In northern WV, my family was approached by Chesapeake energy because they wanted them to lease land to be used for fracking. When an attorney got involved, who is also a close relative. As soon as a water protection agreement came up in the negotiations, the negotiations ended. They weren't willing to risk being liable. What does that tell us? Chesapeake can't even guarantee themselves they can conduct their operations without contaminating the ground/well water, & streams with toxins.
So you're saying the companies purify their water before selling it... then how do you explain the fact that where this is happening people are able to set their fracking tap water on fire?? Look into some videos about it.
2) Secondly, the water companies purify their water before selling it to you, so you'll never get it with toxins in it, even if some toxins somehow got into the ground water.
3) Thirdly, while the chemical names may sound scary to non-scientists, note that you would have to drink several litres of pure fracking fluid to die from the toxic effects. This is comparable to e.g. salt water. It's a toxin in theory, but in practice, the concentration and amount you drink makes all the difference.
1) Firstly, it is EXTREMELY unlikely that even tiny traces of fracking fluid could ever leach into the ground water. It is much more likely for serious accidents to happen in conventional gas drilling and other industries. Heck, even solar power is more dangerous - you wouldn't believe how many workers die each year from falling from roof-tops while installing solar panels.
Hey! I know you! You represent the Gas Industry! You live near my neighborhood and go to school with my kids! Why are you telling the people these lies? You know for a fact that these chemical are making people sick... and I wondered how you got that new garage and pool built. You are no longer invited to my house!!!
WTF? Are you really stooping so low that you're willing to make up any kind of bullshit to discredit those who present facts which are inconvenient for irrational environmentalist scaremongers like yourself?
I don't go to school anymore, nor I represent the gas industry (btw. again, wtf, how is that combination even supposed to make sense?)
I don't live in the US, don't have a pool, and my job is not in the energy sector.
Fracing is not the cause of peoples water catching on fire, one un-maintained disposal well is 100x more dangerous than 10,000 fracs. Wish these idiots would learn before them just assume and think they know.
Hey come on, its some mineral water company, scaring people as part of marketing campaign. In Pakistan, they scared people to death that Hepatitus B virus is in tap water. That's it. Companies minted money.
I have a good friend that lives in a trailer park but the sad thing is they can't drink the water at all. The whole trailer park is like this. The water will catch on fire just like in the videos I have seen here. The water is no longer safe to drink. Now tell me who the hell is missing the point here?
CEO of Tamboran Resources, Richard Moorman. and his Hydraulic Fracturing Company are trying to Drill in Leitrim Ireland. Please Help Us stop them Harm Beautiful Ireland, We will have no Where to go, where we will not be harmed .
It HAS BEEN PROVED Hydraulic Fracturing POLLUTES THE LAND AND HARMS THE PEOPLE. THEY SAY THEY HAVE MADE CASING TO PROTECT THE WATER. THIS OBVIOUSLY IS NOT WORKING . AS MANY PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED. WE NEED CLEAN DRINKING WATER MORE THAN MONEY. YOU CAN NOT EAT MONEY .
Please....fracking is perfectly fine with a proper cement job. The only way fracking can lead to a leak is if the engineers majorly fuck up the cement job. Stop spreading lies please. And don't remove this comment frackbuster, you piece of shit.
@thatguyontheright1You probably don't even know what cement job I'm talking about. Natural gas wells explore way, WAY below aquifers and lakes because that's where the gas is and also because of the potential risk of contamination. Old wells that aren't even used anymore are the ones hurting water because at their the same level as the aquifers.
daddyo930 where have you been? Maybe you should get out of your lazy chair and learn to read. The energy companies turned over all this info to the government in Dec. and Feb. So the government has had this info in their hands for 4-6 months and I don't hear anyone revolting. Just keep drinking the kool-aid and get back in line. Sheep!
@rowdykain8 this is serious ...Tribulation is falling upon the whole earth.... and its going to get alot worse off than we can imagine... GOD IS GOING TO POUR OUT HIS WRATH... you- them- me - we- all- of- us ---need water.. Repent their is no water in hell not one drop... [Luke 16]
@Terri3210 I know that this issue is serious. Do you think energy companies are going to cut off the hand that feeds them? The folks that work on the rigs and service companies want to pollute their own water supply in order to make a living? The answer to that is NO! Unlike most who leave comments I know this process firsthand. It's about getting American energy for Americans. By doing nothing does that really help us in anyway? The environment is just as important to us as it is to you.
@candistyx We are not trying to get rid of DEP regulations. We just want regulations that are common sence,not something to apease environmetalists. You have got to remember that for ever regulation comes cost and they may seem small if given one at a time. But over time they build up to the point that it costs more to drill the hole then the gas is worth in it. Where does that get anyone? No jobs, no lease money for the owner, no tax money for local gov.ect.. Smart regulation are the key.
You think this is bad? Wait until you find out what they are doing with depleted uranium. When the gas companies are forced to release the material safety data sheets regarding whats in the fluid they use for fracking, the fat americans will finally get out of their lazy boy's and start demanding answers. Too late, the damage is done idiots.
I'm sorry but sometimes this hysteria gets bat-crap nuts. The New York lawyers are suing a gas driller in Silt, Colorado over rashes and nosebleeds. Last October Silt's water supply was deemed dangerous; quoting a local paper, "The violation caused the town to send a letter to residents the week of Nov. 8 notifying them that the town's water may be harmful if consumed...". All this hub-bub over a tiny bit of Trihalomethane in the water. Well, guess where trihalomethanes DONT come from - gaswelz
people who doubt should go and visit a frac area and see for themself...rivers are now positive for frac waste and the current required tests only mandate barium..if your barium has soared then there is probably more in that glass.the loss of farms is going to push food prices up
the water that's brought back up (to note, a lot of water does not come back up) cannot just be used in the fracking process of another well. the process would not work. it's a precise process. I am going to continue to look into this. I really don't like the idea of wastewater with all its chemicals and toxins that are known to cause disease and cancer finding its way into our water supplies. even the temporary lagoons they're making are detrimental to the environment and water.
Watch Professor Anthony Ingraffea's videos. these companies have been dumping wastewater into the river near where I live via 14 water treatment plants. they tightened regulations a little in the past year, but these companies are still dumping. their claims that they're "recycling" the water are also bogus. 5.5 million gallons of fresh water are pumped down and 7 types of chemicals have to be introduced at the right time, in the right proportion.
yo dumbass@real998877 It would nearly be OK if these companies used only water and sand, then we'd only have natural gas and naturally formed radiation coming up in our wells. HOWEVER it is more profitable to use diesel fuel and dozens of more heinous chemicals to pump into our water supply. This practice is criminal. These companies are willing to pay 5 times the value of the land to frack. Any idea why? Because they are trying to make the landowners responsible for the environmental disaster.
a lease dosen't mean they will drill on your land. the people who monitor the energy companies are not the same, more specialis in regulating fracturing. the industry has so many inspecters it's not even funny. There aer 1000's of wells that have been fractured that you don't hear about cuz. Most of the anti's are just looking to get a pay off from the oil comapanies.
They are drilling a 2nd well on uncles property, putting in the pipes which go through the water levels. After these are sealed off, they drill through the center of these down deep into the gas layers 1 mile down. Still poisoning the natural water supplies! Gas drilling or oil drilling is hazardous to humans & wildlife! There's not one politician that's for drilling that's not receiving bribes from big oil/gas companies! Enron ring a bell? Now known as Atla Gas/ Energy! All Crooks!
LOL, show me one documented case where "fracking" has harmed the water supply. Farming is a bigger threat to the water supply, with all of the fertilizers, chemicals, hormones and such. Everything you eat, breathe, and live is toxic. Don't EVER drink out of plastic bottles, eat non-organic foods, drink water that hasn't been put through 65643 filters, don't buy any clothes made of synthetic fibers, don't buy processed foods. When you follow all of those guidelines, then bitch at us.
@kitkofolk Yes, let's just outlaw EVERYTHING then. Anything that potentially harms the environment is BANNED. No wind energy, the turbines kill endangered birds. Nuclear power is out after what happened in Japan. Let's ban drilling, watch our heating costs rise and rise, and cut hundreds of thousands of jobs created by the industry, and let's rely EVEN more on other countries
for energy needs. You all aren't living in the real world. If you have a better solution, put it out there.
@weathergrl76 that's like saying you don't think lye is harmful to drink because everyone knows that poison is harmful. Yes, and..... fracking is one more, new insult to the earth, to the water under the earth, to the watersheds, the groundwater, the animals, the plants, the air, the people, etc. You can add it to your long list. My family has been working on your long list for the past 30 years. What are we going to do? Information must get out and we must demand it stop!
@sabymoon Yes, let's just outlaw EVERYTHING then. Anything that potentially harms the environment is BANNED. No wind energy, the turbines kill endangered birds. Nuclear power is out after what happened in Japan. Let's ban drilling, watch our heating costs rise and rise, and cut hundreds of thousands of jobs created by the industry, and let's rely EVEN more on other countries for energy needs. You all aren't living in the real world. If you have a better solution, put it out there.
@weathergrl76 You are missing the point. My family worked for the state environmental quality, so I know something you might not. All these things must be regulated. The corporations do not want to be told what to do, because the bottom line and big paychecks to execs are of utmost importance. But the rest of us live on this Earth, and we have a right to regulate them. It's in the public interest. We are killing ourselves, otherwise.
And while you're pointing fingers at big execs... why don't you go and talk to the blue collar guys working the rigs and giving their family a damn good income at 70k+ a year? As one of the crane operators told me...the only ones complaining are those not benefiting. There has been methane in water for decades, way before fracing, I have "irrefutable proof" just like your god, Josh Fox. Public interest? Do YOU want to pay MY bills when I'm out of a job? Because I'll quit now....
@weathergrl76 You are missing the point. My family worked for the state environmental quality, so I know something you might not. All these things must be regulated. The corporations do not want to be told what to do, because the bottom line and big paychecks to execs are of utmost importance. But the rest of us live on this Earth, and we have a right to regulate them. It's in the public interest. We are killing ourselves, otherwise. I just want to know what dog you have in this fight.
What dog do I have in this fight? I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from college and got a piss poor government job and fought tooth and nail to keep a roof over my family's head and almost had my house foreclosed upon in the process. I then got a job in the o&g industry which kept a roof over our heads and saved our mortgage company from taking a loss.
...and you lost your valuable drinking water in the process... and you allowed your neighbors water to be poisoned as well... and you sold out your enviornment as well for hundreds, nay, thousands of years as well... and, and, and ... you lose
first of all- to protest something, you should educate yourself enough to know how to spell it... FRACING, short for fracturing (no K) is a very safe and efficent way to extract a clean burning and efficent fossil fuel out of the ground to be utilized for many purposes. please dont join the hype of boycotting an amazing industry before educating yourself...
@meldaby22 - I'm with real998877 on this and really your comment about educating yourself first - to him - should be practiced by you. I have spent over 70 hours of research on this. How much have you spent? Saw one video, and heard one tidbit on the news, and posted 2 comments and NOW you are an expert. This is not hype - it's rampant in 34 states - I hardly call that hype. And natural gas is a fossil fuel just like oil and coal - duh. It's not renewable energy. Who needs educating now?
@babsinva i never said that natural gas was a renewable rescource. i said it was "a clean burning and efficent fossil fuel". and your 70 hours is nothing compared to 3 years in the field... thats more than 70 hours per week!
One common component of fracking fluid is diesel fuel, which contains benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene. Other chemicals that may be used are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; methanol; formaldehyde; ethylene glycol; glycol ethers; hydrochloric acid; and sodium hydroxide.
Why all this toxic stuff? Have they even tried vegetable oil, ethanol, and other safer substances?
@real998877 diesel fuel is used to run the trucks and engines... it is not put in the well... most of teh fluid that is used for fracing is water- just plain water- and dirt- which creates mud, and sand... the stuff our children stomp in after a rain storm or play in at the beach...
if they come around here im gonna do a midnight run;)
TheKimrob 1 month ago in playlist Fracking Up Our Environment
And we need to stop appeasing big corporations.
Environmentalists SHOULD be appeased.
Corporate CEOs and banksters at the Fed have stolen all the world's wealth with their cimes of financial terrorism and bailouts.
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In northern WV, my family was approached by Chesapeake energy because they wanted them to lease land to be used for fracking. When an attorney got involved, who is also a close relative. As soon as a water protection agreement came up in the negotiations, the negotiations ended. They weren't willing to risk being liable. What does that tell us? Chesapeake can't even guarantee themselves they can conduct their operations without contaminating the ground/well water, & streams with toxins.
Friedstuffsable 2 months ago
I hope all these gas and government criminals get taken down by the growing rage of people power and wind up in a cell like Bernie Madoff !
solution833 2 months ago
@solution833 Amen! Great comment! Keep up the good work!
mphello 1 month ago
So you're saying the companies purify their water before selling it... then how do you explain the fact that where this is happening people are able to set their fracking tap water on fire?? Look into some videos about it.
kritiosgirl 3 months ago
2) Secondly, the water companies purify their water before selling it to you, so you'll never get it with toxins in it, even if some toxins somehow got into the ground water.
3) Thirdly, while the chemical names may sound scary to non-scientists, note that you would have to drink several litres of pure fracking fluid to die from the toxic effects. This is comparable to e.g. salt water. It's a toxin in theory, but in practice, the concentration and amount you drink makes all the difference.
eshah100 3 months ago
This is completely ridiculous.
1) Firstly, it is EXTREMELY unlikely that even tiny traces of fracking fluid could ever leach into the ground water. It is much more likely for serious accidents to happen in conventional gas drilling and other industries. Heck, even solar power is more dangerous - you wouldn't believe how many workers die each year from falling from roof-tops while installing solar panels.
No one dies from fracking!
eshah100 3 months ago
@eshah100
Hey! I know you! You represent the Gas Industry! You live near my neighborhood and go to school with my kids! Why are you telling the people these lies? You know for a fact that these chemical are making people sick... and I wondered how you got that new garage and pool built. You are no longer invited to my house!!!
NoNo9erBilly 4 days ago
@NoNo9erBilly
WTF? Are you really stooping so low that you're willing to make up any kind of bullshit to discredit those who present facts which are inconvenient for irrational environmentalist scaremongers like yourself?
I don't go to school anymore, nor I represent the gas industry (btw. again, wtf, how is that combination even supposed to make sense?)
I don't live in the US, don't have a pool, and my job is not in the energy sector.
I'm just a guy who's better informed than you.
eshah100 4 days ago
Question, how come New York City has nice clean water, and where I live it makes you sick. I say frack, make New York City buy bottled water to.
shinokiba 4 months ago
Soo many people suporting frack without giving any evidence to the cause
im surprised how many people ignore the evidence
you your telling me that all this contaminated water that is only in areas where fracking has or is occuring
and all these dangerous chemicals that are in the water which were never there before
the fact that your drinking water can now catch fire ever since they started fracing..
your telling me that the 2 arnt related?
are you serious or blinded by cheap gas bills?
TeratusVantian 5 months ago
The name "frackbuster" tells me you already had your agenda set. Who knows what causes this really?
slugmandrew 5 months ago
Fracing is not the cause of peoples water catching on fire, one un-maintained disposal well is 100x more dangerous than 10,000 fracs. Wish these idiots would learn before them just assume and think they know.
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OnenessNow 6 months ago
Hey come on, its some mineral water company, scaring people as part of marketing campaign. In Pakistan, they scared people to death that Hepatitus B virus is in tap water. That's it. Companies minted money.
tradecycles 7 months ago
They just need to stop the drilling and leave. They really piss me off.
marjtay525 7 months ago
I have a good friend that lives in a trailer park but the sad thing is they can't drink the water at all. The whole trailer park is like this. The water will catch on fire just like in the videos I have seen here. The water is no longer safe to drink. Now tell me who the hell is missing the point here?
marjtay525 7 months ago
STOP SCARING INNOCENT PEOPLE. THEY PURIFY WATER THEN SEND IT TO YOUR HOMES. JUST EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY.
tradecycles 7 months ago
OP confirmed for paranoid hipster.
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CEO of Tamboran Resources, Richard Moorman. and his Hydraulic Fracturing Company are trying to Drill in Leitrim Ireland. Please Help Us stop them Harm Beautiful Ireland, We will have no Where to go, where we will not be harmed .
It HAS BEEN PROVED Hydraulic Fracturing POLLUTES THE LAND AND HARMS THE PEOPLE. THEY SAY THEY HAVE MADE CASING TO PROTECT THE WATER. THIS OBVIOUSLY IS NOT WORKING . AS MANY PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED. WE NEED CLEAN DRINKING WATER MORE THAN MONEY. YOU CAN NOT EAT MONEY .
DamianDoubleday 7 months ago
Just drink surface water. Ground water is nasty anyway.
ngvconversion 8 months ago
Please....fracking is perfectly fine with a proper cement job. The only way fracking can lead to a leak is if the engineers majorly fuck up the cement job. Stop spreading lies please. And don't remove this comment frackbuster, you piece of shit.
GeauxSaints53 8 months ago 2
@GeauxSaints53 But are they going to do the proper cement job? nope.
thatguyontheright1 8 months ago
@thatguyontheright1You probably don't even know what cement job I'm talking about. Natural gas wells explore way, WAY below aquifers and lakes because that's where the gas is and also because of the potential risk of contamination. Old wells that aren't even used anymore are the ones hurting water because at their the same level as the aquifers.
GeauxSaints53 7 months ago
If we used hemp as an energy source, we could decrease or eliminate the need for fracing.
funkyfoo121 8 months ago
daddyo930 where have you been? Maybe you should get out of your lazy chair and learn to read. The energy companies turned over all this info to the government in Dec. and Feb. So the government has had this info in their hands for 4-6 months and I don't hear anyone revolting. Just keep drinking the kool-aid and get back in line. Sheep!
rowdykain8 8 months ago
@rowdykain8 this is serious ...Tribulation is falling upon the whole earth.... and its going to get alot worse off than we can imagine... GOD IS GOING TO POUR OUT HIS WRATH... you- them- me - we- all- of- us ---need water.. Repent their is no water in hell not one drop... [Luke 16]
Terri3210 8 months ago
@Terri3210 I know that this issue is serious. Do you think energy companies are going to cut off the hand that feeds them? The folks that work on the rigs and service companies want to pollute their own water supply in order to make a living? The answer to that is NO! Unlike most who leave comments I know this process firsthand. It's about getting American energy for Americans. By doing nothing does that really help us in anyway? The environment is just as important to us as it is to you.
rowdykain8 8 months ago
@rowdykain8 Then why are you always trying to get rid of environmental regulations?
candistyx 1 month ago
@candistyx We are not trying to get rid of DEP regulations. We just want regulations that are common sence,not something to apease environmetalists. You have got to remember that for ever regulation comes cost and they may seem small if given one at a time. But over time they build up to the point that it costs more to drill the hole then the gas is worth in it. Where does that get anyone? No jobs, no lease money for the owner, no tax money for local gov.ect.. Smart regulation are the key.
rowdykain8 1 month ago
can you do this with your tap water???
divadserpr1 9 months ago
You think this is bad? Wait until you find out what they are doing with depleted uranium. When the gas companies are forced to release the material safety data sheets regarding whats in the fluid they use for fracking, the fat americans will finally get out of their lazy boy's and start demanding answers. Too late, the damage is done idiots.
Daddyo930 9 months ago
I'm sorry but sometimes this hysteria gets bat-crap nuts. The New York lawyers are suing a gas driller in Silt, Colorado over rashes and nosebleeds. Last October Silt's water supply was deemed dangerous; quoting a local paper, "The violation caused the town to send a letter to residents the week of Nov. 8 notifying them that the town's water may be harmful if consumed...". All this hub-bub over a tiny bit of Trihalomethane in the water. Well, guess where trihalomethanes DONT come from - gaswelz
EnergyIndy 10 months ago
people who doubt should go and visit a frac area and see for themself...rivers are now positive for frac waste and the current required tests only mandate barium..if your barium has soared then there is probably more in that glass.the loss of farms is going to push food prices up
mkhuntLJWV 11 months ago
the water that's brought back up (to note, a lot of water does not come back up) cannot just be used in the fracking process of another well. the process would not work. it's a precise process. I am going to continue to look into this. I really don't like the idea of wastewater with all its chemicals and toxins that are known to cause disease and cancer finding its way into our water supplies. even the temporary lagoons they're making are detrimental to the environment and water.
johnnylovesfootball 1 year ago
Watch Professor Anthony Ingraffea's videos. these companies have been dumping wastewater into the river near where I live via 14 water treatment plants. they tightened regulations a little in the past year, but these companies are still dumping. their claims that they're "recycling" the water are also bogus. 5.5 million gallons of fresh water are pumped down and 7 types of chemicals have to be introduced at the right time, in the right proportion.
johnnylovesfootball 1 year ago
yo dumbass@real998877 It would nearly be OK if these companies used only water and sand, then we'd only have natural gas and naturally formed radiation coming up in our wells. HOWEVER it is more profitable to use diesel fuel and dozens of more heinous chemicals to pump into our water supply. This practice is criminal. These companies are willing to pay 5 times the value of the land to frack. Any idea why? Because they are trying to make the landowners responsible for the environmental disaster.
shamanjud 1 year ago
a lease dosen't mean they will drill on your land. the people who monitor the energy companies are not the same, more specialis in regulating fracturing. the industry has so many inspecters it's not even funny. There aer 1000's of wells that have been fractured that you don't hear about cuz. Most of the anti's are just looking to get a pay off from the oil comapanies.
walls0stone 1 year ago
They are drilling a 2nd well on uncles property, putting in the pipes which go through the water levels. After these are sealed off, they drill through the center of these down deep into the gas layers 1 mile down. Still poisoning the natural water supplies! Gas drilling or oil drilling is hazardous to humans & wildlife! There's not one politician that's for drilling that's not receiving bribes from big oil/gas companies! Enron ring a bell? Now known as Atla Gas/ Energy! All Crooks!
NewDaysOldWays1 1 year ago 2
LOL, show me one documented case where "fracking" has harmed the water supply. Farming is a bigger threat to the water supply, with all of the fertilizers, chemicals, hormones and such. Everything you eat, breathe, and live is toxic. Don't EVER drink out of plastic bottles, eat non-organic foods, drink water that hasn't been put through 65643 filters, don't buy any clothes made of synthetic fibers, don't buy processed foods. When you follow all of those guidelines, then bitch at us.
weathergrl76 1 year ago
@weathergrl76 - Watch the Gaslands documentary.
exovoxrock 1 year ago
@weathergrl76 Yes, all those things you mentioned are a problem, but that doesn't diminish the problems w/ fracking. Open your eyes.
kitkofolk 1 year ago
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@kitkofolk Yes, let's just outlaw EVERYTHING then. Anything that potentially harms the environment is BANNED. No wind energy, the turbines kill endangered birds. Nuclear power is out after what happened in Japan. Let's ban drilling, watch our heating costs rise and rise, and cut hundreds of thousands of jobs created by the industry, and let's rely EVEN more on other countries
for energy needs. You all aren't living in the real world. If you have a better solution, put it out there.
weathergrl76 8 months ago
@weathergrl76 that's like saying you don't think lye is harmful to drink because everyone knows that poison is harmful. Yes, and..... fracking is one more, new insult to the earth, to the water under the earth, to the watersheds, the groundwater, the animals, the plants, the air, the people, etc. You can add it to your long list. My family has been working on your long list for the past 30 years. What are we going to do? Information must get out and we must demand it stop!
sabymoon 11 months ago
@sabymoon Yes, let's just outlaw EVERYTHING then. Anything that potentially harms the environment is BANNED. No wind energy, the turbines kill endangered birds. Nuclear power is out after what happened in Japan. Let's ban drilling, watch our heating costs rise and rise, and cut hundreds of thousands of jobs created by the industry, and let's rely EVEN more on other countries for energy needs. You all aren't living in the real world. If you have a better solution, put it out there.
weathergrl76 8 months ago
@weathergrl76 You are missing the point. My family worked for the state environmental quality, so I know something you might not. All these things must be regulated. The corporations do not want to be told what to do, because the bottom line and big paychecks to execs are of utmost importance. But the rest of us live on this Earth, and we have a right to regulate them. It's in the public interest. We are killing ourselves, otherwise.
sabymoon 8 months ago
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And while you're pointing fingers at big execs... why don't you go and talk to the blue collar guys working the rigs and giving their family a damn good income at 70k+ a year? As one of the crane operators told me...the only ones complaining are those not benefiting. There has been methane in water for decades, way before fracing, I have "irrefutable proof" just like your god, Josh Fox. Public interest? Do YOU want to pay MY bills when I'm out of a job? Because I'll quit now....
weathergrl76 1 month ago
@weathergrl76 You are missing the point. My family worked for the state environmental quality, so I know something you might not. All these things must be regulated. The corporations do not want to be told what to do, because the bottom line and big paychecks to execs are of utmost importance. But the rest of us live on this Earth, and we have a right to regulate them. It's in the public interest. We are killing ourselves, otherwise. I just want to know what dog you have in this fight.
sabymoon 8 months ago
What dog do I have in this fight? I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from college and got a piss poor government job and fought tooth and nail to keep a roof over my family's head and almost had my house foreclosed upon in the process. I then got a job in the o&g industry which kept a roof over our heads and saved our mortgage company from taking a loss.
weathergrl76 1 month ago
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weathergrl76 1 month ago
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...and you lost your valuable drinking water in the process... and you allowed your neighbors water to be poisoned as well... and you sold out your enviornment as well for hundreds, nay, thousands of years as well... and, and, and ... you lose
NoNo9erBilly 4 days ago
first of all- to protest something, you should educate yourself enough to know how to spell it... FRACING, short for fracturing (no K) is a very safe and efficent way to extract a clean burning and efficent fossil fuel out of the ground to be utilized for many purposes. please dont join the hype of boycotting an amazing industry before educating yourself...
meldaby22 1 year ago
@meldaby22 - I'm with real998877 on this and really your comment about educating yourself first - to him - should be practiced by you. I have spent over 70 hours of research on this. How much have you spent? Saw one video, and heard one tidbit on the news, and posted 2 comments and NOW you are an expert. This is not hype - it's rampant in 34 states - I hardly call that hype. And natural gas is a fossil fuel just like oil and coal - duh. It's not renewable energy. Who needs educating now?
babsinva 1 year ago
@babsinva i never said that natural gas was a renewable rescource. i said it was "a clean burning and efficent fossil fuel". and your 70 hours is nothing compared to 3 years in the field... thats more than 70 hours per week!
meldaby22 1 year ago
One common component of fracking fluid is diesel fuel, which contains benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene. Other chemicals that may be used are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; methanol; formaldehyde; ethylene glycol; glycol ethers; hydrochloric acid; and sodium hydroxide.
Why all this toxic stuff? Have they even tried vegetable oil, ethanol, and other safer substances?
real998877 1 year ago
@real998877 diesel fuel is used to run the trucks and engines... it is not put in the well... most of teh fluid that is used for fracing is water- just plain water- and dirt- which creates mud, and sand... the stuff our children stomp in after a rain storm or play in at the beach...
meldaby22 1 year ago