The IOGCC (Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission), whose chair is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is in Santa Fe for an annual meeting dubbed, "The Challenges of Unconventional Oil & Natural Gas." The challenge is for those who have to live with the adverse impacts.
A blogger at Oklahoma Energy made an interesting post about the event. Some quotes are as follows:
"It (unconventional recovery) generally involves getting product from rock or tight sands, requires horizontally-drilled wells, and requires hurculean efforts to fracture the reservoir rock to pull the product out of the ground.
It costs more to get on a per-barrel or per-thousand cubic feet basis than oil or natural gas from vertically-drilled wells, meaning its development depends upon attractive prices for companies to achieve acceptable returns on their investments.
This week, it also is the titlel (title) of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission’s annual meeting, meaning that’s what the conference will focus on."
Please note that "hurculean" should be "herculean." According to Websters, it herculean means, "of extraordinary power, extent, intensity, or difficulty." These herculean efforts in fragile ecosystems is a recipe for destruction.
"Enbridge is helping to meet that challenge, she said, by building $12 billion of expansions underway in North America to get oil from Alberta’s Oil sands and the Bakken Shale oil field south into Illinois and even to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Meanwhile, the company is working to get natural gas from the Barnett Shale in north Texas to other parts of the country."
$12 billion could go a long ways in alternative energy development, but industry wants to keep pushing the fossil fuel addiction.
'“As dicussion begins in our nation’s Capital about energy independence, the IOGCC needs to be – must be — right in the middle of that discussion,” Henry said. “Unconventional oil and gas issues are a critical component of that discussion.”'
That sums up the problem. The fossil fuel industry is always in the middle of our governmental affairs promolgating the agenda of big oil and gas. How about IOGCC go to the margin of the discussion? At times, that is where the environment and surface owners' rights have been placed.
$12 billion could go a long ways in alternative energy development, but industry wants to keep pushing the fossil fuel addiction.
'“As dicussion begins in our nation’s Capital about energy independence, the IOGCC needs to be – must be — right in the middle of that discussion,” Henry said. “Unconventional oil and gas issues are a critical component of that discussion.”'
That sums up the problem. The fossil fuel industry is always in the middle of our governmental affairs promolgating the agenda of big oil and gas. How about IOGCC go to the margin of the discussion? At times, that is where the environment and surface owners' rights have been placed.
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