We've been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.
Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.
Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.
Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.
We have been blessed in many respects with the explosion of the development of shale gas resources here in North America. It's both U.S. and in Canada.
Hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas.
A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.
There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.
I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.