Comments for Blue Empire http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri A New York State Water Resources Institute blog Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:29:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://blogs.cornell.edu/?v=3.4.1 Comment on Private Water Well Testing in Gas Drilling Areas by Steven Jarris http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/2011/01/18/private-water-well-testing-in-gas-drilling-areas/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Steven Jarris Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:29:14 +0000 http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/?p=145#comment-336 I am seeing that the <a href="http://www.blackdogdrilling.com" rel="nofollow">water well drilling</a> is not going to slow down. I think that the best part of it is that the government should not intervene and let these people be successful. Thanks for sharing. I am seeing that the water well drilling is not going to slow down. I think that the best part of it is that the government should not intervene and let these people be successful. Thanks for sharing.

]]> Comment on Fortuna plans Chemung County Injection Well by Jamie Smith http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/2009/03/04/fortuna-plans-chemung-county-injection-well/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Jamie Smith Thu, 17 May 2012 01:34:15 +0000 http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/?p=93#comment-270 In reality Mr Rick Kessy has a degree in Chemical Engineering which puts him solidly in a postion of knowledge to comment. Unfortunately Lisa Wright must have been taking tips from Readers Digest on what is the latest evil chemical in this world and believes the natural gas companies are out to poison the world Print that Jeffy or are you not willing to allow another view In reality Mr Rick Kessy has a degree in Chemical Engineering which puts him solidly in a postion of knowledge to comment. Unfortunately Lisa Wright must have been taking tips from Readers Digest on what is the latest evil chemical in this world and believes the natural gas companies are out to poison the world

Print that Jeffy or are you not willing to allow another view

]]> Comment on Hydraulic Fracturing and Horizontal Gas Well Drilling Reference List by Water Melting Rock http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/2011/01/18/hydraulic-fracturing-and-horizontal-gas-well-drilling-reference-list/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Water Melting Rock Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:18:32 +0000 http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/?p=157#comment-233 Hello? who is running this blog, anyway? There has been so much news about the HydroFracking issue, I am amazed that there have been no blogs in almost a year. I live in Hector and we have been battling an ignorant industry trying to keep them from destroying the land, water and nature we love and are everyone's right. We are strong! Many towns will join the Uprising. hydrofracturing is not profitable when regulated, so they (Bush, 2005, Obama complicit) took away the regulations! Mistakes DO happen even in the most careful situations. These FEDERALLY-APPROVED INDUSTRY-USED UNREGULATED CHEMICALS have, for the legal part, been regulated since 1972. FOR A REASON. Many of them are Teratogenic, Mutagenic and Acutely Toxic. (You can just imagine what was in the mind of the gas man at Auschwitz) The others used are NEW TOXIC CHEMICALS. I wont even mention that the trucks contain NO DOT APPROVED MARKINGS for hazardous waste because after use, these chemicals in solution (read: in water i should have been able to drink) are not considered toxic anymore by the federal government. OOPS! and now they want to spray it on the roads. he double hockeystick, they are already INJECTING this brine from PA wells only a few miles away in Chemung.. Who is going to save us from this horrific fate if not our Trusted Public Servants? WE ARE!! The sheer weight of consciousness is here! please forgive my Sanskrit in this mantra to the Shiva in all of us to transcend the money world and live at peace with Mother World. instead of repeatedly Penetrating her om triam bacum ya jamahe sogandhim pushte vat thanum odeva rukame vabundena mriktur mukshee yamon bretah ignorant industry has trod on the wrong feet, is tripping and now is falling as we vote them off the island. aww big money, sorry we broke your mojo, yes, that's right go crying to your mummy, QEII. please respond WPMU DEV Water Melting Rock Hector, NY Hello? who is running this blog, anyway? There has been so much news about the HydroFracking issue, I am amazed that there have been no blogs in almost a year.

I live in Hector and we have been battling an ignorant industry trying to keep them from destroying the land, water and nature we love and are everyone’s right. We are strong! Many towns will join the Uprising.

hydrofracturing is not profitable when regulated, so they (Bush, 2005, Obama complicit) took away the regulations! Mistakes DO happen even in the most careful situations.

These FEDERALLY-APPROVED INDUSTRY-USED UNREGULATED CHEMICALS have, for the legal part, been regulated since 1972. FOR A REASON. Many of them are Teratogenic, Mutagenic and Acutely Toxic. (You can just imagine what was in the mind of the gas man at Auschwitz) The others used are NEW TOXIC CHEMICALS. I wont even mention that the trucks contain NO DOT APPROVED MARKINGS for hazardous waste because after use, these chemicals in solution (read: in water i should have been able to drink) are not considered toxic anymore by the federal government. OOPS!

and now they want to spray it on the roads. he double hockeystick, they are already INJECTING this brine from PA wells only a few miles away in Chemung..

Who is going to save us from this horrific fate if not our Trusted Public Servants?

WE ARE!! The sheer weight of consciousness is here!

please forgive my Sanskrit in this mantra to the Shiva in all of us to transcend the money world and live at peace with Mother World. instead of repeatedly Penetrating her

om triam bacum ya jamahe
sogandhim pushte vat thanum
odeva rukame vabundena
mriktur mukshee yamon bretah

ignorant industry has trod on the wrong feet, is tripping and now is falling as we vote them off the island.

aww big money, sorry we broke your mojo, yes, that’s right go crying to your mummy, QEII.

please respond WPMU DEV

Water Melting Rock
Hector, NY

]]> Comment on Fortuna plans Chemung County Injection Well by David Smith http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/2009/03/04/fortuna-plans-chemung-county-injection-well/comment-page-1/#comment-156 David Smith Mon, 02 May 2011 00:52:44 +0000 http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/?p=93#comment-156 Wow, here we go again! Be careful dealing with these oil and gas production companies. Our experience has been that they privatize profits and socialize costs.Injection wells use high-pressure pumps to inject liquid wastes into underground geologic formations. The belief is that wastes “may be isolated from drinking water aquifers when injected between impermeable rock strata,according to one EPA report. The agency does concede that this disposal method is controversial “and many scientists are concerned that leaks from these wells may contaminate groundwater.We have to monitor the monitors to insure that we do not contaminate the water we need to survive. We must weigh the value to benefit of this type of process. Wow, here we go again! Be careful dealing with these oil and gas production companies. Our experience has been that they privatize profits and socialize costs.Injection wells use high-pressure pumps to inject liquid wastes into underground geologic formations. The belief is that wastes “may be isolated from drinking water aquifers when injected between impermeable rock strata,according to one EPA report. The agency does concede that this disposal method is controversial “and many scientists are concerned that leaks from these wells may contaminate groundwater.We have to monitor the monitors to insure that we do not contaminate the water we need to survive. We must weigh the value to benefit of this type of process.

]]> Comment on Private Water Well Testing in Gas Drilling Areas by Louis Derry http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/2011/01/18/private-water-well-testing-in-gas-drilling-areas/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Louis Derry Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:29:22 +0000 http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/?p=145#comment-130 The problem is that the average homeowner is unlikely to want to spend the $ and could not easily interpret tests for the contaminants of concern from drilling operations. The inexpensive tests (hardness, basic chemistry) are not going to be informative. Tests for organic contaminants are more costly, and without some idea of what to look for, may well miss their mark. The only sensible solution would seem this: require advance disclosure of all additives. Test for them before and after drilling operations. Otherwise it's likely to be an expensive but ultimately uninformative effort. But if water isn't tested prior to operations, it may well be difficult for a landowner to prove in court that drilling operations had an impact. In many cases - including for methane - there are sources that are not connected to drilling. It would be easy for a lawyer to say, wait, that methane (or whatever) was already in the GW and the drilling operating isn't responsible. In some cases he'd be right. Disclosure is key. Well managed drilling operations should not contaminate well water. But, prudence suggests that landowners identify what might be introduced by drilling, and test before and after. The problem is that the average homeowner is unlikely to want to spend the $ and could not easily interpret tests for the contaminants of concern from drilling operations. The inexpensive tests (hardness, basic chemistry) are not going to be informative. Tests for organic contaminants are more costly, and without some idea of what to look for, may well miss their mark. The only sensible solution would seem this: require advance disclosure of all additives. Test for them before and after drilling operations. Otherwise it’s likely to be an expensive but ultimately uninformative effort. But if water isn’t tested prior to operations, it may well be difficult for a landowner to prove in court that drilling operations had an impact. In many cases – including for methane – there are sources that are not connected to drilling. It would be easy for a lawyer to say, wait, that methane (or whatever) was already in the GW and the drilling operating isn’t responsible. In some cases he’d be right. Disclosure is key. Well managed drilling operations should not contaminate well water. But, prudence suggests that landowners identify what might be introduced by drilling, and test before and after.

]]> Comment on New USGS Publication on Water Resources and Marcellus Shale by Dan Puroclean http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/2009/05/12/new-usgs-publication-on-water-resources-and-marcellus-shale/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Dan Puroclean Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:42:44 +0000 http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/?p=116#comment-128 Its a good thing that most times salt water disposal wells are specifically prohibited. It would be a concern of mine that groundwater might be contaminated when saltwater waste is injected back into the ground. Its a good thing that most times salt water disposal wells are specifically prohibited. It would be a concern of mine that groundwater might be contaminated when saltwater waste is injected back into the ground.

]]> Comment on Level of Air Quality Impacts from Drilling Debated by WMS http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/2009/03/23/level-of-air-quality-impacts-from-drilling-debated/comment-page-1/#comment-126 WMS Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:22:22 +0000 http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/?p=109#comment-126 Air Pollution is the number one problem in our society today. Its nice to know that there are alternatives ways to procure safely the clean air we need through vaporization. Yes, drilling actions can irritate the nasal passages which causes us to cough by releasing harmful chemicals that are bad to our health. Air Pollution is the number one problem in our society today. Its nice to know that there are alternatives ways to procure safely the clean air we need through vaporization. Yes, drilling actions can irritate the nasal passages which causes us to cough by releasing harmful chemicals that are bad to our health.

]]> Comment on Investigating Explosions Update by elaine http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/2009/01/30/investigating-explosions-update/comment-page-1/#comment-125 elaine Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:15:49 +0000 http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/?p=72#comment-125 She only needs to read James Northrup's article at the Otsego 2000 website to see how this could happen. She only needs to read James Northrup’s article at the Otsego 2000 website to see how this could happen.

]]> Comment on Level of Air Quality Impacts from Drilling Debated by R Shourds http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/2009/03/23/level-of-air-quality-impacts-from-drilling-debated/comment-page-1/#comment-123 R Shourds Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:58:16 +0000 http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/?p=109#comment-123 I read your post. I am a driller but I drill for environmental testing. I like to keep informed so thanks and keep on posting. Thanks I read your post. I am a driller but I drill for environmental testing. I like to keep informed so thanks and keep on posting. Thanks

]]> Comment on GIS Map of Active Drilling Rig Locations Available by well drilling Australia http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/2009/01/29/gis-map-of-active-drilling-rig-locations-available/comment-page-1/#comment-120 well drilling Australia Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:06:16 +0000 http://blogs.cornell.edu/nyswri/?p=66#comment-120 Thanks for the info! Thanks for the info!

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