Shattered Ground

[Nenuphar]

Shattered Ground is an excellent episode of The Nature of Things that aired tonight on CBC. It discusses the process of "fracking" for natural gas and its environmental consequences. A seemingly boring topic that is easily overlooked unless you are living in the middle of it, which I am.

Some of the footage shot is from our area in Northern BC. My husband passes one place shown every day on his way to work. The episode discusses pumping the toxic backflow from fracking deep underground instead of storing it in large, surface pools. (As if that would be a much safer method of containment!). One such set-up is going to be established near our friend's parent's ranch about 30 minutes out of town. Their property value - and that of their neighbours - is already plummeting. Who would willingly buy land that is having toxic chemicals pumped beneath it, especially if the owners rely on a system of well water instead of town water? The whole business is complete insanity.

The video can unfortunately only be viewed within Canada at this time. I encourage you to watch and share it.

Here is the trailor for the episode:
http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/epi...ed-ground.html

The episode can be viewed at this link:
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natu...ngs/video.html

[gigha]

Thank you for this Nenuphar.

I saw Carmody mention something about fracking

something to do with injecting under your skin

and it causing your skin to act like a tectonic plate

or something.

Any way thank you i'll watch this.

Found where Carmody said this

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...485#post631485

Posted by Nenuphar (here)
Shattered Ground is an excellent episode of The Nature of Things that aired tonight on CBC. It discusses the process of "fracking" for natural gas and its environmental consequences. A seemingly boring topic that is easily overlooked unless you are living in the middle of it, which I am.

Some of the footage shot is from our area in Northern BC. My husband passes one place shown every day on his way to work. The episode discusses pumping the toxic backflow from fracking deep underground instead of storing it in large, surface pools. (As if that would be a much safer method of containment!). One such set-up is going to be established near our friend's parent's ranch about 30 minutes out of town. Their property value - and that of their neighbours - is already plummeting. Who would willingly buy land that is having toxic chemicals pumped beneath it, especially if the owners rely on a system of well water instead of town water? The whole business is complete insanity.

The video can unfortunately only be viewed within Canada at this time. I encourage you to watch and share with friends and family. And if you live in a region of Canada (like the Maritimes) where fracking is threatening to make inroads, I encourage you to do everything in your power to make sure it doesn't.

Here is the trailor for the episode:
http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/epi...ed-ground.html

The episode will be available for viewing in the next few days at this link:
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natu...ngs/video.html