Water on Fire - Marcellus Shale Reality Tour Part 1 - Fracking

A video by Scott Cannon http://gdacoalition.org On July 31st, 2011, a group of Democrat and Republican community leaders boarded a bus to travel an hour north to see, hear, and feel the negative effects of gas drilling.

This is the tour the gas companies don't want you to see.

Sure, there are a few millionaires made from gas drilling, but for every millionaire, there are countless other who are lied to, have their rights stripped away, and are inconvenienced beyond reason, all for the sake of a "bridge" fossil fuel that will eventually run out.

We encourage everyone to take a trip through gasland. Talk to people, notice the traffic, look at the once beautiful landscape, and ask yourself, "Is this what I want? Is this what I want for my children and grandchildren?"

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[robert ludlum]

There are many places around the country where you could light the gases coming off the water on fire and there is no fracking going on there. This is a natural thing that happens when natural gas excapes from the ground into the water system.

[GADCLuzerneCounty]

Except when gas drilling is causing it, as in this case an in the DEP documented 18 homes in Dimock PA. Learn up Robert.

[welllsaiddddd]

it changes to dust and the world comes to an end.. radiation is created by the sun too.. wow.. what a wussie cry baby puss. we have to ship you morons out of this country before it goes anymore to hell than it has. lazy cry baby tree hugging idiots.

[GADCLuzerneCounty]

Your comments are becoming increasingly angry and moronic. You are no longer welcome here.

[naturallypatty]

not in my backyard, not in your backyard, not in their backyard, it is immoral to profit and make others suffer like this... it is immoral to privatize the profits and socialize the costs.

[TheHarbor Butcher]

Bunch of Motherfrackers!

[robert ludlum]

+Perhaps, but liberalism is a mental disorder and sadly there is no known treatment yet.

[GADCLuzerneCounty]

...And were not sick of complaining right winged nut jobs?

[robert ludlum]

It is estimated there is about 500 years worth of known oil in Canada so we have lots of time to find a real replacement for both oil and gas. The logic is to look until a rational replacement is found and not waste money on solar and wind power. Perhaps Ballard power cells will be developed to the point that they could really be used.

[jjhollier]

Also robert, what happens when we run out? There is a finite amount that is fact. It can't go on forever. So where does it end? These frac wells need diesel fuel to run. So we need diesel fuel to get our gas out of the ground? Where is the logic? Where is rationality?

[jjhollier]

At what cost? Boils, rashes, nosebleeds, miscarriages, stillborns, live stock deaths, destruction of wildlife and natural habitats,house fires, depressed communities, and the currently unforeseeable effects of radiation coming from radium in the shale. Where is your humanity? You sacrifice the health and well being of your countrymen for what is supermarkets and a transportation convenience. There are alternatives that seriously reduce our use of hydrocarbon that is FACT. We do no NEED them

[robert ludlum]

We have the second largest country in the world and that means that we have to use cars and trucks to move goods and people because the country is too large to have mass transportation services to other than big cities.

We need the oil and gas and if the area is too dangerous to live in, move to a safer place, it is simple. Our country to fail if we stopped producing oil and gas.

[jjhollier]

And you definitely don't need oil and gas more than you need clean air and water. That is what you call an indisputable fact my friend. You don't care about rashes and nose bleeds as long as you can make it down the expressway? Goddamn this ignorant country.

[jjhollier]

No we don't you freakin troglodyte. There are many people that exist in other modern countries without dependence on fossil fuels. I know someone personally that uses solar panels to power his entire house and charge his car.  He lives a regular life completely non reliant on fossil fuels. There are alternatives to poisoning this earth for mere convenience. Get out of the dark ages, corporate fossil fuel is running us into the ground.