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The hidden cost of the US shale gas and 'fracking' boom

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Uploaded on Nov 30, 2010

The US push to secure domestic gas supplies has seen a desperate scramble to drill into the Marcellus Shale formation. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is now the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights, as the Ecologist Film Unit reports. To read the investigation that goes with this film: http://bit.ly/fiVXCL

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  • Sumiko Fujitaka

    Now, US is planning to export Shale gas to Japan and because of free trade, US will pump up more gas to collect income from foreign countries. And I think in the future of US land will become one of deserts. No grain will be produced nor no safe water. I wonder if sinkhole or other natural phenomenon let chemicals escape. Stupid to say Shale gas is better because of less carbon dioxide!? Won't make any better.

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  • TheRealArchAngel

    So they wont invest in water reclaimnation to clean out the water for residental use?...or isthis slanted propaganda?

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  • Pheniox1985

    I say Allow the people drink the water let them die... and then start the law suite. If companies dont listen maybe if people die they will.. I dont know.... this really is alarming..

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  • asustech007

    So they ruin the water supply for a paycheck, spend the check on health care, run out of good clean water, get sick enough that you can't earn a paycheck, then die. Now that is some real logic there isn't it...?

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  • SeymourButtz99

    13:50, yeah who gives a damn how prosperous the town is from gas company revenue when everyone has tolulene cancer or can't breathe ?

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  • SeymourButtz99

    Is Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords narrating ?

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  • SeymourButtz99

    Please continue to expose the truth about this terrible process of FRACKING because this practice can't continue.

    Faucets that catch fire, chemicals that are considered proprietary and exempt from regulation.... what the FUCK !!!!

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  • Owleyes888

    The movie Gasland 2 by Josh Fox is another powerful tool to convince people that we must ban fracking not just in the US but all over the world. Trans Pacific Partnership or TPP is surely linked with this fracking business.

    Jill Stein in America opposes that evil practice, opposes MANSANTO

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  • Salvatore Cucinotta

    Just read that the Pa. legislature took the power to regulate the fracking companies away from local municipalities. We need to buy stock in the corporations and raise hell at the corporate meetings. All you need is one share to gain access to have your voice heard.

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  • 2048scotty

    Actually, Texas was first. sorry...

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