ForwardToEden

Natural gas extraction means much more than just gas wells and pipelines. It also means gas processing plants and propane strippers. All these various installations make bad neighbors.

Gas drilling with horizontal drilling/hydraulic fracturing uses huge amounts of diesel & vast quantities of water deliberately contaminated with extremely toxic chemicals. And that's just for starters.

This isn't a NIMBY thing. This stuff shouldn't be happening in *anybody's* backyard. No one should lose their water, their air, their health, and whatever peace & quiet they had, for the sake of corporate profits. (O&G executives, investors, marketing & PR people: If drilling for natural gas is as benign as you claim, then, hey, drill in your *own* backyards, not somebody else's.) That, folks, would be the end of drilling.

http://www.propublica.org/feature/buried-secrets-is-natural-gas-drilling-endangering-us-water-supplies-1113

http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=6885

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