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Glenn William Thompson is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Thompson has focused on issues such as agriculture, healthcare, and veterans' affairs during his time in office. He has been involved in various legislative efforts aimed at supporting rural communities and promoting economic growth in Pennsylvania. Thompson has also served on several committees, contributing to discussions on national policy and local concerns.
That is my understanding, my observations, where on one site, where this drilling activity goes on, takes up to perhaps 90 days to drill and to frack one of these wells, you can put multiple, at least up to six, on one site. So in terms of…
Yes. If the gentleman would yield, absolutely. It's 99.5 percent is water and sand. The other half a percent is made up of basically ingredients that you would find in many household items as referenced from the chart. You know, there are…
I have heard those same concerns. But when you look at the geology in where this drilling is done and you have the layers of Marcellus, and I think you only fracture maybe 18 inches, perhaps, from that horizontal pipeline, so you haven't…
I think as we are talking, the environmental record is certainly an area of concern that folks have raised. As you have noted, or as my other colleague across the aisle from Pennsylvania noted, hydraulic fracturing was first used 60 years…
A lot of redundancy built into it because it's extremely important not to get that cross-contamination.
It just stays with the geology down there, and this is like it's a mile below the aquifer. It's actually encased in layers of limestone, especially in Pennsylvania and in New York. That's our geology. We have this Marcellus shale, but it's…
Despite the heated rhetoric over the fiscal year 2011 budget and the failure to responsibly address our Nation's $14 trillion debt, there is one simple truth that we should all take away from this current budget standoff: Washington can no…
Essential Air Service assists over 140 communities throughout the United States. EAS, Essential Air Service, works. Let me talk about two airports, real quick. Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It was on EAS. It needed it to get their…
The Essential Air Service Program (EAS) assists 140 rural communities across the country that otherwise would not have scheduled air service. As a long-time proponent of the program, I believe Congress has an obligation to provide a level…
I take exception with one of the comments made by one of my colleagues earlier about big oil.
We are not talking about the Gulf of Mexico, OK, where the most two recent leases were leased.
I actually have confidence for the oil, the resources that are privately owned.
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