One thing I didn't realize when I last posted something on fracking was
the number of environmental safety exemptions the industry has enjoyed
since Dick Cheney and his Bush puppet passed a bill in 2005. Or else I
forgot, and, just having seen the scary documentary called "Gasland", I
was so outraged and deeply saddened to rediscover this
slow-eco-terrorist industry had managed to get the bill passed. The
other terrifying thing is of course just how much of America has been
fracked and how little is left to frack.
A well is good for 18 frackings; as of 2010 they may have gone through
40 trillion gallons of water just for drilling and processing. Each well
requiring hundreds of trips by tank trucks of various kinds. I'm not
sure how much water has been polluted, but it looks like almost half.
"Processed" water alone covers the land's former green space. The air
above these natural gas wells is full of pollutants landing on the crop
and pasture lands, and little Jimmy will be eating the beef from the
cows who drink the polluted water and eat the toxic grass and breathe
the toxic air. There's not a road that exists in rural America, it
seems, that doesn't have a gas well on it now because the industry knows
that there's a natural gas sea under half the country.
Just how *f'n stupid* are these oil and gas suit-psychos? Then there's
the rest of the planet for not stopping them in their tracks. But
keeping up with the greed has become more than tiresome, far too costly
to combat, and most often an exercise in futility. Way too many causes
out there. It's high time Congress and the Senate were served some of
that post-fracking adjacently situated drinking water they pretend is
safe. Hey, just kidding! They deserve so much more--really!
Don't we live in the most interesting times? seems too complacent to do
the trick any more.
Oh, did I mention polluting to destroy bio-life as the greatest
short-term career for everyone without a soul?
Natalia
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/fracking.html
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