Short Interview with Stanford's Mark Zoback, a geophysicist, professor at Stanford, and member of the National Academy of Sciences. All very encouraging info here.
Extracting natural gas from shale can be done in an environmentally responsible way, says Stanford researcher on government panel
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/august/zoback-fracking-qanda-083...
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Thanks for posting this. It is very good news. The reputation of Stanford is excellent. Many people instantly dismiss a statement from someone out of LSU or UT.
Sadly, it's just a bias, the research in LSU or UT might be much better. It's the BRAND that counts and Stanford has it on the Left Coast and with environmentalists.
In researching the decades-old Tuscaloosa Trend and the immense wealth it has generated for many, I find it deeply troubling that this resource-rich formation runs directly beneath one of the poorest communities in North Baton Rouge—near Southern University, Louisiana—yet neither the university ( that I am aware of) nor local residents appear to have received any compensation for the minerals extracted from their land.
This area has suffered immense environmental degradation…
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