Fracking now affecting Rivers in addition to drinking water!

While this destruction is unforgivable, please look into the cover up of toxic mine waste dumping at the National Historic site, Cataldo Mission. Toxic mine waste polluting people with lead, as well as wild life, and on to the Spokane river, Columbia river, all after it dirties the Coeur d'alene river and lake. Silver Valley Action dot com.

I read the whole 5 page NY Times article. It's beyond words what they are doing to our country. So we'll have some gas to heat our homes with but after they poison millions of people with the radium (radioactive crap) that's getting into the rivers that supply tens of millions of people with drinking water.......who's going to be around to enjoy their gas furnaces.

This issue needs a LOT more attention than it's getting.
This is happening in over 35 states already. What happens when ALL our water is NOT safe to drink? They can't filter out radioactive crap and the hundreds of toxic chemicals they use in fracking. Water will replace Oil as something to have wars and conflicts over.

Someone needs to give some of that water that test at thousands of times the safe level for radium to ALL our legislators and make them drink gallons of it. Then ask them how they feel about Clean Water!

Sorry for re-posting, but this needs consideration.

When I was a kid, we used to go to a small stream near by with a coffee can. If you found a gravel spot with slow water and pushed the open end of the can down into the gravel, then punch holes in the bottom of the can with a nail, after a short while, you could light a fire on top of the can.

The stream ran into one of the major drinking water sources for central NY.

The States are criminal,the Feds are criminal.Just shut up,look the other way and drink your radium.This is from Dick Cheney,he dying do you think a dying man cares about the future?

Obama wants to unburden the corporations.The GOP is trying to kill the EPA.Unless we the people revolt they will ruin most drinking water in the gas fracking areas,rivers included.Springs,and rivers are connected to aquifers,when they are polluted all water is.

"The good earth - we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy" Kurt Vonnegut

He forgot Greedy.

Do Republicans watch shows like 'Gasland" or 'Food Inc.'?
Do they know they exist?
If they do, I wonder if they think the documentaries are a leftist plot to raise taxes like they seem to believe with Climate change or Dinosaur bones.
Or maybe they just don't have the intelligence to understand what the documentaries are stating?
I guess I already know the answers to my questions but....
I still wonder how anyone can live in the World and not see what is happening all around them. How they can not care about the future or lack of a future we are leaving our Children and Grandchildren.

I saw "GASLAND." It was enlightening as it was frightening. The oil/gas industry lobbied the Acadamy to have "GASLAND" yanked as a nominee--thankfully they gave them the big middle finger.

Considering what Walker and the GOP/tea party turds are trying do amongst all the other BS their trying to pull in Wisconsin; America will have the dirtiest drinking water in the world if we let them have their way :

DANGEROUS DRINKING WATER: Republican lawmakers have introduced bills in both the Senate and the House which would repeal a rule requiring municipal governments to disinfect their water. Conservatives have said that the clean water rule — which went into effect in December — is simply too expensive. Yet the rule only affects 12 percent of municipalities and the price may be worth it. In 1993, 104 people died and 400,000 fell sick when the Milwaukee water supply became infected. Even two decades later, the Environmental Protection Agency Advisory Board notes that 13 percent of acute gastro-intestinal illnesses in municipalities that don’t disinfect their water supplies are the result of dirty water. Municipalities can keep their water clean for as low as $10,000 per well — but apparently for the Wisconsin GOP that is too high a price to pay to keep citizens safe from deadly microorganisms.

It was not a hard concept, and it is centuries old! A stitch in time, saves nine. An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure.

This ball was not only dropped, it was permitted to roll down a snowy hill and cause an avalanche!

Does anyone else feel like copying this and emailing it to our president and legislators, with a demand notice?

"Look what they've done to the Earth
Look what they've done to our fare sister
Ravaged and plundered and rip her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
and tied her with fences and dragged her down"

Jim Morrison

I've said it before and I'll say it again...

Dick Cheney (and his complacent successors) deserve to be waterboarded with fracking fluid!!!

I urge everyone to watch the movie "Gasland".

It is a little goofy at the very beginning, but it quickly captures your attention and stays with you forever (which in this case is a good thing because so do the toxic chemicals).

One of many issues which can not receive enough attention.

Excellent post!!!