Nice video for dummies. I have 17 years in the industry and all those opposed to this operation have been given the classic misdirection from both sides. It does not contaminate drinking water unless they are fracking at depths above 300m(1000ft), or the cement is missing around the casing(.00001%chance). There was a problem with coal bed methane fracks, using only nitrogen, at shallow depths that could cause coal seams to leak methane into surface water. Thats the gasland scenario with fire at the tap. This is a farce for conventional fracking in horizontal wells. It does use huge amounts of fresh water, that's the only downside, and never seems to get mentioned. Even the chemicals used these days are getting more enviro-friendly and better disclosed to the public. FYI
Clan Gordey there’s no doubt it’s hazardous. Let’s leave it at that! We will have people like yourself to blame when the world is no longer habitable for the human race! #green-energy
I'M LITERALLY SHOCKED! CNN DIDN'T TRY TO LIE (AS IS TRADITION) AND SAY THAT "FRaCkiNg cAuSeS EaRtHqUaKeS" LIKE SO MANY MENTALLY ILL DEMOCRATS 🤪 SEEM TO BELIEVE 🤣 🤣 🤣
She talks like she doesn't knows what's going on... it's like giving a presentation on physics, but you've never taken a single physics class in your life
The chemicals used generally make up 0.5% of the entire mixture that goes down throughout the whole process, I'd love to hear her explain how 0.5% is "a lot".
Yet everyone trying to testify against fracking most likely drive vehicles. Lol, try driving or lighting your barbecues without natural gas or gasoline /diesel. SHEEP
what she doesn’t say is that this is not for natural gas, nature creates some kind of lubricant to ease movement of tectonic plates, this is what they are extracting, thank you governments
@@moikikijr 1 drop of oil can pollute 600-1000 liter of water for example. And 0.5% chemicals of 19 000 000 liter, used for just one source is a lot!!! There are around 50 000 sources in the US btw.
I'm a safety officer working with one of the biggest Frac organizations in the world and a lot of you have no idea what your talking about unless it was something media related that's been put into your head. We drill wells to over 17,000ft. Yes you read that right, OVER 3 MILES DEEP! Water tables can be drilled and reached with very small conventional rigs to a few thousand feet or less for water wells. So what your saying is that liquid is defying the laws of gravity and finding a way to come back up 2 miles to contaminate your water??? Better have another glass of media and ponder that.
MrKrazycoyote22 Keep seeing comments like this from pro-fracking cunts. But water can defy gravity... you ever heard of water tension... :/ Siphoning gas from a car... the water doesn’t go up...? Me confused.. Or are you confused and a moron.. How can you say such stupid shit and be a safety officer, that is a worry. But anyway, water contamination as bad as it is, is not the main concern for me. The main concern for me is the ground shaking and breaking apart.. Earthquakes and sinkholes.. You literally didn’t even mention them... 4 years ago... convenient. Do you still feel the same way?
Schooled. Hahaha Oh man. I’d be so embarrassed to be you right now. A safety officer from a fracking site getting schooled by a jobless stoner. Hahah. Christ alive. “ water can’t defy the laws of gravity “ What are the laws of gravity again Jimbo? You don’t know the shite you are spouting and you are someone supposedly in the know! Hahahahahahahahagagahahahagahahagahaghahahahahahahahagagahahahahahahahahahagahahahahahahahahahahahagsgsghshshshshahahahahahahhahahahahahahshshahahahshshhahahahahahahahah I thought there were these things called volcanoes.. lava spewing up out of the ground.. but then I remembered your comment and thought “ no! Lava can’t defy the laws of gravity” Paaahahahaha you are an idiot man. You might need to re-educate yourself on a few little things. Sorry to be so mean. Think it’s cos your a yank and I’m british.. we are just a lot cleverer on average than you morons.
Good for you. The hateful, as they call themselves, environmentalist are out there with their childish filled tirades, force fed minions that are tying to be relevant. It's now 2019 here in PA and the bottom feeders moved on from trying to stop fracking to trying to institute a severance tax (I guess now fracking is ok if it can be milked for money). The missing fact is that fracking companies here in PA already paid a usage fee in excess of a billion dollars. More facts, electricity produced by fossil fuels or nuclear power is way more reliable and cheaper than anything else sow far (carbon foot print, bite my a$$, it's a minor constituent of the atmosphere). I saw one goober here from Scotland that took a hissy fit, but consider the source. Good luck there with the EU, apparently he deserves it.
Most residents of PA (the center of fracking) have seen a drop in natural gas prices for home heating and industrial uses of about 20% in the last 4 years. If you complain about fracking but pay a lower energy bill each month bc of gas prices dropping, stop paying the lower rate. Don't be a hypocrite, criticizing something you're also benefiting from.
your a liar pa. gas prices high as hell,now lets tell them about trade law secrets and gag orders,come on liar,how about the gas well explosions,one right now in green county burning out of control,750 toxic chemicals poisoning everyone and explosions,come on liar,tell them!
I find that hard to believe, as West Virginia's monthly ('level billing') bills have ge up steadily for the past six years. there have been subsidies to try to mask it partially, and there was a recent scandal where they were vastly understating consumer electricity costs in government reports, as well as overhargiing by the utilities. In fact, the dmestic gas pries were low drilling and fracking a Marcellus well LOST money at domestic wholesale rates, thats why the frenzy f pipelines and export terminals. When it's bid against Japan's price which is FIVE TIMES ours, what d you think will happen to domestic consumer rates THEN? See why it HAS to be nationalized? Seniors on 1/2 FPL Social Security will be freezing or starving, by the millions. That's if the benzene fumes from fracking's cancer ponds doesn't kill them first. Right now over 15 milion Americans live within one mile of it (-WSJ.) In ten years or less, they will die of it, babies and seniors first. The industry claims in a few deades, EVERYONE will live within a mile of it.
I would like to know the sources for two comments. 1) at 0:35 I am surprised that this is made by CNN and they say fracturing is high speed instead of high pressure. 2)at 0:10 drilling horizontally because we can't get through the rock. I would question that. What I do know is that horizontal drilling exposes more rock to the fracturing process. I would appreciate comments from a geologist or someone who works in these fields and has experience here.
Gary Arthurs, geophysicist here. You’re right about point #1, it is high pressure that fractures rock, rather than high speeds. To point #2, CNN is inaccurate. We have the capability to drill through “any” rock and we aren’t going for “pockets hidden beneath the rock”. The oil and gas is trapped in tight pore spaces (microscopic in size) and horizontal drilling allows more connection with an entire lateral section of rock that we know contains these pores (~10,000 feet, horizontally). The pressure and water breaks this rock creating fractures, and the sand keeps these fractures open so the oil can flow from the pores to the horizontal wellbore uninhibited by closed rock. These days, the well goes down about 8,000 feet before turning horizontal for a stretch of 10,000. Fracking only happens in this horizontal section. She is also incorrect about the US’s reserves. We currently produce more oil and gas than anywhere else in the world, only because of this technology. As said in other comments, the methane issue is shallow surface, bad quality casing around the well. Spills on the surface contribute to ground water contamination, but a well-cased well (the standard, these days, because of so many well-deserved and implemented regulations) does not leak into water sources.
This is one of the most slanted explanations of the potential harm from fracking I have ever come across...I have never been a fan of CNN, but I never thought that they were this bad. This is basically an ad for fracking.
I remember fracking in Northern Alberta. We used to accidently spill all kinds of nasty chemicals into the ground when we rigged out our pipe. Happens all the time with careless frac operators. It is a messy process.
I am so glad that we still have a few truly independent and objective stations in Germany. CNN reports are not all bad, but this report has been purchased in any case of the American oil industry you energy. As an Jounalist I would be deeply ashamed to sell such propaganda as an information!
As someone who works out in North Dakota as part of fracking I can honestly say fracking has less chemicals than your can of pop... and we pump probably 1,000 X's more water and sand than anything else
Thanks for the general information. Turns out the deeper into the ground you go the warmer or hotter the locality is (at the bottom of the well). There's an experiment that is being conducted in Utah to take advantage of the hot idea for geothermal power. Might end up replacing coal or oil or nuclear power plants with fracked geothermal power. So fracking for heat and not oil or gas? Boggle.
Once again, another uninformed reporter who has no idea what she is talking about when it comes to oil and gas drilling and production. I'll just focus on the first point she made about the fracturing process. She stated that a hydraulic process is used to pump a bunch of chemicals and "SOME" sand and water, as in very little, into the formation. First of all, she exaggerates the amount of chemicals used, typical. . the total amount of chemicals used makes up less than 1% of the fluid mixture (proppant). The other 99% is sand and water. Also, these chemicals are found in everyday consumer products like soap, plastics, detergents, etc. Use your mind and go earn a degree in petroleum engineering for yourselves if you are unable to think rationally, and believe a source like CNN and the highly qualified petroleum engineer like that reporter. Oh right! shes just a reporter!!!
***** Thanks for all of that but i have another question too. What are all the reports of gas pollution in surrounding areas about? All these must have come from something and if it is to be trusted it would underpin a larger issue of pollution that is failing to meet the mainstream media. I mean i`ve heard my fair share of big corporations ability to hush hush what they need to be silenced.
thanks alot for taking your time to throw out ur information on the topic.. i appreciate it. The shale is another source for hydrocarbons and energy. One last.last question remains still tho. While the carbon emission generated by natural gas from these sites are lower per kilowatt generated the production or rather collection methods invest more energy initially for the fuel raising its net carbon emission per kilowatt to what i heard and read past that of coal? While CO2 isn't the only pollutant and i`m sure it has less particulate matter. sulphur. and other contaminants what are its unique effects to the climate and immediate environment?
Thanks i try to remain civil, at the end of the day everyone just wants their voice to be heard or given a chance to do something important. Still alot of people make completely legitimate arguments but instead acknowledging the person for what they know or don`t know they just resort to a cuss out. Although i will disagree with you. Energy has by all means made our life much easier and changed our life in many ways. We survived before, we had fun before technology, we had to talk to real people before social media. I mean we spend sooo much energy and resources on our whims and fancies now -me included, like why on earth does someone need a marbled countertop -- its almost purely foShow. So my view is while the energy revolution has changed many things for the better it doesn't always and alot of it can be two steps forward and one backward. Africa does need energy to drive development, it has alot of natural resouces it could utilize that sadly have not historically been directed at improving the lives of the people but have gone into an abyss of corruption. Even legitimately it has been directed at building the intangible idea of an economy and investor confidence. my perspective is that when we improve conditions and afford opportunities to everyone those things are bound to follow. We are getting better at using the resources we have and i agree that climate change is receiving alot more attention than it needs. It is such a huge problem that no one country can take an effective stand against it and as a result no one really tries. There are much more workable problems like deforestation, habitat fragmentation and change, inefficient use of resources and more. Simply replanting native trees would solve that list of problems. But people don`t know and aren't well educated about the problems and solutions so these solutions won't happen until they are .........For now we can just bring awareness but when enough people know, we'll bring some real change. :)
she was pretty satisified with the fact that you can make money from fracking.. well done! We've only one earth what good is your money when it's destroyed?!
So if you run out of natural gas...you'll be singing a different tune. Why rely on $$ foreign oil when its in our back yard. Water will never run out, even if you have to filter it.
Oh, cool, some people make some money off of it. Fracking is awesome. Now that a CNN talking head explained it like if she's talking to deaf 5 year olds, without details, even without elocuence I love fracking.
1:48 We need to go to the root cause of why people get into fracking, or, want to burn down the complete Amazon rainforest, why people want to dig over huge areas of land to find gold or pull out every single fish from the oceans. It is because the labor market has been corrupted. There are not enough jobs for so many people.. Millions of well-paid jobs moved to low-wage countries, globalization, automation of production lines, farmers having to close their farms because of industrialized farming. As Chanakya Pandit says, extreme poverty causes all good qualities in human beings to become null and void.
Just curious but roughly how many people would work at these sites? I mean, i've seen some traditional oil workers where there might be 10-12 people at the site...then on rigs where it's higher numbers. would a fracking site be around that same 10-12 people? Would it be higher? Lower?
does nobody else agree that it's most likely the drilling process that causes the methane to enter the water table? Everyone in every video always says its after the drilling rig was there, the frac crew shows up well after the rig has left and the problem already exists. Every well is encased to 500 meters, well below your water table. Any fracing takes place 2Km below ground and while they are pumping chems and sand down there the chems are going to return to surface when the well flows back.
I may have only been in the biz for 6 months, not claiming to be an expert, but there is not a single picture in this video of an actual farck site or any fracking equipment!
This was absolutely pitiful. She failed to mention how the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation commission discovered how that guy lighting his faucet had drilled his water well through FOUR different coal beds. Also the reason the company's say that we can't frack into ground water is that Net Fracture pressure must exceed the closure pressure in order to extend the height of the fracture. Since perforation friction increases as the fracture is extended the closure will eventually overcome net/extension and frack fluid pressures. I don't know all the science but at least I tried harder to learn it than CNN did!!
There is no "k" in the word fracture, so why spell it fracking?! It's fracing... And ground water, is generally found between 100ft-500ft, fracing is done anywhere from, oh, say 5,000ft-8,000ft under ground. That's 4,000ft-7,000ft of Rock in between the two, and you're saying its contaminating the water?.... Doesn't really make sense to me. I work in the field, we don't harm anyone. All you burger flippers jealous of the money we make, are feeding the population garbage, but we're the bad guys because of false accusations.
Burger flippers contribute to the killing of cows that's harmful to many people isn't it? Also the sun might put out the energy but what makes the panels, lines, batteries it takes to utilize that power that only shines for half the day? When you attack someone for thinking they work in the industry or what they believe in then it shows how much you don't really look at both sides and the whole picture of a debate.
gregg roy.. I thought water under pressure could be forced upward..... After all the fracturing and drilling... Buy hey I'm not a rocket scientist.... Just a common o garden geologist......
Is anyone else gonna point that the light his “water” on fire was discovered to be false and that they paid the guy to hook up propane to his water lines??
If it's so safe, why is the industry exempt from the Clean Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Clean Air Act. Have you seen the toxic chemicals shown with a special camera that catches fumes naked to the human eye coming out of the containment wells? I have. No part of fracking is safe, no matter how quickly you 'clean the spill', the environment is still dead once those toxic chemicals hit the ground.
They don't tell you the chemicals because each company has its own blend. It is not because the chemicals are unsafe. A majority of the fracturing chemical is dihydrogen monoxide. If you don't like fracking then stop driving your car, stop heating your house, and stop taking hot showers.
And you'll die of thirst all you want. The Ogallala Aquifer is running out of water, soon the United States will be out of water due to ignorant people like you.
Here in the Netherlands the lubrication composition is no secret,every company who wants to drill here has to comply with environmental law and has to be open and clear of everything they pump down that well.
This video is SO full of inaccuracies that it is sad. 1. The oil is not under the rock, it's trapped in the rock 2. The US has the largest oil and natural gas reserves in the world 3. Every instance of people lighting their drinking water on fire has been debunked 4. The federal government can only control the drilling on federal land. All the fracking has been on private land 5. The first frack well was drilled in 1948. It is not new. What is new is horizontal or directional drilling. That is what makes fracking affordable. CNN has no clue what is involved in fracking.
Doc Frankenstein made a infomercial. Said hes not a monster, nice fella actually. Answers to the name Wally. Everyone should have one we will mass produce and ship them out. Hes a lil strong, his head a lil flat, and a lil chance he might rip you in two. But that got edited out of the infomercial
People are only forced to use oil because that's what everyone has decided is the only option. It isn't. But here's a bit of a fact for you: oil and coal are not infinite. We will, eventually, run out of both of these sources. Greater minds than you or I are already looking for solutions, but when oil companies work on obfuscating the facts and telling us that they're the only option for power, it makes it hard to transition. We've already hit peak oil. It's only a matter of time.
When it comes to oil & gas there are some that put money, and/or profit over anything else. Whether it's the person who needs a paycheck that has taken a job drilling, or it's the shareholder who is looking to profit from the company's bottom-line, there really is no differentiation as to the aftermath; they are both responsible, or well they should be. The old paradigm, as I call it, has to change; making way for the new, or native paradigm. There must be harmony to coexist. Planet earth has already given much more than should have ever been expected. The time for change is Now~
+Kevin HandPwr Have you given up your car yet? or electricity? Because until that happens, you are just as responsible as that driller, or that shareholder. You give them money to pay for the luxuries that oil and gas provide you. What are you doing to change? Here's another hippy liberal who wants all the luxuries of the modern world with none of the consequences.
Sam Chapelle If you are interested in finding out what those "viable alternative" are, come visit my page; or my channel. To be part of the solution is the answer; not the debate about whether there is a solution. Cheers ~
+Kevin HandPwr Oh trust me I know what alternatives exist, I've done some work on a solar farm before and have built a few wind turbines with my electrician buddy for his cottage. Solar, wind, hydro, tidal, nuclear, all cool stuff but in no position to replace the vast amounts of energy we use to run earth as we know it. Need to either figure out how to reduce usage by 90%, which doesn't seem likely... Or need some massive technology breakthroughs. We literally can't live without fossil fuels as it stands
She is wrong when she says oil and gas is found beneath the shale layer. If that was the case there would be no need to fracture. It is actually within the shale.
To consume the energy from natural gas you can melt metal and create pipes and varios drilling equpiment to fracking natural gas and creat jobs in mining, metal constructions, pipes drills, trucks. The bonus of natural gas use is that you can built at new water cleaning factory that uses natural gas for energy and create s lot of extra jobs.
She doesn't mention that after people or governments lease the land, their property values decrease substantially. Not only this, but the value of the surrounding land (the owners of which have absolutely no say in whether nearby land is leased) decreases significantly. Also, the jobs created in these towns are always temporary, and often taken by more highly qualified out of state workers.
Wow thank you man!!! I'm a Frac worker too and it truly is a lack of education on our work where the problem lies. They think we just dump the flowback fluid into a pond or something lol, and they think we use 500 different chems and that we use 500,000 gallons of chems and all kinda shit. Until they actually step foot on location, and see for themselves, they won't understand. Just like I really didn't know much about it before I started...I've been here for 3 years and I'm in perfect health.
Can you tell us how strong is the cement casing? For example, under tests, how much of force it was able to endure? Also, what is the life of the cement casing? How many years would it pass before it becomes too weak and methane starts dissolving in aquifiers. I know from high school science that Methane is almost half the weight of air. So, is there is a scientific proof that methane released at 10000 feet deep (by fracking) is not able to "fly" up to the aquifiers at 1400 feet level?
God bless her for finishing with 'cashing in' on granny farm's missery. Sounds like she's talking to city people, with their precious zoning laws and municiple water supply.
I liked the playful tilt of her voice when she mentioned chemicals in frack water. What a sell job and this is unfortunately how most people get their news.
I find it funny at 1:48 when they say is it dangerous they show a clip of a movie where their land has not been used for fracking, and yet that is what they say is dangerous.
I do not yet know the truth about the dangers of fracking, but I do not trust either the corporate executives or their PR people to reveal any dangers or risks they know about. Remember how tobacco company executives testified before Congress that cigarette smoking is not linked to cancer?
Lizzie, please learn facts frac or hydraulic fracturing has been happening since the 40's it is an additional service to drilling so it happens after the well is drilled have to have the well drilled before can do anything with it. Also oil and gas companies are required to report about wells, including state, county, exact GPS location, depth chemicals used, service companies that performed on the specific well site. There is lots of misconceptions pertaining to the hydraulic fracturing ind.
Don't understand how they can infer that this practice is "safe"...when even the authorities don't know what chemicals are being used. This is entirely unacceptable. Our government is SUPPOSED to PROTECT it's citizens. If environmental groups are our watchdogs, then so be it, but don't sugar-coat what you don't know.
+mrx3214 I always wonder about this too. It just goes to show how little the general public knows about the diference between drilling, fracking, and injection wells. The drilling rig is the iconic logo of oil so thats why they use the picture i guess. A frac location would just look like a parking lot full of tractor trailers to the lay man.
I understood a few things what you wrote but its doesn't make much sense, I am how ever fascinated so can you please break you're comment down a little please ? :)
So the question you have to ask yourself is do you know what fracking is. NO! In this video first of all not one picture was of a fracking operation,they were all drilling rigs. second, When a well is drilled its drilled to the depth of the shale formation witch on average is 7000-10000 feet deep, there is steele casing and concrete to the bottom of the well separating it from the earth and water, besides the water is usually siting at 800-1400 feet leaving it untouched at all thimes.
I am a Frac worker, and usually we have anywhere from 25 to 50 people on a single well site. It takes an extreme amount of manpower and equipment to do this job. My particular office that I'm employed out of consists of 150 men. That's just one office out of hundreds maybe a thousand offices where the jobs are dispatched from. Out of the entire process of drilling, completing, stimulation, and producing a well, Frac is the most demanding and takes the most people and energy to do.
"A lot of chemicaaals and some some saaand andsomeotherthings" was extraordinarily informative.
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Damn that’s all you got out of that. We are a nation of babies 👶 haha
Also said the fractures are right under the drinking water. Try over a mile deeper 😂
@@dillontscheu8717 It didn't say that you liar. Jesus man figure out your life.
@@curiel45 😂😂
Nice video for dummies. I have 17 years in the industry and all those opposed to this operation have been given the classic misdirection from both sides. It does not contaminate drinking water unless they are fracking at depths above 300m(1000ft), or the cement is missing around the casing(.00001%chance). There was a problem with coal bed methane fracks, using only nitrogen, at shallow depths that could cause coal seams to leak methane into surface water. Thats the gasland scenario with fire at the tap. This is a farce for conventional fracking in horizontal wells. It does use huge amounts of fresh water, that's the only downside, and never seems to get mentioned. Even the chemicals used these days are getting more enviro-friendly and better disclosed to the public. FYI
Clan Gordey there’s no doubt it’s hazardous. Let’s leave it at that! We will have people like yourself to blame when the world is no longer habitable for the human race! #green-energy
@@braydenmaroszek472 natural gas is green energy
Thanks for your comment, it helps me to understand the effort for safety put into this kind of operation.
Having to explain flammable water...
Jayme Paradox flammable water is a rare but natural occurrence
you guys crack me up. how much did you get paid to produce this.
+Cyndi Lenz a small loan of a million dollars
I'M LITERALLY SHOCKED! CNN DIDN'T TRY TO LIE (AS IS TRADITION) AND SAY THAT "FRaCkiNg cAuSeS EaRtHqUaKeS" LIKE SO MANY MENTALLY ILL DEMOCRATS 🤪 SEEM TO BELIEVE 🤣 🤣 🤣
She talks like she doesn't knows what's going on... it's like giving a presentation on physics, but you've never taken a single physics class in your life
hahaha "They're using water...and a lot of chemicaaals... and some sand and other things..."
The chemicals used generally make up 0.5% of the entire mixture that goes down throughout the whole process, I'd love to hear her explain how 0.5% is "a lot".
Yet everyone trying to testify against fracking most likely drive vehicles. Lol, try driving or lighting your barbecues without natural gas or gasoline /diesel. SHEEP
what she doesn’t say is that this is not for natural gas, nature creates some kind of lubricant to ease movement of tectonic plates, this is what they are extracting, thank you governments
@@moikikijr 1 drop of oil can pollute 600-1000 liter of water for example.
And 0.5% chemicals of 19 000 000 liter, used for just one source is a lot!!! There are around 50 000 sources in the US btw.
I'm a safety officer working with one of the biggest Frac organizations in the world and a lot of you have no idea what your talking about unless it was something media related that's been put into your head. We drill wells to over 17,000ft. Yes you read that right, OVER 3 MILES DEEP! Water tables can be drilled and reached with very small conventional rigs to a few thousand feet or less for water wells. So what your saying is that liquid is defying the laws of gravity and finding a way to come back up 2 miles to contaminate your water??? Better have another glass of media and ponder that.
MrKrazycoyote22
Keep seeing comments like this from pro-fracking cunts.
But water can defy gravity... you ever heard of water tension...
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Siphoning gas from a car... the water doesn’t go up...? Me confused..
Or are you confused and a moron..
How can you say such stupid shit and be a safety officer, that is a worry.
But anyway, water contamination as bad as it is, is not the main concern for me.
The main concern for me is the ground shaking and breaking apart..
Earthquakes and sinkholes..
You literally didn’t even mention them... 4 years ago... convenient.
Do you still feel the same way?
Schooled. Hahaha
Oh man. I’d be so embarrassed to be you right now. A safety officer from a fracking site getting schooled by a jobless stoner.
Hahah.
Christ alive.
“ water can’t defy the laws of gravity “
What are the laws of gravity again Jimbo?
You don’t know the shite you are spouting and you are someone supposedly in the know!
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I thought there were these things called volcanoes.. lava spewing up out of the ground.. but then I remembered your comment and thought “ no! Lava can’t defy the laws of gravity”
Paaahahahaha you are an idiot man.
You might need to re-educate yourself on a few little things.
Sorry to be so mean. Think it’s cos your a yank and I’m british.. we are just a lot cleverer on average than you morons.
Good for you. The hateful, as they call themselves, environmentalist are out there with their childish filled tirades, force fed minions that are tying to be relevant. It's now 2019 here in PA and the bottom feeders moved on from trying to stop fracking to trying to institute a severance tax (I guess now fracking is ok if it can be milked for money). The missing fact is that fracking companies here in PA already paid a usage fee in excess of a billion dollars. More facts, electricity produced by fossil fuels or nuclear power is way more reliable and cheaper than anything else sow far (carbon foot print, bite my a$$, it's a minor constituent of the atmosphere). I saw one goober here from Scotland that took a hissy fit, but consider the source. Good luck there with the EU, apparently he deserves it.
I'm a green man, but 99% of the frac liquid is actually sand and water. It just makes economic sense.
Every time I poop my bathroom fills up with methane gas😂
0:44 isn't a frac job, it's from a pipeline installation. One of many inaccuracies - and outright lies - in this video.
CNN, as always, thinks we're too stupid to notice. 🙄
Most residents of PA (the center of fracking) have seen a drop in natural gas prices for home heating and industrial uses of about 20% in the last 4 years. If you complain about fracking but pay a lower energy bill each month bc of gas prices dropping, stop paying the lower rate.
Don't be a hypocrite, criticizing something you're also benefiting from.
your a liar pa. gas prices high as hell,now lets tell them about trade law secrets and gag orders,come on liar,how about the gas well explosions,one right now in green county burning out of control,750 toxic chemicals poisoning everyone and explosions,come on liar,tell them!
You're an idiot plain & simple
***** my 4th grade english teacher would pop a blood vessel trying to read what you just said.
I find that hard to believe, as West Virginia's monthly ('level billing') bills have ge up steadily for the past six years. there have been subsidies to try to mask it partially, and there was a recent scandal where they were vastly understating consumer electricity costs in government reports, as well as overhargiing by the utilities. In fact, the dmestic gas pries were low drilling and fracking a Marcellus well LOST money at domestic wholesale rates, thats why the frenzy f pipelines and export terminals. When it's bid against Japan's price which is FIVE TIMES ours, what d you think will happen to domestic consumer rates THEN? See why it HAS to be nationalized? Seniors on 1/2 FPL Social Security will be freezing or starving, by the millions. That's if the benzene fumes from fracking's cancer ponds doesn't kill them first. Right now over 15 milion Americans live within one mile of it (-WSJ.) In ten years or less, they will die of it, babies and seniors first. The industry claims in a few deades, EVERYONE will live within a mile of it.
madfighter56 LOL!
How is it a "gas pocket" when the gas is held within the shale matrix, which is spread pervasivley throughout the shales
I would like to know the sources for two comments.
1) at 0:35 I am surprised that this is made by CNN and they say fracturing is high speed instead of high pressure.
2)at 0:10 drilling horizontally because we can't get through the rock. I would question that. What I do know is that horizontal drilling exposes more rock to the fracturing process.
I would appreciate comments from a geologist or someone who works in these fields and has experience here.
she needs to get her facts in line before running on with her ill gotten opinions, and yes she does have some fracable little melons!!
Gary Arthurs, geophysicist here. You’re right about point #1, it is high pressure that fractures rock, rather than high speeds. To point #2, CNN is inaccurate. We have the capability to drill through “any” rock and we aren’t going for “pockets hidden beneath the rock”. The oil and gas is trapped in tight pore spaces (microscopic in size) and horizontal drilling allows more connection with an entire lateral section of rock that we know contains these pores (~10,000 feet, horizontally). The pressure and water breaks this rock creating fractures, and the sand keeps these fractures open so the oil can flow from the pores to the horizontal wellbore uninhibited by closed rock. These days, the well goes down about 8,000 feet before turning horizontal for a stretch of 10,000. Fracking only happens in this horizontal section. She is also incorrect about the US’s reserves. We currently produce more oil and gas than anywhere else in the world, only because of this technology. As said in other comments, the methane issue is shallow surface, bad quality casing around the well. Spills on the surface contribute to ground water contamination, but a well-cased well (the standard, these days, because of so many well-deserved and implemented regulations) does not leak into water sources.
You lost me at “cnn explains” 🤣🤣🤣
Believe it or not at this time cnn was an unbias and reliable source of news before the corruption
Having spent most of my working life in the business this video makes the hairs on the back of my neck to rise.
"America doesn't have that much oil" wow, insane.
What reality of darkness is this lady broadcasting from, and why is she speaking as if I have a hearing problem.
Then an earthquake happens and your taxes will pay for the damages, so win-win for the fracking companies.
Why is this the friendliest fracking video compared to others?
This is one of the most slanted explanations of the potential harm from fracking I have ever come across...I have never been a fan of CNN, but I never thought that they were this bad. This is basically an ad for fracking.
Far from the best explanation of fracking. Leave it to CNN to put out such drivel.
I would appreciate if you could link/tell me about another explanation that's better. Need it for school work. Thanks in advance!
FrackNation documentary on Netflix.
I remember fracking in Northern Alberta. We used to accidently spill all kinds of nasty chemicals into the ground when we rigged out our pipe. Happens all the time with careless frac operators. It is a messy process.
I like how the only benefits of fracking she mentions are that residents can get money.
I am so glad that we still have a few truly independent and objective stations in Germany. CNN reports are not all bad, but this report has been purchased in any case of the American oil industry you energy. As an Jounalist I would be deeply ashamed to sell such propaganda as an information!
As someone who works out in North Dakota as part of fracking I can honestly say fracking has less chemicals than your can of pop... and we pump probably 1,000 X's more water and sand than anything else
Thanks for the general information. Turns out the deeper into the ground you go the warmer or hotter the locality is (at the bottom of the well). There's an experiment that is being conducted in Utah to take advantage of the hot idea for geothermal power. Might end up replacing coal or oil or nuclear power plants with fracked geothermal power. So fracking for heat and not oil or gas? Boggle.
Once again, another uninformed reporter who has no idea what she is talking about when it comes to oil and gas drilling and production. I'll just focus on the first point she made about the fracturing process. She stated that a hydraulic process is used to pump a bunch of chemicals and "SOME" sand and water, as in very little, into the formation. First of all, she exaggerates the amount of chemicals used, typical. . the total amount of chemicals used makes up less than 1% of the fluid mixture (proppant). The other 99% is sand and water. Also, these chemicals are found in everyday consumer products like soap, plastics, detergents, etc. Use your mind and go earn a degree in petroleum engineering for yourselves if you are unable to think rationally, and believe a source like CNN and the highly qualified petroleum engineer like that reporter. Oh right! shes just a reporter!!!
i know the chemicals added is about 1% \.. but isn`t it still a lot of nameless chemicals when about 8 million gallons is involved?
***** Thanks for all of that but i have another question too. What are all the reports of gas pollution in surrounding areas about? All these must have come from something and if it is to be trusted it would underpin a larger issue of pollution that is failing to meet the mainstream media. I mean i`ve heard my fair share of big corporations ability to hush hush what they need to be silenced.
thanks alot for taking your time to throw out ur information on the topic.. i appreciate it. The shale is another source for hydrocarbons and energy. One last.last question remains still tho. While the carbon emission generated by natural gas from these sites are lower per kilowatt generated the production or rather collection methods invest more energy initially for the fuel raising its net carbon emission per kilowatt to what i heard and read past that of coal?
While CO2 isn't the only pollutant and i`m sure it has less particulate matter. sulphur. and other contaminants what are its unique effects to the climate and immediate environment?
Thanks i try to remain civil, at the end of the day everyone just wants their voice to be heard or given a chance to do something important. Still alot of people make completely legitimate arguments but instead acknowledging the person for what they know or don`t know they just resort to a cuss out.
Although i will disagree with you. Energy has by all means made our life much easier and changed our life in many ways. We survived before, we had fun before technology, we had to talk to real people before social media. I mean we spend sooo much energy and resources on our whims and fancies now -me included, like why on earth does someone need a marbled countertop -- its almost purely foShow. So my view is while the energy revolution has changed many things for the better it doesn't always and alot of it can be two steps forward and one backward. Africa does need energy to drive development, it has alot of natural resouces it could utilize that sadly have not historically been directed at improving the lives of the people but have gone into an abyss of corruption. Even legitimately it has been directed at building the intangible idea of an economy and investor confidence. my perspective is that when we improve conditions and afford opportunities to everyone those things are bound to follow.
We are getting better at using the resources we have and i agree that climate change is receiving alot more attention than it needs. It is such a huge problem that no one country can take an effective stand against it and as a result no one really tries. There are much more workable problems like deforestation, habitat fragmentation and change, inefficient use of resources and more. Simply replanting native trees would solve that list of problems.
But people don`t know and aren't well educated about the problems and solutions so these solutions won't happen until they are .........For now we can just bring awareness but when enough people know, we'll bring some real change. :)
***** You must have been really bored on vacation. Good information. I used to work in the oil field. I was a cement engineer.
This is not a debate. The evidence is out there.
She is so matter of fact and casual--some people will say anything for a paycheck. Fracking is NOT okay
Fracking is another financial bubble about to explode!!!
she was pretty satisified with the fact that you can make money from fracking.. well done! We've only one earth what good is your money when it's destroyed?!
Not even a picture of a frac crew here, only pipeline and drilling pics. WTF CNN.
I work in the Eagle Ford Shale. All good here.... Frack on.
you will be singing another tune when you have cancer in a few years - how have you tried to educate yourself about fracking?
Mechanic in Utica, Frac on!
Fuck You. Soon, we'll not only be out of oil, but also water due to ignorant dipshits like you.
So if you run out of natural gas...you'll be singing a different tune. Why rely on $$ foreign oil when its in our back yard. Water will never run out, even if you have to filter it.
pee wee was that a serious comment? Water will run out. It's already happening in California
Oh, cool, some people make some money off of it. Fracking is awesome. Now that a CNN talking head explained it like if she's talking to deaf 5 year olds, without details, even without elocuence I love fracking.
Came here because of Mindanao Shakes issue.. Who else?
Whats the worse that could happen? We lose another 72 trillion gallons of water and contribute to one of the worst droughts in history?
Perhaps CNN should go to PA and see the lives this industry has impacted before supporting it !!!!!
1:48 We need to go to the root cause of why people get into fracking, or, want to burn down the complete Amazon rainforest, why people want to dig over huge areas of land to find gold or pull out every single fish from the oceans. It is because the labor market has been corrupted. There are not enough jobs for so many people.. Millions of well-paid jobs moved to low-wage countries, globalization, automation of production lines, farmers having to close their farms because of industrialized farming. As Chanakya Pandit says, extreme poverty causes all good qualities in human beings to become null and void.
Just curious but roughly how many people would work at these sites? I mean, i've seen some traditional oil workers where there might be 10-12 people at the site...then on rigs where it's higher numbers. would a fracking site be around that same 10-12 people? Would it be higher? Lower?
CNN “ informing “ anyone on anything is an absolute joke
12 years in the industry: my kids could explain it better after they close the local tavern
WTF this is a disgrace.
video does not even scratch the surface of the negative effects of fracking
Amazing unification of water plumbing and gas lines into one source. I love it we could make a bundle
Has there been any ground collapses
If its so safe quit letting oil companies file LLCs and flushing them every few years to avoid all responsibility
Now that CNN has explained it, I know there's nothing to worry about. Do they have a video where they explain GMO, also?
If you believe in evolution, you shouldn't have a problem with GMO's....after all, you are one. Just sayin'.
It's called 'unbiased reporting' you guys really aren't used to that are you?
I still need to figure out what fracking is!! Haha whoops came to the wrong place. Well let’s see how dumb they are
yay somone with a brain you rock dude
I totally understand now! Thanks
does nobody else agree that it's most likely the drilling process that causes the methane to enter the water table? Everyone in every video always says its after the drilling rig was there, the frac crew shows up well after the rig has left and the problem already exists. Every well is encased to 500 meters, well below your water table. Any fracing takes place 2Km below ground and while they are pumping chems and sand down there the chems are going to return to surface when the well flows back.
where does this lady get her info.. quote "we don't know quite exactly what's in the mix.." well 95% of it, is water an sand. Ya 5% some other stuff.
And what is the “other stuff?”
it seems like they edited out a lot of things but she was about to say especially when she was talking about dangers of Fracking
I may have only been in the biz for 6 months, not claiming to be an expert, but there is not a single picture in this video of an actual farck site or any fracking equipment!
Do the chemicals used in fracking pollute the water supply? If so, why is the government allowing fracking?
EPA officials have stated under oath that they cannot say whether or not fracking contaminates water supplies. I guess Matt Damon can though.
This was absolutely pitiful. She failed to mention how the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation commission discovered how that guy lighting his faucet had drilled his water well through FOUR different coal beds. Also the reason the company's say that we can't frack into ground water is that Net Fracture pressure must exceed the closure pressure in order to extend the height of the fracture. Since perforation friction increases as the fracture is extended the closure will eventually overcome net/extension and frack fluid pressures. I don't know all the science but at least I tried harder to learn it than CNN did!!
Keep trying ...... That was pathetic.
There is no "k" in the word fracture, so why spell it fracking?! It's fracing... And ground water, is generally found between 100ft-500ft, fracing is done anywhere from, oh, say 5,000ft-8,000ft under ground. That's 4,000ft-7,000ft of Rock in between the two, and you're saying its contaminating the water?.... Doesn't really make sense to me.
I work in the field, we don't harm anyone. All you burger flippers jealous of the money we make, are feeding the population garbage, but we're the bad guys because of false accusations.
Burger flippers contribute to the killing of cows that's harmful to many people isn't it? Also the sun might put out the energy but what makes the panels, lines, batteries it takes to utilize that power that only shines for half the day?
When you attack someone for thinking they work in the industry or what they believe in then it shows how much you don't really look at both sides and the whole picture of a debate.
marcellusdrilling.com/2010/06/list-of-78-chemicals-used-in-hydraulic-fracturing-fluid-in-pennsylvania/
Secret chemicals? You were saying?
gregg roy.. I thought water under pressure could be forced upward..... After all the fracturing and drilling... Buy hey I'm not a rocket scientist.... Just a common o garden geologist......
A little chemistry knowledge would tell you that water burning video is fake
Fracking contaminated my beer supply. I'm really concerned about my beer supply!
Is anyone else gonna point that the light his “water” on fire was discovered to be false and that they paid the guy to hook up propane to his water lines??
If it's so safe, why is the industry exempt from the Clean Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Clean Air Act. Have you seen the toxic chemicals shown with a special camera that catches fumes naked to the human eye coming out of the containment wells? I have. No part of fracking is safe, no matter how quickly you 'clean the spill', the environment is still dead once those toxic chemicals hit the ground.
High volume, horizontal fracking of non conventional wells with slickwater chemicals in non conventional wells only started in 2002.
this is how earthquakes happen son!!
First of all it’s pressure not speed, common guys your are CNN
LOL, people pause alot when speaking when they can't lie. LMFAO
They don't tell you the chemicals because each company has its own blend. It is not because the chemicals are unsafe. A majority of the fracturing chemical is dihydrogen monoxide. If you don't like fracking then stop driving your car, stop heating your house, and stop taking hot showers.
You think that these droughts may be caused by pumping millions of gallons of water per fracking well?
When people start paying my property taxes, they can tell me what to do on MY land! I'll frack all I want. Gotta live.
You will be singing another tune when you get cancer from the frack chemical spills and your property value will tank as soon as a well goes in.
And you'll die of thirst all you want. The Ogallala Aquifer is running out of water, soon the United States will be out of water due to ignorant people like you.
Bingbongchingchog well thought response you got there. And, sure! I'd rather not have a heart attack at 60 years old. Thanks.
Here in the Netherlands the lubrication composition is no secret,every company who wants to drill here has to comply with environmental law and has to be open and clear of everything they pump down that well.
So do the American oil companies. Don't believe a word from this CNN report.
fracking explained to a child.
Continue making these.
I am confused, how is these chemicals from fracking, making their way a mile back up the pipe to the water wells? Shitty casing?
I just don't trust CNN & this video did not help.lol
why does she sound like she has no idea what shes talking about? wait a minute...
maybe because not many people were so informed about it back then?
CNN NOW STANDS FOR Caring for the PEOPLE???? No, NEVER...CaringNoNever...CNN
This video is SO full of inaccuracies that it is sad.
1. The oil is not under the rock, it's trapped in the rock
2. The US has the largest oil and natural gas reserves in the world
3. Every instance of people lighting their drinking water on fire has been debunked
4. The federal government can only control the drilling on federal land. All the fracking has been on private land
5. The first frack well was drilled in 1948. It is not new. What is new is horizontal or directional drilling. That is what makes fracking affordable.
CNN has no clue what is involved in fracking.
Doc Frankenstein made a infomercial. Said hes not a monster, nice fella actually. Answers to the name Wally. Everyone should have one we will mass produce and ship them out. Hes a lil strong, his head a lil flat, and a lil chance he might rip you in two. But that got edited out of the infomercial
People are only forced to use oil because that's what everyone has decided is the only option. It isn't.
But here's a bit of a fact for you: oil and coal are not infinite. We will, eventually, run out of both of these sources. Greater minds than you or I are already looking for solutions, but when oil companies work on obfuscating the facts and telling us that they're the only option for power, it makes it hard to transition.
We've already hit peak oil. It's only a matter of time.
When it comes to oil & gas there are some that put money, and/or profit over anything else. Whether it's the person who needs a paycheck that has taken a job drilling, or it's the shareholder who is looking to profit from the company's bottom-line, there really is no differentiation as to the aftermath; they are both responsible, or well they should be.
The old paradigm, as I call it, has to change; making way for the new, or native paradigm. There must be harmony to coexist.
Planet earth has already given much more than should have ever been expected. The time for change is Now~
+Kevin HandPwr Have you given up your car yet? or electricity? Because until that happens, you are just as responsible as that driller, or that shareholder. You give them money to pay for the luxuries that oil and gas provide you. What are you doing to change? Here's another hippy liberal who wants all the luxuries of the modern world with none of the consequences.
B toms Yes & Yes. Come visit me on G+, or here on RUclips to verify what I am about.
Cheers ~
So go and invent a viable alternative....
Sam Chapelle If you are interested in finding out what those "viable alternative" are, come visit my page; or my channel.
To be part of the solution is the answer; not the debate about whether there is a solution.
Cheers ~
+Kevin HandPwr Oh trust me I know what alternatives exist, I've done some work on a solar farm before and have built a few wind turbines with my electrician buddy for his cottage. Solar, wind, hydro, tidal, nuclear, all cool stuff but in no position to replace the vast amounts of energy we use to run earth as we know it. Need to either figure out how to reduce usage by 90%, which doesn't seem likely... Or need some massive technology breakthroughs. We literally can't live without fossil fuels as it stands
She is wrong when she says oil and gas is found beneath the shale layer. If that was the case there would be no need to fracture. It is actually within the shale.
why are there so many pictures of pipeliners that have nothing to do with fraccing?
To consume the energy from natural gas you can melt metal and create pipes and varios
drilling equpiment to
fracking natural gas
and creat jobs in mining, metal constructions, pipes drills, trucks.
The bonus of natural gas use is that you can built at new water cleaning factory that uses natural gas for energy and create s lot of extra jobs.
As a fraction this woman is so wrong it is unbelievable she and whomever she works for clearly know nothing about fracking
She doesn't mention that after people or governments lease the land, their property values decrease substantially. Not only this, but the value of the surrounding land (the owners of which have absolutely no say in whether nearby land is leased) decreases significantly. Also, the jobs created in these towns are always temporary, and often taken by more highly qualified out of state workers.
Wow thank you man!!! I'm a Frac worker too and it truly is a lack of education on our work where the problem lies. They think we just dump the flowback fluid into a pond or something lol, and they think we use 500 different chems and that we use 500,000 gallons of chems and all kinda shit. Until they actually step foot on location, and see for themselves, they won't understand. Just like I really didn't know much about it before I started...I've been here for 3 years and I'm in perfect health.
Still around in 2022?
That's what I was thinking. They Frack 1.5 miles deep!
Safe? Then drink that shit, i dare you.
Can you tell us how strong is the cement casing? For example, under tests, how much of force it was able to endure? Also, what is the life of the cement casing? How many years would it pass before it becomes too weak and methane starts dissolving in aquifiers.
I know from high school science that Methane is almost half the weight of air. So, is there is a scientific proof that methane released at 10000 feet deep (by fracking) is not able to "fly" up to the aquifiers at 1400 feet level?
God bless her for finishing with 'cashing in' on granny farm's missery. Sounds like she's talking to city people, with their precious zoning laws and municiple water supply.
I liked the playful tilt of her voice when she mentioned chemicals in frack water. What a sell job and this is unfortunately how most people get their news.
I find it funny at 1:48 when they say is it dangerous they show a clip of a movie where their land has not been used for fracking, and yet that is what they say is dangerous.
Will they be fracking in the south east?..thought not
That thumbnail... nothing to do drilling horizontally or fracking.
I do not yet know the truth about the dangers of fracking, but I do not trust either the corporate executives or their PR people to reveal any dangers or risks they know about. Remember how tobacco company executives testified before Congress that cigarette smoking is not linked to cancer?
Lizzie, please learn facts frac or hydraulic fracturing has been happening since the 40's it is an additional service to drilling so it happens after the well is drilled have to have the well drilled before can do anything with it. Also oil and gas companies are required to report about wells, including state, county, exact GPS location, depth chemicals used, service companies that performed on the specific well site. There is lots of misconceptions pertaining to the hydraulic fracturing ind.
Don't understand how they can infer that this practice is "safe"...when even the authorities don't know what chemicals are being used. This is entirely unacceptable. Our government is SUPPOSED to PROTECT it's citizens. If environmental groups are our watchdogs, then so be it, but don't sugar-coat what you don't know.
Why show pictures of a drilling rig? Not a actual frac location with wireline?
+mrx3214 I always wonder about this too. It just goes to show how little the general public knows about the diference between drilling, fracking, and injection wells. The drilling rig is the iconic logo of oil so thats why they use the picture i guess. A frac location would just look like a parking lot full of tractor trailers to the lay man.
I understood a few things what you wrote but its doesn't make much sense, I am how ever fascinated so can you please break you're comment down a little please ? :)
So the question you have to ask yourself is do you know what fracking is. NO! In this video first of all not one picture was of a fracking operation,they were all drilling rigs. second, When a well is drilled its drilled to the depth of the shale formation witch on average is 7000-10000 feet deep, there is steele casing and concrete to the bottom of the well separating it from the earth and water, besides the water is usually siting at 800-1400 feet leaving it untouched at all thimes.
I am a Frac worker, and usually we have anywhere from 25 to 50 people on a single well site. It takes an extreme amount of manpower and equipment to do this job. My particular office that I'm employed out of consists of 150 men. That's just one office out of hundreds maybe a thousand offices where the jobs are dispatched from. Out of the entire process of drilling, completing, stimulation, and producing a well, Frac is the most demanding and takes the most people and energy to do.