[[purportedly poisoning rural American towns]]
‘Purportedly? By Whom? Where are the studies? Oh that’s right- ALL the studies showed there is NO poisoning of wells except in very rare accidental cases (which I mgiht point out are far far rarer occurances than farmland accidents which ‘poison’ ecosystems- but since matt damon needs to corn oil to run his eco auto- he won’t tell you those FACTS-
Cripes- can’t actos and actresses just shut the heck up and ‘act’ instead of openiogn hteir CLUELESS aCtivist mouths? We are one of THE cleanest industrialized nation on nearth thansk to the myriad of vast regulations and safety precautions, but that means nothign to these dolts that think an accident or two mean the whole industry must be plagued with problems DESPITE THE FACT that the actual studies done show just hte opposite! These dolts have NO evidence that frackign is indiscriminantly poisoning wells across america, nor do they have ANY evidence proving frackign causes earthquakes, but then again who needs actual evidence when attackign industries that actually helped to create and maintain their careers and vast sums of moneY?
You can provide evidence that some aquifers had methane (and even oil) in them before a frac was conducted, demonstrate the absence of any uphole pressure changes, and show the only damage which has ever been done came from either blowouts, surface equipment failures, or spills (the truck turned over), with the rare exception of one or two unscrupulous operators (service companies, not oil companies), who tried to cut a corner and got shut down for their troubles.
There are places with bad water, but the oil companies didn't do that fracking. There are a few old refinery sites with problems, and those are being monitored and remediated as they come to the attention of TPTB--old railroad shops had similar problems, as did service stations, and the single largest current contributor to hydrocarbons in the water table is..... parking lot runoff.
But the average Bobblehead-American will just sit and nod as the pap runs through their brain...That's what they are trained to do, K-12 and beyond.
As long as the crockumentary is referred to by its proper genre (science fiction), we'll be safe from the little evil humanoid creatures climbing out of the oil wells and ravaging B-movie blondes at night...Otherwise the C.H.U.D. will be really peeved when they have to cash in their stuff to get enough gas to do a drive-by.