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Gold/Mining/Energy : Shale Natural Gas, Oil and NGLs and ESA

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To: MJ who wrote (694)	6/28/2009 11:44:25 AM
From: jrhana	Read Replies (1) of 6160

Those mountains will still be just as beautiful with exploitation of shale NG. Once the drilling is completed and the pipeline is in place, it is probably less obtrusive than all those cellular towers I saw driving from Miami to Tampa. There is no comparison with the very minor and easily solvable pollution concerns with horizontal drilling versus literally blowing off a mountaintop with coal mining. IMO there is an environmental cost with every practical form of large scale energy production and that shale NG is about as clean as it gets (in both its production and its use). Of course, the save the whale crowd will never be convinced. But for those that are convinced that energy is important, there is no cleaner way to go than NG. Just for instance nuclear is not perfect either. Message 25723970 siliconinvestor.com Coal is very dirty in every way. The trivial amount of pollution produced by horizontal drilling pales by comparison with the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill which while worse than the Valdes oil spill has not gotten a lot of attention Message 25696679 The shear economics of shale NG will drive its necessity home. That combined with the fact that it really is a very clean way to go. Message 25728881 <Natural gas per BTU of energy, is much cleaner than oil or coal, the two primary fossil fuel alternatives. So, if a carbon tax is passed by legislation this year, natural gas will immediately become more competitive. Its historical relationship to oil should decline even below 8.5. If it moves to 7.0, then the relative cost today should be $10 per mmBTU for natural gas.> Message 25715613 or we could continue to rely on imported oil Message 25718470

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