What Are They Not Telling Us?
With the majority of the U.S. experiencing “down right” cold temperatures, I’ve decided to take a short hiatus from my “Traveling… interviews. They’re soon to be started again in April, 2010. In the meantime, I would like to discuss some fairly controversial topics.
This weeks topic was brought to my attention by an e-mail from my mother. The e-mail was about “technically recoverable” oil in the Bakken Formation of the U.S. Williston Basin in Wyoming and North Dakota. According to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s sole science agency, the U.S. Geological Service, the Williston Basin oil discovery is the considered the largest area in the U.S. for “technically recoverable” oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates there are over 503 billion barrels of oil in the Bakken Formation. The Stansberry Report Online states that 1000′ below the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. Estimates are upwards of 2 trillion barrels contained underground. If this is true, then we have a tremendous source of domestic oil (fossil fuel) that could free our country from foreign oil dependance. Where my question comes in, the head of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Secretary Salazar, was a keynote speaker at the UN Conference on Climate Change. The title of his speech was “New Energy Future: The Role of Public Lands in Clean Energy Production and Carbon Capture”. If the U.S. Geologic Service advocates the Bakken Formation as a vast oil reserve for the U.S. and they are the sole scientific agency for the Department of the Interior (DOI), then does Secretary Salizar put his “stamp of approval” on the USGS Williston Basin findings and production of (fossil fuel) oil?
I’m a bit confused, could someone please enlighten me? Leave me a comment, question or suggestion at the “comment” link immediately following this post. The following link is what I viewed info.http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
I look forward to hearing your opinions on this. Next week will be another “controversy”. May God Bless You Tim
My personal opinion is that Salazar speaks with forked tongue at the behest of “our” president.
It sounds as though Salazar was covering his *** by titling his speach “Clean Energy Production and Carbon Capture”. Carbon doesn’t have to be “captured” if it’s not produced.
Do you have any more information on Williston Basin? or the methods to get the oil to the surface? JK