Leaked EPA Documents Expose 25-Year Effort To Hide Dangers of Natural Gas

wow. there you go blowing my mind and what not.

I get my tap water from the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh.
No type or amount of filtration removes radioactivity!
This is extremely disturbing.

T Boone on the Daily Show saying not one water well has been ruined by fracking.Jon says "I've heard different". No,no wells ruined from fracking not one.Are you fracking me?

excellent clip
good posting
thank you Wake Up People

i tell ya
there aren't enough disparaging words in the english language
for me to discribe T. Boone Pickens

i'm going down to the library and see if i can find enough in the
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I've watched "Gasland", but was left with the impression that it was just the fracking liquid that was the contaminate. I guess it makes sense that it's releasing natural toxic material into the ground water. Also interesting that SALT is one of the biggest contaminates. All those ancient oceans and dry lakes I guess.

My buddy is a chem engineering masters student at the UofU. He's doing his research on how fracking results in well formations. I told him he needs to go further and study the contamination aspect of aquifers. He said that wasn't really his focus, mainly just how fracturing effects different rock and sediment layers and how to predict the resulting formation, but I assume his research will assist in minimizing contamination if they better understand what's going on down there.

He plans to work in that field when he graduates, so I'm making sure he's aware of the problems so that he can help address them in the future. Natural gas is a far better resource than crude oil, but we need honesty and caution to be a part of it's development. If we ever want to free ourselves of oil, natural gas will play a huge role.

Jon Stewart recently had natural gas enthusiast T. Boon Pickens on his show and I applaud him [Jon] for bringing up the environmental issues of fracking as well as the Gasland documentary. Pickens wasn't really happy about that, but I think he did more or less acknowledge that is something that needs to be addressed.

Fracked up!! (I love Battlestar Galactica, can't help thinking of it every time this subject comes up =)

these lying bastards are killing our world and our children for temporary monetary gain. is there any recourse that will be too extreme?

Bush senior, If it pollutes then let it pollute in someone elses back yard. Fuck the scum that lives there, this is a big money maker. We will live in a clean place with our friends and hide the truth so the scum keeps us in power; those little people are just like children, they will believe anything I tell them.

Sadly, I have a natural gas leak problem myself...

The level of corruption in the oil & gas industry blows my mind. Everywhere you look, from Exxon in Alaska, Texaco/Chevron in Ecuador, 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf, Halliburton/TransOcean/BP and the Deepwater Horizon fiasco and this frackin disaster that's been going on for decades. There is little or no oversight from government agencies whose names are an oxymoron, IE- EPA/Environmental Protection, BLM/Bureau of Land Management, Coast Guard. Yeah the Coast Guard that's a good one, 'guarding the coast' as BP sprayed Corexit everywhere.
And then there are the people, Cheney/Halliburton as VP holding secret "energy" meetings, the Koch brothers polluting everything they touch, T.Bone Pickens wants to get us off of foreign oil by frackin us to death, Bush appointee EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman who told the 1st responders at ground zero that the air was "safe to breath". Don't frackin get me started.
I have tendency to rant.
http://opinionsandreasons.blogspot.com/

Thank You T. Boone Pickens

This is sad that our scientist are being told to essentially shut up. That's like telling some one to shut up after they tell you you are going to drink poison.

"Chopper sic Balls" ::snickers::

Freakin fracking.

It's got to stop.