I hear you, Ray. I'm aware of this recent passing. It's just everything
that they do these days seems to stay done, never gets undone. Like Wall
Street bailouts. The masses are passive for various reasons, just as
Pete expressed recently, and as I stated, even when people make noise,
as I know many have, they're ignored. But they're still not marching en
mass to stop suit-psychos from stupidity. Fracking is affecting about
half the country currently, and the other half fairly soon. I'm just
wondering what it will take before government reps are removed, forcibly
or peacefully.
I don't have answers today that are nice, and that's, er, irritating.
Natalia
On 6/27/2011 5:17 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
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
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[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *D and N
*Sent:* Monday, June 27, 2011 8:12 PM
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*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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