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| The Natural Gas Crisis: Greens Engineer Another Disaster |
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we have plenty of natural gas (as does Canada) but environmental laws have so slowed new domestic and offshore drilling for it that there’s this little problem. According to Andrew Weissman, chairman of the Energy Ventures Group, there is “a staggering shortfall, with profound implications for energy companies and for the health of the US economy.” This shortfall is going to drive the price of natural gas through the roof, as if it hasn’t already done so. It may force industries to shut down in order to insure homeowners and apartment dwellers do not freeze in the event of a long, cold winter.
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Posted on Thursday, August 12 @ 21:10:36 PDT by admin |
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Re: The Natural Gas Crisis: Greens Engineer Another Disaster (Score: 1)
by buster (robtmartin at google mail) on Thursday, August 12 @ 23:12:58 PDT
(User Info ) http://www.openspeech.org | This article quotes Robert Bradley: "The first point is that natural gas reserves in both the US and Canada are at all-time highs. Mother Nature is not to blame for high prices. Lagging infrastructure is at fault, from wellhead production to pipeline capacity to move supply to markets"
Bradley said that in his essay "Renewable Energy: Not Cheap, Not Green." It was written in 1997!!!
In this essay he had the nerve to call natural gas a "renewable energy."
Quote: "Continual reserve replacement and falling gas prices from the wellhead to the burner tip suggest that natural gas is not a nonrenewable resource in a policy-operative sense."
Since 1997, a new round of gas-powered energy plants were put in place, and our total reserves have fallen by 1600 cubic feet. According to Matt Simmons, this was due to bad calculations, and had NOTHING to do with Greens.
"If you dug into the data, the existing base was starting to decline,instead of 10% per annum, 20% per annum, 25% per annum,all of a sudden there was some studies coming out at theturn of the 21st century that the new vintage gas was maybe50% gone by the end of the first year."
See lengthier quotes here:
http://s90114153.onlinehome.us/html/modules/news/article.php?storyid=26 |
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Re: The Natural Gas Crisis: Greens Engineer Another Disaster (Score: 1)
by stayathomedad (stayathomedad) on Friday, August 13 @ 07:35:32 PDT
(User Info ) | | Ok guys, the way I look at this is the following: someone is going after that gas sooner or later. So I think they should do it now, while there are still resources to do it environmentally halfway sound. This is what I think about ANWAR as well. Let them do it now, while we can still clean up when we are done. |
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