<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/fracking-amwell-township.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/fracking-amwell-township.html</a></p>
<p>On one hand, it’s a very promising and abundant source of natural gas. On the other hand, it’s quite terrifying, and the legislative silence even more.</p>
<p>There is also a question of whether fracking operations are related to the recent earthquake in Oklahoma. Time magazine article: [Oklahoma’s</a> 5.6 Earthquake: Is Fracking Responsible? - Ecocentric - TIME.com](<a href=“Salmon GPS: It's Better Than Yours | Time”>Oklahoma's 5.6 Earthquake: Is Fracking Responsible? | TIME.com)</p>
<p>Time also had a feature article about fracking operations in Pennsylvania back in March 2011: [Could</a> Shale Gas Power the World? - TIME](<a href=“http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2062456,00.html]Could”>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2062456,00.html)</p>
<p>This is a classic case of “when there are no regulations the industry is hurt.”</p>
<p>A game with no rules devolves into chaos. An industry that is allowed to poop in its nest will die. A declawed EPA serves nobody. It’s a promising industry but if we allow fracking to contaminate water supplies and defraud people of their property then the industry will not be able to proceed. If EPA is allowed to regulate production then the industry will be able to proceed.</p>
<p>You can’t play a game without rules.</p>
<p>[fracking</a> water fire - Google Search](<a href=“fracking water fire - Google Search”>fracking water fire - Google Search)</p>
<p>Can you do this…?
Click on the first YouTube link and let’s have a barbecue…</p>
<p>Kill fracking and you kill millions of American jobs and any change for energy independence. The problems with fracking are few and people should endure those problems rather than watch our children die in wars over oil. Shame on those who oppose fracking.</p>
<p>The problems with fracking are few and people should endure those problems
So razor how are you handling the fracking that is done in your town. What have you found to be the best way to endure the few problems that result from fracking?</p>
<p>Razorsharp…wars are good business. People get rich. Jobs are created. Lockheed, GD and many other companies thrive because of wars or the threat of wars.</p>
<p>Shame on you for your anti-war comments.</p>
<p>You are right again, dstark. I don’t know what I was thinking. How could I oppose killing people when it might create jobs. My New Year’s resolution will be to stop putting people’s lives in front of jobs and profits. :)</p>
<p>Bwahahaha Dstark. Or ROFLMAO as the yoot say. Every time I hear the word, “fracking,” I get a Battlestar Galactica brain rush. Pertinent. I almost joined the Pickens plan until I learned about the <em>cough</em> unfortunate <em>cough</em> side effects of fracking. Call me Brick* because this is where I nod my head down and repeat “side effects of fracking”. Poison the water. “Poison the water.”</p>
<p>*TV reference - The Middle</p>
<p>Poisoning water doesn’t hurt anybody…</p>
<p>Nobody ever dies from poisoned water…</p>
<p>Nothing dies from poisoned water…</p>
<p>Fracking is exempt from the Clean Water Act because…just because.</p>
<p>You don’t need a water heater if your water is tainted because of fracking…</p>
<p>Water tastes better with a little methane mixed in…</p>
<p>Coca Cola is trying to get bottling rights for methane-water.</p>
<p>The longest term fracking site is directly under the city of Fort Worth, Texas. Any problems there?</p>
<p>“You are right again, dstark”</p>
<p>I am right 99% of the time…so I am in the 99% club.</p>
<p>Razorsharp…you are in the 1% club. ;)</p>
<p>[Hydraulic</a> Fracturing in Texas | Water Contamination From Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing)](<a href=“http://www.water-contamination-from-shale.com/texas/hydraulic-fracturing-in-texas/]Hydraulic”>http://www.water-contamination-from-shale.com/texas/hydraulic-fracturing-in-texas/)</p>
<p>… [M]ayor Calvin Tillman recently released a statement expressing frustration with drilling operations in his town, saying that “we are finally getting our air cleaned up, and now our water is showing signs of pollution, we take two steps forward and three steps back”. These results clearly show a correlation between the natural Natural Gas Drilling process and water contamination, and this industry should no longer make claims that they have never contaminated a water source, the statement said.</p>
<p>[Fort</a> Worth, TX Personal Injury Lawyer :: Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Contamination :: Richardson, TX Medical Malpractice Attorney](<a href=“http://www.shezadmalik.com/lawyer-attorney-1791198.html]Fort”>http://www.shezadmalik.com/lawyer-attorney-1791198.html)</p>
<p>The federal Energy Policy Act of 2005 exempted hydraulic fracturing from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act, shale gas drillers do not have to disclose what chemicals they use. Many of these chemicals in the fracking soup, included benzene, glycol-ethers, toluene, 2-(2-methoxyethoxy) ethanol, and nonylphenols. All of these toxic chemicals have been linked to cancer, liver failure, kidney disease, brain injury and death when human exposure is too high.</p>
<p>Folks are concerned that many of the chemicals used in shale gas drilling are leaching into groundwater. Some of the injection fluid used in the fracking process returns back to the surface, up to 40 % is never recovered, according to the industry’s own estimates.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>There have also been cases of improper disposal of potentially toxic wastewater from fracking operations. In 2011, it was reported that some Pennsylvania Marcellus shale natural gas drillers were shipping toxic and radioactive hydraulic fracking wastewater to sewage treatment plants not equipped to treat it. This fracking wastewater, which had been partially treated, was later released into rivers and streams, and used as sources of drinking water by millions of Pennsylvanians.</p>
<p>That’s an interesting article, Hugcheck. (Your first post. We crossposted.) But among the points it does not address is whether the levels of the cited substances were a) higher than previously or b) at unacceptable levels, and whether the well in question used fracking. I find it curious that the writer avoided specifically addressing those points, since stating those things would have significantly strengthened the argument.</p>
<p>I’m not on one side or the other. I’m just interested. My H, who wrote about small cap energy producers in the Barnett Shale and elsewhere for many years, is so far convinced that fracking is safe. (And politically, he’s in tune with OWS 
)</p>
<p>[Houston</a> Property Contamination Attorneys Call for Ending Use of Diesel in ?Fracking?](<a href=“Houston Property Contamination Attorneys Call for Ending Use of Diesel in ‘Fracking’”>Houston Property Contamination Attorneys Call for Ending Use of Diesel in ‘Fracking’)</p>
<p>Houston, Texas (PRWEB) August 15, 2011</p>
<p>Houston property contamination lawyers Kurt Arnold and Jason Itkin today endorsed a U.S. Department of Energy recommendation that oil and gas companies quit using diesel fuel in “fracking” fluid because it includes carcinogenic chemicals.</p>
<p>Ask and ye shall receive.</p>
<p>If fracking is safe, why does it need to be exempted from regulations?</p>
<p>Consolation, this smells like cigarette smoke (and mirrors) to me. I suppose we’re going to have to listen to the fracking industry provide loads of studies telling us how safe the industry is, while the homeowners near the wells shoot youtube videos of water going on fire. Who wins? What is truth? For my money, it just seems obvious that injecting carcinogens into groundwater is a problem. “Injecting carcinogens.”</p>
<p>Of course I came of age when the engineers were just finishing their chant of “the solution to pollution is dilution.” We figured out pretty quick that that was not true, tho lots of studies showed that is was.</p>
<p>Hugcheck, ITA that injecting carcinogens into ground water is a very obvious problem. On the other hand, what if the ground water in question is miles below the aquifers used by humans? I believe that that is the case in at least some potential fracking locations. I have to say that I am still not convinced that they can guarantee that there will not be any cross-contamination.</p>
<p>Consolation, I’m no fracking engineer but logic tells me that if you drill a hole through your aquifer down into another layer way down deep below that aquifer and then you pump carcinogenic fracking soup into that hole that some of that soup will wind up in your aquifer. I suppose there can be use of some kind of jacket to line the hole, but if you’ve ever had a ceiling leak you know that it can be a trick to keep water from trickling all over the ding dong place. Put it under pressure and it will pop up into any little crack or crevice and find its way all over the house. </p>
<p>And Fendrock, you nailed it. I call you win this thread on account of the rule of the Emperor’s clothes.</p>