[OKC] FW: [ok-sus] More concerns about shale gas

[Shauna Struby]

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[mailto:ok-sus-bounces at lists.oksustainability.org] On Behalf Of Bob Waldrop
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 8:25 AM
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Subject: [ok-sus] More concerns about shale gas

 

Concerns about the gas hype continue to make the headlines. . . 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/us/27gas.html?nl=todaysheadlines
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/us/27gas.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
3> &emc=tha23

a snip of the article. . . 

 
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/natural-gas-drilling-down-documents-4
.html#document/p32/a21580> In an April 27 e-mail, a senior petroleum
geologist who works for the Energy Information Administration wrote that
upper management relied too heavily on outside contractors and used
“incomplete/selective and all too often unreal data,” much of which comes
from industry news releases 

“E.I.A., irrespective of what or how many ‘specialty’ contractors are hired,
is NOT TECHNICALLY COMPETENT to estimate the undiscovered resources of
anything made by Mother Nature, period,”
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/natural-gas-drilling-down-documents-5
.html#document/p32/a21580> he wrote. 

Energy officials have also quietly criticized
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/natural-gas-drilling-down-documents-5
.html#document/p42/a21596> in internal e-mails the department’s shale gas
primer, a source of information for the public, saying it may be “on the
rosy side.” 

The primer is written by the Ground Water Protection Council, a research
group that, according to tax records, is partly financed by industry. 

The Ground Water Protection Council declined to respond to questions. 

end snip.

Bob Waldrop, OKC

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