Friday, March 20, 2015
How to bring out the WATB
If you want to stimulate the ones that hang on the oil & gas industries, all you have to do is put out new fracking rules that overturn many of the useless ones put in place by that Big Dick Cheney.
The new rules will apply only to oil and gas wells drilled on public lands, even though the vast majority of fracking in the United States is done on private land. The rules will cover about 100,000 wells, according to the Interior Department.If they howl over this, imagine what they would do if they had to pay their fair share of fees and taxes?
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Connecting hoses between a pipeline and water tanks at a Hess fracking site last year near Williston, North Dakota. Credit Andrew Cullen/Reuters
“Current federal well-drilling regulations are more than 30 years old, and they simply have not kept pace with the technical complexities of today’s hydraulic fracturing operations,” said the interior secretary, Sally Jewell.
The regulations, which are to take effect in 90 days, will allow government workers to inspect and validate the safety and integrity of the cement barriers that line fracking wells. They will require companies to publicly disclose the chemicals used in the fracturing process within 30 days of completing fracking operations.
The rules will also set safety standards for how companies can store used fracking chemicals around well sites, and will require companies to submit detailed information on well geology to the Bureau of Land Management, a part of the Interior Department.
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