Chief Tex Hall, North Dakota …Entrepreneur… Oil Man…Fracker!

Posted by Tina

Chief Hall made an appearance on Fox Business this morning. He represents three tribes from the Black Hills of North Dakota and he shared fantastic news that will make a real difference in the lives of his people. The tribes are getting into the oil business.

Chief Hall has negotiated with oil companies, as Sarah Palin did in Alaska, so that individual tribe members will receive a portion of the profits from oil and gas fracked on Indian land. Half of the wells that are scheduled to go online are already operating and producing more oil than Syria produces. The wells will do a lot to help his tribe but that isn’t the only benefit. The tribe will build a refinery on Indian land and ultimately help America to become energy independent.

Chief Hall was asked whether the tribes have been harassed by environmentalists. He replied that they are always around but that after investigating fully he discovered that drilling goes miles below the aquifer and poses no danger to their water. He went on to say that fracking is a clean process that will not harm Mother Earth or Father River. Wells on Indian Land are already producing more oil than Syria.

I say good for Chief Hall and the tribes he represents!

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6 Responses to Chief Tex Hall, North Dakota …Entrepreneur… Oil Man…Fracker!

  1. Pie Guevara says:

    Casinos and oil production. What is not to like? No doubt this rile the lily white, deep green, enviro-Nazi faction of the environmental movement.

  2. Libby says:

    Uh … the wells are drilled THROUGH the aquifer … and BP never used inferior concrete in the Deepwater Horzion well, and the well never blew.

    But greed conquers all.

  3. Tina says:

    Yeah Libby, like the greed that exists in the environmental movement!

    Accident: 1. a. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm, b. An unforeseen incident
    2. Lack of intention; chance

    Human’s cannot avoid accidents, they are a part of life. Fortunately we have been given the intellectual and creative capacity to clean up the messes caused by accidents.

    The immeasurable benefit to society, in terms of well being, that oil and gas have brought far outweighs the few accidents and mistakes that have been made through the years. The fact that companies have cooperated, indeed led the way, to find ways to make the process safer and cleaner is a testament to their commitment to the planet.

    Libby no chemicals are used when the hole is drilled through the aquifir. Double layer piping is put into the hole and sealed before the fracking takes place.

    See oil industry produced video here. Yes Libby, oil industry produced…they are the experts…the people who know what actually happens because they do it!

    Detractors don’t have the same level of knowledge or experience. What they have is fear and loathing based on their fears. No comparison!

    Read this blog for a reasonable, well articulated counter to five of the myths the greens float about fracking.

    One of the President’s favorite corporations, G.E., has built a brand new research facility in Oklahoma to find even better ways to improve the safety of fracking.

    Progress! Isn’t that the root word for progressive? How is it that progressives have turned to control, power grabs, and stifling progress instead of recognizing that free men and women following their dreams contribute mightily for the betterment of civilization?

    Because of innovations made by entrepreneurs we have discovered ways to feed the world and bring light, warmth, and cooling…and healthier environments to people all around the world.

  4. Tina says:

    Of interest to those who love to hate the white European people that “invaded” North America is a report from National Geographic reports that native American Indians have West Eurasian origins.

    The world is our stage, just as Shakespeare, and God, wrote.

  5. Libby says:

    “Double layer piping is put into the hole and sealed before the fracking takes place.”

    Which is where the cost-cutting, inferior materials come in.

    You simply cannot say that they won’t … because they have.

    And we’re not talking a mere umpteen billion barrels or oil into the Gulf of Mexico (which was bad enough). We are talking (for all practical purposes) the permanent poisoning of drinking water for millions of people.

  6. Tina says:

    Libby: “Which is where the cost-cutting, inferior materials come in.”

    Evidence?

    “You simply cannot say that they won’t … because they have.”

    And the number of incidents and the severity of the problems are exaggerated greatly. It’s ridiculous when set against the benefit we all experience as a result of having warmth in winter and cooling systems in summer and the positive affects from moving goods and services to wide markets. People get sick and die from hunger or freezing to death too!

    “…the permanent poisoning of drinking water for millions of people.”

    More exaggeration. Give me a death count. Tell me that the problem couldn’t be resolved with technology…cleaning and filtering the water.

    We’ve been fracking for over sixty years. Technology and safety measures have improved dramatically in the last ten years. Alternatives aren’t the panacea the greens would have us believe they are.

    Electricity Delivery Forum:

    Both wind and solar power technology is currently dependent on the rare earth elements on the periodic table, known as the lanthanides. The problem for the U.S. is that China, from geographic luck, controls over 90% of the world market of the lanthanides. …Solar panels can not generate electricity at night and the wind is not always blowing hard enough, or at all, to produce adequate levels of power. If green energy is to become a primary source of energy in the future, electricity storage technology (batteries) needs to improve. However, once again the rare earth element needed for high capacity batteries, lithium, is controlled by foreign countries. …outside of the American Wind Energy Association, you have a difficult, if not impossible, time finding a report that shows wind power has a positive effect at reducing carbon dioxide emissions in a given market. The reason is again the inability of wind power to produce constant electricity. For every wind power farm that is built, a backup generator needs to be built to support an equal amount of maximum electricity output during times when the wind is not blowing. These backup generators will be fossil fuel based, and they can not be turned on and off with the flip of a switch.

    We’re killing birds and bats by the thousands.

    USGS:

    Recent USGS and academic research revealed that bats are worth billions a year (from $3.7 to $53 billion a year) to agriculture because of the pest-control services these animals provide. Yet certain bat species are particularly susceptible to collisions with wind turbine blades, and bat mortality is the most widely documented ecological impact of wind energy development. Each year many thousands of bats die at wind turbines across North America, for reasons that are still unclear. USGS scientists are actively seeking ways to understand and lessen the impacts on bats as wind energy development expands and the disease, white-nose syndrome, wreaks havoc on other populations of bats. The first step in doing so is to uncover the mechanisms of mortality, as well as the patterns of migration, roosting, and foraging behavior that may make tree-roosting bats particularly susceptible to harm from turbines. …

    USGS scientists are helping managers understand how California condors use their habitat, gaining valuable information that will help inform not only which potential energy development sites are likely to have the least impact on condors but also which areas of Oregon might be most suitable for future reintroductions of this large, endangered bird. Scientists are also creating models that predict impact of turbines on golden eagles, ferruginous hawks, northern harriers, and prairie falcons to provide information that helps guide the placement of future wind energy facilities in a way that assists the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in ensuring effective raptor conservation.

    phys.org:

    Thousands of acres of solar panels could spring up across California’s Mojave Desert like a crop of crystal mushrooms — a new kind of gold rush meant to bring powerful environmental benefits.

    Cutting such a wide swath, however, might also disrupt desert ecosystems and the fragile plants that thrive there. … The California Public Utilities Commission estimates that 100,00 to 160,000 desert acres would be needed to meet the state’s goal of increasing renewable energy by 33 percent by 2020. Fourteen solar and five wind projects are being proposed on about 42,000 acres within in a 600,000-acre area known as the former Catellus lands, between the Mojave Preserve and Joshua Tree National Park.

    Activist groups are angry, especially the Wildlands Conservancy, which provided $40 million to purchase the lands for preservation. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently announced a new effort to preserve all or part of the area by declaring it a national monument.

    “Some people would argue that desert organisms are as resilient as they come,” Sandquist said. “But they are vulnerable and sensitive because they are living on the edge _ limited water, very warm temperatures, very cold nights during certain times.

    How Stuff Works:

    a new objection to wind power has popped up in the past few years, resting on the research of a few scientists. The latest argument states that wind power endangers the health of people who live near windmills. Some people call this theory “wind-turbine syndrome.” Although the extent of the phenomenon is unknown, there does seem to be something to it.

    San Bernardino Sentinel:

    A Catch-22 situation has developed with regard to renewable energy projects, which, according to one school of environmentalists, represent an ecological advance over traditional conventional power sources, such as fossil fuels. Other environmentalists decry the ecological havoc and visual blight on the natural landscape massive solar power or wind power projects impose, including their disturbance or destruction of the habitat of certain species. They want to prevent any future renewable energy projects from being located in pristine or undisturbed areas.
    But county residents living in proximity to where several solar projects have been approved or are proposed have complained the solar farms are a too-intensive use that clashes with the nature of their rural residential neighborhoods and represent unresolved land-use and zoning conflicts. Thus, the places where large solar or wind projects can be located anywhere in San Bernardino County’s vast desert outback without triggering some level of protest are virtually non-existent.

    Life is not devoid of risk. The risk in oil and gas production is worth the risk, especially as we find more and better ways to cleanly produce as well as better ways to deal with the occasional spill..

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