Flammable Drinking Water In Your Sink?? WTF!!
“‘GasLand’, a documentary that premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and focuses on hydraulic fracturing, will begin airing on HBO starting June 21 at 9 p.m. The documentary focuses on American communities that have been impacted by the increase in natural gas drilling–specifically hydraulic fracturing–across the country.
The documentary’s writer and director, Josh Fox, had been approached by a natural gas company who was interested in leasing his family’s Milanville, Pa., home for drilling; they would receive a signing offer of $100,000. Fox set out across America in search of information about natural gas drilling methods and their impacts on the environment and health of the people and areas in the drilling locations. Locally, he visited Dimock, Susquehanna County, where natural gas drilling had already been taking place “, North Central PA.com reports.
From Teeluck…
What Mr. Fox found is dumbfounding to the unsuspecting, but for us in the higher intellectual club, it is just par for the course. The companies are doing such damage to the underground environment that natural gas and Chemicals are seeping into the water shed and water wells. The water that comes out of many people’s kitchen sinks are as a result…Flammable!! Yes, I said Flammable. This is not even the main problem in my opinion.
While Mr. Fox is insisting that the companies are using upwards of 500 chemicals for this extraction process to get the payload they seek, one PR firm hired by and speaking for the industry, adamantly state that they are only using up to 12 toxic chemicals to maintain this type of extraction. My point of disagreement is that even if they were only using 10 Toxic Chemicals…that’s 10 Chemicals too many!! Keep in mind these chemicals are toxic and the fact that people are now ingesting water that contains these chemicals and even Natural Gas, it is indeed a frightening thought.
What if people start to Combust later on if they ingest to much of this stuff?? I am convinced that this stuff will cause Cancer. This extraction phenomenon is now in New York, Pennsylvania and at least 20 other states and it shows no evidence of slowing down in it’s advance to other States. The other shameful thing is that they are not under any meaningful Regulations which will protect the citizens who have been affected or the rest of us who may soon become victims of this atrocity as well.
Original Article by NorthCentralPA.com
I wonder if that’s how the Brazilian look was fashioned.
The fracking and cheating people of their land or driving them out by poisoning the water supply is a National Disgrace.
Water will soon be the new oil. From Memory now so don’t yell at me, I think I read only 35% of fresh water on earth is usable.
It’s fading fast, I know that.
Only thing worse would be flaming water in your bidet.
Definitely not the time to light a match.
MH,…I don’t know…sounds like a hot time to me…I think that’s why the French invented the Bidette/Bidet in the first place…them pesky French, they always have to bring sex into everything…lol…Kinky bastards…
It sounds a little crackpot does “gas mining”. Agree with Stimpson, I too have read that it is becoming harder to find the easy to get stuff, hence that fracturing process.
Crackpot is as crackpot does…does that make sense?
Good grief! I will turn my shower on and watch it a minute in future!!!
D…that’s why you get hot water in the shower in the first place smarty pants. Right? You English…lol
I read about this phenomenon (flammable water) a couple years ago, in a book about Alberta’s oil and gas industry called Stupid to the Last Drop.
Another thing about natural gas: It’s touted as plentiful, but when I was living in Alberta people told me finding new reserves was becoming increasingly difficult.
Putting more holes in Earth is not a long-term solution.
Stimpson, until last week I had never known about this! I am totally blown away!
Teeluck…a good post to bring up this subject. This is the next big tragedy down the road.
Somehow the gas mining industry has gotten an exemption on the “Clean Water Act”. In fact, they are not even required to list what ingredients they use in their “hell soup” of chemicals they use in their injection methods.
Thanks for bringing continued attention to this TeeLuck. I also had mentioned this in a post as well..
https://madmikesamerica.com/2010/06/laissez-faire-until-liability-the-new-economic-model/
This “Fracking” business is some nasty crap and the more that people hear about it the better. I hope that HBO special really changes the way things are done. We can only hope.
Instead of Fracking I would use a stronger F-ing word, but I don’t want to have Mike’s hair catch on fire, lol