America could be losing it's drinking water - THE WRITERS FORUM

ink face · (#1)

So I'd never heard of this until yesterday, it's called hydraulic fracturing, and it's how natural gas is
drilled out the ground. Basically the short version is that these natural gas companies go to people and
offer something like $5000/acre to drill on their land, but fail to mention that the "frakking" process
involves injecting millions of gallons of chemical infused water into the ground to break apart the
underground rock which makes more gas accessible. This process is leaving about half of the water that is
injected each time(one well can be frakked as many as 18 times in it's life), and is currently unregulated
by the EPA as it is no longer held accountable to the clean water act. So basically, people's drinking
water from all over the country has been turning undrinkable after these wells are put near their water
supplies, so much so that it is common for people affected to be able to actually light the water coming
out of their faucets ON FIRE. This documentary that's out on HBO called GASLAND gets much more in
depth, here's a link to a show with the director on PBS which gives a general overview of what's
happening. The scariest part, aside from losing our drinking water, is that no one's even talking about
this. It's been happening for almost 10 years now, and going unregulated for 5, how much damage has
already been done?

the pbs interview;
http://video.pbs.org/video/1452296560/

the movie :GASLAND;
http://www.sbs.com.au/films/movie/9626/GasLand-
if this link doesn't work, sorry, but it was the only one i could find. If you have HBO you can watch
the movie ON DEMAND under hbo documentaries.

discuss.

JerseyViking · (#2)

I'm from New Jersey, I'm used to crummy/contaminated water.

but really that does suck.

crack rock steady · (#3)

I actually just scrolled through the documentry section on hbo and saw that. Now i am going to go watch it.

ink face · (#4)

it's good, the guy narrating's voice is a little annoying, but worth the time.

abcs · (#5)

i read about this. Unless i am mistaken its happening around and about Louisiana. Like that region hasn't been thru enough already. The article involved a bunch of cows dying from contaminated water

ink face · (#6)

it's happening there and many other place, so far they are doing this type of drilling in 34 states. They
are looking at setting up as many as 200,000 wells above or near the new york city water supply, putting
nearly 16 million people's drinking water at risk. pretty fucking serious if you asked me.

IOU · (#7)

I'm guessing the deregulation happened when Bush Jr. was in office.

ink face · (#8)

that is correct, under Cheney's lead, and not so ironically, Halliburton is one of the leading suppliers of drilling equipment

griteeth · (#9)

bush/cheney the gift that keeps on giving.

nsmbfan · (#10)

like an evil tag team combo

/nh

HellBusRide · (#11)

Very scary indeed.Theres no end to the ways these fuckers wanna fuck the planet up for profit

Ferris Bueller · (#12)

Which America?

cunt sauce · (#13)

Water Rights is a pretty interesting yet depressing topic. FLOW is another great documentary. Vandana Shiva is the shit.

**Brewster Baker** · (#14)

boo fucking whooo

another person who has no clue what they are talking about..

whats next you gonna post a Micheal Moore video?

nsmbfan · (#15)

the man^^^^^^^

thats a bad break br0. why you's gotta pollute my water? well, not MY water.... my water is bomb

you know ...

**shai** · (#16)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brewster Baker (View Original Post)

boo fucking whooo

another person who has no clue what they are talking about..

whats next you gonna post a Micheal Moore video?

Slightly defensive, are we?

purplegrape · (#17)

The facts will never be straight. It's all propaganda. A good friend of mine works for one of these drilling companies in PA, what he tells me does not coincide with the media even to a minimum.

RIPS · (#18)

http://www.cenovus.com/operations/technology/sagd.html

**shai** · (#19)

Quote:

Originally Posted by purplegrape (View Original Post)

The facts will never be straight. It's all propaganda. A good friend of mine works for one of these drilling companies in PA, what he tells me does not coincide with the media even to a minimum.

You might want to consider what he actually knows based on first hand experience versus what has he been told numerous times by his employers. There's probably a disconnect there.

I don't have to deal with this personally, but I do know that a lot of environmental issues tend to sound far fetched at first....once it's too hard to ignore and/or science bears it out to be true, that's when it becomes a crusade.

cunt sauce · (#20)

Quote:

Originally Posted by shai (View Original Post)

I don't have to deal with this personally, but I do know that a lot of environmental issues tend to sound far fetched at first....once it's too hard to ignore and/or science bears it out to be true, that's when it becomes a crusade.

**shai** · (#21)

You did see the "when properly used" clause in there, right?

fadedglory · (#22)

not only do they make money fucking our water up but they also get money from selling bottle water to us.. its a win win for them and a lose lose for us..