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Title: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Tale on November 15, 2010, 12:29:40 AM Residents alarmed by gas drillers using a technique called fracking under their suburb.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/water-issues/gas-drilling-goes-ahead-without-any-checks-20101114-17sq7.html Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Merusk on November 15, 2010, 03:45:24 AM Well, time for those folks to abandon their houses. No way they're going to be able to sell them and move, and moving is what they need to do.
Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: murdoc on November 15, 2010, 07:40:35 AM I work for a fracking company!
Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: ezrast on November 15, 2010, 10:03:44 AM A fracking company is at steak!
Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Furiously on November 15, 2010, 01:18:40 PM The title makes it seem like they are drilling sideways under people's houses. That would be motherfracker worthy. I dunno we have sinkholes all over the place from old mines so I don't get the hate.
Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Mrbloodworth on November 15, 2010, 01:55:33 PM The title makes it seem like they are drilling sideways under people's houses. GASLAND Trailer 2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9XJfCYDoMU) Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Merusk on November 15, 2010, 04:08:41 PM I enjoy how they say "Chemicals" because saying "Diesel gasoline" is less marketable. :why_so_serious:
Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Chimpy on November 15, 2010, 04:10:42 PM I love the part where they truck natural gas to a pipeline for delivery. It is like the reverse of the gasoline business!
Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Tale on November 15, 2010, 04:42:31 PM I love the part where they truck natural gas to a pipeline for delivery. It is like the reverse of the gasoline business! That vehicle should be called the fracking mothertruck. Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Furiously on November 15, 2010, 06:37:51 PM That reminds me of an aerospace joke. There are two kinds of Fokker airplanes. Big motor fokkers and little motor fokkers.
Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: ezrast on November 15, 2010, 07:35:22 PM I enjoy how they say "Chemicals" because saying "Diesel gasoline" is less marketable. :why_so_serious: What gets me is the "all wells are encased in cemented steel casing" bit and how it makes no sense in context. Yes, the entire well is encased in an impenetrable barrier so that nothing we send down it can come into contact with any natural resources! Oh wait...Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Lantyssa on November 15, 2010, 08:59:56 PM It's especially baffling after the BP oil spill caused by failure of the cement.
If you're so desperate for resources that you need to drill under residential areas, then it's time to look in to alternatives. Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: IainC on November 15, 2010, 11:31:45 PM If you're so desperate for resources that you need to drill under residential areas, then it's time to look in to alternatives. Why do you hate freedom? Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Count Nerfedalot on November 16, 2010, 08:53:46 PM If you're so desperate for resources that you need to drill under residential areas, then it's time to look in to alternatives. Why do you hate freedom? I suspect she just hates your freedom to ruin her property/health/life? (sarchasm, I know. I'm not really falling in it, just doing my part to shine the light of a thousand suns on it for the retards that would actually argue it for real.) Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: rattran on November 17, 2010, 06:56:23 AM They're just trying to provide the Antipodeans with their own Centralia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Censign.jpg/624px-Censign.jpg) Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Lantyssa on November 17, 2010, 08:40:43 AM Oh shit! Australia could have their own Silent Hill?!? Nerfedalot changed my mind. They need to do this right now.
Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: Chimpy on November 17, 2010, 09:11:55 PM Well Australia already has at least one toxic town...that Asbestos mine town, can't remember the name. Think there was a Midnight Oil song about it.
EDIT: Found it Wittenoom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom,_Western_Australia) Title: Re: Drillers plan some fracking Post by: UnSub on November 19, 2010, 10:32:29 PM Oh shit! Australia could have their own Silent Hill?!? Nerfedalot changed my mind. They need to do this right now. I could definitely see Australia having a Silent Hill somewhere in South Australia. Say, Snowtown. |