The G.O.P. candidates on energy (and environment)

Dan Farber, professor of law | 8/15/11

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I’ve taken this information from the websites of some of the Republican contenders. What they say about their policies and records may not be exactly objective, but it’s interesting to see how they’d like to be perceived on environment and energy. Here are four takeaway points:

1. Republican primary voters apparently don’t care very much about environment or energy issues — some candidates don’t even bother to address these issues on their website.
2. Environment is seen as important only in the context of energy, which is where environmental issues get mentioned if they get mentioned at all.
3. Republican voters want less environmental regulation (surprise!).
4. But no one wants to say they’re in favor of pollution or trashing Nature (even if they are.)

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Marcellus waste up by half in SWPA this year

fIt’s no surprise that with a more than 50 percent jump in gas production in southwestern Pennsylvania there is a corresponding spike in flowback water generated from fracking during the first six months of this year, compared with the second half of 2010.

Here’s how the newly-released waste numbers break down for this region.

1.8 million barrels of fracturing fluid, of which 1.1 million is being reused.

That’s about a 64 percent reuse rate. Nearly all of the rest was taken to industrial waste processing plants, which could mean companies treated the liquid and took it back for reuse. There’s no great way to tell if that’s happening unless the companies indicate that in their notes. There were a few other disposal methods. For example, EXCO Resources EXCO Resources Latest from The Business Journals Houston company acquires fracking water pipelineNorth Hills ‘a hot business corridor,’ something area officials have been working toward since 1995Top 25: Directors of Public Companies Follow this company is responsible for a small percentage of fracturing fluid either being injected into an underground well or being taken to the Reynoldsville Sewage Authority, a municipal sewage plant.

2.7 million barrels of brine, of which about 10 percent was injected into disposal wells in Ohio and West Virginia.Read More