The Dangers of Hydraulic Fracturing: Protecting Our Drinking Water

Abstract

GASLAND QUIZ There are numerous deep shale gas basins in the United States that contain trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. Studies and surveys by GWPC, EPA, and IOGCC over the last eleven years have found a real credible threat to underground drinking water from Hydraulic fracturing And what I don’t know is that the 2005 energy bill pushed through Congress by Dick Cheney exempts the oil and natural gas industries from the Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the super fund law, and a dozen other environmental democratic regulations They had a gas well in front of their house Shortly after it was drilled their water started Bubbling and freezing turned out to be natural gas. That one was kind of spooky it even surprised me and I’ve been drinking that water for quite a bit. They came out with a patently ridiculous conclusion they had it was toxic instead it wasn’t a risk. The energy task force and a hundred million dollar lobbying effort on behalf of the industry were significant in the passing of what’s called the Haliburton loophole to the Safe Drinking Water Act, which authorizes oil and gas drillers exclusively to inject known hazardous material unchecked directly onto or adjacent to underground water. Louis water tested turned up various forms of Hydrocarbons and glycol ethers. These are grown men lying to you, for what, for money and that’s it. Glycol ethers are plastic. True or False- True It's amazing that what took Mother Nature millions of years to create can be destroyed in a few hours with a piece of heavy machinery. The drill rig moves in for 3 to 4 weeks drilling a hole that’s anywhere between 11 and 8000ft down to the shale formation. Ozone is good in...