This whistleblower admits that there is no way fracking can be done safely. I’m thinking that is obvious because if they could they would and they aren’t.
He also admits what those of us living in the Gas Patch have witnessed. If you are new to this, here are two tips to detecting spills at drill sites:
- If you see them shoveling dirt or gravel on anything, anywhere, they are covering up a spill.
- If you see them power washing the tanks, there has been a spill.
Is it just me, or do you notice the geology professor having some difficulty spitting that out yarn of bull he delivers? Ahm, I’m no geologist but I know some pretty sharp ones, and I’m pretty sure that that man deserves this prize.
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I would give that man a kiss if he were here! We need more people like him to stand up and make a difference.
I too worked in oil and gas. Everything this man says is true.
help us stop fracking. Please sign this petition.
Thank you so much to this man for coming forward.
It’s so rare that people have the courage to challenge their own personal interests, and to sacrifice personal profit for the well-being of other folks. How rare that is kinda speaks to what an effed up culture we’ve built for ourselves (moreso here in the US).
You are a hero – thank you for coming forward and stay strong against the people that will try to shut you up. Thank you so much.
I work in the industry and worked for a frac company at one time. Power washing a truck does not mean there was any spill. Most likely means it needs cleaned so the equipment is clear of debris and safe to operate. Shoveling does not mean a spill. They may be shoveling for multiple reasons like removing buildup from weather issues. There are many good companies out there. If this guy was not working for one then he should identify that company. The one I worked for was top notch and went above and beyond to follow regulations. They even had company policies that were green which were not enforced by regulatory agencies. Before you jump on the band wagon think things through. Saying that frac compnies cover up is just absurd with all the heavy regulations. If they were to get caught once…they would be black balled. Operators would not want to be affliated in any way with them. It is too costly…both monetarily and reputation wise. They work very hard to prevemnt these problems. Also, many job sites use heavy liners to protect the ground from spillage and yet they still must report accidents. They have very strict containment regulations. Please learn the facts before listening to a disgruntled employee . Or at least if somneone is going to make an accusation then back it up. If they don’t it is just that and unfounded accusation.
Dear Dee,
Thank you for your comment. In our experience living, breathing and drinking in the Gas Patch, there are no good companies out there. If you think otherwise, please name names so we can celebrate any good companies.
As I said, from what we’ve seen with our own eyes, first comes the spill then comes the load of dirt. First comes the tanks overflow then comes the power washing.
Also, please spend some times perusing my website. I have documented many crimes such as intentionally dumping drilling waste in creeks. Also, if any company was ever going to be “black balled” it would have been Aruba Petroleum. I have hundreds of posts about them.
Please learn the facts of what we see, breathe and drink everyday. When your industry admits harm and mitigates, then maybe we will oppose you less.
Dee said:
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Saying that frac compnies cover up is just absurd with all the heavy regulations. If they were to get caught once…they would be black balled.
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Heavy regulations? Do you realize that this industry is self-regulating itself at most every point in the process?
Take a good look at this “Completion Report” from the Texas Railroad Commission’s Web site for a “completed” well located in the Barnett Shale.
It may take a second to open depending on your computer:
http://webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/CMPL/ogmappcontents/cmplcontents/prod/cmplDatFilesDir/cmpl_RptForm_cmplusr_1327273816424.pdf
Scroll down a little and see that Carol Adler of Chesapeake is the “Regulatory Compliance Analyst,” Cameron International is shown to be the “Well Tester.”
And take a good look…the RRC Representative signature line is BLANK.
Not sure how you would “black ball” when the industry is self-regulating in Texas. And this is an “official form” from the Railroad Commission of Texas for a completed shale gas well that was under a recent Rule 37 Legal Exam.
This well was actually “completed” and the gas was flowing through the gathering line in May of 2011 prior to the Final Decision from the Railroad Commission on November 22, 2011. (But that’s another story.)
Our Texas Railroad Commission is not regulating this industry, Dee. It’s a free-for-all. And wrong.
Wow! Thank you for posting that.
Industry also does its own toxicity testing.
ty
I could only think Dee was an office worker who never went out in the field, or most certainly doesnt live in an area being fracked. I dont know of people who live near fracking and say “My water is great! The gas company is wonderful! Keep fracking boys!” Noone gets blackballed, they dont even get a slap on the damn wrist. Cudos to this man. Maybe he can get other ex-workers on board to share their knowledge.
Blinders, honey. They work really good.
Just recently when we noticed flooding/and/or a possible spill near our home – which was released into the city storm drain – we noticed a truckload of dirt being spread around the pad site immediately following that episode. Hmmm… At the time I was simply observing and not understanding why they would have hauled in a truckload of dirt. Thanks, Sharon, for connecting the dots.
Im presently working on an Esso/Imperial site in Northern British Columbia! The site isnt live at this point,but the guide lines they make us follow,are superstrick. From putting drip trays under our work trucks, to removing them from the work site if they have any type of leak. And are not allowed back on site untill its fixed. There was a leak from a truck 2 weeks ago which was over a liter but under 4 liters. They made a hoe dig up 1 meter around it and 1 meter below it and put it into a container to be dispossed of at a contaminated disposal site.
This man must have bad feelings about the company he worked for. And to make it sound like any and all oil and gas extraction is harmful to our earth and to us is a crock of bull!
Let me remind everyone of the Exon Baldeese oil spill. Transportation of the material is the main source of harming the world we live in. Not from the extraction!!!!!!
Thanks for your comment, John but we have witnessed what the whistleblower claims so we can confirm it.
And if you have to dig around a truck 1 meter just for a small leak, the chemicals being used should NOT go anywhere near any ground water or anywhere near where HUMANS have any potential contact!!
Baldeese? Seriously?
to TXsharon
maybe you should strike against the oil companies, stop putting gas in your car. dont ride a bus. dont take a train. stop heating your house, dont use your stove, stop purchasing anything packaged with plastic, throw away all your polyester clothing. and for gods sake stop using your computer wich is 2 thirds petrolium product. make a stand.
Thank you for your comment, itsmyland,
You present a logical fallacy that because we consume energy we are prohibited from advocating for better drilling practices. However, I have taken many steps to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
I do not use gas to heat my home.
All my electricity comes from wind and solar.
Although my cooking uses electricity, I cook in a solar over as much as possible.
I take advantage of solar whenever possible and hope to put up some solar panels.
We need to transition away from dirty fossil fuels ASAP and conserve energy as much as possible.
Don’t worry. The clean energy economy will provide you with a new job where you won’t be exposed to hazardous chemicals.
I don’t get why these conversations get so extreme black & white:”You accept us the way we do things right now, or stop using EVERYTHING we make”.
There are more enlightened, less damaging ways to do business, while staying in business, like free trade cocoa, or conflict free diamonds.
Also, some in industry say that regulations on pollution are leftist. Well, the old Soviet Union was very far left, but they have major pollution issues, beyond just their nuclear blunders. Russia is losing 50,000 to (more likely) 500,000 tons of petroleum to Soviet legacy leaking pipelines each year.
yes … wonderful… you use natural wind and slar to power your house….
But what did it cost to have those solar panel’s built and those wind generators….?
Those are not clen items really as they take quite a lot of energy to make them in the first place..
I have tried to find out if solar and wind stuff actually generate any near as much energy as they cost to produce but it is hard.. very hard to find out the real facts….
Just looking forward to generation IV nucler power stations as apparently they will be using up their own waste… this is probably the only serious way of going away from fossil fuels….
“The clean energy economy will provide you with a new job where you won’t be exposed to hazardous chemicals.”
Green Energy Economy… you mean like Solyndra that failed? Or the Electric car company which was a flop? Or how about the new CFL light bulbs which burn out in less than a year (toted as lasting 10 plus but I’ve yet to see one last even 1/3 of that) and produce toxic waste (mercury dust if broken).
SOS. You are so outdated. http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=53254
Sounded all cool until you realize they are fudging the numbers and playing games.
” the well-established fossil-fuel sector—including utilities, coal mining and oil and gas extraction, industries that have received significant government investment—comprised about 1.27 million workers in 2007.”
So they take into account all established industries and related jobs as being “fossil-fuel sector”, compared to the wide ranging and sounding
” Included in Pew’s definition are jobs as diverse as engineers, plumbers, administrative assistants, construction workers, machine setters, marketing consultants, teachers and many others, with annual incomes ranging from $21,000 to $111,000.”
Pretty open ended eh? Boggles my mind. Doesn’t really impress me that you can inflate the numbers with someone with a hair relation to “clean industry”.
Oops!
Oh! OOPS right back at you! Oil & gas industry even counts strippers. I can do this all day long and you will never win. There is NO JOB that is worth making children sick and hurting families. This is America and Americans are not okay with creating sacrifice zones where their neighbors suffer.
Consumer group: Natural gas job claims are inflated
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/88723/consumer-group-natural-gas-job-claims-are-inflated/
“It was not until the second of Considine’s annual Marcellus Shale Coalition reports came out that the landowner advocacy group the Responsible Drilling Alliance, noticing improbable jobs estimations, direct advocacy (the study recommended that Pennsylvania reject a severance tax on gas production and called the proposition that fracking be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act “ominous”), and the lack of sponsor attribution, wrote a letter to Penn State’s president. In June 2010, the Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, William Easterling, retracted the original version of the report and chastised Considine:
[W]e found flaws in the way that the report was written and presented to the public. First, the report did not identify the sponsor of the research, which is a clear error… Second, the authors could and probably should have been more circumspect in connecting their findings to policy implications for Pennsylvania, and may well have crossed the line between policy analysis and policy advocacy.
The report was reissued with Penn State’s logo removed from all but the cover page and an acknowledgement of the “Marcellus Shale Gas Committee” for funding the study. The 2010 and later updates acknowledge the “Marcellus Shale Gas Commission”. The study promises hundreds of thousands of jobs for Pennsylvanians in fracking and related industries.”
http://blog.littlesis.org/2012/06/13/frackademics-timothy-considine-analyst-or-advocate/
To Infinity and Beyond: Keystone XL Champions Wildly Inflate Jobs Numbers
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/01/20/407710/keystone-xl-champions-inflate-jobs-numbers/?mobile=nc
Drilling Not Helping Jobless Numbers
West Virginia’s unemployment rate rises to 6.9 percent in May
http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/570900/Drilling-Not-Helping-Jobless-Numbers.html?nav=515
Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States
A Green Economics Program study by
Robert Pollin, Jeannette Wicks-Lim & Heidi Garrett-Peltier
http://www.peri.umass.edu/green_prosperity/
From Money CNN http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/25/news/economy/oil-jobs/index.htm
“Parsing the job numbers: The jobs Felmy is citing are based on research by energy industry consulting firm IHS CERA, which earlier this year estimated that the industry produced 150,000 jobs in 2011.
Another 150,000 jobs a year over seven years would create the million additional jobs the industry promises.
But that job count comes from the broadest possible estimate of oil jobs.
It includes everyone from the roughneck in North Dakota drilling a new oil well, to a trucker driving equipment to that oil job site, to jobs created by the spending of those oil workers, such as a clerk at a Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500) or a stripper serving the workers drawn to one of those North Dakota oil boomtowns.”
Hi Sharon,
Thank you for your reply. I would like to let you know, I also live, breathe, and drink in the gas patch. I spent a year and half researching, traveling and listenting to various perspective on this industry prior to working in it. I own livestock, have children and grandchildren, and I am an outdooorswoman. I have tremendous repsect for life and nature. Having said that, I understand unless we as a race decide to live without electricity, heat, power tools, vehicles, clothing , shoes, food in our grocery stores (Packaging and transportation), roads, and so on we have to make some resulotion. I believe, let me say, strongly beilieve the industry has to be responsible. Do accidents happen? Sure, but I also strongly believe in general this industry strives to be careful, and to do the right thing if there is an accicdent. Everyone and every industry has accidents…lets learn from the mistake and lets be responsible and make it right…in every aspect of what an accident means and regardless of industry or personal situation. Those companies that blatantly don’t adhere pay a big price and should! Big enough price to put them out of business! Are there poor quality frac companies? I am sure there are and they ruin it for the companies that work hard at being responsible. So, lets weed them out and lets hold them accountable. But generalizing is not the answer…furthermore, it is very important to be responsible about the facts. In addition, represent of both sides fairly and to have responsible educated journalism and allow the public to come to their own conclusion as much as possible would give credibility to these claims. It seems to me, having worked in the industry and having been on the side lines that these claims lack balance and thus credibility to the critical thinking mind.
I do believe there are areas that need to be addressed and it is a work in progress. Concerns and dialogue are an imperative aspect to the resolution. There are ways to approach these problems.
All the best Sharon. I do realize you are concerned and have a right to be. You live in this country and it is your right but I am just suggesting that there are many perspectives and much information that should be analyzed prior to generalizing about the fracing processes. Lets face it, we are not the experts on this so let them have a say and maybe we will learn something.
Thank you for allowing my input!
Hello again, Dee.
There may be many perspective but there are only one set of facts. Those of us who live with irresponsible drilling know what we have suffered and that drilling is making us sick, contamination our water and polluting our air.
When this industry has accidents, the implications are enormous and can affect many generations. We don’t have water to waste.
Seriously, you should read some of the personal stories of those harmed by your industry.
I am curious why they must use toxic poisons to frack? why not just use water? I don’t understand, unless the real purpose of using these chemicals is to “dispose” of other manufacturing waste, how was it determined that using such harmful items is the way to extract this fuel??
To Dee above. It is a well understood and un-written law in the oil patch that “thou shall not speak badly about an oil company”. I knew it well. Not in the patch anymore so I appreciate the whistleblower for trying to inform us. Dee-your employer should appreciate what you are doing.
Dee said:
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Are there poor quality frac companies? I am sure there are and they ruin it for the companies that work hard at being responsible.
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As far as I know, there are 3 “Frac” companies…companies that actually “Frac.” If there are more, then that must be a recent development. So, if even one is bad, those are not good percentages.
There are more frackers these days. I don’t know how many but I’ve seen quite a few names recently that are new to me. Still your point is applicable.
Thanks for that clarification, Sharon. For sure, it’s fast moving and leaving a big mark on all of us.
I’m sorry, Dee, but I can’t get on board on the idea of “black balling” keeping things clean & safe in the oil patch. The pipeline mentioned in this article has had 135 PHMSA reportable “incidents” sine the beginning of 2006:
http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-wellington-residents-relieved-to-return-home-txt,0,50007.story
You mention frack pit liners. How do they monitor if they leak? Also, some of these pit liners become so imbedded with NORM they can’t be legally disposed of in most landfills.
good reply Dee and thanks for your thoughts there…..
Your nice and good arguments…. ones that no one seems to have addressed as yet – yes we all do want to live in a society with all the benefits and we don’t want to go back to living in caves… we can’t anyway as we have too many people to support….. and really we wouldn’t want to … I love my flushing toilet….
Yes accidents do happen and if government officials are responsible at all (not for the spills but actually care about the peolpe they represent) they will (and should..) ensure any spill is cleaned up – but they are (I guess) too open to bribery or just down right stupid… really there is no reason (or bribe high enough) to justify making or leaving a mess…
that of course is in a perfect world which our world is definitely not sadly…. but it is all we have I guess…
I read today on the internet that most of the gas from fracking will be sent to Mexico and overseas. The big oil companies will be making a huge profit while our utility bills will stay high. Meanwhile, we will have many polluted fields and water ways to clean up.
Wow, how can you write that baseless nonsense and then try to portray it as fact? There are so many examples where workers shovel dirt or power wash tanks other than in response to a spill. The only good thing about your post is that anyone (include regulators) who has any experience at a drill site knows this is total BS, therefore, showing your lack of credibility.
As for the rig worker in the video, I could go on for a while about him. However, the first thing I would ask him is, if those chemicals are so damn toxic why is he holding those boots with bare hands and sticking them up to his face? Clearly they weren’t washed.
Thanks,
Jax
To the dude about drip pans under the work trucks–makes sense that they would require such activity–that way you won’t have time to look behind those tanks and find that hose running to the creek, ha.
And OBTW, there are little or NO regulations made by our gubment at any level.
The whistleblower is correct. As a retired chemical engineer living in the sweet spot of the Barnett Shale, and one who has been involved in trying to stop this reckless criminal industry since 2005 I tell you regulation is not the answer. Regulators at every level answer to industry–not to the people. The only sane answer is to Just Say No! if you haven’t leased. The facts are in. We need to move away from petroleum if the planet is to sustain life.
We can never thank this guy enough! It is one thing to walk away from the industry and quite another to speak out against it.
I have been contacted by many whistleblowers and have even met with some, but thus far they have all lost nerve.
Kudos to this guy.
Well if if the Department of Homeland Security isn’t taking a turn beating the war drums on Iran they should have deployed radiation detectors along common routes to detect the movement of nuclear materials.
Power washing your truck is good maintenance and you don’t bring the radioactivity home.
If this fracking is related to the black radioactive shale, then cleaning your truck also avoids the embarrassment of agents with geiger counters following the radioactive trail to your house.
NORM Naturally Occurring Radiation (PR man calling poison candy) is in the water supplies when it should never have gotten out of those field. If the same radioactive strata had kept the oil and gas there for millions of years, how did the radiation get in the water supply?
In the X-Files the black oil could mutate you into an alien.
In Texas, the black shale could make a few people rich and mutate and sicken the rest of us. I think I like the aliens better than the oil men.
If they can get away with it, they will. All of them. Not just the ‘shoddy operators” If they get caught they deny it or blame it on a subcontractor ; the little stuff, and the big stuff = Deep Water Horizon =- BP sues Halliburton over cement job, etc.
Grouchy Mole said:
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…cleaning your truck also avoids the embarrassment of agents with geiger counters following the radioactive trail to your house.
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What agents? We would love to see/meet some Texas Railroad Commission Regulators. And see their geiger counters or at least their measuring sticks. They don’t come to the Barnett Shale very much. We heard the staff has been cut recently. They don’t even have a mailman in their mail room in Austin.
We’re so fracked.
Paranoia, will destroy ya!
Paranoia never killed anyone but drilling toxins can.
Paranoia is much slower, less certain death that drinking that well water from Runner Susan’s place. Or, check out Calvin Tillman’s blog. The TCEQ doesn’t monitor for all the pollutants they really should, so don’t expect their help. If you don’t monitor it, you can write it off as a non issue.
I moved to get away from gas well drilling. I did not know enough then to put 2 and 2 together when I live in Decatur Texas, such as when Aruba drilling put a big black hose in the tanks by our house all the sudden 3 cows dies of flash pulmonary edema, one tank was drained so fast 2 cows died by being stick in the mud and died from hypothermia, several dogs died of unknown caused ( drinking water from waste pits). I did not know anything more at the time than Aruba was drilling and animals were dying all around me. I could not take the sadness so we moved to town.
Range Resources started drilling at 1300 ft from my home in town and I started paying attention. The old headaches returned, trouble sleeping, sore throats, and nosebleeds, so I started videoing Ranges activities. I witnessed them dumping their black water from the holding tanks of the 5th wheels of their on site and all the sudden the power washers and bulldozers came out to hide their activity before the Texas Railroad Commission came the next day. Range said it was not illegal dumping but a hazardous waste spiil. When I complained to the city my complaints were “polically motivated” , I was a ” tree hugger” a ” socialist” mad because I was not getting royalties, you name it and I was guilty of it.
I hate the natural gas industry and they have no one to blame but themselves. Aruba, Range, Devon, Chesapeake, Williams, all of them are just an evil greedy empire who have bought and paid for their political influence in Texas.
The industry will flare, frack, emit emission, and dump their wate next to a park, school, hospital, and nursing home all in the name of jobs creation but the fail to tell you they have sold their leases to China, France, India, and Canada.
Who manufactures the parts on their rigs, where is their money banked at? It is not about jobs or the American may, it is all about their share prices.
I do my part to conserve and recycle so don’t throw that BUllshit up in my face. It does not matter what I do the natural gas industry will continue with their destructive ways until there is nothing left to rape and plunder.
I moved to get away from gas well drilling. I did not know enough then to put 2 and 2 together when I live in Decatur Texas, such as when Aruba drilling put a big black hose in the tanks by our house all the sudden 3 cows dies of flash pulmonary edema, one tank was drained so fast 2 cows died by being stick in the mud and died from hypothermia, several dogs died of unknown caused ( drinking water from waste pits). I did not know anything more at the time than Aruba was drilling and animals were dying all around me. I could not take the sadness so we moved to town.
Range Resources started drilling at 1300 ft from my home in town and I started paying attention. The old headaches returned, trouble sleeping, sore throats, and nosebleeds, so I started videoing Ranges activities. I witnessed them dumping their black water from the holding tanks of the 5th wheels of their on site and all the sudden the power washers and bulldozers came out to hide their activity before the Texas Railroad Commission came the next day. Range said it was not illegal dumping but a hazardous waste spiil. When I complained to the city my complaints were “politically motivated” , I was a ” tree hugger” a ” socialist” mad because I was not getting royalties, you name it and I was guilty of it.
I hate the natural gas industry and they have no one to blame but themselves. Aruba, Range, Devon, Chesapeake, Williams, all of them are just an evil greedy empire who have bought and paid for their political influence in Texas.
The industry will flare, frack, emit emission, and dump their wate next to a park, school, hospital, and nursing home all in the name of jobs creation but the fail to tell you they have sold their leases to China, France, India, and Canada.
Who manufactures the parts on their rigs, where is their money banked at? It is not about jobs or the American way it is all about their share prices.
I do my part to conserve and recycle so don’t throw that BS up in my face. It does not matter what I do the natural gas industry will continue with their destructive ways until there is nothing left to rape and plunder.
Good for you! Doing the right thing in life means everything!!! You will sleep well at night, many others will not :).
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DEE: By all means, I’m anxious to know what companies are out there that are drilling right. Just ONE. I’d be willing to bet that for any company you can claim is drilling right has dozens and dozens of complaints. Why? Because they ALL have dozens and dozens of complaints. If Industry was doing it right-and by ‘right’, I mean putting their money where their mouth is. If companies want to do it ‘right’, then why are they spending MILLIONS on selling it to us? Why the multi-million dollar budgeted PR firms and departments? Here’s a few items for example: Actually USING the so-called ‘new technology’ that prevents leaks and spills and emissions, not just a blanket statement saying it’s ‘out there’. Or that waste water is “often recycled’, when more often than not, it’s being illegally dumped on road sides, bar ditches and taken to injection wells. Or, your example about using plastic liners. Sharon doesn’t call them Toxic Burritos for nothing-every one I’ve ever seen was torn apart, folded up and buried, toxic waste and all. Drilling mud ‘land farmed’ all over some poor bastard’s property. There have been at least two times in the last two years where I’ve seen crews out power washing condensate tanks-once, after a major spill from one, and the other, the day before an announced EPA visit. Not only power washed, but a fresh coat of paint to hide all the rusting pipe. Every single time I’ve seen a bulldozer or work crew dumping and spreading sand, soil or gravel, it was after a documented spill-right on the spill site-and not one was ever reported by the operator. NOT ONE. So Dee, you go live in your little fantasy world if you want, but the rest of us, who have to live with this, see things a little differently-mostly because it’s right there in our backyard. So, we’re all waiting for that long list of conscientious drilling companies who Drill Right because it’s important to them. Let’s start with the one you used to work for-I’m sure they would be proud of their record, right?
Yes, I’ve seen it all.
Illegal dump sites where nothing grows.
Unstoppable bloody noses.
Frac Trucks leaking long paths of radioactive frac water through neighborhoods (have heard that they leave DFW airport spewing crazily every morning at 4:30 AM getting on 635.)
Tumors
Brain Cancer
Women losing hair
Contaminated Water
Rashes treated with Prednisone.
I’ve seen it all.
Wish I hadn’t seen any of it.
Please stop the insanity.
The thing that bothers me the most about the Republican Candidacy for President in 2012: no talk about the current issues:
Fracking
Keystone XL pipeline
Energy Transition to Green
Medical Marijuana
Education
President Obama supports fracking.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/obama-backs-fracking-to-create-600-000-jobs-vows-safe-drilling.html
Don’t let political affiliation fool you, if there are benjamins to be made they’ll support it for sure. Fracking is terrible and needs to be stopped. Let’s focus on stopping it instead of blaming political parties.
Great post…but I’m a bit confused here. Do you HONESTLY think that “if they could, they would” frack safely? If it costs an extra 0.000001% to implement a safety regulation…they’re not going to do it. Not unless it’s going to cost them more not to. And with how massive their profits are and how difficult it is to legally do anything when they screw up, you’d have to be on drugs to expect them to voluntarily implement better safety regulations.
That’s a good point. If they could frack safely and if we had enough regulations and oversight and if a frog had wings…
We could debate this all day, when there is no more clean water, we’ll have our answer. When everyone is breathing with charcoal filters, we’ll know who to put up against the wall. It really is just that simple. Natural gas is METHANE, it’s poisonous to the human animal, period.
And it really is that much of a nightmare. But it can get worse, and it will. Unless those of us who care more about water than football, and nascar, stand up for what’s right. All of you sympathetic fools, keep on licking the boots of the masters. You can stand beside them when judgements get handed around, ok?
“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.”
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“The concerns of one inevitably become the concerns of all.”
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Thank you for speaking out about the hazards of Unforeseen fractures and all of the unknown. you have once again brought to light, they are just throwing the dice and really have no clue what can of worms they are opening or what to do once something goes wrong
Good for this young man to do the right thing.
If you missed Obama’s state of the union address last night he said that he was going to make it MANDATORY to DISCLOSE.
You critise the frak company but it is the oil company that owns the well, has the fraking done and is responsible for everything that happens on location including spills and spill clean up.. You complain about the oil company be self regulating, whose fault is that? Joe Public’s apathy. Are you campaigning for new tighter laws and stiffer penalities or just gripping.
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