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High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water
sciencehabit writes "Drilling for natural gas locked deep in a shale formation — a process known as fracking — has seriously contaminated shallow groundwater supplies beneath far northeastern Pennsylvania with flammable methane. That's the conclusion of a new study, published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The analysis gives few clues, however, to how pervasive such contamination might be across the wide areas of the Northeast United States, Texas, and other states where drilling for shale gas has taken off in recent years."
The terms "water pollution" and "risk to human health" are so very anti-business and job-killing. We prefer to say that the invisible hand is incentivizing the purchase of bottled water at the present time...
"Bottled in Scranton, Pennsylvania"
Look at the bright side, maybe you can really run your car on 'water' now
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
"Some of you may have noticed if you've tried to drink during the course of the last few years that your drinking water is now natural gas. That's because we've been doing invisible drilling in your area, which is turning your drinking water into natural gas. Don't worry, that just means it's working."
- Frack Johnson
You know fracking is bad when you can put a lighter up to a running facet in your kitchen and a fireball erupts.
But what about this rebuttal movie clip, "The Truth About Gasland", with folk music and happy children and puppies and sunshine?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1W8MnveFq8
The Truth About Gasland
Now be honest, who would you trust more. Some dirty hippy driving around with a video camera making a film.
OR
America's Natural Gas Alliance. That's an American ALLIANCE with AMERICANS. You don't hate America do you?
Plus, REGULATORS found it wasn't natural gas. If you can't trust American regulators, who can you trust?
Butbutbut! Job.killing.regulations.energy.independence.gas.fo.ramericans.competition.no.more.epa.necessary.i.want.cheap.fuel.the.market.will.adjust.TRUST.US!
Paranoia is a Survival Trait!
Because he was never interested in reading and comprehending what you said.
He assumed by your first comma that you were defending the big bad evil corporations.
Therefore you must be stopped.
There was no need to read any further. Attack was in order and attack was what you received.
In the future if you do not want this type of abuse I suggest that the first line of every post should be "Flower Power to the Oppressed People".
It may help.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
And the amusing thing is that you probably call liberals and progressives idealists whose beliefs would never work out in the real world.
Your solution is that every homeowner can go up against an energy company in the court of law, and that the courts will always resolve things correctly. That suggestion might be funny if it weren't so fucking stupid.
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal