Fracking: Things Find a Way

Things always find a way to happen ... A pen leaking. Your shoelace coming untied. Toxic chemicals in your drinking water. What?!

Watch this video to learn how the more oil and gas companies frack, the more trouble is finding ways to happen.

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[Brady Dale]

I wish I could love this video 400 times! More animated editorial cartooning!

Great work!

[karebearsfly]

Too bad more peeps didnt get what fracking is .Theyll wait till OMG we dont have any good water

[sassymom08]

I love the reactions of possibly paid trolls claiming that no one has been harmed. I'm thinking I'll go with no on that one and offer the ability to google water on fire as a counter to it. >insert eye rolling here<

[techcafe]

Bad Vibes

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[Janice Plante]

Why is it always the people with their hand in the cookie jar that seem to think it is safe? I say PROVE that it is safe now before continuing, so that all the little people - that can't afford huge law suits - will not have to try and PROVE in court that it isn't safe.

[Janice Plante]

Your water may be fine now.... just wait - and then what when it is spoiled? I wouldn't be trusting anyone's say so that the water is safe ongoing either. When you get cancer in 10+ years or so will you know what caused it? That's is why the law suits aren't hardly ever successful because it is too difficult if not impossible to PROVE in a court that cause = effect. The oil and gas companies like it that way.

[Stiffroot]

Because their is not 1 shred of evidence it has caused ANY damage to ANYONE! Its fear mongering! Doctors kill 120,000 people a year in the US....how many has fracking killed.....EVER?

[Stiffroot]

WRONG again, it HAS been around for 60 years but too costly to use. With oil at around $90 a bbl, it IS now cost efficient. I used to live and work in BC and Alberta as a chemical engineer...I also worked in Kuwait, Libya and SA. I am now in Los Angeles and a database Administrator and systems analyst...out of the oil biz. My health is fine after 20 years on the rigs and my conclusions have NOT changed...I am dying to see 1 shred of evidence that you even have a clue what YOU are mouthing!

[Stiffroot]

Ignorance prevails here. As for evidence, show me ONE shred that it has harmed ANYONES water supply you mouthy imbecile! As a chemical engineer that has worked around the world, I have never seen a single case. How many law suits have been successful? NONE in ANY country you silly git! Maybe YOU should do some homework before you open your ignorant cake hole. Did you read the FACTS above. Fracking takes place MILES below our deepest aquifers. Hydrocarbons are found everywhere naturally!

[Janice Plante]

Let me guess, you live in the midst of the fracking (Northern Alberta, BC, Sask.... actually its everywhere now). Maybe you work in the sector and have been brainwashed by your criminal employers that it is all good, and everyone needs to say so or they might lose their lucrative job.

Fracking has not been going one for 60 years. Conventional gas drilling may go back quite far, but that is not what fracking is about. It is a newer technology and process to get at the gas deposits that are left.

[Janice Plante]

OMG - wake up you idiot!! Do you really believe what you are saying and are that ignorant, or are you just trying to get a rise out of people? Look up Jessica Ernst - a scientist that worked with oil and gas for 30 years and who is now suing Encana for polluting her's and many other people's water wells.

I think you need to do a little more investigation before you try and tell anyone that fracking is safe.

[YourLittleAmpersand]

It's very sad... all the things we are doing to this planet. We can't seem to live our lives without polluting something.