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FRACKING BLUES, primera nota. El origen y los problemas de percepción de esta no-nueva técnica de extracción de combustibles fósiles

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From: Science News, Volume of fracking fluid pumped underground tied to Canada quakes. By Carolyn Gramling 2:16pm, January 18, 2018. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/volume-fracking-fluid-pumped-underground-tied-canada-quakes   Visited December 10, 2018. Nota: Una descripción muy somera de puntos pasados por alto por el público cuando hace sus críticas a la tecnología, se encuentra en la parte final de este escrito. Si usted conoce de la industria, ignórela. En el complejo lleva y trae de percepciones, opiniones y lamentos acerca de la fracturación hidráulica, llama la atención la desinformación de las fuentes populares, de los medios de comunicación, de los gobiernos; y la aparente desinformación de la academia y de la misma industria del petróleo y gas que debiesen estar llamadas a corregir falsas percepciones. En la industria del petróleogas es corriente que en respuesta a cada incidente ocurrido, las asociaciones profesionales, las empresas y...

Public Consultation of Projects in Colombia, with a Canadian note.

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Public Consultation of Projects in Colombia, with a Canadian note. A question How would you feel if the day of grocery shopping, a family member takes your wallet, pull out all $ 50 bills with the figure of J.A. Macdonald, runs and puts them under the mattress and sits on to not let you spend those bills? And now; What would you do if he also says that you cannot use these banknotes because J.A. Macdonald was politically incorrect ? Well, although the analogy is far from reality,   it is a little bit closer to the way two of the three actors in investment projects feel: Government and entrepreneurs when the access to a critical resource is refused. Both consider that natural resources transformation are essential to generate wealth. The state requires income via taxes and royalties, and investors need projects with reasonable return rates.  Between the extremes of freezing resources that are needed, or derailing them, the solution is to accommodate all par...