Another New York Times Hit Piece on natural Gas -- GasFrac

There is another article by Mr. Urbina today in the New York Times in which he reports that the Obama Administration, the senior management of the EPA, the state of Pennsylvania and the regional EPA office that covers Pennsylvania are all attempting to prevent the natural gas industry from proper environmental regulation. Indeed, Urbina's main source for the charges seems to be certain unnamed EPA lawyers. Urbina's series has degenrated into tabloid journalism, and based on the word of lawyers no less. (By the way, I happen to be a lawyer with decades of experience dealing with other lawyers who always speak as if they know what they are talking about even when they have no clue about it.)

You can decide about the merits of Urbina's purported "facts" for yourself, but I did want to publish my latest e-mail to Urbina which I sent in response to today's article. It seems to me that Urbina should have mentioned by now the existance of using LPG for fracking and the fact that this process would remove all of the problems which he is raising in the articles. But then again, Urbina does work for the New York Times, so what else would one expect?

Here is the e-mail

"Dear Mr. Urbina:
I see that you have written another in your series on hydraulic fracturing used in natural gas drilling. Once again, you did not mention the solution to essentially all of the problems that you claim to exist with hydrofracking, namely the use of liquefied propane gas in lieu of water in the completion process. I even sent you the links to the information about GasFrac Energy Services, the Canadian company that pioneered this LPG process. Nor have you bothered to reply to my prior e-mails. It seems that you are more interested in making trouble for the natural gas drilling industry than you are in promoting a solution to the problem that you claim to exist. This seems highly irresponsible to me."