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  April 12, 2011 3:55 p.m. foxtrapper SuperDork

  Ya'll were impressed, right?
  

  There I was, at the US Senate joint committee about fracking for natural gas. Gotta admit, it really was quite different than the state senate. Definately swimming with the big fish in this hearing.

  Since there was a c-span camera pointed at me most of the time, I very carefully kept everything out of my nose, and scratched no itches. :-) Seriously, apparently I am on the c-span footage somewhere.

  Sometimes, keeping a straight face was hard to do, darn hard.

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  April 12, 2011 4:03 p.m. Twin_Cam SuperDork

  Nice.

  Keeping a straight face? Was one of the guys really funny-looking? Kept cracking jokes?

  Are you on the "do it!" side or the "hell no!" side?

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  April 12, 2011 4:16 p.m. griffin729 HalfDork

  Two things, first my geekdom interfered. Being a BSG fan I interpreted fracking as berkeleying momentarily. Totally different meanings. Second, congratulations your face is now encased in the C-SPAN archives in my neck of the woods. Though C-SPAN does now have their own building for their archives. I remember way back when I was working as a janitor for Purdue when the archives were housed in a room in one of the campus buildings. Though, 20 years of beta tape on library racks were kinda interesting.

  XBL gamertag: griffin729

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  April 12, 2011 4:17 p.m. HiTempguy Dork

  We frack up here, why can't you guys frack down there?

  Rallying; It's like skydiving, except you have to dodge trees on your way down!

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  April 12, 2011 4:18 p.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork

  You need to up that to YouTube so we can all look.
  

  And the 3 sentence executive summary?

  By the way, Arkansas recently made the drilling companies stop reinjecting their waste frac water and THE EARTHQUAKES STOPPED.

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  April 12, 2011 5:56 p.m. huge-O-chavez SuperDork

  HiTempguy wrote: We frack up here, why can't you guys frack down there?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQMA0zwMM4

  I get all my groceries from Sharper Image and Skymall

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  April 12, 2011 6:03 p.m. aussiesmg SuperDork

  

  Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax. Jackie Stewart

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  April 12, 2011 9:30 p.m. HiTempguy Dork

  huge-O-chavez wrote:

  HiTempguy wrote: We frack up here, why can't you guys frack down there?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQMA0zwMM4

  LOL, that is an extreme example, but most acreages in Alberta you can do that whether frac'ing has been done or not. Then again, from my limited knowledge of the oilfield biz, we've been doing this a lot more than you have for a long time, so I can understand being cautious about it. Natural gas is a fantastic source of energy s'all I can say (its cheap and there is kajillions of it lying around doing nothing)!

  Rallying; It's like skydiving, except you have to dodge trees on your way down!

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  April 13, 2011 7:29 p.m. huge-O-chavez SuperDork

  Actually, it is a huge issue in my home state...

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110408/sc_ac/8251071_pennsylvania_to_begin_extensive_...

  I get all my groceries from Sharper Image and Skymall

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  April 13, 2011 10:10 p.m. Woody SuperDork

  What the Frack?!

  huge-O-chavez wrote:

  HiTempguy wrote: We frack up here, why can't you guys frack down there?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQMA0zwMM4

  I lift things up and put them down.

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  April 13, 2011 11:24 p.m. benzbaron HalfDork

  Is that where the natural gas people push water/chemicals down the natural gas well to break up the rock media holding the gas to release it?

  Sounds concerning but natural gas is a huge commodity the US cannot ignore. I guess the industry is going through a huge renaissance with new technology, I think they also do horizontal drilling to get at gas pockets. Interesting.

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  April 14, 2011 5:03 a.m. foxtrapper SuperDork

  And the 3 sentence executive summary?

  Lies and posturing.

  I guess the industry is going through a huge renaissance with new technology

  Not really. More simply moving into new neighborhoods, and therefore new problems.

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  April 14, 2011 10:05 a.m. Strizzo SuperDork

  Dr. Hess wrote: You need to up that to YouTube so we can all look. And the 3 sentence executive summary? By the way, Arkansas recently made the drilling companies stop reinjecting their waste frac water and THE EARTHQUAKES STOPPED.

  that is interesting, since i've spoken with chesapeakes' seimologist and they have a couple years worth of records of nearly daily earthquakes from before the even started injecting wastewater.
  

  AND there have been earthquakes recorded in AR for as long as there has been record keeping on it.

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  April 14, 2011 1:58 p.m. HiTempguy Dork

  huge-O-chavez wrote: Actually, it is a huge issue in my home state... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110408/sc_ac/8251071_pennsylvania_to_begin_extensive_...

  So, what I got out of it was that government and companies weren't doing their due diligence, so you can't do it anymore? Or am I confused?

  The fact that the waste treatment plants accepted it says a lot, that definitely is NOT how it works up here!

  Rallying; It's like skydiving, except you have to dodge trees on your way down!

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  April 14, 2011 2:11 p.m. bravenrace SuperDork

  I used to frack in Oklahoma, but then I got a new job.

  Buy American. Our future depends on it.

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  April 14, 2011 8:13 p.m. John Brown SuperDork

  bravenrace wrote: I used to frack in Oklahoma, but then I got a new job.

  I believe I may have seen a video of you fracking, wait... nope, that was a King of the Hill rerun.

  Internationally known as The Brown Stig

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  April 14, 2011 8:51 p.m. Rob_Mopar HalfDork

  I forgot Iggy was from PA.

  huge-O-chavez wrote: Actually, it is a huge issue in my home state... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110408/sc_ac/8251071_pennsylvania_to_begin_extensive_...

  And it sound like PA is pretty well fracked too.

  Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!

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