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FBaggins

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18. I don't just "suspect". I know it for a fact.
Mon May 20, 2013, 08:08 PM
May 2013

People have been able to do that in some areas for many decades. It isn't something new. Many people have lived in such areas and simply never thought to try. Why would you? Who tries to light their tap water?


And then when a gas drill moved in down the street they got upset so they decided to report the fires and pin the blame on the drill?

No. I think that in some of these cases it's the fracking and in some of them (perhaps most of them) it was there all along and they didn't know it.

Everyone admits there is methane trapped underground especially along old coal seams, and everyone knows it can escape if there is a pathway out.

Admits? It's what they're looking for.

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Stable isotope signatures provide that information. Buzz Clik May 2013 #1
Yup sikofit3 May 2013 #4
The drilling could be causing a physical disruption of higher-level seams wtmusic May 2013 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author sikofit3 May 2013 #11
"occasionally bubbles up through cracks in the earth" Warren Stupidity May 2013 #2
Yes sikofit3 May 2013 #3
well if you water is not on fire, and then they put in a frack pad next door, and then your faucets limpyhobbler May 2013 #5
Exactly Champion Jack May 2013 #6
Thank you wtmusic May 2013 #8
I might has more sad if I hadn't seen the kid on the ATV... hunter May 2013 #9
LOL I was surprised too to see a 5-year old with his own ATV limpyhobbler May 2013 #10
And that the dad previously confronted them with a shotgun. FBaggins May 2013 #12
maybe but I'm not sure that changes the environmental impact question. limpyhobbler May 2013 #13
It caused me to question his honesty. FBaggins May 2013 #14
Beats me. Industry makes billion?s of money on this so those are the last people I would believe. nt limpyhobbler May 2013 #15
People make lots of money on wind farms too FBaggins May 2013 #16
You suspect people's faucets were already on fire and they just didn't say anything before? limpyhobbler May 2013 #17
I don't just "suspect". I know it for a fact. FBaggins May 2013 #18
So why were methane concentrations 17 times higher in water near frack pads? limpyhobbler May 2013 #19
Hard to say FBaggins May 2013 #20
Why are they exempt from the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and CERCLA? limpyhobbler May 2013 #21
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