Natural Gas Commercial

I saw this before The Tonight Show on Thursday (in Colorado). So great to see my footage in action! They used two clips of mine...

Probably some other people's footage from here as well.

http://anga.us/media-room/videos/ads/colorado-tv

Colorado natural Gas....Humm... I remember the Vela project where they exploded an atomic bomb over there to see it could be used to mine for natural gas. The gas became radioactive....

Wow, I had never heard of that. Frightening. Hopefully we've come a long way since then!

There is a documentary about natural gas called GAS LAND. You might find it on youtube. It will defintely change your mind about how natural gas is produced in the US.

I just checked youtube and all they have are trailers on the GAS LAND documentary. But here's a link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtpSgqUZ3oA

You should also take a look at this:
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0D1FFF3854137A93C1A8178ED85F478785F9

In those days, they were trying to look for "pacific" ways to use atomic weapons in civilian activities: to mine for natural gas, make artificial lakes, mining minerals, making underground caverns, underground garbage dumps, use the superheated underground water vapor to create energy.... The problem was that they had to wait a few thousand years for the radioactivity to dissipate. They wanted to blow away a tornado and a hurricane but somebody put a stop to their crazy experiments.

I think you better get a geiger counter if natural gas is sipping out of those deposits.

I had no idea Natural Gas was so controversial... granted the Vela Project was in 1962 (from what I read). My thought was that it must be better than our current oil dependence. Sounds like I may be wrong - I'll have to watch the documentary.

Indeed in southern Utah in the late 50's they exploded a nuc deep underground in an attempt to fracture the earth so oil would pool for easier removal or pumping. It worked, fractured the ground, oil pooled and yup it was to radioactive to use. Can you even think of the disaster if natural gas became scarce in the USA? Probably more than 80% of all homes and businesses use natural gas for heating, cooking etc. Heck, most every pizza parlor in the USA would close down when their ovens would not work anymore. There is a battle in Alaska now on which way to build the natural gas pipeline. Some want it to follow oil to Valdez, the Canadians want it to go to them. My oh my.

I doubt that anyone will find the full HBO documentary of GASLAND online. There are a few trailers but not the full story online. I made a copy of the HBO doc and you'd be surprised who was behind the push for hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. Also, in how they protected themselves from the clean water act, clean air act and the water act of the 1970s and more.

So if you think a couples of nucs were bad hydraulic fracturing is even worst than that. Sure we need natural gas but not through this method of drilling.