Gasland the movie

[Billy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-KxT6KCjww&feature=youtu.be

How does hydraulic fracturing work?
Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is a means of natural gas extraction employed in deep natural gas well drilling. Once a well is drilled, millions of gallons of water, sand and proprietary chemicals are injected, under high pressure, into a well. The pressure fractures the shale and props open fissures that enable natural gas to flow more freely out of the well.

What is horizontal hydraulic fracturing?
Horizontal hydrofracking is a means of tapping shale deposits containing natural gas that were previously inaccessible by conventional drilling. Vertical hydrofracking is used to extend the life of an existing well once its productivity starts to run out, sort of a last resort. Horizontal fracking differs in that it uses a mixture of 596 chemicals, many of them proprietary, and millions of gallons of water per frack. This water then becomes contaminated and must be cleaned and disposed of.

What is the Halliburton Loophole?
In 2005, the Bush/ Cheney Energy Bill exempted natural gas drilling from the Safe Drinking Water Act. It exempts companies from disclosing the chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing. Essentially, the provision took the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) off the job. It is now commonly referred to as the Halliburton Loophole.

What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
In 1974, the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was passed by Congress to ensure clean drinking water free from both natural and man-made contaminates.

What is the FRAC Act?
The FRAC Act (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness to Chemical Act) is a House bill intended to repeal the Halliburton Loophole and to require the natural gas industry to disclose the chemicals they use.

How deep do natural gas wells go?
The average well is up to 8,000 feet deep. The depth of drinking water aquifers is about 1,000 feet. The problems typically stem from poor cement well casings that leak natural gas as well as fracking fluid into water wells.

How much water is used during the fracking process?
Generally 1-8 million gallons of water may be used to frack a well. A well may be fracked up to 18 times.

What fluids are used in the fracking process?
For each frack, 80-300 tons of chemicals may be used. Presently, the natural gas industry does not have to disclose the chemicals used, but scientists have identified volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene.

In what form does the natural gas come out of the well?
The gas comes up wet in produced water and has to be separated from the wastewater on the surface. Only 30-50% of the water is typically recovered from a well. This wastewater can be highly toxic.

What is done with the wastewater?
Evaporators evaporate off VOCs and condensate tanks steam off VOCs, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The wastewater is then trucked to water treatment facilities.

What is a well's potential to cause air pollution?
As the VOCs are evaporated and come into contact with diesel exhaust from trucks and generators at the well site, ground level ozone is produced. Ozone plumes can travel up to 250 miles.

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[nomadguy]

This is truly serious! TO add the mining industry is now using what they call Reverse circulation drilling (RC Drilling) And Horizontal drilling(at an angle actually) These are ALL forms of what we call fracking.
The amount of fracking going on is truly mind boggling. even under the ocean...

[Billy]

I find the whole senario unbelievible and insane nomadguy. How they cannot SEE what they do. I just pray that they somehow wake up and soon.

[Heyoka_11]

How they cannot SEE what they do.

Oh but they do!

Good on you for posting this vid. If any visitor to this thread has not watched it, then please find the time to do so.

But be warned.......have a bucket handy, coz this one's gonna' make you sick.

It does not matter which oil company we are talking about, as their modus operandi is common throughout the industry. When they are in an impoverished nation, it is full on environmental rape and pillage. When in a developed country with an environmental regulatory authority, they will "do the right thing". Though they would rather not.

So why the hell is this happening in the U.S.? Because, sadly, it no longer has an environmental regulatory authority; one with any teeth that is.

And who do we have to thank for that? Good 'ol Boy Bush, and his gutting of the countries clean water act, and extraction of the EPA's teeth. They 'aint got no bite left!

This practice of widespread fracking was also used in the U.K., however, owing to adverse publicity, and a public outcry, it was halted a month or so ago. Not sure if it was actually banned, but they would not want to try it again.

Here in Western Australia, we have a truly staggering amount of gas in our North-West. One of the U.S. oil majors has operated an oil and gas field on a small island since the mid sixties. I first went there in 1979, and must admit, the level of care for the environment was staggering. The island is listed as an 'A' class reserve, which carries with it strict guidelines as to how a company will conduct it's operations, so they had little choice. Fast forward to 2009, when I left the island for the last time, and a massive LNG (liquified natural gas) project was about to get underway. A massive amount of money was still being spent on environmental care, but by this time, something was fundamentally different. To me at least, it appeared that a lot of window dressing was going on, i.e. unnecessary environmental projects of questionable worth, whose goal was to convince the public of their truly caring nature. Yeh, sure! At the same time, we started getting their adds aired on local television, having been produced by a mob of New York based spin doctors. They didn't tell us a thing about their operations, well, all right, how do you sell LNG.....yawn! All they were supposed to do was sell the idea that this company were responsible corporate citizens, and leave the hapless viewer with a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling. I think it worked.

Anyway, I heard from an acquaintance who is still employed by this company, that the only reason for all this window dressing and spin, was to prove to the authorities that they were capable of tackling their next environmentally sensitive target in a responsible manner as well.

Antarctica.

Nuff said. Watch the movie!

[nomadguy]

lets pray together that they will SEE, and can no longer avoid the path they leave behind them. These people remind me of the machine minds portrayed in the Avatar movie.