Oklahoma energy executive says "oil" was the vital missing word in President Obama's speech

In President Barack Obama's State of the Union message, he cited his support for natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a process critical to the sucess of shale-gas drilling in areas such as North Texas' Barnett Shale.

But wealthy oilman Harold Hamm, CEO of Enid, Okla.-based Continental Resources, said Obama overlooked something equally as important--fracking for oil.

Continental is a major producer in the booming Bakken Shale oil play in North Dakota and Montana and plans to move its headquarters to Oklahoma City later this year.

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--Jack Z. Smith 

Comments

[Paula]

I have read quite a lot on this. The Big Corp's and individuals that are behind this need to show some transparancey regarding the chemicals that are being used in the Fracking Process.
I am very concerned that certain chemicals that are being used will create "long time health consequences in the forthcoming". People, "Beware".