Gasland

[Lone_Wolf]

Has anybody else seen the movie Gasland? Anytime you see Haliburton involved, it makes one wonder how safe it is.

http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking

[HillbillyBob]

1. Any time I see Halliburton involved I awant to look for a shotgun

If they are involved you know its screw the locals as frequently and for as much as they can take them for.
fracking should be f in banned.

[Kennah]

2. Haven't seen Gasland ...

... but I have seen most of "Split Estate" on Planet Green.

http://www.splitestate.com/

[Lone_Wolf]

3. The preview for that is powerful

Wow. All gas drilling needs to be banned...

Thanks for sharing that.

[Kennah]

4. When you watch, pay close attention to the video of Elizabeth Mobaldi

http://www.postindependent.com/article/20101117/VALLEYNEWS/101119897/1083&ParentProfile=1074

She passed away in November this year, and it shocked me to see this vibrant, healthy woman just wither away.

In the video of her from about 2000, she looked 10 years younger than her husband. By the later part of the decade, she looked at least 20 years his senior.

[Lone_Wolf]

5. Very sad

:-(

[joshcryer]

59. Just watched it, if you didn't notice. This is my "The Cove" of 2010. I am 100% anti-gas now.

Gas is not a stop-gap. Gas is not a solution. Gas is not something to fuck with. I doubt gas would even be competitive if it didn't have the exemptions it has. The 2005 energy act made it so that this process could be economically feasible, without it, you would have to do robust water table analysis, then you'd have to do some sort of containment underground, it's just, infeasible to do it.

[joshcryer]

6. Watching this now, so far I have learned that gas companies are exempt from:

[joshcryer]

7. Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the Superfund Law, and a dozen other...

...environmental laws.

And natural gas is our future sustainable stopgap.

[joshcryer]

8. 40 trillion gallons of clean water, infused with 596 chemicals used in the fracking fluid.

[joshcryer]

9. Interviewing people whose water wells were spoiled by the drilling, one womans well blew up.

[joshcryer]

10. Womans cats hair is falling out, gas company claiming Lysol and telephone polls are the cause.

They're inside cats.

[joshcryer]

11. Asked around for the worst of the worst, water that lights on fire, no one would talk.

[joshcryer]

12. Finally gets some from an anonymous person who came to him and told him to "find out what's in it."

[joshcryer]

13. OK, I'm already thinking this is my "The Cove" of 2010. Wow. I'll keep updating as I watch.

So stop reading here.

[joshcryer]

14. People are implying a "total loss of normal life" from these events.

From everything to feeling misled about it, to feeling that there's a conspiracy.

[joshcryer]

15. More people affected by containmated water, guy hauls in water from town.

[joshcryer]

16. Funny anecdote about calling 9-1-1, I won't spoil it, hah.

[joshcryer]

17. Annndd, we got fire out of a spigot. Wow. Jesus. Fuck these gas companies, shit.

[joshcryer]

18. Just touring the "Red Zone" now, finding people who have flaming spigots, easy to find 'em.

[joshcryer]

19. Weston Wilson, not speaking on behalf of the EPA, although he works for the EPA (whistleblower).

[joshcryer]

20. 5 of 7 of the EPA review panel had conflict of interest, and benefit from this shit. Assholes.

[joshcryer]

21. Conclusion: this shit is toxic but has no risk.

[joshcryer]

22. Halliburton Loophole, exempts these fuckers from Safe Drinking Water Act.

[joshcryer]

23. Killed the science. 2005 energy act buried it all. Safe drinking water exemption = no science.

[joshcryer]

24. Weston Wilson and the EPA's hands are basically tied (my words). They can't do shit.

[joshcryer]

25. "We must be directed to." Basically, EPA isn't doing anything because they aren't directed to. Fuck.

[joshcryer]

26. More and more personal stories about toxic water from wells thanks to drilling.

[joshcryer]

27. Guy went to drill a new water well and it blew up and natural gas spewed for 3 days.

[joshcryer]

28. Tragic that these poor folks who *likely* voted Republican are completey screwed over by it.

I hear these guys talking about a mans word and how a man shouldn't come up to you and lie to your face and I just shake my head. *sigh*

[joshcryer]

29. It's a "free for all." Yeah, this is really sustainable.

[joshcryer]

30. Guy shows pictures of a smog that forms almost every morning. Holy shit.

[joshcryer]

31. Oh no, talking about BLM land, this is going to break my fucking heart.

[joshcryer]

32. Anatomy of a gas well. Shocking how much crap they do. Ugh.

[joshcryer]

33. The truckloads are insane (over a thousand) but the fucking evaporating of fracking shit... !!!

[joshcryer]

34. Major decline of antelope since gas fields were placed in WY.

[joshcryer]

35. Interviewing people with severe health problems now, gas-related chemicals in their blood.

[joshcryer]

36. Whole family got asthma. Young healthy people. 16 hours of interviews, wow. He should post them.

[joshcryer]

37. Whole industry is basically unregulated, no one knows the chemicals, no one monitors them.

[joshcryer]

38. Womans dad died after drinking water from a seep, she froze dead animals found on the property.

[joshcryer]

39. Texas commission had no idea how many oil and gas wells were around Ft. Worth, or emissions.

[joshcryer]

40. Oil and gas development around Ft. Worth has more emissions than all motor vehicles.

[joshcryer]

41. Motor vehicle emissions are 200 tonnes a day, oil and gas sector is about the same.

[joshcryer]

42. Dish, TX, home of free satellite TV, has high level of carcinogens, 55x-107x public health standards

[joshcryer]

43. Each vent site is exempt from Clean Air Act because they're small, unregulated sources.

[joshcryer]

44. Hundreds of thousands of sites contaminating nearly the whole gulf. Sludge is dumped.

[joshcryer]

45. Testing results are back from well chemical tests, lots fracking fluids, in high levels.

[joshcryer]

46. EPA of PA says "no proof." Docu. guy brings proof.

[joshcryer]

47. No such thing of perfect energy, issue of contamination "there is none."

[joshcryer]

48. Asked to drink water, "only 4 households where there's a problem."

[joshcryer]

49. "Bottom line is what matters, water contamination is being dealt with." (Backpeddling to hell.)

[joshcryer]

50. "Let us know if there's a problem." PA EPA budget was summarily cut. Drilling amped up.

[joshcryer]

51. 15 million people get water from PA watershed. Largest unfiltered water supply in the world.

[joshcryer]

52. 50k gas wells slated to go up if allowed.

[joshcryer]

53. Heh, nice shot of a bus. "This bus is running on clean natural gas." Wow. What ownage by this Docu.

[joshcryer]

54. "Frack Act." Simply removes exemption from the Clean Water Act. One paragraph long.

[joshcryer]

55. Sub-committee on Energy and Minerals guy: "I'm proud to be supported by the oil and gas industry."

[joshcryer]

56. Mr. Boren is a fucking douchebag, holy shit. Holy.shit.

[joshcryer]

57. "Would you have an objection to my bill? Safe Drinking Water Act." "Yes."

[joshcryer]

58. Completely shocked faces as this guy reads off the chemicals.

[joshcryer]

60. Kick. Watch this documentary. If you support natural gas after seeing it, then I'm speechless.

There's no rational reason to support natural gas as it is being extracted in the United States. One zone has as much emissions as an entire city with millions of cars. It is not a cleaner form of energy, and if it was forced to meet air and water standards, would likely not be economical.