What the frack do we know? Not much, it turns out

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3. Yes

Natural gas IS methane when it is released from shale and then they take it and separate the propane, butane and other gases from it. And yes, it does let out all sorts of other stuff like ancient brine water with high TDS that make it very difficult to remove when treating the water. Also NORMs are released through the shale shavings when they drill through it and is also a factor in contamination. I also understand the silica sand that they use to push down the well bores to prop open the fractured shale that then allows the gas to be collected up the well,with the chemical laced water, causes lung cancer and other respiratory ailments to the workers and to anyone down wind when the sand plumes travel away from the drilling site. There is just all sorts of lovely things to talk about around fracking. I also read that the gas companies are using the same advertising and propaganda tactics that were used in past wars aimed to get the public to look at the conflict favorably to support it. They are not playing around because of the money involved and all the politicians are being bought off so I would really take any of this with a large grain of salt. Plus they see this as national security in the worlds playing ground in the energy markets particularly in rivaling Russia and China is also now getting into the game.