Your Economy (No Politics)

[al44]

trader guy-

I live right in the middle of the shale boom. There are at least 10 wells within 10 miles of me. I think only 2 are actually pumping nat gas and the rest are capped due to over capacity. I can't speak for end use pollution but there is no pollution here at the pump sites. They are well maintained and checked daily. There were problems in the Dimmock area that the environmentalists like to refer to. But what they don't tell you is those problems existed prior to any well drilling. The methane was in water supplies before any well drilling was initiated. There is so much nat gas here that a pipeline is proposed to carry it to a port for export. Below the Marcellus is another field of gas and oil that seems far larger than the Marcellus itself. Test wells are exploring that possibility right now. Batteries, wind and solar are not bad things and could be a nice supplement to the energy situation IMHO. Total dependency on them for energy would be a disaster, again IMHO.

My 2 cents

........al