Obama's Attack on Fracking is All About Curtailing US Production

[Old Rocks]

In Pennsylvania, the closer you live to a well used to hydraulically fracture underground shale for natural gas, the more likely it is that your drinking water is contaminated with methane. This conclusion, in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA in July, is a first step in determining whether fracking in the Marcellus Shale underlying much of Pennsylvania is responsible for tainted drinking water in that region.

Robert Jackson, a chemical engineer at Duke University, found methane in 115 of 141 shallow, residential drinking-water wells. The methane concentration in homes less than one mile from a fracking well was six times higher than the concentration in homes farther away. Isotopes and traces of ethane in the methane indicated that the gas was not created by microorganisms living in groundwater but by heat and pressure thousands of feet down in the Marcellus Shale, which is where companies fracture rock to release gas that rises up a well shaft.

Most groundwater supplies are only a few hundred feet deep, but if the protective metal casing and concrete around a fracking well are leaky, methane can escape into them. The study does not prove that fracking has contaminated specific drinking-water wells, however. “I have no agenda to stop fracking,” Jackson says. He notes that drilling companies often construct wells properly. But by denying even the possibility that some wells may leak, the drilling companies have undermined their own credibility.

Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom - Scientific American

Scientific American. Not just a newspaper article.

 

[bripat9643]

Here's another one of those articles the Obamabots will attack because of its source. They will ignore the links and citations and claim its all about “saving the environment.” They will conveniently ignore Obama's continued promises to wipe out the Amnerican coal and oil industry.


Read for yourself @ The Obama Administration s Dishonest Attack on Hydraulic Fracturing

Although Obama is now against fracking, it remains a dangerous and crazy venture. This is not a political issue to be used for bashing but a serious problem, America´s future generations will pay for.

Pennsylvania Finally Reveals Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water Hundreds Of Times ThinkProgress
Fracking-Harmed Residents Confront EPA and Demand Reopened Investigation Environmental Action

Those are both hoaxes. No one's drinking water has been contaminated by fracking. There has never been a shortage of kooks who claim they have been contaminated by some industry. There are also plenty of opportunist who are too shy to lie and launch frivolous lawsuits to extort money from corporations.

I saw a documentation on TV. The water around the wells is deadly and the companies exchange drinking water for "silence".

They "exchange drinking water?" What does that mean, and how does it insure silence. If a third party has their drinking water contaminated, they can sue the guilty parties.

 

[bripat9643]

In Pennsylvania, the closer you live to a well used to hydraulically fracture underground shale for natural gas, the more likely it is that your drinking water is contaminated with methane. This conclusion, in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA in July, is a first step in determining whether fracking in the Marcellus Shale underlying much of Pennsylvania is responsible for tainted drinking water in that region.

Robert Jackson, a chemical engineer at Duke University, found methane in 115 of 141 shallow, residential drinking-water wells. The methane concentration in homes less than one mile from a fracking well was six times higher than the concentration in homes farther away. Isotopes and traces of ethane in the methane indicated that the gas was not created by microorganisms living in groundwater but by heat and pressure thousands of feet down in the Marcellus Shale, which is where companies fracture rock to release gas that rises up a well shaft.

Most groundwater supplies are only a few hundred feet deep, but if the protective metal casing and concrete around a fracking well are leaky, methane can escape into them. The study does not prove that fracking has contaminated specific drinking-water wells, however. “I have no agenda to stop fracking,” Jackson says. He notes that drilling companies often construct wells properly. But by denying even the possibility that some wells may leak, the drilling companies have undermined their own credibility.

Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom - Scientific American

Scientific American. Not just a newspaper article.

WV MetroNews Duke research fracking not to blame for groundwater contamination

How Anti-Fracking Activists Deny Science Water Contamination

Fracking doesn t contaminate water supplies faulty shale gas wells do - Telegraph

 

[Bleipriester]

Here's another one of those articles the Obamabots will attack because of its source. They will ignore the links and citations and claim its all about “saving the environment.” They will conveniently ignore Obama's continued promises to wipe out the Amnerican coal and oil industry.


Read for yourself @ The Obama Administration s Dishonest Attack on Hydraulic Fracturing

Although Obama is now against fracking, it remains a dangerous and crazy venture. This is not a political issue to be used for bashing but a serious problem, America´s future generations will pay for.

Pennsylvania Finally Reveals Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water Hundreds Of Times ThinkProgress
Fracking-Harmed Residents Confront EPA and Demand Reopened Investigation Environmental Action

Those are both hoaxes. No one's drinking water has been contaminated by fracking. There has never been a shortage of kooks who claim they have been contaminated by some industry. There are also plenty of opportunist who are too shy to lie and launch frivolous lawsuits to extort money from corporations.

I saw a documentation on TV. The water around the wells is deadly and the companies exchange drinking water for "silence".

They "exchange drinking water?" What does that mean, and how does it insure silence. If a third party has their drinking water contaminated, they can sue the guilty parties.

Yeah, sue a billion dollar lobby...
What that means? The residents take cash (and fresh water) and shut up.

 

[initforme]

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Those are both hoaxes. No one's drinking water has been contaminated by fracking. There has never been a shortage of kooks who claim they have been contaminated by some industry. There are also plenty of opportunist who are too shy to lie and launch frivolous lawsuits to extort money from corporations."

Well if groundwater gets contaminate its usually industry doing it. They should be sued to the gills if they are indeed guilty. The water is not theirs to pollute. I have no faith in them at all to do things the right way.

 

[bripat9643]

Here's another one of those articles the Obamabots will attack because of its source. They will ignore the links and citations and claim its all about “saving the environment.” They will conveniently ignore Obama's continued promises to wipe out the Amnerican coal and oil industry.


Read for yourself @ The Obama Administration s Dishonest Attack on Hydraulic Fracturing

Although Obama is now against fracking, it remains a dangerous and crazy venture. This is not a political issue to be used for bashing but a serious problem, America´s future generations will pay for.

Pennsylvania Finally Reveals Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water Hundreds Of Times ThinkProgress
Fracking-Harmed Residents Confront EPA and Demand Reopened Investigation Environmental Action

Those are both hoaxes. No one's drinking water has been contaminated by fracking. There has never been a shortage of kooks who claim they have been contaminated by some industry. There are also plenty of opportunist who are too shy to lie and launch frivolous lawsuits to extort money from corporations.

I saw a documentation on TV. The water around the wells is deadly and the companies exchange drinking water for "silence".

They "exchange drinking water?" What does that mean, and how does it insure silence. If a third party has their drinking water contaminated, they can sue the guilty parties.

Yeah, sue a billion dollar lobby...
What that means? The residents take cash (and fresh water) and shut up.

Happens all the time. There are even hedge funds that will finance lawsuits in exchange for a percentage of any damages awarded. The Sierra Club and other environmental groups sue giant corporations all the time, and the law says they get all their legal expenses paid for from the settlement.

 

[bripat9643]

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Click to expand...
Those are both hoaxes. No one's drinking water has been contaminated by fracking. There has never been a shortage of kooks who claim they have been contaminated by some industry. There are also plenty of opportunist who are too shy to lie and launch frivolous lawsuits to extort money from corporations."

Well if groundwater gets contaminate its usually industry doing it. They should be sued to the gills if they are indeed guilty. The water is not theirs to pollute. I have no faith in them at all to do things the right way.

There's nothing more common than seepage of natural gas or oil into groundwater. There are many places where you can set natural springs on fire. This has been true for thousands of years. 5000 years ago tar bubbling up in natural springs in Mesopotamia was used as mortar to glue the Ziggurates together.

 

[Bleipriester]

Although Obama is now against fracking, it remains a dangerous and crazy venture. This is not a political issue to be used for bashing but a serious problem, America´s future generations will pay for.

Pennsylvania Finally Reveals Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water Hundreds Of Times ThinkProgress
Fracking-Harmed Residents Confront EPA and Demand Reopened Investigation Environmental Action

Those are both hoaxes. No one's drinking water has been contaminated by fracking. There has never been a shortage of kooks who claim they have been contaminated by some industry. There are also plenty of opportunist who are too shy to lie and launch frivolous lawsuits to extort money from corporations.

I saw a documentation on TV. The water around the wells is deadly and the companies exchange drinking water for "silence".

They "exchange drinking water?" What does that mean, and how does it insure silence. If a third party has their drinking water contaminated, they can sue the guilty parties.

Yeah, sue a billion dollar lobby...
What that means? The residents take cash (and fresh water) and shut up.

Happens all the time. There are even hedge funds that will finance lawsuits in exchange for a percentage of any damages awarded. The Sierra Club and other environmental groups sue giant corporations all the time, and the law says they get all their legal expenses paid for from the settlement.

Some affected residents don´t have the power of organizations and that matters the more the more politicians are involved in belittling problem.

 

[bripat9643]

Those are both hoaxes. No one's drinking water has been contaminated by fracking. There has never been a shortage of kooks who claim they have been contaminated by some industry. There are also plenty of opportunist who are too shy to lie and launch frivolous lawsuits to extort money from corporations.

I saw a documentation on TV. The water around the wells is deadly and the companies exchange drinking water for "silence".

They "exchange drinking water?" What does that mean, and how does it insure silence. If a third party has their drinking water contaminated, they can sue the guilty parties.

Yeah, sue a billion dollar lobby...
What that means? The residents take cash (and fresh water) and shut up.

Happens all the time. There are even hedge funds that will finance lawsuits in exchange for a percentage of any damages awarded. The Sierra Club and other environmental groups sue giant corporations all the time, and the law says they get all their legal expenses paid for from the settlement.

Some affected residents don´t have the power of organizations and that matters the more the more politicians are involved in belittling problem.

They don't need an organization. Law firms will market their case to hedge funds who will finance it in return for a percentage of the settlement. It's done all the time.

 

[Bleipriester]

I saw a documentation on TV. The water around the wells is deadly and the companies exchange drinking water for "silence".

They "exchange drinking water?" What does that mean, and how does it insure silence. If a third party has their drinking water contaminated, they can sue the guilty parties.

Yeah, sue a billion dollar lobby...
What that means? The residents take cash (and fresh water) and shut up.

Happens all the time. There are even hedge funds that will finance lawsuits in exchange for a percentage of any damages awarded. The Sierra Club and other environmental groups sue giant corporations all the time, and the law says they get all their legal expenses paid for from the settlement.

Some affected residents don´t have the power of organizations and that matters the more the more politicians are involved in belittling problem.

They don't need an organization. Law firms will market their case to hedge funds who will finance it in return for a percentage of the settlement. It's done all the time.

And were the hedge funds successful in saving the drinking water?

 

[bripat9643]

They "exchange drinking water?" What does that mean, and how does it insure silence. If a third party has their drinking water contaminated, they can sue the guilty parties.

Yeah, sue a billion dollar lobby...
What that means? The residents take cash (and fresh water) and shut up.

Happens all the time. There are even hedge funds that will finance lawsuits in exchange for a percentage of any damages awarded. The Sierra Club and other environmental groups sue giant corporations all the time, and the law says they get all their legal expenses paid for from the settlement.

Some affected residents don´t have the power of organizations and that matters the more the more politicians are involved in belittling problem.

They don't need an organization. Law firms will market their case to hedge funds who will finance it in return for a percentage of the settlement. It's done all the time.

And were the hedge funds successful in saving the drinking water?

They probably wouldn't invest in these cases because they look like big losers filed by nutburgers.

 

[KissMy]

60% in Republican Texas town that is the birthplace of fracking & has been supported by fracking just voted to ban it.

 

[initforme]

iit makes sense to let townspeople vote on whether fracking can happen. If they don't want it near them, then no fracking. Power in the hands of the people, not the industry. If they want it, then so be it.