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Fresh Water Falling

Fresh Water Falling's Journal
Fresh Water Falling's Journal
September 28, 2023

Tennessee Brando- Eric Trump's Tweet



Looking forward to the return of Stephen Colbert as Eric the Red-Arsed.

September 28, 2023

Sumkyd: Lauren Boebert's House Floor Speech Goes Bad VERY Quickly!



Political appointees making decisions? MONSTROUS!
September 27, 2023

Why is it the "climate crisis" now?



I still hate Frank Luntz, though.
September 25, 2023

Joe: I'm a little tired of hearing Biden's going to get crushed in the polls



FUCK THE POLLSTERS! THE PEOPLE YOU NEED TO BE GETTING IN THE FACES OF ARE ELECTED DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS AS WELL AS OUT-OF-OFFICE PARTY HEAVYWEIGHTS!1 THEY MUST BE BROWBEATEN INTO CROWING ABOUT BIDEN'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS LIKE A GAGGLE OF ROOSTERS ON SPEED!

That's what GOPhers do every time one of them successfully hits the toilet water when they piss! On this, we could learn from them.
September 25, 2023

Despite warnings, woman approaches bison for selfie in Yellowstone

https://youtube.com/shorts/ttkamXBGB-s?si=RBy3JcrxJC_UOWHL

Not only do I support abortion, I sometimes support retroactive abortion.
September 24, 2023

Our Changing Climate: Our Food is Killing Us

Sep 22, 2023



We don't have capitalism in America today, we have three-card monte, we have shell games. Profits are created, but very little value.

On the other hand, communist victory gardens??? Cuba??? Thank you, but no. What we need to do is unleash law enforcement on Wall Street, Big Pharma, Big Agra, Big Everything!!!

I know, I know, ESTD. Maybe we really are fucked!

/rant
September 24, 2023

EPA Approves Permit for Controversial Fracking Disposal Well in Pennsylvania

Source: Inside Climate News


Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on their communities, says repurposed conventional oil wells were never engineered to hold millions of gallons of tocis fracking wastewater. Credit: Scott Goldsmith[

By Jake Bolster
September 23, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week approved a permit for a toxic fracking wastewater disposal well named Sedat 4A, a highly controversial project in Plum Borough, Pennsylvania, rejecting residents’ concerns that leaks from the well could migrate and pollute other wells and groundwater.

The decision comes as Pennsylvania faces a fracking disposal reckoning. Historically, the state has trucked much of its fracking waste to Ohio, which has a more robust infrastructure of injection wells. But now, as scrutiny over the safety of storing toxic wastewater underground mounts in Ohio, oil and gas companies operating in Pennsylvania find themselves in need of other reliable options for disposing of their wastewater.

In the fracking process, drillers pump 15 to 20 million gallons of water and fracking chemicals into a well at high pressure to extract gas from small seams in the Marcellus Shale. Once the well starts producing gas, about 5 to 10 percent of the water used to frack the well resurfaces.

Because this produced water has dissolved elements in the shale, it contains hydrocarbons, heavy metals and salt concentrations up to seven times higher than sea water, and can sometimes contain radium 226 or 228, radioactive isotopes, in addition to the chemicals added for fracking.

Read more: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23092023/epa-approves-injection-well-permit-plum-borough-pennsylvania/



You might be thinking that I'm in a cynical mood tonight, whomever the hell my newb ass might be. Naw! I'm just in a realistic frame of mind. Thus, I say with great confidence: we're fucked. Utterly, totally, absolutely fucked! And nothing we say or do here will make a dime's worth of difference. Go Seahawks!

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