posted Jan 25, 2012 1:26 PM by Jenna Silling
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updated Mar 12, 2012 10:14 AM
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During his State of the Union address to the nation Tuesday, President Barack Obama discussed the growing market for domestic shale gas, saying that America must "safely develop" natural gas energy "without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk."
He noted that American oil production is higher than it has been in over eight years, and the boom will "create jobs and power trucks and factories that are cleaner and cheaper, proving that we don't have to choose between our environment and our economy." An excerpt from the speech is below.
| We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly one hundred years, and my Administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy. Experts believe this will support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. And I’m requiring all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use. America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk. The development of natural gas will create jobs and power trucks and factories that are cleaner and cheaper, proving that we don’t have to choose between our environment and our economy. And by the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of thirty years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock – reminding us that Government support is critical in helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground. |
We agree that health and safety must be a priority. PWAbsorbents is working on the solutions to make natural gas drilling cheaper, cleaner, and ultimately safer. We are continually working to raise best management practices for the handling and treatment of oil and gas waters. That means that not only do we remove the chemicals from flowback waste water as an alternative to expensive and unsafe underground disposal wells, we are also working to create closed-loop systems for water recycling so that oil and gas companies do not need to use billions of gallons of new water for future drilling.
Read the complete 2012 State of the Union address transcript or watch the video footage at WhiteHouse.gov.
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