However...I can say that I've put many hours into this.  When you look at my pay stubs that I average 80 hours a week, you should realize that I'm in a constant state of training at my job.

I am a hydraulic fracker.  I work in South Texas at the moment in the blessed land known as Eagleford Shale.  Here, companies wildcat until they can get substantial enough to graduate to a small business (as opposed to brothers with a decade old piece of machinery and some friends) or even a medium sized business.

My company directly impacts 600 employees nationwide.  We have seven full-time crews which are at work and always purchasing more equipment and finding new consultants who want a piece of the pie.

I watched Gasland, and to say that couldn't happen here is false.  But where the majority of left-wing slant critics come from on fracking is the work performed out east, specifically in Pennsylvania.

In PA, they don't drill further than a mile to two miles down before they start their processes.  Given time it could conceivably happen where water tables could be affected.  However, in the west and gulf areas of our nation, companies typically drill much deeper, at least three miles before the explosives and hydraulic processes.

Feel free to ask me questions, I'm not a sage.  But I can assure you we do this as safely as possible.  I know that on the sites we have worked, there was only one where we had issues in East Texas.  And we are fixing it.

They're going to be doing it here in NC. I'm no enviro nut, but I do wish they could come with a way to do it without the chemicals. Yeah, it's deep underground, but I'm thinking 50-100 years up the road.

Is that an unfounded worry? I've got some good well water, so it's something I think about.

I'm happy to hear that your area will be flush with some real employment.  It brings all types of jobs to your community, from the frackers themselves, to the contractors, to the waste management people that ensure that nothing happens to people's well water.

You're going to have things happen from time to time, that can't be avoided.  I know that you're looking fifty years down the road, but are you really planning to stay where you are that long is question one.

Second question...I worked in the pesticide and termiticide business for four years.  Terminix, the industry leader, set the standard for going green over the last twenty years.  Yearly you as a treater have to renew your license in Illinois and many other states.

Do you not think that the big oil industry would have to do the same in a field that makes exponentially more money?  I mean, for every three dollars of taxation, oil companies can keep one dollar as profit.  Three dollars are sent to the USG.  Now we all know about record profits in the oil industry, but did you think about the additives that make cars and trucks run smoother?

How is that we see R&D in these big corporations discovering new ways to make the world a less cancerous place (or we try to be).  I'm pretty certain that fracking will be either exponentially refined over the decades or it will be outlawed (hopefully the former).  With the things it has done to many small communities in Texas, I'd love to see it continue to be improved and be safer for everyone.

Mainly because I like depleting ammunition from liberals.  It's fun when the have nowhere to go but "well big oil sucks anyway."

QuoteYou're going to have things happen from time to time, that can't be avoided.  I know that you're looking fifty years down the road, but are you really planning to stay where you are that long is question one.

I don't know enough about fracking, (aside from the basic process), to have a problem with it, but that's a pretty weak answer. I won't be around in fifty years, but my offspring will be. Fracking isn't going to do us much long term good, if our groundwater is all contaminated, decades in the future.

I'm no chicken little, but you have to admit, there are some pretty big, unanswered questions:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/01/fracking-earthquakes-arkansas-man-experts-warn/

Nobody knows if there will be any consequences years in the future.

I'm sure the process, which is fairly new, will be refined as time goes on. All bets are off, if Obama gets another term.

It isn't a weak answer.  Where fracking started, Oklahoma, there have been no issues with ground water.  Nor Wyoming or North Dakota.  The only thing people can tie to this is MAYBE earthquakes.

It isn't 'new' by any means, it was initiated in 1956 and continues to be improved to this day.  Even if I hate Obama enough to move from Illinois to Texas, I have to say his favorite company of all time, General Electric, is part of the action.

They are the ones who are performing our wire-line operations, basically in charge of the explosives and what depth they're used.

With GE involved, I think it will be around for a while.  Mainly because it isn't coal.

Ground water could be an issue in a small percentage of areas, but from my understanding, the environmental impact studies done, look into the source of water filling the aquifer, whether it's surface seepage, or Artesian under pressure.
Point is, the drilling taking place is far below the water that the public is possible to access, and in most cases the water that mixes with the chemicals, will never migrate close enough to the surface and if it did, the few chemicals that were used will not migrate upward to the surface.
Laws are now in place that stop fracking in areas where water might be an issue.

As to the quakes, even if they can prove a link, these are mere surface pressure movements, if anything, the fracking is doing all of us a favor by releasing the pressure building up, in turn releasing pressure that could build into a big quake.
A quake that has the ability to cause serious damage, generally comes from faults miles in the earth, for the left to claim man is powerful enough to facilitate such activity, is on the level of man and climate change.

All these points have been addressed, they are scare tactics placed in the media by leftists and fools afraid of Gaia's retribution.

I will admit, we really found out what a bad site can do in East Texas.  A machine caught fire and ruined the site almost five years ago.  We paid for the clean up, and liberals in that area are pissed they can't find residual effects from what happened now.