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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 08:26 PM
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Gasland - Watching it now - Sad, mad, unbelievable, AND IT IS STILL HAPPENING
Fracking to get natural gas beneath using chemicals and water under high pressure to fracture the shale beneath the ground beneath which the natural gas is hiding.
The chemicals used are going into the water table, people are getting sick, people are being killed, YET the states have NO power.
THIS is happening ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, Texas, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, New York.
The NEXT on the agenda IS the New York Watershed used by OVER 9 million people.

Big oil forms companies that buy mineral rights on the land, either paying people or counties. They rape the land, the air and the water to get the gas. That bottled water you are drinking? Better get ready to PAY MORE, alot more, if nothing is done, because THAT is the ONLY place you will be able to get a 'descent' drink of water.

Gas seeps appear in water sheds, you can literally 'LIGHT' a fire within the gas bubbles that come up from underground. THEY will not disclose the chemicals being used during the fracking process.

Big oil is calling this all allegations, pure and simple.
Chemicals being used - muriatic acid, anibaterial agents, amonium sulfate, dimethyl fomaldhyde, potassium chloride, etc.
Fort Worth Texas is SURROUNDED by these wells. Their air quality sucks, it is disgusting!

Foreign Countries ALSO have these gas deposits trapped beneath shale underground. THEY ARE NEXT!


THEY NEVER STOP DO THEY???
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Clyde39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 09:18 PM
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1. Saw it last night---- Cheney's fingerprints everywhere
The oil and gas industry is the only industry in America that is allowed by EPA to inject known hazardous materials — unchecked — directly into or adjacent to underground drinking water supplies. How is this possible? The federal Energy Policy Act of 2005 exempted hydraulic fracturing from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

“This exemption from the SDWA has become known as the “Halliburton loophole” because it is widely perceived to have come about as a result of the efforts of Vice President Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force.
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Oceansaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 09:37 PM
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2. K&R...n/t
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 09:42 PM
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