock.
ChesapeakeEnergy 9 months ago
@Dwq47 Dunkard creek was caused by a coal mining operation. Don't believe it just because an activist group tells you it's true. There isn't a Chesapeake location I've ever seen without level safety switches and level sensing monitoring on the condensate tanks. And no, I'm not defending Chesapeake, they declined my contract bid, I just feel that if you are going to accuse someone of something, at least base it on facts.
cheezyhealy 8 months ago
@cheezyhealy yeah right inactive coal mine was the kill off.....okkkkkk
Dwq47 8 months ago
@cheezyhealy Yeah also, fracking is just like global warming.... it's a natural thing but speeding it up isn't natural or good for the world.
Dwq47 8 months ago 2
As a college student studying environmental studies/geology I fully understand what is going on. When you pump 596 chemicals into the ground that has over 900 chemical bi-products it's impossible to remove that out of the ground. It gets into the water table, and the natural gas that leaks into the water table. You can't safely get gas from the ground! The geologist that say it's safe are obviously being led on by big money, money runs the world.
Dwq47 10 months ago
@Dwq47 At which university are you studying geology?
ChesapeakeEnergy 9 months ago
@ChesapeakeEnergy minoring at Alfred U.
Dwq47 9 months ago
@Dwq47 As a college student i'm dissappointed in your teachers! have you heard of a capstone? did you learn about permeability and porosity? did you know if you fracture rock at depths over a mile the fractures "heal" because of the extreme heat and pressure? Do you remember learning about rocks being plastic at depth? Here's a physics question for you. How much energy would it take to create a fracture that extended from 1 mile below the surface all the way to the surface?
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx That would be true if the lithosphere was only a mile deep lol and how do you hydrofrack through rock that behaves like plastic???? You don't. So you are trying to say that this is safe? And as far as the capstone, they vent the wells...into the air, so who cares if they use a capstone. If the rock was to "heal" than what would be the point of fracking, because if it closes then they don't get any gas. You ask a lot of questions but you don't answer them.
Dwq47 5 months ago
@Dwq47 you can frack a well more than once. There is no point in fracking if its not economically viable. so someone makes that decision if it's worth being fracked. and process in the earth don't happen over night they are sometimes slow. Did you know glass is not a solid? if you set a glass cup down on a table and wait a while its also acts "plastic" and will move off the table. (i wouldn't hold your breath though we're talking geologic time)
radrobbmx 5 months ago
@radrobbmx Well you just proved me right, hyrdofracking is bad for everyone. Over a very very long period of time, it "heals" itself, which is useless to us.
Dwq47 5 months ago
I feel torn here. Obviously, there's some down sides to the collection of all energy sources. Natural Gas does seem like a cleaner alternative than most, but at what cost to locals and their drinking water and farms that are ever dwindling from the country's landscapes. Is wind turbines a better choice? But they kill thousands of bats, which in turn may increase the bug population, which in turn can damage crops. Or do we rely on oversea oil. I'd hate to think that's the solution.
Sparkimatic 10 months ago
@Sparkimatic Thanks for your comment. For our part, we believe that natural gas is a vital part of the solution to skyrocketing energy costs and dependence on foreign oil.
ChesapeakeEnergy 9 months ago
Have you seen these recent Exxon commercials featuring "Senior Engineer" Erik Oswald who claims that natural gas fracturing is completely safe? Some of the chemicals used in this process have been shown to have high levels of cancer causing carcinogens. Also this process has been proven to cause dangerously high levels of natural gas seepage into the environment.
Shame you Exxon!!!
Dresch 10 months ago
@Dresch This isn't Exxon's channel, but we are curious where you are getting your information about the hydraulic fracturing process.
ChesapeakeEnergy 9 months ago
@poeticeclaire Oh you know, those regulations set up with out the proper foresieght to predict such irresponsible actions. As for the chemicals....well I guess little white lies don't kill TOO many people.
SuperFloopyDelux 10 months ago
@RandomConcepts I have detailed files, er, I mean links, if you're not as lazy as I think you are...
joekiddone 10 months ago
@RandomConcepts You’re an idiot -- it’s not about political parties. Obama supports “fracking” -- and Obama supported BP:
1. Of all US politicians, Obama received the most money from BP.
2. BP was also a finalist for Obama’s DOI “Outstanding Safety and Pollution Prevention” award. When the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 10 days before the winner was to be announced, Obama had the announcement “delayed.”
3. And in 2009, Obama actually recognized that very same rig for being a model of safety.
joekiddone 10 months ago
@RandomConcepts LOL, your ignorant and uneducated, you have no idea what you are talking about
mongration 10 months ago
this is a great video. I would recommend people go to geology.com to read more about earth science.
radrobbmx 10 months ago
@radrobbmx Thanks for your comment.
ChesapeakeEnergy 9 months ago
Seems like they left out the most important details, like what the chemicals are and where they're going; Drinking water.
Raduim 226 has a half life of 1601 years. Irreversible damage!
chenzy22 11 months ago 14
@chenzy22 We have a list of fracturing additives available online. Also, have you been following the EPA reports out of PA regarding water testing for radioactive elements?
ChesapeakeEnergy 11 months ago
@ChesapeakeEnergy The chemical Radium 226 has been tested by the Environmental Protection Agency and is said to be radioactive and toxic. It is over one million times more radioactive than the same mass of uranium and reacts violently with water to create radium hydroxide. It has a half life of 1,601 years. Can you read that?
chenzy22 11 months ago 4
@ChesapeakeEnergy This story is going national -- it's on Drudge now and the WSJ. I'm all for American energy independence, and in many ways, I think the EPA has definitely overstepped its mandate. That said, I just hope you are prepared to answer the coming onslaught of questions, especially the ones related to the specific dangers posed by your "intellectual property" of chemicals.
joekiddone 10 months ago