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| Thread ID: 127982 | 2012-11-26 04:22:00 | Lets get Fracking | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1314824 | 2012-11-27 03:02:00 | The big ones are going to happen anyway | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1314825 | 2012-11-27 03:07:00 | :lol: Fracking hilarious. I see that we’ve got half a dozen Female Academics who have probably never left their University, opposing it for a start. That comes as no surprise, and having any practical knowledge of the procedure is not a requirement it seems. But page 23 is the real pearler: Fair crack of the whip, you can’t even discuss an engineering matter without considering all things Maori. What a waste of money and how much did that cost us Taxpayers. :rolleyes: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1314826 | 2012-11-27 03:37:00 | Ignoring the potential of these small, fracking quakes to trigger adjacent stressed faults, resulting in major quakes. They have been fracking since 1947. Can you list the major earthquakes it has cased ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1314827 | 2012-11-27 04:24:00 | Can you categorically state, and back it up with an indemnity, that they can't trigger something major, earthquake, polluted water tables etc? Neither can the fossil fuel industry, so, in my view, until they can make that assurance, then they should not be able to go ahead with this stuff. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1314828 | 2012-11-27 04:37:00 | You can never be 100% sure of anything. You don't even know if you'll be alive tomorrow, should you have just decided not to live all together? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1314829 | 2012-11-27 04:39:00 | The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake focal depth was quoted as 5km, average oil well depth is somewhat less than half this, (www.eia.gov) so I have a feeling that fracking would be less than likely to trigger a shallow quake. I don't think there have been many 'quakes recorded as shallow as 2km from memory (memory that is, from when I worked in Seismology at GNS around 17-20 years ago). Volcanic quakes may be as shallow or shallower than this though. I'd think water table pollution and soil pollution would be the major concern, along with methane gas contamination and leakage to atmosphere. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1314830 | 2012-11-27 04:41:00 | I am 100% sure I know what will happen, when the inevitable disaster occurs. The ones who made the money will disappear, leaving the taxpayer holding the bill, as fracking usual. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1314831 | 2012-11-27 05:36:00 | The word "Fracking" was not a good idea to call it. It bring visions of the "Fracturing" and pressure to split the seams to release more gas. Basically "fooding" the seam. ;) They should have called it "honey rain-bowing" and no one would have even noticed |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1314832 | 2012-11-27 05:58:00 | The consequences of a contamination incident have been understated in the report as there are limited to no options for remediating groundwater and soil once contamination has occurred." This. Burning dead things for power is outdated, shortsighted and has no sustainable future. It's a no-brainer (in NZ at least). Drown the snails that are too slow to migrate (and the misguided greenies hugging them) and build more hydro. Build a crapload of plug in cars and we're all set to give two fingers to the oil co's and march on into a future that still provides free air and water. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1314833 | 2012-11-27 06:06:00 | Drill for oil in cathedral flat, Chch. It's been pre-fracked to the hilt already. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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