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Friday, October 23, 2009

New Yorkers Focus On Gas Drilling Threat

from Enviromental Working Group

Natural gas may seem clean, but it has a dark back story. As Environmental Working Group has reported, gas producers out West have drilled thousands of wells with hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," which involves breaking open gas-bearing formations by injecting them with water laced with toxic chemicals like benzene. To make matters worse, gas drillers have been exempted from the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and permitted to conceal, as trade secrets, the identities of the chemicals they're forcing underground.
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bottom line, if it threatens the safety of drinking water, kill it.

Anonymous said...

Bottom line, if it is any step toward energy independence for this country, the envirocommies will find a way to demonize it and stop it from happening.
Wake up people!

Anonymous said...

Great post 2:36! Die of dehydration or worse for the profits of the gas and oil companies. Think about it.

Anonymous said...

Not everyone who doesn't want benzene in their drinking water is an "envirocommie". Look into the facts, friend...and see that there actually might be a need for some hesitation before letting drilling companies with questionable safety records anywhere near the watershed.