biofuelwatch - Re: Biomass worse than fossil fuels

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Do not know anything about EU experience with it, but my understanding is that it is a very new technology. Julian Drix from Shale Shock and Rising Tide is working on the issue with marcellus SHale deposit.

very scary stuff....

At 10:15 PM -0400 4/13/09, Robert Jereski wrote:

thx for this.

do any of you folks know people who could let me know whether any european govt body has declared whether horizontal hydrofracking - method of extracting gas from impermeable rock - is environmentally sound?

http://www.propublica.org/special/hydraulic-fracturing

i know that the european energy companies are studying the possibility to deploy this technology:

http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-europe-drilling,0,5678052.story

but am wondering whether govts. have opined about it (and if European enviro NGOs are aware of this threat to european water supply, air, soil quality etc.).

thx for help with this.

rob

On Apr 13, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Glen Barry wrote:

Despite the good headline, the following article is a bit wishy-washy at best. Nonetheless, good to see the BBC covering the topic...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7997398.stm

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