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118 comments on The Bakken Formation: How Much Will It Help?

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Gail the Actuary on April 23, 2008 - 11:31am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I wrote a note in one of the Drumbeats about needing someone to look into this (or some other issues) further. Piccolo wrote me an e-mail saying he was interested in doing some investigation. It wasn't until I saw a draft of the report that I knew for sure that he really could provide a lot better analysis than most of what is available.

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Will Stewart on April 23, 2008 - 1:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I missed the attribution at the top, and only saw Gail's name. Good work, Piccolo.

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mdsolar on April 24, 2008 - 2:50pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Gail,

Thanks for following up on this and thanks Piccolo for delving in. It will be good to look harder once the USGS report is available, but I'm pretty pleased so far that this does not look like a huge amount of carbon. Nor does it look like it will bring down the price of oil. I still worry that the natural gas will be wasted on tarsands though. Perhaps the royalty income will spur some alternative energy development at the state level, which would be a positive development.

Chris

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