Gas Boom / BBC World News America

[nutbagbrew102]

hey how about moving - you know like pick up your shit and locate somewhere else?

when people stay around when theres danger to your health - give them check for $100,000 a year and watch these people dance outside - i feel nothing for people who stand in front of a moving truck and say its not right - then die -

[Epimpin101]

We as Americans need to stop being fkin pussys, getting our own source of energy is a must, we cannot continue to buy it from other countries, often our enimies. We obv need to go about it reasonably safe, but Nat Gas is obv the future of energy in our country.

[Graham6762]

This is classic BBC propaganda to stop US developement and collapse the US economy. There is so much natural gas in this country and they so determined to keep us dependent on foreign energy.

[mjkwyo]

I work with the deep "GOLD" day in day out! Never felt better! If you drive or use gas I suggest y'all stop burnning it up! As far as the BENZENE GO'S! You get it from the gas pumps So GET REAL ya 'll are WIMPS !! I'am sure you don't mind walking to the store ect.........

[CleanWaterActionPA]

This is a great video. It really puts perspective on the environmental and health costs of gas drilling. Hopefully landowners will see this and think twice about selling their rights to gas companies.

[1unitman1]

god bless americunts

[honestmenace]

don't you mean 'god damn!!'

[DMnewspaper]

Leroy, and Gasshole like him, are employees of the Gas Industry and get rich by putting 80 Times the safe level of Benzene into the water we drink and the air we breath. Encana spends millions on Public Relations to make us think this is good and they are green. If Leroy, the Encana Apologist, was really concerned with the environment would he justify poisen in the water and air or reject Encana's money and embrace Solar and other alternatives. Leroy's ip address in not even in Garfield...

[Leroy816]

Hmmm.... How can anyone debate ignorance? this is the 3rd time I'll state I do not work for Encana. I hear you calling me names but not refuting any facts I've presented. I don't know how you would know my IP but I can assure you I live right in the middle of the hustle and bustle and have since well before this boom started. I guess since we all exhale CO2 we are all poisoning the environment and since our bodies eliminate waste we are all poisoning the water. I do embrace alternative ...

[Leroy816]

forms of energy. I do believe, however, that we have to tap the resources we have while someone is developing this Holy Grail of enrgy forms that you are searching for. Maybe you can be the genius that turns the engine that runs the entire world's economies, upside down, and enlightens civilization. Sounds to me like typical liberal phrases, with nothing to back them up, coming out of your responses. Educate yourself, please, then post an actual thought provoking comment.

[DMnewspaper]

Leroy816 is a paid Public Relations employee of the Gas Industry. Benzene was released into Divide Creek by Encana. Encana recieved the largest fine in Colorado History for poisening Divide Creek. The reason he would not drink water from Divide Creek, even filtered is because of the Cancer causing agents released by his employers that could kill him. It is disgusting that he would take money to defend a non American Company that puts cancer causing agents in our water. How do you sleep Leroy?

[Leroy816]

I thought I already said I don't work for Encana. Also, I am not a paid PR employee for the gas industry. I am not defending a non-American nor an American company.  I use common sense and research factual evidence to state my beliefs and do not take an unresearched view to disseminate them. Did you know that the general consensus of world scientists is that indoor air has has a higher concentration of Benzenes than outdoor air? Probably not. Nobody is putting cancer-causing agents into our

[Leroy816]

water intentionally. Accidents do happen in every industry, although I will admit Encana is the most grievous contributor in this area and gives the entire industry a bad name to brain-dead, mind numbed-robots. Indoor air contains higher levels of Benzene because of such innocuous household products as glue, paint, furniture wax and detergents. If you operate a lawnmower or snowblower or drive a car, the Benzene levels around your household are elevated above what is EPA recommendations.

[Leroy816]

Especially in winter when all of your windows are closed and you are re-circulating internal air. There is more Benzene released in a 1 acre prescribed burn by the BLM than was released into divide creek. Benzene is released naturally by forest fires, weathering of coal-containing strata (which we have an abundance of), and it enters groundwater through petroliferous rocks, volcanoes and forest fires. I hope you don't enjoy spending nights camping and sitting in front of a campfire, or maybe

[Leroy816]

you have the audacity to own a wood burning fireplace, because according to you, you're killing everybody in your community. Own a ranch? Better not use any pesticides or crank up that tractor. Benzenes are also released into streams from eroding sediment, guess we don't have that around here. Oh yeah, we better close the Garfield County landfill as well since that is one of the biggest contributors of all. Again, please use your common sense and research facts rather than repeating what

[Leroy816]

some uneducated reporter has said and take it as fact. I'd be a heck of a lot more concerned about people trying to drill near the Rulison project! A nuclear fracture? And the gas isn't contaminated (radioative)? Huh? This country has to tap it's energy reserves somewhere, or would you rather pay $1,000 a month for gas bills by importing gas from some country that's going to turn around and fun terrorists? And then whine about that as well.

[Leroy816]

Oh yeah, I sleep very, very well at night when the coyotes aren't howling or the kids aren't making noise.

[ColoradokayakGirl]

You must be another Encana Gasshole. I was born here and Encana Barrett Williams have destroyed this area. If you enjoy Benzene you are insane. You have had ill effects that have damaged your fragile brain. I dare you to drink the water in Divide Creek. Leroy you are a foolish man.

[Leroy816]

Guess again, not Encana. I would dare you to drink the water in any creek or stream on the planet, unfiltered any of the water will make you sick. I would advise you to research Benzene. The most common natural sources are forest fires and volcanoes. I think we have forest fires around here sometimes. Also, based on your screen name if you use a kayak you are a hypocrite. Benzenes are found in plastics, resins, nylon, rubber, lubricants, dyes, detergents, gasoline, etc. Use any of these?

[etniesskater7494]

ok wow leroy, do you think its right for them to drill in huge town like flower mound texas where people can start having health problems, there is a drill a mile away from my house and before it was there, i never had nosebleeds or diziness and i could breath, now that it is there, i cant be outside for 2 minutes without coughing my lungs out, and also i did look up benzene, yes it is used in all the stuff you mentioned but when it is alone it can cause cancer just like it did in my home town.

[Leroy816]

eitnesskater. Honestly, I don't have a problem with anyone drilling in a large town if that's where the reserves are found, provided the town wants it. People have health problems everywhere and I don't know your medical history so that would be hard to ascertain depending on what other developments have been or are happening around your community. I have worked in all phases of gaseous settings for 2 decades, up close and personal, and have never had nosebleeds or dizziness. Let me continue

[Leroy816]

Do you have any other respiratory problems you are willing to present as fact, considering the coughing your lungs out? Is it actually the drilling or the traffic? Other commercial or industrial business? If Natural gas, by itself caused cancer in your hometown, I would be very, very surprised and would advise everyone to start using electric stoves, furnaces and water heaters. Benzene is a significant contributor to cancer, if you are genetically predisposed to the causality effect......

[Leroy816]

But I can guarantee you, if you are a non-smoker, and since I am, that I would have a much greater chance of effects from benzene than you would just from that habit alone. In some parts of the country just the fact that I am a smoker makes me a leper. Since I have no facts on your community, or your medical history, I couldn't elaborate on your condition, too many variables. I'd be willing to bet anything though, that if your lungs are that disturbed and this was a century ago, you'd be dead

[ColoradoBluegrass]

How did you score the Last Minute String Band? This guys are the best musicians in Colorado and this is the funniest song in the nation. CNN could not get this act. NBC cant even talk to these guys. Dan Rather is on their no call list. Move over Wolf Blitzer David Willis booked the Last Minute String Band playing the Encana Bluegrass Blues. This is the kind of thing that can make a guy in the news business. This is an amazing story. Only Willis had the courage of a true newsman!

[brookec57]

I also live at the base of Divide Creek in the small community of Silt. I work in an industry that deals with the gas industry. That work affords me the oppertunity to see first hand what this is doing to our wilderness. I call it land rape. The trash and distruction shocks everyone that sees it that is not making money on it. Our beautiful state will never be a land to be proud of again. The distruction and disrespect of our state is heart breaking.

[apetalk]

We own land on Divide Creek. This is our community. These are our neighbors. Our hearts are broken.

ATTENTION: Encana is a Canadian company. They are not "A-rabs". Canada is our "friendly" neighbor to the north. They are blessed with abundant natural resourses of their own. So why are they here doing this to us? The next time you swear at the Saudis, remember that the gas you pump into your car is putting poison into Americans and money into the pockets of, among so many others, Canadians.

[SteveFrench306]

@apetalk hahah fuck off this is not bad at all alberta is 10 times as bad for oil and gas its not bad for you, an i dont give a fuck about your hillbilies singing bout encana you americans jus gotta grow some balls