On further reflection, Anonymous' comment made me think of how this analogy might play out with an example from my home state, Colorado, and I think it just proves the paucity of Anonymous' argument. Imagine this scenario: Back in the day, rattlesnakes were prolific in Colorado and people would find them in their homes and some would joke about how many poisonous rattlesnakes they skinned for boots while some others got bit. Nowadays, some fat cats have decided that there's a lot of profit in exporting rattlesnake skin so they've reintroduced them. How dare people complain since the area used to be filled with rattlesnakes and people thought it was hilarious. See, the underlying argument is just as foolish as the analogy. Still doesn't mean we should say hoorah more gas in homes and wells any more than we should say hoorah more rattlesnakes! Lisa
P.S. My grandpa taught me early how to shoot those rattlers on the ranch....
You've got to be kidding me. Did you really fall for that smear campaign? And, I suppose you marveled at GW and Dick's "records" of military service. Give me a break. Unfortunately, such smears can be effective with dupes.... Enough said. Lisa
its a false statement by the U.S government that the oil is evaporated if it does than why are we seeing dead sea creatures at the end of the shores in most areas of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida ETC..
oil cannot evaporated so easily in air just by sunlight or by burn.. its a totally nonsense report..just to cover up that they are doing good.. we must do something on that...
or it will just remain another article on net...
The fact that some water sources were commingled with gas before recent drilling does not disprove that folks whose drinking water was NOT contaminated before recent drilling now have contaminated wells and ignitable water. The fracking pressure and the extensiveness have a lot of adverse consequences that Josh documented at length in his film. Just because some idiots used to joke about gas in their homes does not mean that it's okay or that people who don't think it's funny should face this risk from the expanded drilling without any real protections for their health and the environment. If you're not profiting from the drilling or a friend of Big Gas, I hope you'll read Josh's rebuttal of the well-financed misinformation campaign by the industry. Lisa
HII -Read some of your comments - many are comments with only conjecture, not fact, or are very erroneous ! ! ! Frack water virtually never ends up in fresh water wells, 50 years & 8000 old wells should prove it to you.
DO you understand the natural liquid contained in the Marcellus
Shale layers - THERE FOR OVER 400,000,000 YEARS - I'LL CALL IT -- UNDER-ground water contains a variety of dissolved minerals
varying at each location & is just as poisonous to above ground flora & fauna as some of the frack fluid ingredients. IT HASN't MIGRATED TO FRESH WATER LEVELS IN 400,000,000, SO WHY WOULD THE RESIDUAL FRACKING WATER MIGRATE ?
If you want energy costs to double (as in Portugal) and shut down all
industrial growth - go for immediatally changing to re-newables and see what un-intended hazards, accidents, and consequences develop from that - will you denounce those effects as ardently as
you do the current - SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN , BUT HAVEN'T THAT YOU CITE WITH THE MARCELLUS ? ? ?
Please re-examine your emotional reaction and look up more factual onfo ! Girdon
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