Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Fracking a slightly more skeptical view

The Economics of Fracking a slightly more skeptical view
Please compare and contrast the given video on a sceptical view with the following analysis....


http://shalebubble.org/drill-baby-drill/
http://shalebubble.org/drill-baby-drill/


Fracking Sinkhole of the stupid.


Summary

Effects on house prices
Effects on house prices and house insurance versus fracking and related earthquakes.
Property price loss... Would you want to live next to a fracking site?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2014/04/10/pollution-fears-crush-home-prices-near-fracking-wells/
See this multi million dollar legal case. 

Looking at case studies in America where people and livestock where harmed by the fumes and wastewater spills and illegal dumping.
http://pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/the-list/


Animation on fracking

http://youtu.be/acBDTpZ2aLE

Richard heinberg Snake oil the economics of fracking

part 3 focussing on economics of fracking

Don't worry drive on animation


James Northrup. (Retired oil and gas investor)
Basic guide to the Ponzi scheme


Deborah Rogers frackanomics pt 1

Max keiser

Sinkhole of the stupid




some interesting graphs.
Appearing in this segment: Deborah Rogers

Deborah Rogers began her financial career in London working in investment banking. Upon her return to the U.S., she worked as a financial consultant for several major Wall Street firms, including Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney. Ms. Rogers then struck out on an entrepreneurial venture in 2003 with the founding of Deborah's Farmstead, an artisanal cheese-making operation, and quickly established the company as one of the premier artisanal dairies and cheese makers in the U.S., the cheese having won several major national awards.

Ms. Rogers served on the Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 2008-2011. She was appointed in 2011 by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to a task force reviewing placement of air monitors in the Barnett Shale region in light of air quality concerns brought about by the natural gas operations in North Texas. She is a Member of the Board of Earthworks/OGAP (Oil and Gas Accountability Project).

In addition, she lectures on shale gas economics throughout the U.S. and abroad at Universities, business venues and public forums and has appeared on CNBC and NPR. She has also been featured in articles discussing the financial anomalies of shale gas in the New York Times (June, 2011) and Rolling Stone Magazine (March, 2012). In addition, she will appear in the upcoming documentary GasLand 2.

Pt2
http://youtu.be/uKRBeHZHYzs Jannette M. Barth, Ph.D.

Appearing in this segment: Jannette M. Barth, Ph.D.

Jannette M. Barth, Ph.D. is president of J.M. Barth & Associates, Inc., an economic consulting firm, and founder of Pepacton Institute LLC, a research organization. Dr. Barth has worked in the fields of economic analysis and econometric modeling and forecasting for over 35 years. She received her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Several of her former positions include Chief Economist, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Consultant and Account Manager, Chase Econometrics/Interactive Data Corporation.

Dr. Barth's areas of concentration in graduate school and beyond have been econometrics, public finance and industrial organization. Dr. Barth has evaluated economic decisions using various techniques including econometric modeling, input-output analysis and cost-benefit analysis. She has applied these techniques in various industries and has experience in the development and evaluation of a wide variety of economic models and analyses, in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

Since 1974, Dr. Barth has been estimating regional and local economic impacts. As an example of her work, Dr. Barth was retained to estimate the impact of 9/11 on employment, revenue and public transit.

Dr. Barth has taught economics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

In recent years, Dr. Barth has been able to combine two of her greatest interests, economics and fine art, by becoming a consultant to attorneys and appraisers in art valuation and serving as an expert witness.

A supporter of sustainable economic development, Dr. Barth volunteers much of her time applying her knowledge and experience to environmental and economic development issues.

As a landowner in Delaware County, New York, in the Marcellus Shale region, Dr. Barth became interested in the economic and environmental impacts of gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing techniques. Dr. Barth writes and lectures frequently on this subject. She also has testified at public hearings and has been a guest on radio and television programs focused on hydraulic fracturing. Several papers on this subject by Dr. Barth can be found at 
http://www.catskillcitizens.org/barth.


Pt3 Albert F. Appleton (Al Appleton)
Part 3 of 4, of Frackonomics, an event at the New York Society for Ethical Culture presented by United for Action. The speakers debunk the Financial Myths of Shale Gas and Embracing A Green Energy Future.

Appearing in this segment: Albert F. Appleton (Al Appleton)

Al Appleton is an international environmental and infrastructure consultant with interlocking expertise in water resource and water utility management, infrastructure economics, and public finance, land use and landscape preservation, and the economics of sustainable development. He is recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in the Albert F. Appleton (Al Appleton) is an international environmental and infrastructure consultant with interlocking expertise in water resource and water utility management, infrastructure economics and public finance, land use and landscape preservation, the economics of sustainable development and the use of new green financial strategies such as Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) to achieve mutually supporting economic development and environmental protection goals.

During the first half of the 1990s, Mr. Appleton served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Director of the New York City Water and Sewer system, where he developed and implemented groundbreaking innovations that saved New York City billions of dollars. Since the mid-1990s, Mr. Appleton has done sustainable water resources development and ecosystem services development work in numerous foreign countries as well as the United States. 

His current work, all of which is proceeding to implementation, includes assisting the Queensland Bulk Water Authority in organizing a program of catchment basin protection, assisting the United States Forest Service (Region 5) in developing and carrying out an ecosystems service strategy to fund the ecological restoration of California's national forests, advising a network of Mid-Atlantic environmental and civic groups on insuring that the use of hydrofracking to obtain natural gas from shale formations is done in a sustainable fashion, developing and carrying out an ecosystems service strategies to restore the Tisza River flood plain in Hungary, and helping design a new generation of water resource management institutions for the Province of Alberta. 

Mr. Appleton is Senior Fellow at The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Cooper Union where he teaches an advanced concepts seminar on the problem of sustainability and its economics. He has lectured widely and contributed to publications on these and other topics concerning environmental preservation and sustainable development.

Mr. Appleton is a graduate B.A. (Honors) of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington (Political Science and Mathematics) and of Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut.


James Northrup. (Retired oil and gas investor)
Basic guide to the Ponzi scheme


Casings leak


Basics on why fracking is a bad idea.

Democracy now

Max keiser  all of rt’s stuff is available royalty free for education use please check with them if you wish to include
Any of it.


Sinkhole of the stupid


Fracking and fascism


Barton moss fracking junk economics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXKYV3A0Iqg


http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-10-23/snake-oil-chapter-5-the-economics-of-fracking-who-benefits

http://www.resilience.org/author-detail/1007654-richard-heinberg

Don't worry drive on animation
http://youtu.be/4uKgU7krWzE

300 years of fossil fuels in 300 seconds
http://youtu.be/cJ-J91SwP8w

Richard heinberg... Presentation on fracking
Richard heinberg Snake oil the economics of fracking

part 3 focussing on economics of fracking

Don't worry drive on animation

300 years of fossil fuels in 300 seconds

Richard heinberg... Presentation on fracking

1 hour podcast interview

Richard Heinberg is the author of eleven books including :
• Snake Oil (July 2013)
• The End of Growth (August 2011)
• The Post Carbon Reader (2010) (editor)
• Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis (2009)
• Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007)
• The Oil Depletion Protocol (2006)
• Powerdown: Options & Actions for a Post-Carbon World (2004)
• The Party's Over: Oil, War & the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003)
Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. He has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, The Ecologist, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Yes!, and The Sun; and on web sites such as Resilience.org, TheOilDrum.com, Alternet.org, ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com.
He has been quoted in Time Magazine and has spoken to hundreds of audiences in 14 countries, including members of the European Parliament. He has appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour, is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education, and in 2012 was appointed to His Majesty the King of Bhutan's International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm initiative.
Richard’s animations Don’t Worry, Drive On, Who Killed Economic Growth? and 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Minutes (winner of a YouTubes’s/DoGooder Video of the Year Award) have been viewed by 1.5 million people .
Since 2002, he has delivered more than five hundred lectures to a wide variety of audiences—from insurance executives to peace activists, from local and national elected officials to Jesuit volunteers.

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