A Couple Of Huge Wells Being Reported By EOG -- January 29, 2015

The wells:

• 27035, 441, EOG, Parshall 60-1509H, Parshall, t81/4; cum 86K 11/14;
• 27042, 519, EOG, Parshall 46-1004H, Parshall, t8/14; cum 105K 11/14; 

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Scotland Bans Fracking

Reuters via Rigzone is reporting:

Scotland on Wednesday blocked the granting of permits for fracking and a local English council delayed a decision on two projects, casting doubt on British Prime Minister David Cameron's shale gas ambitions.

Cameron has said he will go "all out for shale" to help stem a decline in North Sea oil and gas output, but environmental concerns about the use of the fracking technology used to unleash gas trapped in rocks have turned sentiment more negative.

Scotland, estimated to have around 80 trillion cubic metres of shale gas resources - enough to cover all of Britain's gas needs for more than 30 years - imposed a moratorium on planning permits until it examines the health impact and other consequences of extraction. 

Luddites.

After reading the story about Scotland banning fracking read these two posts:

• Europe may be the only continent in the universe to depend on imported energy
• the UK will run out of natural gas in three years (that was posted in 2013)

The problem with "banning fracking until health studies are complete" backs a government into a corner. "They" all know they need the energy; "they" all know fracking is safe; "they" all know "they" are doing this to be politically correct and for "show"; and "they" all know that eventually they will allow fracking. And they can only allow fracking if the studies show that fracking is safe. And that's a tough corner to be in. There are enough people that don't even accept the benefit / risk ratio regarding immunizations (and that issue is very, very challenging in the UK).

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Can't We All Just Get Along?

Erie, Colorado, is trying.

Rigzone is reporting:

The Board of Trustees of Erie, Colorado voted against imposing a moratorium on fracking in the Front Range town Tuesday evening.

In the video-streamed event, the seven-member board consisting of the Mayor, the Mayor Pro-Tem and five trustees cast four votes against the one-year moratorium.

Representatives from Encana Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. were present for the meeting, as were industry groups and a number of local residents who were for and against the moratorium.

Memorandums of understanding (MOU) agreements between the two drillers and the township of Erie will continue. The agreements “contain best management practices the operators agree to use and are included as part of their state drilling permits,” according to a January 27, 2015, story in the Denver Post.

The moratorium was said by the Board of Trustees not to be seen as a vote against drilling in the area, but rather as a way to resolve issues stemming from vibration and noise problems generated by an Encana drilling pad near the Vista Ridge development.

However, Encana and Anadarko representatives said the companies would give the town time for the two sides to resolve all issues without the need for a moratorium. Encana agreed not to submit any new permits for 90 days, and Anadarko said it was not planning to submit any permits for several months.

Last summer, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper appointed a task force to study the issues involved with oil and gas drilling near towns along Colorado’s Front Range after residents and environmental groups on one side, and oil and gas companies and business leaders on the other side, issued countering voter initiatives that could potentially have cost Colorado significant oil and gas revenues. Both sides agreed to drop the initiatives and wait for the task force to come up with its recommendations.

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Attorney General Nominee Says Illegals Have Right To Work In This County

Further: She Wants To See Them Working In This Country

Link here.

If the GOP-controlled Senate can live with this, I've lost all confidence in the Senate as a legislative body.

It is certainly everyone's right in the United States to express whatever views one has, but it is entirely inappropriate for the US Senate to confirm an attorney general who testifies that illegals have a right to work in the US, and hopes they do work in the US, even in an undocumented, illegal status.

It's one thing for any politician to say this, but it's completely different for an attorney general to say this. If an individual is here illegally, that individual needs to be returned to his / her country of origin within the boundaries of prescribed due process.  During that "due process" some illegals will be given permission to stay, and that's fine. That's working within the law, but to espouse a blanket believe that all illegals in this country have the right to work -- well, the nice thing about that: no more ICE raids on Wal-Mart, Tyson, Marriott, Chipotle, and all those California corporate farms. [Actually, it's now plausible why the GOP -- in the pocket of big corporations -- are going to love the new attorney general. By the way, the US Chamber of Commerce also supports her views. So, as usual, I assume, I'm in the minority on this issue. And that's fine.]

But if the attorney general wants to keep illegals in this country and wants to encourage them to work, she needs to have Congress change the law. This is really getting bizarre. One almost gets the feeling that the GOP (Big Money) is working in cahoots with the attorney general on this one. This is a win-win for everyone. Congress doesn't want to take the heat by changing the law, so they let the attorney general do that for them. Wink, wink.