EPA drops fracking pollution study...So I guess I must be a racist...

[timdog44]

67. I think the whole point

to the OP is that fracking is bad. It is dangerous and unhealthy. Pressurized water along with sand and "chemicals" are injected into a well bore to fracture the stone below at the weak point so that oil, gas and water can be extracted. Simple. The things is, what are the chemicals that are injected and where is the return going to go. First of all we don't know what chemicals are used and if they get mixed into the aquafers that are present. Secondly we don't know if the return is coming back up the bore whole as the fracturing can go to the aquifer which is already are weak point in the stone below.

Now, the fact that we don't know what the chemicals are, to some people make this all anecdotal evidence and thus not worth the shit the cows leave above on the land. This is the gold standard that so many seem to need to have to prove that something is bad. I suggest that intuitively we know that this is bad. Any chemicals in water are bad. Including the chlorine used to "clean" the water and the fluoride that is put in to protect teeth. So any other chemical they use are going to be even worse. I suggest we do not need double blind reproducible studies to tell us that this is wrong. When you turn on your spigot and you can light it with a match, that is probably not a good thing. So all you scientists can start jumping shit all over this but you are wrong. Sometimes instinct is a better judge of a situation than all your science technology all wrapped up into one.

This is all done to keep us on a hydrocarbon based energy system. Electric and solar could be the saviors of our nation, and if the carbon-aholics want the business, I do not care. It needs to be operated and they have the expertise to do that. So lets underwrite them and get ourselves off the carbon footprints we are now mired in. But if we keep letting the new technologies use carbon as the base to our energy, we are going to keep on increasing the dangers to us and the environment. When you realize, if you ahve not already done so, that water is the next resource war that is coming, we need to protect it as much as we can.

Obviously the EPA is dropping the ball because the state is going to do what the 1%s want. And the state EPA is going to shit can this whole thing, and truck in good water from the great lakes or the mountains lakes near them. So William Pitt, you are a racist. A racist against corporists. I applaud you for that racism. Keep it coming. I feel bad that Illinois just passed a fracking law through a democratic legislature and democratic governor. (Maybe this one will go to jail with all the others from Illinois). I think the fracking passed as a way to pull Illinois out of bankruptcy.