What is fracking? Is it dangerous?
Fracking is an oil/gas recovery technique that has been used in the petroleum business for a long time and traditionally has attracted no more attention than the twelve year old issues of I Love Cats you find in the doctor’s office (or is that just my doctor?). Then some folks in a Pennsylvania fracking-frenzy zone […]
Good heavens, is that common sense I see?
There was a weird article on the web the other day (September 2014) about a green group called the Environmental Defense Fund hanging out with a Republican, trying to get some business done. Now you’d think that within minutes there would be a bloodbath; bits of three piece suits, business cards and expensive shoes scattered about […]
What do you know?
Say you’re walking down the street and some guy is coming towards you; you notice him half a block away and he looks pretty loaded, stumbling around and bothering people. Nothing unusual, you see this every day, just another drunken bum…Your first instinct is to cross the street but it’s busy and the lights aren’t […]
How do you find oil and gas anyway?
You may notice every now and then in the media a story about a “major oil find”, in some exotic location, and how many billions of dollars it might be worth, and can just imagine the sheer brainpower it took to find it. Since the discovery is worth so much and is newsworthy, you’d assume […]
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