Thank you so much, Pres Fracking Obama, and Thank You also
Former Secretary of State Hillary "Fracker" Clinton, and thank you also former Pennsylvania governor, Ed "Frack Up" Rendell
Shame on you, you Friggin' frackers. Shame on you for reining in the EPA, depriving the mid-level EPA workers from an ability to do their jobs and help local families and stop the fracking. SHAME AND MORE SHAME AND
[h2][font color=red]HOW THE HELL DO YOU FRIGGING FRACKERS SLEEP![/h2][/font color=red]
You see, for a while I was seriously worried that I would not, in my lifetime, ever know what it was like to be an American Plains Indian, circa 1865 to 1899. That there would never be a time in my life when I saw the future and that future included the hideous and total end of America's eco-system, including our ability to enjoy, for posterity, our drinking water.
Josh Fox has brought forth the second part of his fine documentary series, "Gaslands." The future that Part II of "Gaslands" shows us is not a pleasant one, and it raises a nightmarish scenario of public officials, on the very local, state and Federal level, who have all been bought and paid for, and who are so deeply tied into the profit margins of their buddies in BI g Energy firms that they have rigged the EPA's upper management to the point that the agency will no longer protect Us Americans..
And now I know that the eco system will be bartered away. People across the USA are losing their drinking water, their eco-system, and the normal life they have had for decades.
Even here in California the state of California officials (at the state level) tell us that they don't know how to legally set up boundaries between the greed of those in the natural gas industry and the protections needed by our eco system if it is going to remain a viable, water providing resource.
Like who will protect the Wyoming family that shows Josh Fox how there are now chemicals in their irrigation system that are only present in the contaminated areas where fracking has occurred? With fracking processes, over 500 chemicals are applied to the fracking mixture, many of them dangerous to human health, and then there is the fact that fracking also includes utilizing and polluting millions of gallons of water per well, and the result is appalling.
Are any DU'ers reading this thinking, "Where do I sign up - I'd really love some strontium and benzene in my family's water?" How does any one family restore their water, and their crops and their trees and remove the damage to their health from the air pollution etc, after fracking processes and the gas wells have been pockmarking the landscape around the home and the crops? Who helps such a family?
Anyway the move Gasland II has a plot. I won't be a spoiler, so please watch for yourselves. HBO has it "ON Demand" for anyone who subscribes to HBO.
But as sad a story as this tragedy is, I am reminded by "Gaslands" of a cartoon character who at this point I would gladly see replace Michell Obama in the WH. When the local nuke plant is polluting the water of Springfield, CartoonLand USA, Marge Simpson invites Mr Burns, the owner of the nuke plant over to their home. And although Burns has sworn up and down that the townspeople are worry warts and that there is simply no need to worry about the quality of the drinking water near the cooling towers, the final scene in that cartoon is noteworthy.
Unlike me, Marge Simpson does not get on a soap box. But she does take action. All she does while Mr Burns visits is serve him up, for dinner, the three-eyed fish someone had caught near the Cooling Towers Pond. And Burns at first is eager to dig into it, and then he realizes what this really means if he eats it, and...
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Michelle gets it too! "Fracking Michelle!!1!" "You're no Marge Simpson."
At the risk of getting another headache try watching this response. No rebuttal or anything they just try to smear Fox as a rich environmentalist, call him a liar and then highlight a fictional editorial from a fictional newspaper to back up their position. Then they accuse him of lying again.
Here:
The rivers of water pumped into and out of the ground during the production of natural gas, oil and geothermal energy are causing the Earth to shake more frequently in areas where these industrial activities are soaring, according to a series of studies published today. While the gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing (aka "fracking"
causes some small quakes, it's the disposal of wastewater following that process — and many others relating to energy production — that lead to the largest tremors.
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Scientists have known for several decades that human activity can cause the ground to shake, but the rise in earthquake frequency paralleling the rise in production of oil and gas from shale rock formations has made the issue a hot topic, Ellsworth noted.
For one, scientists don't know how big — and thus deadly — these induced earthquakes can be. "We know a lot about the process that starts an earthquake — both natural and man-made ones — but what is really difficult for us to understand at this point is how far they will run once they get started," he said.
Most induced earthquakes, like natural ones, are tiny, Ellsworth said. But a few have been large enough to feel and caused minor damage, including a magnitude 5.7 event near Prague, Okla., on Nov. 6, 2011, that destroyed 14 homes and injured two people. Another study, published in Science, linked it to an injection well used to dispose wastewater from oil operations.
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Interesting article and maps. The best part I thought came at the end when they are talking to a gas company engineer, and she suggests that "society" might decide that "a few earthquakes" are an acceptable trade-off against global warming.
That's a peek into their marketing strategy, always valuable for someone who wants to guard against the harm their development will cause.
and very upsetting.
feeling overwhelmed.....
