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The new resources are so vast that they would last for a century at current rates of gas consumption. And this cheap form of energy isn’t under the control of a foreign dictator, stuck in the Arctic or submerged miles below the sea — it lies in the farmlands of New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.
A lengthy discussion of each potential problem with natural gas fracking would be, well, lengthy. Suffice to say that academics dispute whether shale gas is cleaner than coal; a glut of natural gas is deterring wind investment; according to the Environmental Protection Agency, state regulations don’t go far enough to protect workers and water; fracking chemicals have been detected in a Wyoming aquifer; and fracking has been implicated in cow deaths, earthquakes, and most recently an oil well blowout.
At least one observer hasn’t bought the hype. Chris Nelder, a peak oil expert, asks What the frack? and concludes that reserves are grossly overstated:
Assuming that the United States continues to use about 24 tcf per annum, then, only an 11-year supply of natural gas is certain. The other 89 years’ worth has not yet been shown to exist or to be recoverable….
One complicating factor here is recoverability, because we are never able to extract all of an oil or gas resource. For oil, a 35 percent recovery factor is considered excellent. But recovery factors for shale gas are highly variable, due to the varied geology of the source rocks. Even if we assume a very optimistic 50 percent recovery factor for the 550 tcf of probable gas (536.6 tcf from shale gas plus 13.4 tcf from coalbed gas), that would still only amount to 225 tcf, or a 10-year supply. That plus the 11-year supply of proved reserves would last the United States just 21 years, at current rates of consumption.
Natural-gas proponents aren’t advocating current rates of consumption, however. They would like to see more than 2 million 18-wheelers converted to natural gas, in order to reduce our dependence on oil imports from unfriendly countries. They also advocate switching a substantial part of our power generation from coal to gas, in order to reduce carbon emissions. Were we to do those things, that 21-year supply could quickly shrink to a 10-year supply, yet those same advocates never adjust their years of supply estimates accordingly.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) queries why America is rushing to export natural gas, focusing both on the cost of energy and natural gas’ role as an alleged bridge fuel in reducing carbon emissions.
[Some] natural gas can’t be separated from oil – about a quarter of natural gas comes from oil wells, and the price glut is partly because, with oil at $100 a barrel, oil companies have every incentive to keep drilling for both.
We’re at the beginning of an American natural gas boom/glut/bubble. The Obama administration seems to be making an awfully big assumption that shale gas can be extracted in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, and it’s presumptuous to be pushing shale gas as an investment in America before the EPA weighs in.
RL Miller is an attorney and environment blogger with Climate Hawks. This piece was originally published at Daily Kos and was reprinted with permission by the author.
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The greedy globalists would sell the gas to our “competitors” with which to cremate us. /snark
Regarding Keystone, when high net-worth oil fat cats flip the bird at the people of this country and its president with the threat of “my way or the highway” the people of this country should be outraged and some are but not nearly enough.
Bingo!
As a thought experiment, imagine that every cubic meter of natural gas we can reasonably expect to frack within the US is already extracted and safely stored in immense above ground tanks. All we have to do is hook up pipes and let it flow. No leaks, no fracking fluid contaminating ground water, none of that real world messiness.
It would still be a spectacularly bad idea to burn it, for the reason Leif mentions: GW is the trump card. We simply cannot afford to turn all that currently sequestered carbon into atmospheric CO2.
All the wrangling (such as the competing views we keep hearing about from Cornell professors) about the GW impact of NG leaks, etc. is largely a side show. If Howarth is correct and fracked NG has a much higher footprint than non-fracked NG, then that is indeed an important detail, but it pales in comparison to the GW impact. It’s like arguing over whether the burglar who’s going to steal everything of value will damage your front door beyond repair when he breaks in.
Obama said exactly the same thing about “safety” and “responsibility” and “safeguards to protect public health and safety” when he announced the largest expansion of off-shore oil drilling in US history — two weeks before the BP blowout in the Gulf.