Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumWhat it's like to live in frack land
Before anyone starts pontificating about " clean energy this and energy independence ,that....I have seen this up close and personal and it is not clean and the tactics these drillers are using are straight from the thug handbook.
Side note: the " drill cuttings referenced in the quote are highly radioactive
Operations can go on around the clock, with constant noise, light and air pollution. A cornerstone of the industrialization that comes with fracking is all the truck traffic -- hundreds of trucks a day travel on country roads never built for large trucks or the amount of wear and tear. Accidents are common. Wade took this photo after two dump trucks crashed, one of which was carrying drill cuttings:
http://www.alternet.org/environment/you-have-see-it-believe-it-what-its-have-fracking-your-backyard?page=0%2C2
madamesilverspurs
(15,784 posts)You know that scene in Gasland where the guy sets his kitchen water on fire? Josh Fox filmed that just down the road from where I live. We have over 20 thousand wells in the county, and more than 100 INSIDE CITY LIMITS with more on the way, some less than 400 feet from a school. The extractive industry has run roughshod over us, we're raising a ruckus; in response, our county commissioners have decided that the county needs to secede because we're too mean to the oil companies. gaaaahhhhhh............
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)thanks for posting.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Shale boom creating shortage of affordable housing in eastern Ohio
One report looked at Carroll County, southeast of Canton, where the Utica shale drilling boom has led to a strain on the existing housing infrastructure. Researchers said the problem is likely to expand in the next year to Stark, Tuscarawas and Columbiana counties.
Most shale workers live temporarily in eastern Ohio and have been able to find housing in single-home rental units, local hotels, campgrounds or other options, the researchers said.
There is strong resistance to developing barracks-style man-camps as a housing option. Communities are reluctant to invest millions of dollars on new housing, water and sewers for a temporary population, the authors said.
The growing shortage of rental homes in eastern Ohio has left moderate- and low-income residents with limited housing options, especially after landlords have hiked rents, the groups said.
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)Another explosion and fire at a "safe and clean" natural gas well....
Five workers flown to the Pittsburgh burn center
http://www.alternet.org/fracking/explosion-rocks-natural-gas-drilling-well-marcellus-shale-west-virginia