Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA

Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Canadian natural gas has a lot of H2S in it that requires very expensive
treatments, mostly using the SCOT process or the new absorbents to a
point.  The new natural gas wells in the USA from fracking shale
formations have very little H2S in them.

All very true.

So, much Canadian natural gas has been replaced with cheaper USA natural
gas.  The marketplace is all determining until the governments mess with it.

Yes, but it was a government that restricted sulfur levels.  (Admittedly
there are plenty of applications where they are a problem and they are always
corrosive, but people would burn it raw if they could.) 

On the other hand, much of the long-term cost of fracking is not borne by
the providers... much like the long-term cost of strip mining which seemed
very cost-effective until environmental mitigation was needed years later to
make the area habitable again.

It's none of it cut and dried.  Don't believe anyone promoting quick and
easy solutions.
--scott

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Lynn
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