Water in at least three U.S. states is polluted from FRACKING as hundreds of complaints are reported

[Chrom]

Well-water contamination caused by controversial oil and gas drilling - known as fracking - has been confirmed in at least three U.S. states which have nurtured the nation's energy boom, according to a new review of industry data. New figures show that hundreds of complaints have been made about pollution in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Texas, casting doubt on industry suggestions that such problems rarely happen.
In Pennsylvania alone, at least 106 cases of water-well contamination have been confirmed in the last eight years.

The data, requested by the Associated Press, also highlight a lack of transparency and major differences in the way these problems are reported.

Some people who rely on well water near drilling operations have complained about pollution, but there's been considerable confusion over how widespread such problems are.

For example, starting in 2011, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection aggressively fought efforts by the AP and other news organisations to obtain information about complaints related to drilling.

The department has argued in court filings that it does not count how many contamination 'determination letters' it issues or track where they are kept in its files.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534508/Water-three-U-S-states-Pennsylvania-Ohio-West-Virginia-polluted-FRACKING.html



Official government organizations are covering up crimes committed by corporations against the American people....

the corporate media(except AP) supports government stance that fracking is perfectly safe....

Is it woo to question whether fracking is good for our water supply?

[Chrom]

1. the public airwaves and free press are all we had to protect us from government lies and corruption

now we have no one to protect us, except in this rare case (thanks AP)...but the rest of the media will participate in the cover up then...

here comes another Duck Dynasty 'scandal'

[zbdent]

2. maybe all the non-union, RW types who work for the fracking companies

should be allowed to ONLY drink water from the local wells where they've been fracking ... maybe then we'd see some "environmental concerns" ...

[The Straight Story]

3. Some scientists say fracking is just fine and dandy. Don't believe this 'woo'

A man in a white coat said he wrote a paper on it for exxon and some other folks in white coats at shell reviewed it and say the science is sound.

Everything else is woo.

[Berlum]

4. This is what happens when...

Scientific Materialism runs amuck in the world.

Thank heavens for natural common sense and experience (often derided as 'woo') which stands in wise and principled opposition to this Fracking insanity.

[L0oniX]

7. +1 posting on FB

[Progressive dog]

9. What would natural common sense tell you

and what is it? If you had no science, you certainly wouldn't have to worry about fracking, or cars, or trains. You wouldn't have modern medicine or vaccines. Antibiotics wouldn't exist and you could still believe that the earth is only 6000 years old.
If your natural common sense told you different, it is only because it has been educated by the science that you did learn.

My informed common sense tells me that scientists are the very people who will prove that fracking is insane, if it is.
As far as materialist, yeah, I confess, I am one. Unless your posts here are work for someone else, you are a materialist too.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Fracking has nothing to do with Crop Circles. nt

[G_j]

17. +100

[GoneFishin]

5. Gee. No one saw that coming. nt

[L0oniX]

6. Is it time to invest in bottled drinking water corporations yet?

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Where do you think they get their water?

There is no escape.

[L0oniX]

15. Any place on the earth that they can steal it.

[AtheistCrusader]

16. Pretty much.

I think the Dasani water sold here is bottled from Kirkland city water supply. They filter it, but how well? Who knows.

[Octafish]

8. Totally. Our government wouldn't lie to us...

...apart from the wars and banksters and stuff. Certainly not in a way that they could be caught before the big round-up.

The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.” And because Americans’ emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity in government databases, there will be more than enough “evidence” to seize us should the state deem it necessary. This information waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant.

Bet more than a few DUers missed Chris Hedges' important article because they were busy poo-pooing.

[blackspade]

10. K&R

Energy companies have been polluting for as long as they have existed.
Why is it any question that fracking will damage and pollute the environment?
Of course it does.
That fact that state agencies routinely hide (or don't collect) information about the damage should be a further indication as to the extent of the problem.

[blkmusclmachine]

13. I think they're trying to poison us. Cull the population of the undersirable 99%.

IMHO.

[Chrom]

14. yes

Fracking Chemicals Linked to Infertility, Cancer, Birth Defects
http://www.hngn.com/articles/19770/20131217/fracking-chemicals-linked-to-infertility-cancer-and-birth-defects.htm

[BelgianMadCow]

18. Thanks for posting, spreading the info

fracking debate is only just heating up over here, so this information is timely. Reposted & bookmarked.

[womanofthehills]

19. Kinder Morgan wants to put a co2 pipeline

across my land. The co2 would be coming from 2700 feet underground in Arizona - across NM and my land - to east Texas for fracking. Fracking with co2 gets you more oil.

My whole community is fighting them right now. CO2 is an asphyxiant and a pipeline leak or fracture could kill me . So besides, the dangers with fracking, there are also dangers to the people who have this horrible pipeline going near their houses.

[DFW]

20. With an emphasis on "at least"

My bet is more like 15-20.

[hrmjustin]

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