under the name Idle No More. Media are now studiously ignoring them, just as they did Occupy, which means they are right, righteous, and winning

Just please I hope they hurry.

Give them a Google and check them out on Facebook and share, share and share. They are working hard to fight this and their voices must be and WILL be heard. I apologize I can't link - my phone is giving me a hard time about it.

and it is going to destroy this country - but hey so long as those profits are rolling in.

They don't care.

I don't have big post #'s on DU.Though I've visited on a near daily basis since '05 or so.
The reason for that being I read the comments first.And usually some one says what I would(most often much better than I could),but that thought was exactly mine and perfect, THEY DON"T CARE!
Some one make that the battle cry for this plant.

They did this secretly on a friend's road, right near a lake...once the lake's contaminated, then later tests will show that since the water is *already* contaminated.......

This is in the Fingerlakes area, where it's beautiful and still sparsely populated enough to stay beautiful.






They are evil

hunker down and wait for the whole shithouse to collapse.

I hope the folks involved in these rapings, end up rammed down one of those bore holes. NOTHING could be more fitting.

Birds, I am so sad. What a horrid horrid thing is going on with all this fracking?

- Who are they to do this?

and then the Mississippi and all our watersheds.

Yet, we continue to rush headlong into the 'next big thing', heedless of any warnings, disregarding any thoughts that what we are doing is destructive to the Earth.

It just makes me want to do this:

The N. Dakota House of Representatives is 72% Republican.

The N. Dakota Senate is 71% Republican.

The N. Dakota Governor is Republican.

All but one of the electable offices in N. Dakota are currently held by Republicans.

This is what a state looks like when Republicans are in control. Screw the environment, screw the people, screw the wildlife to get dirty energy from the ground, and all to make a tiny cabal of millionaire and billionaires rich.

When do We The People put an end to this?

What is the diameter of the laterals used in fracking?

It's shocking to see that many holes, but I don't think it spells the end of the earth as so many are suggesting.

sometimes it has to be explained to me as if I were a two year old

when she has endured enough.... will take care of these atrocities.

The human race is about as useful as a tick on a bull's ass at this point.

.. have determined there is no damage being done to our planet.

Who are we to question their decisions?

At least that was my impression the last couple of times I was there, and from what my wife's family tells her. They seem to all know that it's environmentally stupid (it's North Dakota, so even the city dwellers are half farmer) and especially hate the damage to their way of life (the small towns are quickly filling up with strip malls, the trucks on the roads are ubiquitous, cheap housing is quickly becoming a thing of the past). People in North Dakota can identify you and your entire genealogy with just your last name and county of residence, and the presence of so many newcomers and outsiders skews this sensibility.

But no one will actually SAY anything. For one thing, they're Midwesterners and are far too polite. Not as polite as Southerners, but still pretty nice. But mostly, the economic boom there is staggering. I've never seen anything quite like it. McDonald's is paying $10 an hour to start in Bismarck, and $15 an hour to start in Minot. I met a waitress, driving a Lexus, who makes six figures a year. My wife's cousin used to farm during the summer and work SoCal road construction in the winter, but we don't see him anymore: year round oil field work -- and he just bought a new 45k pick-up, which ain't bad for a local truck driver. All this in a poor state, and all these non-skilled, high-paying jobs.

In short: it seems like everybody there is simultaneously resentful and thankful.

What then?

Short-sighted ASSHOLES.

then let them drink champagne.

Pretty soon, they'll be too big to fail. Isn't that the way these corporations and banks get by with murder?

has increase soooo much because of injuries of workers at the fracking sites, that the hospitals are going broke because of it.

NO insurance on the workers!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/us/boom-in-north-dakota-weighs-heavily-on-health-care.html

January 27, 2013
An Oil Boom Takes a Toll on Health Care
By JOHN ELIGON

...The furious pace of oil exploration that has made North Dakota one of the healthiest economies in the country has had the opposite effect on the region’s health care providers. Swamped by uninsured laborers flocking to dangerous jobs, medical facilities in the area are sinking under skyrocketing debt, a flood of gruesome injuries and bloated business costs from the inflated economy.

The problems have been acute at McKenzie County Hospital here. Largely because of unpaid bills, the hospital’s debt has climbed more than 2,000 percent over the past four years to $1.2 million, according to Daniel Kelly, the hospital’s chief executive. Just three years ago, Mr. Kelly added, the hospital averaged 100 emergency room visits per month; last year, that average shot up to 400.

Over all, ambulance calls in the region increased by about 59 percent from 2006 to 2011, according to Thomas R. Nehring, the director of emergency medical services for the North Dakota Health Department. The number of traumatic injuries reported in the oil patch increased 200 percent from 2007 through the first half of last year, he said.

The 12 medical facilities in western North Dakota saw their combined debt rise by 46 percent over the course of the 2011 and 2012 fiscal years, according to Darrold Bertsch, the president of the state’s Rural Health Association. ...