Don't Laugh: Is/Will There Ever Be Fracking in Maine? (Brunswick: home, live)

[The Hillmeister]

I found some cheap flights to Presque Isle (well, nothing's cheap these days), and I found a couple of excellent border-town realty sites, and then I thought...hmm...this is what your state looked like back-in-the-day. Since I am an absolute moron about anything involving mining or the fuel industry, I just need to know if Maine will ever frack. I live a half-hour south of the town in "Gasland," where the drinking water catches on fire.

(This is not a political question; it's a scared-person question.)

[mainebrokerman]

i doubt it....

there is a huge enviromental crowd in maine,,,,unless its a wind turbine, you have little to worry about..

[slyfox2]

It requires sedimentary rock which creates gas and oil because of the creatures bodies from the jurassic period. Maine is almost all Granite. There is nothing in the ground up here to create this.

[RMoore007]

What they said^^^Not in Maine

Here is the map of where fracking could take place.

[woxyroxme]

Check out Michigan, looks like they have a way to bail out Detroit after all.

[tatans]

We are all aware that 80-90% of all oil and gas wells drilled in North America since @ 1950's have been fractured, we all knew that, didn't we? didn't we all know that???

[Coaster]

This question came up a while back when a member here claimed to have seen a "secret" map that showed oil and gas deposits in northern Maine. I called the Maine Geological Survey office and talked with the state geologist, Bob Marvinney. I asked him about the possibility of oil or natgas in Maine. After he stopped laughing, he explained that Maine doesn't have the proper geological structures for hydrocarbon deposits. There is also no evidence of oil/natgas offshore Maine, either, he added.

[bangorme]

Originally Posted by Coaster

This question came up a while back when a member here claimed to have seen a "secret" map that showed oil and gas deposits in northern Maine. I called the Maine Geological Survey office and talked with the state geologist, Bob Marvinney. I asked him about the possibility of oil or natgas in Maine. After he stopped laughing, he explained that Maine doesn't have the proper geological structures for hydrocarbon deposits. There is also no evidence of oil/natgas offshore Maine, either, he added.

Hence the poverty... among other reasons.

[The Hillmeister]

Originally Posted by Coaster

This question came up a while back when a member here claimed to have seen a "secret" map that showed oil and gas deposits in northern Maine. I called the Maine Geological Survey office and talked with the state geologist, Bob Marvinney. I asked him about the possibility of oil or natgas in Maine. After he stopped laughing, he explained that Maine doesn't have the proper geological structures for hydrocarbon deposits. There is also no evidence of oil/natgas offshore Maine, either, he added.

I'm so glad to have read this. Apparently, the question is very political, so I will just thank you for posting this.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Meanwhile, on the other side of the brook, New Brunswick is mapping their oil shale fields. MIlitary snipers set up in a blueberry field. MicMac women surrounded the snipers and said, "Are you goiung to shoot us?" the snipers siad, "No." The women said, "Then why don't you just go home to breakfast? " The troops left and the natives then burned six police cars. It's on the video.

New Brunswick shale gas protests | Warrior Publications

Burning police cars.

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