#gas fracking

Green Value SCE über die Reduzierung von Plastik weltweit als einzige Chance

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung liefert in Gutachten erschreckende Szenarien

  Suhl, 20.06.2019. „Dass Plastik die Umwelt belastet, zur Verwendung genutzte Chemikalien sich in unserem Trinkwasser, unserer Atemluft finden und damit zu gesundheitlichen Einschränkungen führen, braucht man heutzutage eigentlich nicht mal mehr zu diskutieren“, erklären die Verantwortlichen der europäischen Genossenschaft Green…

Also known as petroleum oil proppant fracturing proppant. After deep mining in the oil and gas, high pressure low permeability deposit after closing fracturing treatment, the rock cracked petroleum, oil and MaiDe gas fracking from the cracks in the channel formed by the collection of out of the fluid injected into the rock at this grassroots needs to exceed formation fracture compressive strength, making the rock around the wellbore cracks, forming a high-level flow channel has the ability, in order to maintain after MaiDe fracturing sand the formation of cracks in the open, the oil and gas product can smoothly pass. Along with a high-pressure solution proppant into the formation filling in cracks in the rock, not because of stress fractures play a supporting release of closed, thereby maintaining high conductivity, so that the oil and gas flow, increase production.

wotfigo; As available net energy declines for most of humanity, governments will become increasingly desperate. The power companies will push for Business As Usual high density fossil fuels over clean renewable but lower energy intensity sources. Coal, Natural Gas fracking & tight oil will be chosen locking the planet into irreversible climate change.And eventual catastrophic energy decline.

The current government has taken the fateful decision to pin its hopes, and much of the energy future of the country, on trying to prop up falling conventional gas supplies with unconventional alternatives. The second dash for gas has been launched with the lifting of the interim ban on fracking (imposed after minor seismic events in fracked areas) and plans to build 30 new gas plants. In his recent autumn statement, Chancellor George Osborne has announced the creation of a new Office for Unconventional Oil and Gas, along with plans for a system of generous tax incentives.

To recap, the energy profit ratio is extremely low, meaning that scarcely any more energy is produced than had to be invested in production. Depletion rates are very high, setting producers on a drilling treadmill that runs ever faster. Fracking is both capital and energy intensive, requiring a substantial surplus of both, well in advance of needing a return on either one.

This is exactly the boom and bust dynamic the UK is proposing to set itself up for as North sea depletion rates pick up steam and desperation sets in. After all, it was a similar desperation over conventional gas prospects that drove the industry in the US into trying to develop unconventional supplies.

Fuel poverty is sharply increasing:

At the Fair Energy summit today, hosted by The Independent and Policy Review Intelligence, Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary, will remind energy companies about new rules which mean they will have to be more open about the reason why electricity and gas bills are increasing. He says companies are exaggerating the expense of the Government's energy efficiency measures.

His comments will follow the shocking claim from the Government's Fuel Poverty Advisory Group that 300,000 homes will be pushed into fuel poverty by Christmas. A household is considered to be in fuel poverty if it needs to spend more than 10 per cent of its income on fuel for adequate heating.

The group also warns that unless the Government tackles the problem of people being forced to choose between heating and eating, nine million households could fall into fuel poverty by 2016. It is estimated that six million households are already in fuel poverty.

Lights Out: The Case for Fracking in South Africa

By the time 2019 rolls around, citizens in South Africa might not have lights, air conditiong, or television.  And you thought that cultures always move forward.

South Africa is in the precarious position of having only one company, state-owned Eksom Holdings, producing all of its electricity. Even worse, the country's demand for electricity is expected to outpace supply by early 2019.

Natural gas, however, is the simple solution to the nation's problem.  Natural gas can be used to create electricity to power homes and office buildings.  But one thing is stopping oil and gas companies from drilling for natural gas - the endangered black rhinoceros.  

Drillers have discovered that South Africa's pristine, untouched karoo region is home to major deposits of natural gas, but environmentalists are concerned that drillers will harm the region and its endangered wildlife.

..Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy. It inevitably leaks toxic chemicals into the air and water. Industry studies show that 5 percent of wells can leak immediately, and 60 percent over 30 years. There is no such thing as pipes and concrete that won’t eventually break down. It releases a cocktail of chemicals from a menu of more than 600 toxic substances, climate-changing methane, radium and, of course, uranium..