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Dimock Natural Gas Drilling
(4.00 out of 5)Posted by: NomadsLand Associate Editor
Posted on: December 10, 2009
Posted in: Environment, North America, Video, Water
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According to the United States Geological Survey, the Marcellus Shale Formation, which stretches across 9 states and into Canada, is believed to contain up to 50 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas. Potentially, two thousand natural gas wells could be drilled across northern and western Pennsylvania in the coming years.
Extracting this resource presents an incredible economic opportunity for much of the Appalachian Basin, and could help meet America’s future energy needs. However, if the drilling is not done right, we could be faced with an environmental nightmare from which the region may never recover.
The wells into the Marcellus formation are very different from traditional natural gas wells. They are bigger, deeper, and present a host of environmental threats.
