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Tim McElwain

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STEAM DOCTOR

drink

Why didnt he drink it himself?

Tim McElwain

I remember when

condensing equipment first came out a rep for one of the companies used to drink the condensate just to prove it was harmless. Come to think of it I have not seen him in quite a while, HMMM I wonder!

joe_94

Just a hunch...

It has occurred  to me more than once that the secrecy arises in the fact that they inject garbage, waste,  chemicals to get rid of them , and profit in making them go away.

Why  keep cracking fluids secret? They have the lease on the land. No one else can drill there.

Jack

Very effective demonstration...

Now, fellas, I've been a peddler most of my life, as have you;) i have seen some incredible pitches done by top people and it is a pleasure to watch them. I will reference our host as a good example. Here, all I can think of is the Wizard of Oz. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."



"And folks, to demonstrate how safe this process is, I've brought Seth, here, one of my most valued employees to demonstrate the safety of our claim".



It's sad really. What pin heads.



Oh, and just to keep this in perspective, keep in mind that when they came out with the info on how bad asbestos is for you, Your correspondent, having worked with much of it, was very concerned. I thought about it and in one of my few and better mathematical choices decided that as in mathmatics, where two negatives equal a positive that I should do something to offset the deleterious effectof the asbestos. So as a pipefitter/welder, I went into the powerhouse endof things, worked on a few shutdowns, got a close cuddle with a couple reactors and now have a half life of my own. We'll see if the zoomies offset the asbestos;) i wonder how thia guy will feel about this in the future?

LarryC

No one else can drill there.

Why  keep cracking fluids secret? They have the lease on the land. No one else can drill there.



Because the cracking fluids do not respect property boundries.  When the fluids migrate out of the immediate area, they can impact other people.  Would you object to your immediate neigbor pouring oil onto his lawn?  It's his property, right.

thomask

Drink this if you want

Tim, the Mrs. and I ended up in the marcellus shale region last fall quite by accident-learned alot but two facts stand out.  First this region of the Country has, at current consumption rates, 300 years worth of gas, Second, one person alledged that his well water was affected by the process. We got off the beaten path quite a bit on the GS and saw many well heads, visually wind turbines are much more intrusive and much less productive.

No activity is safe, isn't asbestos  100% organic and all natural?

Tim McElwain

I am not for or against

simply posting something I thought somewhat profound that you would have the employee drink the stuff and not do it your self.



I grew up in Southwest PA and as a kid remember an old timer taking us out into the woods and throwing a match into a small pond and it would flash. We thought as 8 year old would he was doing magic.



I watched coal mines all of my young years burning off billions of cubic feet of methane as it was dangerous to the coal mining process. Looking back what a waste.

Tim McElwain

Here you go

• Industry seeks quicker study for Md. Marcellus Shale rules
  
  
• Maryland should opt for a swifter timeline in assessing the benefits and risks of exploring the state's portion of the Marcellus Shale, industry representatives said. "We don't think it needs to be as drawn-out as laid out in the executive order," Maryland Petroleum Council Executive Director Drew Cobbs said. Companies would consider supporting an environmental baseline study in exchange for a faster schedule, Cobbs added. [u][color=#0000ff]R&D Magazine online/The Associated Press[/color][/u] (8/5)  
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