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- "Ramsay Adams, who runs the environmental group Catskill Mountain Keeper, describes the problems: "You've got spills, you've got aquifer pollution. Fracking is a very industrial process that uses chemicals that are toxic, carcinogenic, endocrine-disrupting."
It uses trillions of gallions of water.
I don't want to live anywhere around this. - Reply to this comment
- Just the idea of the already cotaminated water being pumped back into the earth should frighten almost everyone.
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- I have a fable for you;
Once upon a time there was a planet that had a thriving civilization. the inhabitants were very intelligent but somewhat short sighted. The industrial moguls were a bit on the greedy side and only looked at the bottom line and not very far into the future. The peoples of this world worked hard and learned everything they could about the world around them. As they advanced, their need for power grew exponentially and they searched the entire planet for more resources of energy even cracking the very 'Crust' of the planet by using high pressure water to 'fracture' the rocks to recover the energy sources underground. But one day, they realized that the reserves were exhausted and they became frantic because no more liquid energy could be found. At this same time, the planet was racked by devastating events like droughts, earthquakes, extreme temperature changes and all forms of illnesses. Water was in such short supply that individuals were being killed and the water recovered from their bodies was sold by robber barons and other gangs. You might ask what happened to the water and receive this answer. "the energy companies pumped it into the ground to take the place of the liquid fuels they were extracting so that the surface of the world would not crash into the gaping holes left when the world was sucked dry."
Now the planet is so parched that nothing can grow. Billions have already died and now they have only a few hundred left to propagate the species. Then they all boarded the only means of escape and rocketed into the skies hoping against hope that the third Planet might be able to provide a place to live. They all vowed with one voice to "Never destroy their world again". God slumped and said to himself,"WANNA BET! and a tear fell as he looked at Mars and saw the red dust covering all he had made for them?" - Reply to this comment
- It's likely there is nothing in the room, where you now sit at a computer, that did not move without the use of oil derived fuel. The world moves with fuel derived from oil. Your food, water, transportation, clothing, and virtually everything you touch, moves with the help of fuel derived from oil. Get over it. We don't get products moved to market by donkey or oxen any more. Until someone invents something that will power trains, planes, trucks, ships, etc with something other than oil; we are stuck with it. Going primitive is not the answer either. People around the world will burn "anything" they have to in order to cook, eat, stay warm, and survive.
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- Already left one that didn't appear. Seems like people would rather argue than seek ways of moving ahead .There are existing technologies that can help if the industry will fund them. Go to www.synergena.com to see one such technology. Mobile units ready to clean up polluted "ponds" with hydrocarbon residuals. EPA is too chicken to take on the big boys...so we are all left to our fate.
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- fracking needs to be carefully monitored and regulated but not banned
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- tomcat9 says: "It's amazing that when the sun sets on your solar panels your appliances begin to draw power from a far, far steadier source."
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There is NOTHING......ABSOLUTELY NOTHING steadier and cleaner than getting our power from Our Sun -- and technology keeps moving FORWARD!
There is nothing dirtier and less steady than a finite source like fossil fuels, that take drilling, fracking, transportation, refining, and burning to produce power, with terrible emissions that continue to increase our atmospheric CO2 in terrible quantities!
You people are past sick, and it's ALL ABOUT GREED AND CONTROL! - Reply to this comment
- "Over time, it's a good bet that regulations and public pressure will make fracking get cleaner and safer"
How much time..and for many communities isn't it far too late...
And what does bigoil do....pays People sickened by poison off..
$ is the cure-all..
Also Profit comes first over workers safety and of course Profits first over the Environment...
Companies like ExxonMobil (who pay contract workers, green hands, young men with families 12 bucks an hour to slave away in H2S) and the like talk a good game, fancy tv commercials with all is well propagandists grinning from ear to ear....eating shrimp and sh*t...
Never no "news" of huge spills due to profits over all else stupidity...
Pay off real quick to the States and that "fixes" all..
Hide the Truth...Greed is good..
With storage tank load valves worn out, leaking, streaming...can't "afford" to buy a new ones..With worn out tanks, bottoms rotted out...too expensive for new tanks, throw a patch on the sob and call it good...
Even better, cows rubbing on the tanks and kicking the valves wide open...And the "leaders" say *** happened and try to blame "terrorists" of the Idiocy...
Where the deer & antelope "play" in habitat and migration corridors long gone....With wildlife trying to survive in these well fields going blind for days...Eyes matted shut...
Odd, that only seems to occur in the all is "safe" gas & oil fields..
Where the "air" waters your eyes and burns your lungs....
Where the so called "supervisors/leaders" refuse to spend any $ on new equipment that just might keep a worker from death or keep from destroying the Environment..
Can't be cutting into those "bonuses"..
And Can't forget whats been done, and whats being done to Peoples and their Environments around the Globe by bigoil...
Just add fracking to a long list of "over time" fixes...
On a positive note...12/21/12 didn't come to pass... - Reply to this comment
- Let's apply a few simple facts to the discussion:
The subsitution of fraced natural gas for coal in electricity generation at utility companies has resulted in a decline of 450 million tons of GGEs (greenhouse gas emissions) since 2005, according to the IEA.
More than 1.7 million jobs have been created in the frac world, with 3 million more expected by 2025.
$85 billion in federal and state tax revenues have been paid in 2012 from fracing; $1 trillion+ are expected by 2035.
$3 trillion in capital will be invested in the frac world by 2030.
$1 trillion in new wealth will flow to landowners and shareholders.
Water use is the most important issue in fracing. More than two dozen firms are recycling, replacing,reducing or reusing water. Profit flows to the environment and to the bottom line from wise water use.
Crude imports from outside North America have dropped by 40% since 2007 and will cease by 2020, or earlier.
visit: www.frackusa.com or read Fracking, America's Alternative Energy Revolution. - Reply to this comment
- If it is so safe (which it isn't) why are corporations quietly buying up water rights???
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