Posted on 07/10/2010 2:22:27 PM PDT by Willie Green
What we have here is the latest fad among tight sphinctered women who insist on making a difference and are very gullible
They tire of the old water monitoring where they wade in creeks and count larvae.
They are all American enemies of the very worst sort. They are unfit to breathe American air or drink American water
Yep - there is a bigger picture here. The Administration is trying to cripple virtually all domestic energy sources that are economically feasible in their rush to kill the economy and push the bogus “green energy” agenda. I was only being slightly facetious in my earlier response - fracking truly is a cost/benefit issue. The idea of injecting chemicals underground raises issues; however, the track record of fracking is very good when you consider that the chemicals are usually being injected thousands of feet below the water table. Certainly it needs to be monitored, but these scare stories are designed to kill the practice, which has the effect of putting off limits VAST amounts of domestic energy sources. Just what’s going on with the BP Gulf disaster - clearly something has gone very, very wrong there, but thousands of wells have been drilled without this consequence. Looks like BP cut corners and deserves every liability it incurs, but is that a reason to kill offshore drilling? Only if you ignore cost/benefit analysis and are trying to pursue a greater Marxist agenda.
Darn - we may have to do what the forefathers did, drink beer.
Sometime the purists are right. Smoking is very bad for your health. Still for hundreds of years, it wasn’t what killed people, and it gave lots of people a drug that made them function better. It is a dangerous world. I’d be more worried about T.B. that is resistant to drugs. We are always at war with nature. We win battles, but never the war.
Sometime the purists are right. Smoking is very bad for your health. Still for hundreds of years, it wasn’t what killed people, and it gave lots of people a drug that made them function better. It is a dangerous world. I’d be more worried about T.B. that is resistant to drugs. We are always at war with nature. We win battles, but never the war.
I’m in the Marcellus region. There is also a lot of shallow well activity in which fracking is used. There have been wells contaminated. By far most are not. The Oil company is liable for any problems. They are required to notify the surface owners and test any wells within 1000’.
After the AGW scam, who can believe anything “scientists” from green (RED) sources say, anyway?
Any lie to advance the left agenda of destroying capitalism!
I always do that when I go overseas. Good for the digestion, too.
the gubmint can get fracked
Urban legend scare story. Everything and anything can kill you. There is no total safety guarantee, government regs or no. Don’t move off your couch. You might die. IF you don’t move off your couch you might die. Good luck.
The article is utter nonsense by fear-mongers with political agendas.
Fracking is benign...and is commonplace in Texas...land of cattle.
Fracking takes place **MILES**, yes, Miles beneath drinking water. Fracking is entirely safe at those depths.
Greens are often the kind of people who would get freaked if they had to kill a chicken, and clean it for the pot. But they don’t mind picking it up wrapped in a grocery store.
In point of fact, in much of the world, like the Third World and the T*rd World areas, water is usually not safe to drink.
Only in developed nations where pollution can be controlled, and water purified, does man have safe water.
In most of America, do NOT drink directly from surface water. Parasites and diseases are common in surface waters.
Tap water, on the other hand is treated and IS safe. Technology, and Western societies - science based, linear logic, patriarchal culture - gotta love ‘em.
An oil and gas company recently fracked a “shallow” well on my property, just over 200’ horizontally (min by law) from my water well. They drilled to a depth of about 2500’ and fracked in several zones from that depth upward. In this case, less than 1/2 mile down. I still have a great water well (tested). I don’t really care for the eyesore though.
Can’t drill our own oil...
Can’t drill for our own natural gas...
Yep - energy independence is REALLY what the LEFT wants (/extremesarcasm off)
You haven’t filled out your profile, so I have no idea what state you are in. Or country.
By and large, shallow oil is gone. Deep oil is still plentiful.
The sanitation engineer is civilization’s unsung hero. It occurs to me I know of many famous people who contributed to “progress” but I don’t know the name of the men who created the water/sewerage system for the City of London/New York. But their achievement was as important as that of the men who built the Panama Canal.
- The cows haven't been harmed... so why the quarantine??
- Benzene and diesel fuel come from fracking?? Isn't diesel fuel a refined product? Is there a naturally occurring refinery underground?
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