Not in My Back Yard!
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Not in My Back Yard!
Adam BriggleChair, Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory GroupFaculty Fellow, UNT Center for the Study of InterdisciplinarityAssistant Professor, Philosophy and Religion Studies
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Energy return on investment from U.S. oil and gas
With the desperation of a true addict.
Murphy and Hall. 2010. “Year in Review – EROI”
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From Jed Clampett’s bubbling crude….
To the Deepwater Horizon
And the Canadian Tar Sands
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Murphy and Hall. 2011. “EROI, Peak Oil, and the End of Economic Growth.” Note, energy use in the U.S. annually is roughly 94 exajoules (EJ).
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Source: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=2170
1,300 wells in our backyard (Denton and ETJ)
Nearly 15,000 wells on the Barnett Shale
Pro: 100,000 jobs created, economic growth, domestic energy
Con: Environmental and health concerns, property values
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The Good Life
To be immersed in a growing array of commodities (ends) while being insulated from the conditions (means) that make those commodities possible.
1.Need more energy and materials2.Want to be disburdened from the nasty business of
getting those goods
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MeansProduction Background
EndsConsumptionForeground
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MeansProduction Background
EndsConsumptionForeground
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What happens when the dividing line is gone?
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Some options• Not in my backyard, but please do put it in someone else’s backyard so
that I may consume its commodity.
• Equal shares in everyone’s backyard. We all owe a debt to the collective.
• Honest embrace – own the ugly – yes, put it in my yard!
• Make the offensive facility a good neighbor….no one will object to it in their yard. (Engineer – tech fix – control the outer world).
• Not in anyone’s backyard. (Buddha – control our inner world).
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Selfish or Principled?
• I support wind power, but I don’t want a wind farm in my beloved Nantucket Sound!
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Own the ugly!
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Make fracking a good neighbor
Fracking fluid container trucks, PA
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The Buddha or the Engineer?