Natural Gas Hydrofracking Terms Inference Matrix 16 – Towns Against Hydrofracking

This substantial Excel spreadsheet “Inference matrix” chronicles and categorizes Internet references or web pages of municipalities concerned by and largely opposed to Hydrofracking taking place inside of their boundaries or jurisdictions.

The data can be used by local governments to investigate what other municipalities concerns over Hydrofracking are they may have not considered themselves, become informed of coalitions being formed so to aggregate resources to oppose the mighty deep-pocketed and well organized (no pun intended) natural gas industry who has according to well informed sources (again no pun intended but very accurate in its own right here) an agenda to build 112,000 Hydrofracking wells in New York State’s southern tier alone for an energy source that is negligible in effect!

This aspect alone may be one a town government (maybe yours) never considered in their quest to formulate the best or most appropriate stance on Hydrofracking.

This is also a dataset for just anyone who’s interested in the Hydrofracking issue and for $7.50 it’s even a better steal than what the natural gas industry will realize on their leases.

This is all explained in this free dataset in easy to follow language with emphasis on documentation to who and when inquiries were made etc. There is nothing to download; the dataset is essentially the overview or description itself. Just keep scrolling down:

http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/compelling-succinct-qualified-questions-re-hydrofracking-industr

That the overall effect of the highly touted potential of the Marcellus Shale being the foundation for the United States to become energy independent is so off base, and qualified scientists and engineers; let alone myself have not been adequately answered by the natural gas industry by some easy to follow numbers and statistics is an essential consideration.

The “Inference matrix” is a powerful reformat of the “base data” I generate from my app where from inference or extrapolation of currently up to 255 terms the user can make an unprecedentedly accurate determination if the given web page or online. PDF document warrants further scrutiny and examination.

The “terms” can be any combination of proper, place or company names, technical, medical or generic terms and/or just "regular words in any language or better put any language’s alphabet or character set that is represented on the Internet.

The idea is basic search terms are put through a search engine and then respectively for each of the each web page or online PDF document links (URLs) that are returned (i.e. search results), the HTML or text of the given web page/PDF doc is further searched for the presence of the up to 255 user names, terms and words just mentioned; the maximum number of columns in an Excel spreadsheet.

There are currently several free examples here on Infochimps.com that should give you a better idea of gist. These examples are the standard format where the web page URL/link is the “key” and the terms are associated with the web page.

http://infochimps.org/datasets/ex-oakland-raiders-jamarcus-russells-large-internet-footprint
http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/native-arabic-internet-footprint-of-the-washington-institute-mid

The new format has the terms as the key and the URLs/links as the data. Thus, if you want to quickly see the Internet presence or “Internet footprint” of a Hydrofracking chemical that may be the root of your rare form of cancer you look down the column of the Excel file. If you quickly want to see other chemical names that may be on the same web page or .PDF doc, you look at the rows.

For those of you familiar with Microsoft Excel I want to remind you of and for those of you new to Excel I want to relate to you a nifty Excel feature that will enhance your viewing of these Hydrofracking Inference Matrices.

It is the “Freeze Frame” feature. The idea here is to freeze the first row of the spreadsheet which are located all the “Auxiliary” terms which are the headers for the columns containing the URLs/links that contain the given Auxiliary term.

Thus as you scroll down you don’t need to make time consuming notes what column is for what Auxiliary term or constantly return to row 1 for reference.

To implement the Freeze frame by an easy keyboard sequence first set set your Excel focus (cursor) to Cell B1. Now press [Alt][w] in combination as you press the [Shift] key to capitalize a letter. An Excel drop down menu should appear showing Freeze Panes with the F of Freeze underlined. Now merely press F. The case does not matter for the W or F.

There – The first row should be frozen as you scroll down the spreadsheet. To undo just repeat the two step procedure.

As you probably know Hydrofracking abounds with controversy. The Inference Matrix is an unprecedented tool to get to the web pages
closest to or exactly in the ballpark of your interest.

The “Primary” search terms for this dataset are: Natural Gas Drilling Companies

The “Auxiliary” search terms for this dataset: those that are searches for their presence from each URL (web page, online .PDF document) returned from the search engine search results of the Primary terms are:

AB absolve accountability accountable admission admit advantage Alta alter altered American Anadarko Antero Appalachia Appalachian Ardent assertion Atlas authority ban bans blatant bounds bribe bribed Cabot Carrizo charged charges cheat cheating Chesapeake Chief circumvented cited Citrus claim claiming clause clauses cloud CNS compromise compromised confidential confidentiality conflict conflicting confuse confusing confusion consideration contamination contempt contemptuous contract contracts controversial controversy convenient corrupt corruption court coverup criminal crooked Dale damages deceit deceitful decision defendant deficiency deficient defraud denial deny derelict dereliction devastated dishonest dishonorable disingenuous dispute disputed disregard disregarded disrespectful distort distortion doctored document documented drilling dubious dump dumping duplicitous duplicity Eastern Encana Energy EOG EPA Epsilon Equitable evidence EXCO Exploration extortion fabrication falsify fined Flatirons FOIA FOIL fraud fraudulence fraudulent fudged gas General GFI Guardian guidelines guilty Hess hinder Hydrofracking ignore ignored illegal implausible inconvenient incriminating indemnify indemnity indicate indicated indicted influence inhibit injunction insufficient insurance integrity judgment land Landfocus lawsuit lawsuits lease leases legal liability liable lie limits lobby Longfellow lying mandate mandated Marathon misrepresent misrepresentation misrepresented modified modify moratorium Mountain natural Novus obfuscate obstruct obstruction ordered outside Penn Pennsylvania perjury plaintiff Production prohibit prohibition promise proof Property proprietary purposeful purposely Range recourse release remediation renege report reported reporting reports Resources responsibility responsible restitution Rex Rice rights ruse safeguards Sampson secret Seneca Services SM Snyder Southwestern specification speculation statistics Stone stonewall subvert sued sufficient take Talisman Tanglewood tarnish tendencies tendency testimony theatened threat threaten threatening thwart tort travesty truth Turm Ultra undeniable undermine undocumented unreported unsolvable untruthful US Victory Virginia warning Williams

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