Community | June 27, 2010 | 23 comments

Secret and toxic chemicals in our Water and Food. Watch GASLAND

source: http://environment.change.org/petitions/view/no_more_drill_baby_drill

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Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" is drilling for gas.
In order to accomplish that, hundreds and hundreds of secret, carcinogen and toxic chemicals need to be used along with millions of gallons of water.

The byproduct is this toxic and deadly cocktail of contaminated water called "Produced Water" that gets dumped into ponds or injected back into the ground. Then, they use sprayers to help evaporate this water and make it vanish into thin air.
An other byproduct is the constant release of VOCs in the air that will produce ozone.


Within days, all of it comes back into our fresh water supply killing aquatic life and anything that comes into contact. It finds its way into the kitchen sink, crops and into your PLATE.

Watch this important documentary and think carefully because this isn't just their problem, IT"S OURS and we must stop it now:

http://environment.change.org/petitions/view/no_more_drill_baby_drill

This is their website for more detailed information and more ways to take action:

http://gaslandthemovie.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZe1AeH0Qz8


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23 comments // Secret and toxic chemicals in our Water and Food. Watch GASLAND // Video

  • freecrack
  • copperdragon
  • captainplanet71
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • captainplanet71:

      Natural gas is not the enemy. Petroleum and coal are what is destroying the environment.

      Natural gas is a fossil fuel, but it is also a biofuel. Both can be mixed and used together. This is the only means we have to lower the effect of heating the atmosphere.

      People who are trying to stop the use of natural gas are doing more to destroy the environment than anyone else.

      The only alternative to not using natural gas, is to use more coal and petroleum. Even more environmental destruction than before.

    • 1 year ago
  • tommic
    • 0
      tommic  

    • Destroy and poison our planet for fossil fuels, do you shit where you eat?
      End fossil fuels, whatever investment is needed we should finance through a twenty five dollar per barrel tax, that will allow the federal government to finance research and development of the most economical bio mass to use and to build twenty five large refineries around the country to produce ethenol. Freedom from imported oil will spur our economy just by keeping 400 billion a year here in the U.S. The short term economic struggle will be well worth the end result. Its called vision.

    • 1 year ago
  • Perplexed_Rapture
    • 0
      Perplexed_Rapture  

    • lame =/ I tried to post a video about this earlier in the week. It's not the actual documentary bt it's an interview with the guy who created Gasland on PBS. If anyone's interested check it out :)

    • 1 year ago
  • SB420
  • CalgarC
  • TinFoilNinja
  • CalgarC
  • freecrack
    • +2
      freecrack  

    • those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it right?
      thats why i never understood why when obama says "nuclear energy" we applaud instead of hiss.

    • 1 year ago
  • JollyTrees
  • csmonut
    • +4
      csmonut  

    • i have read many articles on green energy over the past year, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, etc. and these articles all have one thing in common.
      And I pretty much quote the words,
      "Although there is strong support for expansion of green technology, it will probably not happen in this century."
      i would ask, "Why not?" but I think I already know the answer.

    • 1 year ago
  • toyotabedzrock
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • csmonut:

      Brazil has replaced over 50% of their transportation petroleum needs with biofuels in 20 years---and the Brazilian economy is booming because of it. Brazil has gone to the 8th largest economy in the world today from bankruptcy, riots and a communist revolution.

      Brazil now has a biofuel based economy and the Brazilian Real is one of the strongest, most stable currencies in the world. And it was done in 20 years.

      Which do you choose to believe, predictions from empty headed magazine article writers----or proof that it can be done because it has been done already?

    • 1 year ago
  • csmonut
    • 0
      csmonut  
    • Wetdog:

      My ignorance of Brazilian government may show here...but is their government run by oil, gas and pharmacutical companies? Or is it run by the people, or elected officials that do what the people have asked?
      And...I do not usually consider Scientific American or Discover magazines to have empty headed writers...or articles for that matter.
      My point was and still is...if rapid expansion is supported by the people, and from what I read, it is. Then why is our government NOT moving faster?
      We, as individuals can do much, but it takes support of the central governing body to really get these things moving.
      I don't see that happening any time soon. Too many of our elected officials are bought and paid for by the very companies that pollute the land, air and water.
      The human life span is short, and it is obvious they do not look beyond their own life cycle.

    • 1 year ago
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • csmonut:

      -------" Then why is our government NOT moving faster? "------

      Good question. Because biofuels can be made from any type of plant material at all, including waste---even sewage. It would be impossible to monopolize biofuels, the raw materials can be produced anywhere in the world, even at sea.(algae).

      But, in order to use biofuels, we need vehicles that can use them. They are available now, and always have been. The Fiat Siena Tetrafuel can use petroleum, petroleum and ethanol mixtures, hydrous ethanol(straight from the still), or methane(natural gas). Any or all. It can run indefinitely on petroleum, some petroleum, or no petroleum at all.

      If we have a mandate that all vehicles sold in the US have the same multifuel technology as the Fiat Siena Tetrafuel, consumers would have complete freedom to choose whatever they want to power their vehicle. Including natural gas---it costs less than 1/2 the amount to drive the same distance with natural gas as fuel as it does to drive the same distance using petroleum gasoline.

      Petroleum could disappear tomorrow morning and it would make little difference to Siena drivers----they might not even find out it had disappeared for months.

      Why are US consumers not DEMANDING that all vehicles come equipt with the same multifuel engine capability as the Siena? If consumers demanded it---perhaps government move faster.

    • 1 year ago
  • Omnomynous
    • +3
      Omnomynous  

    • Watched it, sad the coal & oil industries are doing basically the same type of damage to the environment. Some could say nuclear is cleaner but wtf are we gonna do with all that "spent" uranium I mean other than Yucca mountain?

      We've got to figure something out, we are poisoning vast amounts of groundwater and soil all over the country, most of it poisoned with no way to restore it.

      You would think it would be in the best interests of one of these massive corporations to seriously invest in proven "green" technologies, and work on developing more efficient versions.

      It won't be funny when the majority of this country is virtually uninhabitable, and at this rate we got how long til then?

    • 1 year ago
  • csmonut
    • +1
      csmonut  
    • Omnomynous:

      Not long...after the storms in the Gulf send toxic oil and other unwanted chemicals onto the land and pretty much wipe out all life along the coast...and when methane and hydrogen sulfide gas explodes from that fracture and wipes out even more life....we're all pretty much screwed.

    • 1 year ago
  • RicothePenguin
    • 0
      RicothePenguin  
    • Omnomynous:

      Traveling Wave Reactors can be used to eat up all the spent uranium. It would be their main fuel source. That sort of reactor could power 80% of the entire planets population at US energy consumption rates, constantly, for 1 thousand years.

      Let that sink in.

      That's JUST using the spent uranium the US already has sitting around doing nothing.

    • 1 year ago
  • csmonut
  • lookatmypix
    • +4
      lookatmypix  

    • I am aware that this documentary has been posted before but we now have a new way to take action by signing the petition above. This is also a persistent, tragic reality. Please share this documentary.
      Thank you

    • 1 year ago
  • Omnomynous
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