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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...
"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?