>Drilling in New Jersey? No Fracking Way!
Alt. title: “Fracking? Fuhgeddahboudit!”
Posted by Steve Maley (Diary)
Thursday, August 25th at 11:30PM EST
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie issued a conditional veto on a measure that would have imposed a permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing — a/k/a “fracking” — in the Garden State. Instead, Christie has suggested a year-long moratorium on the practice.
The debate over fracking in New Jersey is mostly symbolic. New Jersey has exactly zero oil and gas wells. It is, however, the nation’s #7 natural gas consuming state (5% of the nation’s total consumption), ranking ahead of Texas. Since 90% of gas wells are completed with a frac treatment, an anti-fracking New Jersey is a little like an obstetrician who promotes total celibacy among his patients.
https://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2011/08/25/drilling-in-new-jersey-no-fracking-way/
