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Anti-Fracking Enviros Attempt to Silence NY State's Top Staff Geologist
Claiming that hydro-fracking harms aquifers, environmental activist groups have managed to scare New York State legisiators and regulators into a moratorium on using the technology that enables the production of copious quantities of natural gas from shale deposits. On March 14, the Albany Times Union ran a story on fracking which quoted the state's top geologist Langhorne "Taury" Smith:
State government's top scientist on the underground features of New York has never weighed in on the contentious matter of drilling in the great Marcellus shale layers stretching beneath a big part of upstate. Until now.
"The worst spin on the worst incidents are treated as if it's going to be the norm here," said Taury Smith, the state geologist, a self-described liberal Democrat more concerned with global warming than extraction of natural gas from one of the largest sources available in the United States. "This could really help us fight climate change; this is a huge gift, this shale."
He said he has been examining the science of hydrofracturing the shale for three years and has found no cases in which the process has led to groundwater contamination,[emphasis added] although several portrayals by anti-fracking groups and featured in the press have raised concerns about underground pools being harmed because of drilling.
"Those are exaggerated problems; each incident wasn't the result of hydro-fracking. There were incidents of groundwater contamination near frack sites, but they were unrelated," Smith said. He said the industry should be strictly monitored by the Department of Environmental Conservation, and should be encouraged to move the nation away from coal-fired power and to the more environmentally friendly natural gas.
All too predictably, as the Times Union reported two weeks later, green activists have erupted in anger:
Voices from across New York reacted, including representatives of Environmental Advocates and related groups opposing the horizontal drilling. "That's an irresponsible statement; people are getting sick and dying," asserted David Braun, a New York City activist with United For Action. Braun said Smith is clearly in the pocket of the gas industry and has spread that view in multiple email letters. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist; I am aware that when somebody is getting money from an industry it does sway opinion."
Similarly, Stephanie Low, a Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter "National Hydrofracking Team" member, has spread the word of her suspicions of Smith. "He works for the gas industry, so it might be extremely difficult for him to notice that most of his statements are not supported by the facts," she asserts. "Perhaps he doesn't read the (New York) Times." She works as a manager of a classical musician.
The Education Department will not allow Smith to talk to reporters now. Besides muzzling him, the department, which oversees his New York State Museum geology unit, won't permit him to take calls. Instead, the department provided a reporter a copy of its internal protocol for handling media inquiries which says failure to check with the office of communications first would result in "appropriate administrative action."
The Times Union reports that Smith apparently is an unpaid consultant to Ammonite Resources, but has done no consulting on projects in New York or Pennsylvania. The Times Union also reported:
Smith, who has worked for the state for nearly 11 years, disclosed on the Ammonite website that he has done and does consulting for Saudi Aramco, Angola LNG, Shell, Texaco, Repsol, Devon, Encana and other clients. Education Department spokesman Jonathan Burman said SED is looking into those associations and "will take swift action as appropriate." None of the companies named have applied for the rights to drill in the Marcellus formation, according to state data.
In a March 31 op/ed entitled "A Bad Lesson in Censorhip", the Times Union argues:
The state Education Department's silencing of unpopular views isn't in the best interests of informed public policy or open debate....
One might reasonably assume that the state's top staff geologist would have some relevant thoughts about drilling for natural gas. But good luck finding out what's on Langhorne B. Smith Jr.'s mind, now that the state has muzzled him.
If only irony were an alternative energy source. Here's the state Education Department — an agency responsible for fostering knowledge — barring Mr. Smith from talking to reporters after his comments on gas drilling caused a backlash among environmentalists — who normally are the first to cry out when politics takes precedence over science.
The op/ed points out that the environmentalists had quite a different attitude when New York State tried to silence a scientist with whom they agreed:
We've been down this unfortunate road before. The state's former wildlife biologist, Ward Stone, endured official intimidation, including a threat of transfer, for his dogged pursuit of pollution. He was an important voice on issues like the state's own now-defunct trash incinerator in downtown Albany, where his tests found evidence of pollution in residential neighborhoods. Environmentalists protested the state's attempts to silence him.
Not here, though. They're content to let a scientist they disagree with be gagged.
The Times Union op/ed concludes:
They should join us instead in calling on Education Commissioner David Steiner and the Board of Regents to relax their stifling policies and let public employees contribute to important public discussions without checking with official handlers. This debate should be all about finding the truth, not winning even at the cost of it.
Go here for my column, What the Frack!, on the issue.
My thanks to the pro-gas industry blog Energy In Depth for the links to this controversy.
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Close; actually it's George Soros funding a lot anti-fracking propaganda. I wonder if that has to do with his investments in other forms of energy.
No drilling in NY = more money to Texas.
What could be wrong with that?
Braun said Smith is clearly in the pocket of the gas industry and has spread that view in multiple email letters. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist; I am aware that when somebody is getting money from an industry it does sway opinion."
And it doesn't take an an attorney-general; I am aware that when someone makes an expressed to implied to be fact, which defames someone's reputation, without proof...that's libel, Mr. Braun!
*"makes a statement expressed or implied to be fact"
They have to KNOW that they are not telling the truth for libel to apply. That's why you never see these cases go anywhere.
....and these folk don't actually know anything, they specialize in being indignant.
"They have to KNOW that they are not telling the truth .."
Can we get a legal scholar to weigh in here....isn't there also reckless disregard for the truth ? (not saying Braun's statement rises to that level, though.)
"Braun said Smith is clearly in the pocket of the gas industry"
Speaking as a linguist and language educator, that Braun uses the idiom "in the pocket" strongly implies he believes some sort of corruption on Smith's part. If that's not what Braun means, he should be more careful with his words.
Yes, but if Braun believes that this is true, and has whatever reason for this belief, then it is NOT libel, imo.
Since Sullivan, a public official or other person who has voluntarily assumed a position in the public eye must prove that a libelous statement "was made with 'actual malice'—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard to whether it was false or not" (Sullivan). The actual-malice standard does not require any ill will on the part of the defendant. Rather, it merely requires the defendant to be aware that the statement is false or very likely false. Reckless disregard is present if the plaintiff can show that the defendant had "serious doubts as to the truth of [the] publication" (see St. Amant v. Thompson, 390 U.S. 727, 88 S. Ct. 1323, 20 L. Ed. 2d 262 [1968]).
Frickin' frackers!
Frack and drill will never die!
"That's an irresponsible statement; people are getting sick and dying,"
Unintentional humor or troll?
Unintentional humor. If he was a troll, it would be "women, children, the elderly, and minorities are getting sick and dying."
"Perhaps he doesn't read the (New York) Times."
Haha, keep em coming.
Claiming that hydro-fracking harms aquifers, environmental activist groups have managed to scare New York State legsiators[...]
A "legsiator" is a person that makes legs his lifelong interest.
Voices from across New York reacted, including representatives of Environmental Advocates and related groups opposing the horizontal drilling. "That's an irresponsible statement; people are getting sick and dying," asserted David Braun, a New York City activist with United For Action.
Fracking killing people! Oh, the misery!
Seriously though, the geology doesn't even come close to supporting anti-frackers claims of groundwater pollution from the "FRACK PROCESS ITSELF". They're barking up the wrong tree and I have no idea why. Lots of irresponsible drillers can cause hazards in much more mundane ways (poor water retention equipment, poor cementing processes, utilizing local groundwater for work, reducing water table, etc etc). All the geologist is saying is that these "mini-earthquakes" as they're called are not causing communication between surface water tables and gas reservoirs thousands of feet down. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to demonstrate the anti-frackers claims are ludicrous.
Re: Lost_In_Translation,
They're barking up the wrong tree and I have no idea why.
The Cain and Abel story is actually a metaphor for the struggle between civilization (agriculture, represented by Cain) and the seemingly simpler, bucollic life of the nomad shepperd (Abel). Halfwitted, risk-averse scaredy-cats usually long for the "simpler" life, without even caring about the vicissitudes of primitive life.
...and they deserve to die.
LIT - are u aware of any tremors which occurred in faults close to fracking?
Smells like shit in here again.
The sky is falling and now this too?
no, i was referring to how people have been colloquially referring to the fracking process.
"LIT - are u aware of any tremors which occurred in faults close to fracking?"
OO, are you aware that carcasses are found near bodies of water!?
One should always do 2 things when looking at situations like this.
#1- who benefits from this process?
#2- is someone passionate or rational about their pov.
I think we can answer # 2 clearly in this case... so, who benefits from this?
Here's my complaint. If this geologist hadn't consulted with a dozen O&G companies, how could he have any expert standing? Its a stupid argument they enviros are putting forth.
EXPERT: College degree (no specific discipline), supports your position.
American Public: "Good enough for me"
And it works both ways, O&G companies hire experts.
Imagine an O&G CEO saying, "We need a consultant. We could get Langhorne Smith the geologist, but who I really want is Stephanie Low. She manages a classical musician, and reads the Times."
I thought Bailey's original article was a bit on the weasel side. The claim that only a tiny percentage doesn't mean much unless you put it into the context of the overall quantity of chemicals and the relatively small amount it takes to make water unusable. Blaming it on failed well casings isn't much in the way of comfort to a person who can light tapwater on fire.
If you are referring to the scene in the
documentaryhit piece Gasland, that has already been thoroughly debunked. The claim was investigated by the state of Colorado and there was found to be "no indications of oil & gas related impacts to water well."
I love how Libertarians believe State research when it supports what they already want to believe.
Honestly, I consider myself libertarian, but I've noticed this, as well. I've fallen into that trap before myself when arguing, and try my best now to avoid it. Either the gov't is lying, or it isn't. It can't only be lying when it's something we disagree with.
I love how Lefties won't believe State research when it supports what they don't like.
Well, to be fair, when the state research supports those who don't want state power asserted, it constitutes a "statement against interest" by the state.
Statements against interest are inherently credible.
There is no such thing as "inherently credible."
sez who?
Depends on if you believe there's a conspiracy or not.
Doesn't change the fact that the guy might be getting paid on the side by the folks who want to corrupt the research, or that some key officials in the state may be getting kickbacks to make sure their officers "stay out of the way".
"Doesn't change the fact that the guy might be getting paid on the side by the folks who want to corrupt the research, or that some key officials in the state may be getting kickbacks to make sure their officers "stay out of the way"."
And all this from the grassy knoll! Who knew?
BTW, that's not "fact".
It is a fact that he "might" be getting paid on the side. It's a fact that I "might" be getting paid to write this comment. It's unlikely, but possible. I didn't state that he is getting paid, only that he might be. Unless you can prove that he isn't, I'd say it's a fact that he might be.
All I was saying, is that I don't trust the state when it issues reports, period. Even if the report pushes something that I agree with.
"Unless you can prove that he isn't, I'd say it's a fact that he might be."
As it is a fact that unicorns might be involved, unless you can prove they aren't.
fraking is killing unicorns!?!
How far does it go....
...all the way to the top
Doesn't change the fact that the ecomentalists might be getting paid on the side by the folks who want to suppress the research. Of course, they may just be motivated by their awful neo-luddite ideology or the pursuit of influence and publicity.
Wouldn't the best way to figure out what's going on be to have an open discussion with the participation of multiple experts?
When libertarians say that the government research is wrong, they typically offer some reason why like flawed assumptions or methodology. The filmmaker and the person with the burning tap water don't even mention that the claims were already investigated in the film. Nor have they sent any samples out for third party testing to try and disprove the state's findings, or at least they have not announced doing so. Why did they not do this? It wouldn't be that expensive, and would show scientifically that fracking contaminated the well water and also that the state of Colorado's enivormental protection agency is in the pocket of the natural gas companies. The fact that they haven't done so suggest to me that the state's findings are correct in this case.
RanDomino: The argument of the post is that no scientist (actually no citizen) should be shut up by government flunkies.
When you stop billing us for it, then you can claim exclusive rights of usage. Otherwise, shat yer trap.
You're saying that because one claim in Colorado was reportedly organic methane that there hasn't been any water quality issues related to fracking? Read Bailey's original piece. Even he acknowledges there have been problems but he puts the blame (correctly) on well casing issues rather than the actual fracking.
"but he puts the blame (correctly) on well casing issues rather than the actual fracking."
So, no, there don't seem to be problem caused by fracking.
Sort of like the gulf oil spill wasn't caused by oil drilling.
If drilling is done right, the risk is low (but still exists). If drilling is not right, the risk is much higher. Unfortunately, due to legal dispensation granted to oil and gas companies, the risk is lower to them than the poor bastards who live near the fracked wells.
Jose Ortega y Gasset|4.4.11 @ 12:46PM|#
"Sort of like the gulf oil spill wasn't caused by oil drilling."
Keep waving those arms and pointing off in different directions!
Somebody may think you have a point.
That's why I believe in liability.
No, if drilling is done right, the risk is miniscule bordering on a rounding error. If drilling is done wrong, the risk depends on what part of the drilling operation was incorrectly performed and varies between previous risk and 100% likelihood (say where the casing has a huge hole in it right at the water table). There is a far greater (infinitely greater?) risk that overuse of the water table is causing gas in a shallow communicative reservior that was held in place by the hydrostatic head to migrate into the system than for a properly drilled well to cause any of those problems.
Of course, you're right, but you don't really expect a greenie to understand that, do you?
JQyG: The claim being made is that the fracking mixtures pumped into the shale formations are somehow drifting upward through impermeable layers of rock to directly contaminate drinking water aquifers. The well casing problem is a problem for any well, not just those associated with fracking. Clearly if a company harms someone's property through negligence (say, inadequate well casing) they should be liable for damages.
A well casing problem is a bit less of a problem if you're just drawing out water and not injecting toxic chemicals. C'mon, Ron, read a list of fracking chemicals. The local stormwater police are going to toss you in jail for having an oil spot on your driveway and the gas companies get a free pass to inject benzene and dozens of other chemicals? WTF? And thanks for the tidbit on litigation... I'll pass it on to the people who have suffered the effects of contamination only to find the company that screwed them is bankrupt.
"I'll pass it on to the people who have suffered the effects of contamination only to find the company that screwed them is bankrupt."
And this claim (as dubious as it is) relates to fracking how?
JGyG: I am puzzled by your comments. Injecting a mixture of water and chemicals into rock thousands of feet below the surface where it is isolated from the environment does not seem like a problem. Again, of course, companies should be responsible for properly disposing of chemicals in the relatively small amount of "production water" that flows back up the wells.
injection wells I'm told are some of the most neglected things in the world and subject to very high pressures. If I was a New York regulator, I'd come down on all the injection well owners first at proving their well's integrity before I worry about the remote possibility of production well caused contamination.
Theory versus practice, Ron. In theory, injecting toxic chemicals thousand of feet beneath the surface shouldn't be a problem... but in reality, fracking has caused problems in drinking water. The most likely culprit is improperly installed or maintained drill casings, or pressure that exceed tolerances, or simple random chance failures. Of course, I'm not discounting the old "dump the waste into some creek while no one is looking" tactic.
"Clearly" someone who pollutes a private well should be held liable... and clearly, all it takes is money for attorneys and a decade or two to wind through the American legal system.
"...but in reality, fracking has caused problems in drinking water...."
In reality, there is zero evidence of that.
dammit sevo. don't type faster than me any more!
"dammit sevo. don't type faster than me any more!"
Sorry. The BS detector got red-lined and pointed right to JOyG's bullshit.
"but in reality, fracking has caused problems in drinking water."
Citations? Evidence? Causal links? Science? Proof?
Chemicals are scary. Therefore, they can drift upwards through impermeable layers of rock to contaminate our water and rape our children. Because they're scary. KKKemiKKKalz!!11one
The idea that natural gas can contaminate water in an aquifer and come out of your tap in a flammable manner defies everything I know about physics and chemistry. That is not how domestic water distribution works, even if you have a private well.
What don't you understand? Gas in the groundwater will migrate up the path of least resistance, which water wells provide.
Really? What principles of physics or chemistry are violated? Would you care to explain your reasoning a bit?
It seems to me quite plausible that some form of natural gas could migrate into ground water where some is held in solution until the pressure is released at the tap. Unless Gasland was a complete work of fiction, some people do seem to have flammable gas coming out of their taps. Based on what I have read recently, it seems unlikely that it is directly caused by fracking, but it happens for some reason.
Just how much gas do you think will dissolve in the relatively low pressure of domestic water?
I don't really know. I'm going to look into it now. My point was that your original post seemed to indicate some violation of some fundamental principle of physics or chemistry in the very idea that gas might come out of someone's faucet. It appears that some such things do in fact happen (though it seems unlikely that fracking is a cause). No one has claimed that the incidents depicted in Gasland were staged or otherwise falsified, only that the methane source was not deep natural gas deposits. So it is ridiculous to claim that such an event is a physical impossibility as it apparently has happened.
As a plumbing contractor in an area saturated with NG wells and storage caverns I can tell you that I've seen lit faucets with my own two eyes. NOT caused by fracking though.
So if it wasn't caused by fracking, what is the culprit? I'm just interested to know.
Has anyone tried having the enviros and the drilling company split the fee evenly on some environmental research, so that no one can claim that the scientist is being bribed one way or the other?
Dogs and Cats! Living together!!!
Dogs and Cats! Living together!!!
It'll be anarchy!!!
Hmm I like it. Where do I sign up?
environmentalistas don't have money, WTF STUPIDITY!?
"environmentalists — who normally are the first to cry out when politics takes precedence over science that supports their policy preferences."
The fact that this needed fixing is yet more evidence that journalists are incredibly credulous of certain types of political activists. "Why would they claim to support truth and justice but then fall prey to hypocrisy for the sake of political expediency? It's inexplicable! Who can solve this riddle?"
"Perhaps he doesn't read the (New York) Times." She works as a manager of a classical musician.
Fucking self-parody- how does it work?
I honestly thought it was a typo. I belately realized that, no, her actual job is to manage a musician. It must be grueling.
Professional performers generally have managers. Is this a new concept to you? Being a manager and reading the NYT certainly doesn't give her any credibility on the subject of fracking, but the irrelevant swipe at her chosen career doesn't add much.
If she can question his credibility because he consults for major mining companies on issues pertaining to his specialty it is absolutely fair to question her knowledge base on a subject in which she has no professional experience or credentials.
I am a molecular biologist, if I were to make a criticism of her impartiality in judging a music contest in which her client was not even participating it is equally fair to ask WTF do I know about classical music!!
Oh, question away. I don't think she has any credibility on the subject of fracking. I only object to the unnecessary implication that her real job must be pointless and easy. I tend to think that you will be more successful in arguing against the idiots in the world if you don't go out of your way to sound like an asshole.
"'Shut Up!' the greens explained"
What is this originally from? It's familiar but I can't remember.
I've heard it attributed to Ring Lardner
thanks, you're right. It's in "The Young Immigrunts"
Frack, baby, frack.
1. Gravity hasn't failed us yet.
2. You can't get a hotel room in rural PA because of the gas boom, but the southern tier of NY (a positively Appalachian landscape) must languish in poverty because the term "frack" lends itself to catchy slogans.
Trust me, the Phil-Pitt fuckers in our state govt did their best to kill fracking here, too. Luckily rural PA has more clout in state govt than upstate NY does.
2. You can't get a hotel room in rural PA because of the gas boom, but the southern tier of NY (a positively Appalachian landscape) must languish in poverty because the term "frack" lends itself to catchy slogans.
But all the well-meaning Cornell professors are helping the region with their anti-frack yard signs and activism.
I'm a Cornell alumnus. As soon as you get ten minutes out of Ithaca everybody's poor as shit, and they sure could use a new source of income.
I grew up in Chenango County, NY. The area is broke-ass broke.
"This could really help us fight climate change; this is a huge gift, this shale."
Natural gas has no carbon? WTF?
Burning hydrocarbons (i.e. nat gas- mostly methane) produces a lot less CO2 per BTU than burning carbon (i.e. coal).
I'm actually missing something here. Why does it produce less CO2? I get why it produces less other pollutants (VOC's, NOX, HC's, etc), but why less CO2? It should produce exactly or more the CO2 per hp as any other hydrocarbon.
because coal = 2C+ 2O2 = 2CO2
methane = 2CH4 + 3O2 = 2CO2 + 4H2O
Burning hydrogen is so exothermic we use it to launch the space shuttle.
Your stochiometry is correct, Brett, but you forgot to mention that, pound-for-pound methane, also yields about twice as much heat as coal.
HHV Lignite Coal 8000 Btu/lb
HHV Anthracite Coal 14,000 Btu/lb
HHV Natural Gas 23,900 Btu/lb
WRT H2, HHV Hydrogen is 61,000 Btu/lb.
In general, the higher the H:C ratio of the hydrocarbon, the higher its heating value.
Dihydrogen monoxide is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.
Which is why it must be BANNED!
I'm not sure of the exact chemistry, but there are several factors that contribute. For one thing, the formation of CO2 isn't the only thing that produces energy in the combustion of hydrocarbons. The formation of water releases energy as well. Since methane (the major component of nat. gas) has a higher ratio of H/C, less co2 is produced as a proportion of the combustion products than when burning longer hydrocarbon chains or pure carbon (as with oil, coal or coke). The plants used to generate power from gas could also be inherently more efficient because of the simplicity of the fuel (all you need to do is mix it with air, whereas coal needs to be processed before it can be burned and creates a lot of ash that you need to do something with).
I just pulled a lot of that out of my ass, but it makes sense to me.
1 atom of carbon and 1 molecule of methane produce the same amount of CO2, but the molecule of methane has a higher heat of combustion because it has the hydrogens to burn as well (which makes water).
Thats what I was missing. Thanks.
Natural Gas: Does Hydraulic Fracturing Really Cause Earthquakes
Written by Professor Chris Rhodes
Monday, 27 September 2010 14:34
>It is concluded that a "plausible cause" of a series of small earthquakes in Texas during 2008 - 2009 is saltwater pumped deep into the earth to recover natural gas, though this explanation is not definitive.
>In a process known as "hydraulic fracturing", shale layers are cracked by injecting water mixed with sand under high pressure, in order to liberate trapped natural gas.
>Seismologist, Brian Slump of the Southern Methodist University, analysed data from 11 earthquakes and by a process of triangulation managed to place the origin to around one tenth of a mile south of Dallas-Fort Worth airport, on top of a geological fault located about 15,000 feet below the surface.
>Since 2002, 13 fracture wells have been drilled in proximity to it, but the study led by Slump found that the epicentre is almost exactly on the point of a reinjection well into which 9,000 barrels of seawater/day were pumped at a depth of 10,000 - 14,000 feet. http://oilprice.com/Energy/Nat.....uakes.html
4.7 earthquake hits Arkansas, gas well operators suspend fracking
By Lynn Herrmann.
Fort Smith - Around 800 recent earthquakes in central Arkansas, including Monday's 4.7 tremor, and a unanimous vote by the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission (AOGC), has led to a temporary suspension of injection well operations by two natural gas companies.
>Chesapeake Energy, based in Oklahoma City, OK, and Clarita Operating of Little Rock, AR, have agreed to suspend injection well drilling operations in the central Arkansas area near Greenbrier and Guy due to an abnormally high rate of earthquakes occurring during the last six months.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/.....z1IZp95ULs
Since 2002, 13 fracture wells have been drilled in proximity to it, but the study led by Slump found that the epicentre is almost exactly on the point of a reinjection well into which 9,000 barrels of seawater/day were pumped at a depth of 10,000 - 14,000 feet.
Point, reinjection wells aren't frakked from, they dispose of the produced water after fracks are complete. Possibly this well was drilled into the fault and the high water pressures are causing the subsurface movement?
Man-made earthquakes are nothing new. Out in the west, all kinds of temblors over the years have resulted from reservoirs.
When you dam a river and let a whole canyon fill up with water hundreds of feet deep dozens of miles long, it introduces mechanical stresses on the underlying geography that simply weren't there on a scale no frack ops has ever remotely approached.
This is to say nothing of the chemical alterations made to any subterranean hydrology and its cascading effects downstream to other geologic provinces in the neighborhood these reservoirs impact, and its worth noting the vast majority of truly massive reservoirs and dams are in the geologically busy and dangerous West.
In comparison, these frack-operations are tiny pinpricks in the earth.
zeitgeist - google "hydraulic fracturing and earthquakes".
>it is a long list
"zeitgeist - google "hydraulic fracturing and earthquakes".
>it is a long list"
No. *You're* making the claim, *you* google it and show credible evidence.
There's a long list of 'vaccines cause autism' too, and they're all bullshit.
Damnit again. Are you in my brain before i am?!
Google "I eat my own poo" and you will get a long list. I don't really see how the number ofGoogle results is relevant to anything.
I am sure that some natural gas extraction causes some small movements of different parts of the earth's crust relative to each other. So what? Is it dangerous in any way? Has it caused any real problems?
Fact is, the green-left is interested in eliminating hydrocarbons from human use. There will always be a terrible environmental toll that obviates any benefit to anything hydrocarbon in their world-view.
Re: TheZeitgeist,
Fact is, the green-left is interested in eliminating
hydrocarbons fromhuman[s] use.
I believe it is more succinct.
u can take old mex's succinct & combine it w a bloody tampon...& u pretty much have a used tampon.
You can say that all you want, but it won't make it true. There certainly are some that basically want humans to go away, but the mainstream greens mostly just don't understand how anything works and think that you can solve any problem with the right set of laws and regulations.
In other words, the only thing they have to offer are good intentions.
Yeah, pretty much.
I just can't get excited about defending fossil fuels on a website that caves into the disinformation on nuclear.
"...a website that caves into the disinformation on nuclear."
Do tell.
Hazel Meade: Disinformation?
Veronic De Rugy's piece in which she claimed that the cost of building nuclear power plants has nothing to do with regulation.
Hazel, check this out.
Yes, let's lift the liability cap.
Let's also equalize the regulations, so nuclear isn't subjected to extra layers of red tape and extra public hearings (which allow activists to stall) before being allowed to start construction.
Been following this closely @ Pundit Press, as I am an upstate New York resident. Glad to see it getting some play nationally. This rhetoric is coordinated statewide all the way down to town boards and planning committees.
"This could really help us fight climate change; this is a huge gift, this shale."
This quote from Smith makes me very suspicious of him, to tell you the truth. I could certainly see an argument being made that the shale gas is preferable to the current reliance on coal because natural gas is cleaner, in terms of particulate pollutants, than coal.
But natural gas is certainly still a fossil fuel - burning gas represents an introduction into the carbon cycle of "new" amounts of previously sequestered, fossilized carbon, to the same extent as burning coal. And thus, there is no reason whatsoever to believe that substituting gas for coal will do anything to help with the specific issue of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leading to global climate change.
Unfortunately this crucial point is not noticed or explored in this story - but there seems to be the potential for a legitimate claim that Smith is not holding a credible position here, and that the enviros have a point.
If carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a problem (I don't believe it is, but this quote relies on that not-uncommon assumption) then gas does help. It can be used to produce power far more efficiently.
Of course in the end it would allow more total reserves to be burnt, but since I doubt we will see fossil fuel as a major energy source in a century's time this is not really relevant. By then new fission technology and probably some fusion energy will dominate, or some process currently unknown to us.
The problem is that the environmentalist wackos have been caught lying so many times, whether it's alar, or nuclear energy, or global warming or fracking, that many, like myself, are for whatever environmentalists are against. The environmentalist movement is suffering a serious credibility problem. God knows the corporations are lying, filthy scum in many respects but the environmentalists have shot their credibility to he11 over the years.
Corporations are actually far more reliable than environmentalists for one very good reason. There are potential direct consequences to a corporation of lying if they are caught, whereas environmentalists caught lying lose nothing concrete. They rarely even admit it, and if they do the press does not make much of it. Brent Spar springs to mind as a big European case - Greenpeace admitted later that sinking the obsolete oil platform would have been the most environmentally-sound option, and that they lied about how much toxic waste was still trapped on board.
Environmentalists caught lying should be a bigger story than the original lie, but it is always almost ignored for one good reason: reporters are scientifically ignorant so always miss the lie, however obvious. They are not likely to announce they were fooled.
Amazing that envirofreaks are so often willing to believe that taking industry money influences an opinion, whereas taking nonprofit money or government grants somehow doesn't.
The great sin of hydrofracking is that it greatly expands the supply of recoverable domestic natural gas, reducing it's price. No energy crisis and lots of gas from private land makes it harder to expand the size and role of government.
"Perhaps he doesn't read the (New York) Times."
Wow. I wish I had known when I did my geology degree that if I had used the NYT as my source I would have all the answers.
I guess you pro-frackers won't be convinced of the dangers of fracking until NYS has large poisoned dead zones where nothing can live, where folks just had to walk away from their property and homes. But even then you'll find some other cause of the pollution.
You all probably still think nuclear is a great idea.
The future will be wind and sun energy and sooner or later R & D will be invested to make those efficient. And you people who can't deal with change will be dragged along, kicking and screaming into a clean future.


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88 silverado questions.
I have a couple silverados with a couple different questions.
first. i have a 1994 z71. it has lost almost all power. and ive exhausted all options i can think of. all new sensors ecm injectors. fuel filter. pump. vacuum lines. everything. the only thing left in my mind could be the cat. the truck has a 5.7 with i believe all the smog pump stuff removed. not too sure of the history but i got it with 150k on it. it now has about 350k. i think it might be clogged because the guy who had it said he never replaced it. and i never have. so maybe that might be the problem. also once it gets hot i hear a dull roar from right where it is under the cab. so im thinking it backed up so much it found another route out.
onto my 1988 silverado which i just purchased about 15 minutes prior to this post. i paid 700 for it so its not too bad. its got a six cylinder in it. which i dont know the size. on the drive home. i noticed a bad tap in the motor. which was not there at the beginning. not a big problem i pressume. probably a lifter loose. or a valve tap. not sure. but i hope its nothing major. truck has alot of power for the motor. so im sure its not extreme. im just wondering if its common for that motor for the studs to walk out because i had a previous truck where the studs backed out on me. couple more questions but nothing major. it has a leak at the collector. im guessing blown gasket. but like i said it has enough power for me not to be super worried. just wondering what the tap could be. with putting my ear close i can hear its coming from the top of the motor somewhere.
the crank and everything feel tight. and it doesnt have any dead pistons. everythings firing.
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I have had the same problem that you are experiencing with the 94 and it was due to the cats being clogged. The PO flat out told me that he had continued to use leaded gas because it was cheaper (this was a few years ago) and it clogged the cats. No power, no acceleration eventually sitting on the side of the road with the engine running but not enough power to actually move the rig. Sort of like those old teen movies where they would stick a banana in the tail pipe. I replaced the cats and everything was golden. For the 88 I would X2 Caddiac because I have had great success in knocking out lifter knock with Seafoam (did you see what I did there LOL). Anyway let us know what you did and what the result was.1991 Chevy Suburban, 190K, 1500 1/2 ton, 5.7L, 3:42 gears, 4X4, stock tire size, stock suspension set up.
Welcome to the club. On the '94 I'm sure its the cat since its original and has about 350K on it.
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X2 on the cat on the '94, but you can check it first by having a helper rev the snot outta it while you put your hand over the tailpipe. You should feel a good deal of air flow. If not, then it is probably plugged.
On the "88 I would do an oil change first. It probably needs it unless it is extremely clean already. I always get 1 or 2 lifters clicking when mine is getting close to needing an oil change1988 Chevy C-3500 2wd (no pic)
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on the 94 remove the o2 sensors and that will releave pressure if the cats are plugged nad you will get your power back. that will tel you if its the cats. on your 88 i think you should run some seafoam in the oil for bout 10 minutes, change the oil and filter (always good when you first get a veicle that way YOU KNOW its been done) and put good oil in it."i dont think you got the picture. i got a beautiful picture. this baby happens to have an extra turn of speed, which is the only thing i care about. you dont understnad what happens do you? they make cars. they make 'em exactly the same way. one or two of 'em turn out to be something special. nobody knows why. i know why. i may be kiddin' myself, but i think i can make somethin' out of that sad little bucket of bolts." ~ Tennessee Steinmetz
MarvelMistry oil additive is good for cleaning sticky/dirty lifters.
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ive heard alot of talk about this sea fome stuff. never used it. can i get it at advanced. and how does the application happen. and whats needed.
im mechanically inclined. just never heard of it. and thanks for replys.
I haven't heard of it either but here is their website. http://www.seafoamsales.com/ That might give you some more info about it. I have had an exhaust leak before that I thought was a lifter. But I would check the converters first (on both) and change the oil on the 88 and if you still have the tick check your exhaust manifold for leaks, the Marvel Mystery Oil is a good idea also (great stuff).Ford has a better idea! Drive a GM!
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Need a recommendation for hanover, NH
Look around the board here, there are a few places, especially if you are willing to do a short bit of driving.
For upscale American food that's a notch above "pub", Canoe Club isn't bad.
For ethnic food, either of the Yama locations serve Korean food that's actually good, and not just "good for the Upper Valley".
For good food and ambiance, Simon Pearce in Quechee is quite good, especially for lunch (I always think they are a little pricey for their dinner menu).
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Add Stella's Kitchen in nearby Lyme, NH to the list. Great food in a town of 1,100 just north of the food wasteland that is Hanover. Very solid food, mostly Italian, but with plenty of local flavor and ingredients. Bar area very welcoming and the deli/store in front has great takeout. Thin crust pizza is good, but not Stella-r. Good wine selection and overall great value. I highly recommend it.
I second the Tip Top Cafe in White River Junction. The Tucker Box down the street is also a good coffee shop.
salubre in hanover, good restaurant with a nice atmosphere. it is in the building just next to the post office. it is fairly new. service is good, waitstaff professional and food definitely worth sitting down for. they haven't been open for many months and are definitely on our to-go list of hanover eateries


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Comparisons of life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions attempt to calculate the emissions of greenhouse gases or solely carbon dioxide over the full life of a power source, from groundbreaking to fuel sources to waste management back to greenfield status. The IPCC in 2011 aggregated and harmonized the CO
2 emission findings of hundreds of papers, which were published between 1980 and 2010.[1]
It is important to note that for all technologies, advances in efficiency and therefore reductions in CO
2 emissions since the time of publication have not been included. For example, the total life cycle emissions from wind power may have reduced since publication, similarly, due to the timescales over which the studies were conducted, Nuclear power Generation II reactor CO
2 emissions are stated, and not the emissions of Generation III reactors, which are presently under construction in the United States and China.
- 1 2011 IPCC aggregated results of the available literature
- 2 2012 Yale University systematic review and harmonization of nuclear power data
- 3 2008 Benjamin K. Sovacool survey of nuclear power.
- 4 2007 non-peer reviewed Oxford Research Group survey
- 5 Other studies
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 External links
2011 IPCC aggregated results of the available literature[edit]
A literature review conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2011, of numerous energy sources CO
2 emissions per unit of electricity generated, found that the CO
2 emission value, that fell within the 50th percentile of all total life cycle emissions studies were as follows.[2]
|50th percentile
(g CO
|various generation II reactor types
|Solar thermal
|parabolic trough
|hot dry rock
|Solar PV
|Polycrystaline silicon
|Natural gas
|various combined cycle turbines without scrubbing
|various generator types without scrubbing
|Minimum estimate
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(g CO
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2012 Yale University systematic review and harmonization of nuclear power data[edit]
A Yale University review published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology analyzing CO
2 life cycle assessment emissions from nuclear power determined that:[3]
"The collective LCA literature indicates that life cycle GHG emissions from nuclear power are only a fraction of traditional fossil sources and comparable to renewable technologies."
It went on to note that for the most common category of reactors, the Light water reactor:
"Harmonization decreased the median estimate for all LWR technology categories so that the medians of BWRs, PWRs, and all LWRs are similar, at approximately 12 g CO
The study noted that:
"the difference between nuclear power life cycle GHG emissions constructed in an electric system dominated by nuclear (or renewables) and a system dominated by coal can be fairly large (in the range of 4 to 22 g CO
2-eq/kWh compared to 30 to 110 g CO
2-eq/kWh, respectively)"
Although the paper primarily dealt with data from Generation II reactors, and did not analyze the CO
2 emissions by 2050 of the presently under construction Generation III reactors, it did summarize the Life Cycle Assessment findings of in development reactor technology's.
Theoretical FBRs [ Fast Breeder Reactors ] have been evaluated in the LCA literature. The limited literature that evaluates this potential future technology reports median life cycle GHG emissions ... similar to or lower than LWRs and purports to consume little or no uranium ore.
2008 Benjamin K. Sovacool survey of nuclear power.[edit]
A meta analysis of 103 nuclear power life-cycle studies by Benjamin K. Sovacool found that nuclear power plants produce electricity with a mean of 66 g equivalent life-cycle carbon dioxide emissions per kWh, compared to renewable power generators, which produce electricity with 9.5 to 38 g carbon dioxide per kWh and fossil-fuel power stations, which produce electricity with about 443 to 1,050 g equivalent lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions per kWh.[5][6][7]
Sovacool thus concludes that nuclear energy technologies are 7 to 16 times more effective than fossil fuel power plants on a per-kWh basis at fighting climate change, and renewable electricity technologies are "two to seven times more effective than nuclear power plants on a per kWh basis at fighting climate change." Sovacool has said that his estimates already include all conceivable emissions associated with the manufacturing, construction, installation and decommissioning of renewable power plants.[4]
On his nuclear power paper, Benjamin K. Sovacool has been criticized by his peers, as it was noted that his paper was overly based on data from Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen.[8] Beerten et al. state:
"Most recently, Sovacool(2008) calculated a mean value for the overall emissions by averaging the global results of 19 LCA [Life-Cycle Analysis] studies forming a subset of, as stated by the author, 'the most current, original and transparent studies' out of 103 studies. However, a critical assessment reveals that a majority of the studies representing the upper part of the spectrum are studies that can be traced back to the same input data and performed by the same author, namely Storm van Leeuwen. After careful analysis, it must be concluded that the mix of selected LCAs results in a skewed and distorted collection of different results available in the literature. Furthermore, since many studies use different energy mixes and other assumptions, averaging GHG emissions of those studies is no sound method to calculate an overall emission coefficient, as it gives no site specific information needed for policy makers to base their decisions."[8]
(g CO
|2.5 MW offshore
|3.1 MW reservoir
|1.5 MW onshore
|Anaerobic digestion
|300 kW run-of-river
|Solar thermal
|80 MW parabolic trough
|Solar PV
|Polycrystaline silicon
|80 MW hot dry rock
|various reactor types
|Natural gas
|various combined cycle turbines
|Fuel Cell
|hydrogen from gas reforming
|various generator and turbine types
|Heavy oil
|various generator and turbine types
|various generator types with scrubbing
|various generator types without scrubbing
Beerten et al. proceed to discuss reasons why LCA analysis for nuclear power plants can give such widely varying estimates. For example, life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of nuclear power depend on the enrichment method, the carbon intensity of the electricity used for enrichment, the efficiency of the plant, as well as on chosen mining technologies. Averages and means from multiple sources can be skewed by inharmonious data, clustering bias, by outliers and so on.[9]
2007 non-peer reviewed Oxford Research Group survey[edit]
A 2007 report published by the Oxford Research Group listed the following results, after Leeuwen and Smith: coal = 755 g/kWh; natural gas = 385 g/kWh; biomass = 29 - 62 g/kWh; wind = 11 - 37 g/kWh; nuclear = 11 - 130 g/kWh (using the minimum and maximum results amongst 3 studies). The report concluded that "Emissions from nuclear power lie somewhere between biomass and natural gas ... Furthermore, as the available average ore grade declines CO
2 (and other Greenhouse Gases) emissions from nuclear power will increase." [7]
Other studies[edit]
In terms of individual studies, a wide range of estimates are made for many fuel sources which arise from the different methodologies used. Those on the low end tend to leave parts of the life cycle out of their analyses, while those on the high end often make unrealistic assumptions about the amount of energy used in some parts of the life cycle.[10]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that total life-cycle GHG emissions per unit of electricity produced from nuclear power are below 40 g CO
2-eq/kWh (10 g C-eq/kWh), similar to those for renewable energy sources.[11]
Another report, Life-Cycle Energy Balance and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Nuclear Energy in Australia, conducted by the University of Sydney in 2008 produced the following results: nuclear = 60-65 g CO
2/kWh; wind power = 20 g/kWh; solar PV = 106 g/kWh. The likely range of values from this study produced the following results: nuclear = 10-130 g CO
2/kWh; wind power = 13-40 g CO
2/kWh; solar PV = 53-217 g CO
2/kWh. Furthermore, the study criticised the Vattenfall report : "it omits the energy and greenhouse gas impacts of many upstream contributions".[12]
In a study conducted in 2006 by the UK's Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), which used figures from the Torness study,[13] nuclear power's life cycle was evaluated to emit the least amount of carbon dioxide (very close to wind power's life cycle emissions) when compared to the other alternatives (fossil fuel, coal, and some renewable energy including biomass and PV solar panels). [14]
A 2005 study,[15] issued by Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen, reported that carbon dioxide emissions from nuclear power plants per kilowatt hour could range from 20% to 120% of those for natural gas-fired power stations depending on the availability of high grade ores.[15]
See also[edit]
- ^ Nuclear Power Results – Life Cycle Assessment Harmonization, NREL Laboratory, Alliance For Sustainable Energy LLC website, U.S. Department Of Energy, last updated: January 24, 2013.
- ^ a b c Moomaw, W., P. Burgherr, G. Heath, M. Lenzen, J. Nyboer, A. Verbruggen, 2011: Annex II: Methodology. In IPCC: Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (ref. page 10)
- ^ Warner, Ethan S.; Heath, Garvin A. Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Nuclear Electricity Generation: Systematic Review and Harmonization, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale University, published online April 17, 2012, doi: 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00472.x.
- ^ a b Benjamin K. Sovacool. A Critical Evaluation of Nuclear Power and Renewable Electricity in Asia, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 2010, p. 386.
- ^ a b Benjamin K. Sovacool. Valuing the greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear power: A critical survey. Energy Policy, Vol. 36, 2008, p. 2950.
- ^ "Valuing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Nuclear Power". JournalistsResource.org, retrieved 22 March 2012
- ^ a b Edited by Frank Barnaby, James Kemp (2006). "Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming". Oxford Research Group. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
- ^ a b Beerten, Jef; Laes, Erik; D'haeseleer, William (December 2009). "Greenhouse gas emissions in the nuclear life cycle: A balanced appraisal". Energy Policy 37 (12): 5056–5068. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2009.06.073. Retrieved 2 Mar 2012.
- ^ Dolan, Stacey L.; Heath, Garvin A. (April 2012). "Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Utility-Scale Wind Power". Journal of Industrial Ecology 16 (Supplement S1): S136–S154. doi:10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00464.x. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
- ^ "Nuclear energy: assessing the emissions". Nature. September 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
- ^ IPCC (2007). "Climate Change 2007: Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change".
- ^ Lenzen, M.; Frank Barnaby, James Kemp and others (2008). "Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear energy: A review. Energy Conversion and Management 49, 2178-2199". University of Sydney. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
- ^ AEA Technology environment (May 2005). "Environmental Product Declaration of Electricity from Torness Nuclear Power Station". Retrieved 31 January 2010.
- ^ Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (2006). "Carbon Footprint of Electricity Generation". Retrieved 2007-07-13.
- ^ a b Storm van Leeuwen and Philip Smith (2003). "Nuclear Power — The Energy Balance". Retrieved 2006-11-10.


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Ah, the joys of "information wants to be free". Just wait until some loser murders his wife in her domestic violence shelter whose location used to be shielded from public view. Google recently had ours on display in their directory, with a friggin' photo of the front door. Getting it removed was extremely difficult, because mortals can't contact Google; they contact you. Like the gods.
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This was a good article, and I wonder where the privacy issue will take us. Charles Stross has made an issue out of all the CCTs in London, watching your every move. Which would be fine with me if that happens in all cities. Privacy is something I don't think I'm going to have more of in the future, but less.
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Once upon a time, I scraped an external archive of craigslist and made some message frequency/time by category plots. The external archive contained data from 1998 through 2001 making for some very interesting pictures of a dot.boom and bust. Slashdot got wind of it and tens of thousands of folks came to look at the graphs.
Later I wanted to legitimize it and plot data in realtime. (Given the flip-flopping of the dotconomy over the past five years, it would have been very interesting.)
In a foolish choice to be a "good Internet citizen", I e-mailed the craigslist folks to ask for permission. I figured "Hey. Any community minded organization wouldn't mind, especially an organization like craigslist." That was true of Craig Newmark as he tried to help. However, their douchebag of a CEO wouldn't budge, claiming that there was absolutely no way I could possibly collect the data without crashing their servers. (Even when I suggested well spaced RSS pulls, he rudely said no.)
It really made me realize that no matter how much these guys like to present themselves as "community minded," at the end of the day, when it comes to their data, they're obnoxious closed businessmen all the same.
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CORRECTION: I just looked at the old e-mail thread where this transpired. It wasn't the CEO that put the kabash on this, it was one of their techies. Nevertheless, he was on the thread and never intervened, which is almost but not quite as lame as I made him out to be in my prior comment.


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5th-seeded Wolves edged by 4th-seeded Tusculum in first round of Food Lion SAC Tournament
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ROCK HILL, S.C. - The fifth-seeded Newberry Wolves held a lead after doubles competition, but the fourth-seeded Tusculum Pioneers won four of six singles matches to take a 5-4 win in the first round of the 2012 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Men's Tennis Tournament at the Rock Hill Tennis Center on Thursday afternoon.
The Wolves end their season with a record of 13-12.
Newberry felt good about its chances after the doubles competition, with the all-SAC pair of Michael Saunders (Christchurch, New Zealand) and Vinicius Botelho (Fortaleza, Brazil) taking an 8-5 win and the No. 3 duo of Cal Loveridge (Derby, Derbyshire, England) and Carlos Nicolopulos (Valencia, Venezuela) earning a 9-8 tiebreaker win to put Newberry up 2-1.
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The new Mass Effect Trilogy trailer shows off each of the three games coming to PC and consoles as a package deal.
No matter how you feel about the Mass Effect 3 ending, you have to admit: this trailer does a pretty good job at what it sets out to do: get players back into the games, and get some new players to hop aboard as well.
The combination of cinematic editing, lots of gameplay footage, and choice narration makes this one of the better trailers I've seen in a while – tense, dramatic, and a good illustration of what makes the series so compelling.
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Still, it's really a shame (and a bit puzzling) that the content in the trilogy won't be the full package. Not all DLC is making it into the release, and even more confusingly each platform will be different. Here's Eurogamer:
PC copies of Mass Effect Trilogy will include the best DLC selection (still not very much), including Mass Effect 1′s Bring Down the Sky and Pinnacle Station add-ons on-disc. Mass Effect 2 comes with its day-one DLC Cerberus Network intact (included with all new copies of the game). It unlocks the bonus squadmate Zaeed, plus a few extra missions and weapons. For Mass Effect 3, you'll get the game's online pass (also included with new copies).
For Xbox 360, you won't get any of the Mass Effect 1 DLC. But you will get Cerberus Network for Mass Effect 2 and the Online Pass for Mass Effect 3.
For PlayStation 3, BioWare has yet to decide. More information will be available "soon", the developer said.
Now, a Mass Effect trilogy with all the DLC included would be pretty terrific, especially if people had bought only one or two of the games and maybe only one or two of the DLC releases. As it stands, the value is not what it could be, which is too bad.
The no DLC thing confuses me.
I thought it was pretty standard procedure to include all the extra bits in re-releases. Maybe not ME3 because it's still relatively new, but the first game? Come on, who buys DLC for a game that came out in 2007?
The lack of the "complete edition" of the first two games is not enticing at all. Even without any specifics for the PS3 version, I think it'd be a safe bet to assume it won't be getting anything better than the PC version. I have Mass Effect 2 for my PS3 with all the dlc except for Arrival (all of which were free, which was the only reason I bought the thing to begin with), and I don't want to get this pack just for the first game, so I'll wait and see if Bioware ever releases ME3: Complete Edition for the PS3.
Congratulations Bioware and EA, once again you've scored an own goal with those who used to be your fans…and who will be quite sure they make everyone else aware of it.
This DLC package is a joke, because ALL of the DLC they noted (at least for the PC version) is exactly what you would get for buying each of those games on their own.
Bring Down the Sky has been included on the Mass Effect 1 disk for years, Pinnacle Station wasn't, but only because it was such a lacklustre DLC no one bought it and Bioware stopped supporting it…but if you knew where to look you could find it as a free (and legal) download.
Cerberus network and Zaeed? Standard DLC included on the Mass Effect 2 disk since day one – literally since day one – and STILL standard with new copies of the game.
The online pass for Mass Effect 3. Meaningless and useless, again this was the standard DLC included in all new copies of the game since its release.
So all they are offering customers is a box set of games they could buy individually with the exact same DLC – and probably for less than this set will retail for*. Yeah, really compelling that…let me run off to buy it right now.
(*In some stores in the UK you can pick up Mass Effect 1&2 for £15 as part of a deal – not a deal which is specific for these two games. Mass Effect 3 is selling for £10-15. All of these prices are for new copies of the games. Typical 'game of the year'/box sets cost £30-35…)
They also fail to address the unspoken problem with Mass Effect 1 – the game is so old it simply will not run correctly with some graphics drivers. This is definitely not going to win over customers unless it is patched first.
Yea, this is a pretty bad move IMO. I love the ME series, but releasing all 3 games, at once, less than a year than the last title, before even finishing the DLC of the most recent title? It's like they aren't even trying to win back fans.
Who puts together these packages? It wouldn't surprise me if they released a collection of Madden 10, 11, and 12 in one go.
They will be releasing the Madden 10,11 and 12 in one package.
It will be called 'Madden 13′
BRB. Replaying entire Mass Effect series again.
Saw on reddit that the amount of DLC missing for each system is approximately
360 – $80
If anything it just goes to show how inflated DLC prices are to the actual game. And after that ending debacle, this isn't the kind of move that will generate any goodwill in Bioware/EA's favor.
Feels like one of those hundreds fan made ones
Well, screw it. I hope it bombs. I really liked Mass Effect 1, which if if you ask me is the best of the series. The second one was okay, and the third was a mediocre, somehwat enjoyable rail shooter.
I would have been enjoying it even more had it not been for the usual derp Bioware writing, and the absolute shit that was the ending of the series. But most of all, the whole "No, we haven't done anything bad, you're just stupid"- attitude to everyone who pointed at how illogical and dumb the ending was, that pissed me off.
It's time for Bioware to stop producing games and do something else.
If you get the PS3 version and are only buying STORY DLC and not the cosmetic crap it's only $26.98 for the DLC between ME2 and ME3 as ME comes with everything and you only have to buy Arrival for ME2 and then From Ashes and Leviathan for ME3.
This is just another "quick money grab" while the franchise still have some "steam" in it. NOT what other players, including myself, have suggested on Bioware forums before. This is NOT an enhanced complete collection of all 3 games tied into one single experience.
This is rather humiliating, I am looking forward to what CD Project RED will produce next, Bioware should do something else.
Despite the 3rd ending, the Mass Effect trilogy is one of my favorite video game series of all time. I don't throw that opinion out unless I meant it.
I didn't play the first game until 2009, and I was instantly hooked and awed by the lore, environment, and the story that I became addicted. I beat the first game in a few days by playing it 7-8 hours each day, and until Mass Effect, I haven't done something like that since I was a young teen when I played GTA San Andreas.
It's one of the few games in which I've replayed each one multiple times. It's a shame it ended as no matter what, I would never recapture that magic I had experience the first time. Fortunately, I didn't let the series ending make me hate it, and I have replayed the games since I beat Mass Effect 3. Despite it's flaws and setbacks, it's a series I truly love and enjoy to this day.
I have to admit I loved the lore and was even (between ME 2 and 3) working on adapting the ME universe to a table top RPG.
It's a shame Bioware decided to throw that wonderful universe over the Reichenbach Falls.
True that. On a broad level I morbidly fascinated as to how Casey Hudson intends to resurrect the franchise again since the ME3 ending debacle. Despite my overall enjoyment of the series that ending pretty much killed off my interest to the extent that I haven't yet felt the urge to play through the extended cut, or consider getting any of the storyline DLC. Not because I'm bitter or disgruntled, or waging a boycott against Bioware (I'm interested in DAIII and I recognize that they are a separate development team) but simply because I find I longer care enough about the story line to invest the time.
Not interested. No scratch that. I cannot honestly claim the apathy I'd like to affect. I still think the company sucks for what the did to the end of the game how it and the IGNorant treated the fans who dared to feel anything other than awe and gratitude for their efforts. That has turned anything Mass Effect related into something that resonates with "a sour yellow note" to me.
I have to say wide swathes of the gaming press vocally turning on the series fans was perhaps one of the uglier things to happen this year. It was quite surprising how little credence was given to peoples general complaints regarding the lackluster nature of the ending Vs any attempt at engagement. Still it seems 'journalists' do love appeals to 'artistic integrity' in lieu of acceptance that perhaps all in not right in the state of Denmark.
It's getting really old seeing all of you whiny brats that still like to bitch about the ending in the third game. The Mass Effect series is an incredibly well made gaming experience and if you didn't appreciate the ending, then fine. Don't buy their games anymore. But quit clogging up the internet with all of this adolescent, self-entitled bullshit. Here's an idea: start your own game development company and take Bioware out. Obviously you all have much better ideas.
The games promoted how your choices would matter and change the outcome of the ending, and how did it end? With deus ex machina where nothing you did truly mattered.
On top of that, storywise ME2 was pretty darn unnecessary.
Recruiting people (who you can "save" in that game) but ultimately most of them get offed "dramatically" in the third. Wasn't that fun?
Then again, it was illusion of choice all along. From start to finish.
Besides, as much as there are people complaining about the ending, there are diehard defenders of it too.
I giggled at self-entitled bullshit.
Wow its been a while since I've seen someone manage to fit in Whiney, Entitled, and Make ur 0wn g@m3 n00bz! all in one short post.
While I agree that the Mass Effect series is good the third entry in the series isn't an incredibly well made gaming experience. There are plenty of gameplay and design choices that went into the third game that were questionable. As well as a few technical issues that should not have been in release. (Face import issues on a game whose cornerstone is playing your 'shepard' and a completely busted journal system designed by a company that makes nothing but RPGs) And thats not even going into the quality of writing on the last quarter of the game (not just the last 15 minutes) where half the things that happen do so simply because the plot wouldn't work otherwise.
As far as appreciating the ending goes… well I would if it was up to Bioware's normal standards. But its not, nor does it stand up to "high level" scrutiny.
@ Kevin Auuilar. No I won't shut up and you can't make me by parroting Colin Moriarty's trash lines.
I guess there's perhaps room for some sales of this with Christmas looming however I feel sorry for the poor bastards who have to wade through the godawful inventory system of ME1 again.
I can't imagine how a marketing rep could look at a Trilogy of games only and no DLC and conclude that people would buy it even though they may have other copies. How could this possibly make money? Even with completionists, the number produced isn't going to match the number sold. As an Xbox 360 user who owns a copy of the ME3 Collector's Edition, has played but not bought ME 1&2, and has been eagerly awaiting something like this for ME, I still see no good reason to buy it. Crazy.


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Frances Mae Steinkamp, 83, of Canton, IL, passed away Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 1:40 a.m. at Graham Hospital in Canton.
The daughter of W. Carl and Martha (Thomas) Kramer, she was born on May 2, 1929 in Colfax, IN.
She is survived by five children, Rebecca Drogen of Denver, CO; Thomas (Susan) Steinkamp of Evansville, IN; Elizabeth (Helmut) Taeubert of Denver, CO; James (Maureen) Steinkamp of Hinsdale, IL; and Mary (Barton) Brown of Canton, IL; six grandchildren, Tara Fliesher, Jessica Suhrheinrich, Jason Ballard, Erika Brown, and Connor and Keelan Steinkamp; five great-grandchildren; one brother, William Kramer; one sister, Patricia (Dave) Evans. She also leaves behind her best friend and pet, Zoey.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
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