Oil & Gas Drilling Machine
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
I'd like someone to develop a cartoon depicting a dirty, oil and natural gas well drilling machine moving across the landscape leaving behind puddles/pads of pollution. The text I'm trying to illustrate is below. I have attached two files of photos showing the results of drilling and drill rigs, if that is helpful
Do you believe drilling conventional oil and natural gas wells is a clean business?
If you do, think about the last time you changed the oil in your car or saw your mechanic's hands or watched as a neighbor loudly drilled a new water well or had dust and dirt from a nearby construction site make your place fithy.
Conventional oil and natural gas drilling is a dirty, industrial machine that moves across Pennsylvania’s fields and forests creating new pollution and legal liabilities for well owners and state taxpayers wherever it goes.
Each drilling site involves building an access road, leveling and clearing the well pad of trees or other obstructions and preparing the area for drilling.
Drill sites need water, chemicals, heavy diesel-powered equipment to drill the wells, compressor engines, storage tanks and waste pits.
Water, supplies, drill pipe, chemicals, equipment, fuel and workers are brought to the site in a caravan of trucks.
Diesel fumes, oil and diesel fuel spills, wastewater and chemical spills, hydrogen sulfide and natural gas leaks, blowing drill cuttings dust and loud noise are a routine part of the dirty business of drilling oil and natural gas wells.
What the conventional drilling machine leaves behind as it moves from place to place is a trail of air and water pollution, contaminated soil, dirt access roads, cleared forests and a network of oil tanks and natural gas collection lines for the product it produces.
Each drill site effectively becomes its own waste dump that drillers frequently caution landowners not to use or have cattle graze on, even with “restoration.”
The oil and natural gas wells themselves are holes punched in the ground hundreds or thousands of feet deep that each produce thousands of gallons of wastewater that needs to be disposed of regularly for decades to come.
Each new well is a new open-ended legal liability on the well driller/owner, or failing that state taxpayers, to maintain the well, dispose of wastewater, file regular reports on its integrity, waste produced and production and finally to plug the well.
Then it’s time for the mobile dirty, industrial machine to move to the next site and start all over again to create more pollution and more legal liabilities on drillers and/or state taxpayers.
Do you believe drilling conventional oil and natural gas wells is a clean business?
If you do, think about the last time you changed the oil in your car or saw your mechanic's hands or watched as a neighbor loudly drilled a new water well or had dust and dirt from a nearby construction site make your place fithy.
Conventional oil and natural gas drilling is a dirty, industrial machine that moves across Pennsylvania’s fields and forests creating new pollution and legal liabilities for well owners and state taxpayers wherever it goes.
Each drilling site involves building an access road, leveling and clearing the well pad of trees or other obstructions and preparing the area for drilling.
Drill sites need water, chemicals, heavy diesel-powered equipment to drill the wells, compressor engines, storage tanks and waste pits.
Water, supplies, drill pipe, chemicals, equipment, fuel and workers are brought to the site in a caravan of trucks.
Diesel fumes, oil and diesel fuel spills, wastewater and chemical spills, hydrogen sulfide and natural gas leaks, blowing drill cuttings dust and loud noise are a routine part of the dirty business of drilling oil and natural gas wells.
What the conventional drilling machine leaves behind as it moves from place to place is a trail of air and water pollution, contaminated soil, dirt access roads, cleared forests and a network of oil tanks and natural gas collection lines for the product it produces.
Each drill site effectively becomes its own waste dump that drillers frequently caution landowners not to use or have cattle graze on, even with “restoration.”
The oil and natural gas wells themselves are holes punched in the ground hundreds or thousands of feet deep that each produce thousands of gallons of wastewater that needs to be disposed of regularly for decades to come.
Each new well is a new open-ended legal liability on the well driller/owner, or failing that state taxpayers, to maintain the well, dispose of wastewater, file regular reports on its integrity, waste produced and production and finally to plug the well.
Then it’s time for the mobile dirty, industrial machine to move to the next site and start all over again to create more pollution and more legal liabilities on drillers and/or state taxpayers.