Pa. Farmers Hope for Natural Gas Windfall

[Muralartist1]

Murderers..simply stated. Murder for hire.

[MichaelPAUSA]

Guess who the EPA is going to hold responcible for the envoirnmental clean up long after the gas been extracted? The original owner of the property. You can't sell your polluted properties. Yea great folks you made a few million and your land is now a toxic waste site with polluted ground water, your $ responcible for the clean up and you can't sell the land or grow anything on it. The new Repub Gov (2010) has made getting clearances easy. They don't even need your permission to drill any more.

[forestggirl57]

Read the articles written by Elizabeth Grieco at Associated Content on Gas Drilling: Is an environmental disaster looming? You will educate yourself on what this supposed clean energy can do for you and your land!! It maybe a huge mineral resource but it's a toxic nightmare for Pennsylvanians! The cumulative negative effects from injecting carcinogens in our aquifers, rivers and streams will leave a legacy of cancer clusters all over our great nation!

[CleanWaterActionPA]

@forestggirl57 Elizabeth Grieco's article on "Gas Drilling: Is an environmental disaster looming?" was very interesting and informative about what is happening in Pennsylvania today. Are her articles how you've been informed on this topic? Have you attempted to pursue anything to talk to our legislators about this type of gas drilling?

[CleanWaterActionPA]

The chemicals are not disclosed! Sometimes the families from which they come from are, but this does not provide any specific information... Rest assured, if these chemicals are capable of killing cows, then they are definitely harmful to humans.

[IanLoewen]

Now they want to tax this industry. I agree with this. This would actually be really good for taxing.

[exaltedangel09]

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[bitchnmoan]

@exaltedangel09 AMEN!

[queerplanet]

What about the poisons used to frac the stone getting into the water supply?

What about gas leaking into water supplies in people's homes?

[sw8741]

what about it? lets see.....before using fossil fuels people lived an average of 35 yrs, worked sun up and sun down with truly back and body breaking work. little fresh food, no variety, no refrigeration to keep fresh foods from rotting. compared to today where the average age of death is 78 yrs old and people exercise for fun! i don't see a problem

[Fiddle315]

There are no poisons, and you lying about it doesn't change that fact. Every chemical has been disclosed and researched. You use higher concentrations of these same chemicals in your toothpaste and salad dressing.

[isitvalottioryoung1]

@Fiddle315

"Every chemical has been disclosed"

This, my friend, is unequivocally incorrect.

The companies always list three or four "unidentified" components as: "Material A," etc...

[Fiddle315]

@isitvalottioryoung1 YOU ARE A PATHETIC LIAR. Every chemical is disclosed and written in EVERY MSDS sheet that evgery state receieves fromt eh drilling compnaies. You are a liar, and I just proved it. Moron.

[isitvalottioryoung1]

@Fiddle315

Wow, you are clearly a pleasant individual.

Your frantic and inflammatory comments on this posting are further evidence that the public needs to be educated about the process of drilling for natural gas.

I do, however, find it humorous that you have managed, systematically, to call everyone who has posted a comment here a "moron."

I don't know who you are or where you are from, but I feel fairly confident you are not a Pennsylvanian, and we can all thank God for that!

[isitvalottioryoung1]

@Fiddle315

Actually, I have family members who do chemical analysis for both the PADEP and the various drilling companies. There are some materials in the fracking fluid which are considered proprietary and are not disclosed. (Some companies, however, disclose more than others.)

There are often unidentified substances, listed simply as "aromatic hydrocarbons," for example.

Furthermore, fracking fluid generally varies slightly from one company to the next.

[rabidpensfan]

@Fiddle315

Okay, so we mix naphthalene, toluene, xylene, and Ethylene Glycol together. Geesh, can't remember what flavor salad dressing this makes, but all of these ingredients are also found in fracking fluids. I wouldn't eat them. There are poisons pal. You are the one lying. What you are doing is similar to pointing to the fireball in the sky and saying there are no flames don't worry. So really, you are the type of person too stupid for intelligent people to take seriously.

[queerplanet]

If you have one part per hundred of chemicals like benzene, and etc. and you use billions of gallons of water.

Then what is one percent of a billion, times the number of wells?

No poisons? None at all?

Now who's lying? Why is the Texas Barnett site polluted both in air and water using the same fracing?

[Fiddle315]

Again, moron. You use higher concentrations in your kitchen and bath room. There is NO BENZENE used and hasn't been since the early 1990's, and yet in 20 years NONE been found in any water supplies.

[Fiddle315]

@queerplanet There are NO Poisons. Name them if you can, moron.

[CleanWaterActionPA]

Quite a bit has been brought to market now, and it's also really wrecked a lot of country.

[Fiddle315]

Really? Wrecked the country? PROVE IT.

[CleanWaterActionPA]

"a lot of country." not "the country."

Delta, Texas. Dimock, Pennsylvania. Wyoming. Blown up a house in Cleveland. Lot of places have been seriously screwed up. Look at the eyewitness accounts.

[Fiddle315]

I have been to dimock many times and the local laugh at you freaks for trying to create a problem. There has been NO issues related to hydrofracking in dimock...NONE. The other areas have proven to be the same. No problems because of hydrofracking.

[duster7469]

The article says that gas has not been removed, yet. As of now this is no longer true. A logger from the area has told me that the pressure coming up from the well head was so great they could barely cap the well.

[TOYDOLLSKID]

false.