Here is an article from the NYT on monster fracking.

[PatrickforB]

Did you know? Big oil, besides getting truly massive subsidies, is rapidly using up scarce water supplies.

Together, oil and gas operators reported using about 1.5 trillion gallons of water since 2011, much of it from aquifers, the Times found. Fracking a single oil or gas well can now use as much as 40 million gallons of water or more.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/25/climate/fracking-oil-gas-wells-water.html?unlocked_article_code=n-soqj6d8w3UAMKsCrtVAXiTZ3ZHT1AeLDNmcg9G2aXHWdRTclc6TEqeePCR02xbojdoXwbX3SQM0gC6MrWQxNbFtIWcOQKNLkLQ6P941eFU4eplphIwZ9H-tj1n5E0ipWey_TJ2lCTCD1k-z6LD_6iR8NwYWDw6mHna2PPmwmmY7-dlfHjU1QG_c8t7rAegPuTqUH-dO6qHHaNfMBKVMRsHawL-N0k7dsFbj9KIYpP_zrJGdOrhdaNyg9doMsqLKQTxztW4uVyN9uyi5x6cFTO0wn-kDDgHbsog_JKTBKluXMRfpyPlNsliHElLq6aM0JG6uezSBmrZ0D8pANCZnUpSnfhSLdfZ3w1ix5tVKpK4ySIsuso&smid=url-share

[LiberalFighter]

1. Not good for humans in the future.

Why population needs to be reduced.

[Bristlecone]

2. Doomed by fossil fuels on every level

Plus the fact that they won’t tell anyone what chemicals they put into that water because it is “proprietary”

Horseshit

[FakeNoose]

3. Pennsylvania rural areas (including farms and wetlands) have seen their groundwater ruined

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It's not everywhere ... but it has happened in enough places to see a pattern of negligence.

The frackers (oil & natural gas companies) will come in and drill the tunnels, use the available water in the process, and then leave their polluted water behind as they leave. Often they don't seal the tunnels properly as they were supposed to, and more groundwater is ruined in the process. As a result some Pennsylvania farms have NO potable water left for human consumption, or for farming.

It's happening elsewhere too, but we in Pennsylvania (and Ohio) are the bellwether for other states. There's shale oil in a lot of areas in the US that was left behind 100+ years ago. Now they have the technology to get that oil. The oil companies are lying when they say they'll leave a clean environment behind when they're done. THEY WON'T!

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

4. Yup...

A new peer-reviewed study from Duke University shows that drinking water in areas within a half-mile of fracking wells can become contaminated with dangerous levels of methane – enough to catch on fire if lit. The report says that the levels of methane in some areas of Pennsylvania and New York are so great that they pose a significant fire and explosion hazard.

https://www.desmog.com/2011/05/10/scientists-confirm-fracking-link-flammable-drinking-water/

..and the home explosions near fracking sites
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/history-house-explosions-plum-pennsylvania-b2394117.html


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[BlueIn_W_Pa]

5. Not to mention all that water goes to hell when it turns to "fracking fluid"

with heavy metals, salts that are 7 times the level in the ocean, and, oh, it's radioactive.

...and it's estimated that over 10% comes back out of the ground they then need to dispose of.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick