Brace yourself OK

Residents in Eastern Canada are trying to put the brakes on fracking as there is little regulation in place at the moment. Companies out to exploit the oil and gas resources keep on telling the same safety story but - how did the Ocean Ranger sink, what happened with the wellhead in the Gulf, and what is happening now in Oklahoma?
http://business.financialpost.com/tag/east-coast/

Folks are finally smartening up after getting stuck cleaning up toxic sites from numerous industries. Sydney Tar Ponds, Giant Mine, multiple DND sites (Dew Line and others), etc. US has similar sites...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/con...st-billions-more-budget-office-says-1.2604939
http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/contaminated-sites-canada/

Edit: Found something else... a salt mine surrounded by oil and gas
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/bayou-corne-sinkhole-disaster-louisiana-texas-brine

The same thing happened in the Youngstown, Ohio area. Never had earthquakes until fracking started. I experienced my first major earthquake about a year ago. The big one that hit the Mid-Atlantic. Rumor is the cause was from fracking.

I refuse to drink well water. I also am looking to relocate and one of the reasons is fracking. Those big rigs are starting to pop up all over.

Besides earthquake issues there is the pollution factor with the waste:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-15/radioactive-waste-booms-with-oil-as-new-rules-mulled.html

http://www.ohio.com/news/local/penn...might-overwhelm-ohio-injection-wells-1.367102

http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2014/03/fracking_company_owner_pleads.html

Another perk: wastewater "treated" then dumped in rivers. There are facilities here in PA.
http://www.post-gazette.com/local/r...scharging-drilling-waste/stories/201310290078

The Charleston (Elk river) and Dan River chemical spills are side effects from coal mining.

Our waterways are a sewer pit of nasties.

Not a particular fan of the other part of that plan which is to use natural gas pipelines here to flow the oil to the east coast refineries.
http://www.transcanada.com/energy-east-pipeline.html

Pretty sure that back in the 60's Uncle Sam studied fracking to see how much geologic activity it could cause, and how big an earthquake one could make. They concluded that they could successfully cause earthquakes. IMO there's just no way this can be made safe. It's simply insane that earthquake technology can be in the hands of a for-profit corporation.

I have a buddy who quipped once that if you want to find where our nuclear reactors are, just follow the fault lines. I never took it upon myself to chase that to ground, but it only needs to be true once. I'll find it really hard to believe that there's any oversight of all the big issues such as earthquakes, pipelines and reactors when it comes to fracking, let alone the health concerns. And while we're at it, maybe we should see if any of us has any large dams upstream.

It seems pretty obvious that technology enables humanity to get a little too big for its britches. We have the skill to do stuff, but not enough wisdom to not do it.

I see no one has made this connection ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000.

http://www.halliburton.com/en-US/ps/solutions/unconventional-resources/shale.page?node-id=hgjyd46w

http://www.edcnet.org/learn/current_cases/fracking/federal_law_loopholes.html

Shameful

Lake Girl said:

I see no one has made this connection ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000.

http://www.halliburton.com/en-US/ps/solutions/unconventional-resources/shale.page?node-id=hgjyd46w

http://www.edcnet.org/learn/current_cases/fracking/federal_law_loopholes.html

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Girl friend, trust me, the connection has been made.

Don't get me started on Mrs. Cheney, please

Jags said:

2 Billion gallons of fracking fluid per day (across the country)? Thatsallota fracking fluid.

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I don't think they have to tell us what's in there, either. I've heard benzine and diesel for starters.

Dick Cheny is the FIRST guy I ever heard use the term "peak oil", as in he was convinced of it while on Haliburton's board. Not hard to connect the dots after that.

The fluid replaces what's pumped out, right, so how are there voids?

What's of more concern is whether the Weather Channel is naming these earthquakes.

The fluid is used to break the target rock formation and destabilizes it by creating small cracks to release gas/oil that is trapped.

My water well was hydrofracked. Were those pictures above of fracking sites?