No Fracking Way (part one)

According to Brad Gill, Executive Director
Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York... "natural gas is a clean, abundant and affordable fuel. Increasing production here in New York will help improve our economy, increase tax revenues and jobs, and bring our nation closer to energy independence."

"When you think about 1.3 million wells across the nation [that] have been fracked, [with] about 900,000 producing today, you can name several incidents that aren't true contamination but [simply] methane-charged water."


But what do the people who are drinking methane-charged water have to say?

"I wish that they had never come, obviously. We had peace and tranquility before... and it's just been an absolute living hell."
Resident of Dimock, Pennsylvania

Since 2008, over 4,000 gas wells have been drilled in Pennsylvania. Farmers in southwestern PA blame cattle deaths and mutations on local hydraulic fracturing. Other community complaints include tainted water, children getting sick, skin rashes, and neurological disorders.

"For the rest of my life I'm going to be living in fear of having that well there."
Resident of Dimock, Pennsylvania

Natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale in Dimock has released methane into the water supply, drinking water wells have exploded, and others were found to contain so much gas that one homeowner was told to open a window if he planned to take a bath.

"There has to be hope, because this is too crazy to let happen."
Resident of Dimock, Pennsylvania

In three (3) separate spills at the Heitsman well in a rural area just south of Montrose, PA about 8,000 gallons of a carcinogenic chemical -- used to ease resistance in gas well production -- polluted a wetland and caused a fish kill in Stevens Creek. The chemical, LGC-35 CBM, is manufactured by Halliburton. It dissolves in water (making cleanup extremely difficult), has led to skin cancer in animals and "may cause headache, dizziness and other central nervous system effects" to anyone who breathes or swallows it according to the Material Safety Data Sheets for LGC-35 CBM.

For slick water, high-volume hydrofracking, it is estimated that with each fracking, 2 to 9 million gallons of fresh water are used. About half of the frac fluid remains in the ground, while the other 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 gallons comes back up out of the well along with thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals and radioactive matter known as "produced water."

The United States Department of Energy considers the waste water from hydraulic fracturing to be one of the most toxic industrial byproducts of the gas and oil industry.

WE CAN IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY, INCREASE TAX REVENUES, AND CREATE JOBS WITH ABUNDANT, AFFORDABLE, CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY

Hey Brad Gill... that's TRUE ENERGY INDEPENDENCE!

For more information, and what Green Guerrillas are doing to support a JUST TRANSITION to clean energy and clean futures FOR ALL... check us out at http://changents.com/green-guerrillas.

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[philacoudre]

You guyz needed more rehearsal time. Looked good, even though sound was bad.

[philacoudre]

@jmecrg Hey Joe, just google "Dish, TX contaminated" and browse. It's plain to see!

[Knibblet323]

@PeaceIsPatriotic - Racists cannot be reasoned with. As soon as anyone pulls out the hate speech, step back and let it go. You'll have better luck explaining string theory to rabbits than science or common sense to the hate-filled.

[PeaceIsPatriotic]

Hey, walleye191 and shsaab. Your comments are really juvenile and hateful. It's one thing to support an industry and the effects it has on people and the environment, but for you to go on personal attacks like you have done only shows how shallow you are as people. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. @TheEarthSpeaks, I applaud your attempt to get people like them to focus on the facts. All I can say is, "good luck!"

[walleye191]

even though you may disagree, you have to be pleased that it gives leftist losers on welfare some cause that gets them out of their trailer houses and sobered up for a few hours. well, relatively sobered up.

[eagletrek2]

hey Texas what do you call the tar balls that on your beaches ?this was on the news the past summer tar balls are pollution, this fracking will casue a lot of damge it has nothing to do with welfare , we can get clean enegry from wind solar, water ,all this teck is here but as we know the govtment is control by the oil companys that blocking everything

[hawkeye952]

lets see who am I going to trust the people that are reporting problems w there water or the oil/gas industry? Don't trust them.

[jmecrg]

why doesnt this pollution happen where i live in texas

[TheEarthSpeaks]

@dhsaab you are obviously blind about hydrofracking. know your facts. hydrofracking destroys the environment and contaminates the watershed..you know..the water you drink. 171 chemicals are used in hydraulic fracturing, 71 causes physical illnesses. Hydraulic fracturing uses 6 million gallons of water per well. There is extreme water pollution. And I dont see what welfare has to do with hydraulic fracturing. In conclusion, know your facts. Please and thank you.

[dhsaab]

Looks like a bunch of ignorant inarticulate welfare people who are trying to stop development of legitmate local energy resources that will ultimately heat their government houseing and pay their welfare. Perhaps the Saudi's or Hugo Chavaz will make their welfare payments?