The controversial gas-drilling practice is tainting water. Your food might be next.
By Barry Estabrook Originally published by Gilt Taste There's a stunning moment in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland, where a man touches a match to his running faucetto have it explode in a ball of fire. This is what hydraulic fracturing, a process of drilling for natural gas known as "fracking," is doing to many drinking water supplies across the country. But the other side of frackingwhat it might do to the food eaten by people living hundreds of miles from the nearest gas wellhas received little attention... http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/20110525_what-will-fracking-do-do-our-food-supply - - Earn your Permaculture Design Certificate with the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute July 22 through August 7, 2011 http://www.fingerlakespermaculture.org - - _______________________________________________ FingerLakesPermaculture mailing list FingerLakesPermaculture@lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/fingerlakespermaculture Visit http://FLXpermaculture.Net to manage your subscription.
