http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/science/28caribou.html?hpw
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 8:17 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] more frackin' hell Our community's land is on the list for this stuff. What do you not understand about the U.S. Supreme Court essentially banning class action suits? REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D and N Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 8:12 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] more frackin' hell 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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