In appellation of the basin is my into standing that most of the flowback is used to drill new wells. So the quantity of flowback is small. To ship it to ohio for final injection. But the industry has evolved ways to do this. In pennsylvania one of the companies, i forget suggested a way to have acid mine drainage coming of coal mines as an additive instead of using fresh water but there is a state regulation saying that you cannot get economic advantage of using a waste product so they never did it. But the chemical engineers are at work to solve the issues so maybe in the future we dont have to use fresh water but bad water to do the actual fracking. My time is expired. Without objection your recognize for an additional minute. Okay. [laughter] im done. Attwood add some context to the states issues. But what you see in colorado you see it working constructively to support local regulations in order to make sure the development is done responsibly with the support of the community. Th
On my part . Congressman, the action that the administration took obviously was to try within the law, within the authorities we have to remove restrictions that we thought were counterproductive, and if anything working against the goal of getting the kind of change in cuba that we all want which is a Movement Towards giving human rights and other issues of importance greater attention. I think that, you know, the transactions between the u. S. And cuban parties will be governed by law so there will be things like food sales. The payments will be easier for companies to comply with and purchasers to comply with, so i think it will be easier for u. S. Firms to do business with cuba but we havent opened up all the forms of support that exist in countries that we have normal relations with and weve been clear that cuba still has a long way to go to make the changes it has to make before we would have that kind of conversation. I agree that were not there yet. In 1993 cuba actually made t
Engineer, a Petroleum Engineer early part of her career, then a banker for a good portion of her career, a chief executive of a publicly held company and lastly a mountain climber and a kayaker. I think the last two attributes that she brings to this job are probably going to be the most important attributes of washington climbing mountains and avoiding rocks in the rapids. So i think she is extraordinarily well credentialed for this position. Ive had sometimes distressing experience and Energy Policy formation. I have a lot of i see Bennett Johnson in the background here. A lot of us have bruises that have lasted for years from that process. Senator, good to see you. Bob frye, the late bob frye was the head of resources for the future, once testified before the committee i was on that the task of defining the Energy Future was to chart a safe, secure response environmentally responsible energy path that would sustain Human Progress for present and future generations. That was probably
Has only 40 inspectors. West virginia has 56,000 active wells and as of 2011 just 20 inspectors. Pollution of Drinking Water whether from fracking or flawed construction of the well, or from surface waste from the site moving into aquifers has occurred 248 times between 2008 and 2014 in pennsylvania. We actually do not know how many incidents in total there have been because the state did not start collecting statistics on incidents until 2014. If we had more transparency, more accountable and more oversight, local communities would be able to make well wellinformed choices. However, building an oversight hearing around Public Relations campaigns to dismiss those concerns of local communities not only does a disservice to members of this committee, it also does nothing to increase the trust of the fracking industry in those communities. In closing, i would argue that it is not some hypocritical Smear Campaign by. The federal government, but rather repeated attacks against epa and campa
It was an inclusive conversation. I am privileged to be here on behalf of the irish people. It is quite unique for a country as small as ireland to reach right to the center of things in the white house and we thank you, president obama, and your wife and family, and your administration for allowing our country to have this access. We are very positive for the future. President obama i should point out that the Prime Minister got me a copy of poems by yates by yeats, one of my favorite poets. Thank you, guys. Thank you. President obama thank you, guys. Interior secretary salazar said yesterday that the Obama Administration is making more areas available for offshore oil and gas trilling but will heighten safety regulations. Her remarks are next. On washington journal, we will look at the house gop budget plan. That is live at 7 00 eastern. The house is in at 10 00 eastern. They will work on it epa regulate they will work on nepa regulations bill. Here are some of our featured programs