FIVE Myths About Fracking!

http://journal.livingfood.us/2012/01/27/five-myths-about-fracking-p...

A Professor Explains Five Myths About Fracking

A Health Department Spokesman Spreads Half-truths

and an Educational Video

http://journal.livingfood.us/2012/01/27/five-myths-about-fracking-p...

Everything that is made, everything, must be first grown on the land or extracted from it– but those products cannot be made without the energy resources to refine and manufacture them. Although food, health and environmental activists may be right on some things, too many of them are being misled on fracking . . . that is, the drilling and extracting of clean and abundant natural gas. Water pollution fears? Why aren’t they screaming about dangerous industrial fluoride chemicals being released into their own water supplies?–hundreds of health science studies fully support the awful widespread health effects. If the anti-frackers became just a little educated on the subject of natural gas drilling, they might reverse their energies and help correct all the misinformation and disinformation. These opposers are not just your basic, grown-up hippie, an Occupyer needing a new cause or those green-utopia seekers fresh out of a university–they are also “normal” well-educated, well-meaning people you may work with or church with–maybe friends and family– and maybe even you.

Do the uninformed opposers recognize they daily use and enjoy the benefits of relatively cheap energy and thousands of petroleum-based products which their very lives and livelihoods depend upon? What we are really talking about is risk/benefit — does the real risks justify the real benefits? Could it possibly be that well-managed, natural-gas drilling, extraction, pipe-lining, distribution and use are extremely safe with huge benefits to all–and, all things considered, beneficial to human health and the environment?

Please click on the attached link (above ^^^^^^^^) to access the myths. Education is key for everyone and we don't know what we don't know and some things are true whether you believe them or not!

Linda

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Permalink Reply by Billy Park Whyde on January 28, 2012 at 1:24pm

Thanks the comment section needs a bit of our input as it looks like anti frackers jumped on it.

Permalink Reply by Linda A on January 28, 2012 at 4:37pm

now at least you have those to utilize to counter...  While cold calling/working in the Clearfield county area (in PA), I came across my first encounter with a gas/oil company, who first told me about the Utica Shale, asked where I lived, and boy, he liked me and gave me a lot of info (which I wrote down and also his phone number...).  Anyhow, in that same area, I cold called a business who did required testing water in the area to make sure there was no polluting... (BTW, I always ask questions as am always interested in the 'unknown').  So, I just happen to ask her if polluting was common, and she said absolutely not! I also ask if they did other testing, and she told me people often brought in their own/private water samples, and again, found NO pollution!  If water was polluted, it was before drilling/fracking...

When I heard about all the preventative measures taken by gas/oil drillers, to make sure no polluting was done, I couldn't believe it - down to complete pressure washing of their trucks etc etc

Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on January 28, 2012 at 1:33pm

Good article. Have to use that at a seminar I will be attending.

Here's a demonstration for those playing at home. When you see diagrams of fracking, they are never to scale.  The antis make it look like fracing is close to the surface. 

1. Draw a line at top of a really big sheet of paper or white board. Use the scale of one inch equals 100'    

2. Draw a line about three inches below the surface....this lines represents were almost all of the fresh water aquifers are. Now measure down six feet and draw another line. This is where the fracking occurs in shale that is 7000' below the surface.

3. Draw a fuzzy line three inches above and three inches below the bottom line.  That is the area that is fractured if the radius is three hundred feet.

The area in between, six and a half feet, is multiple layers of rock that act as a cap separating the fracking fluids from the fresh water aquifers.

Have a nut job explain how frac fluids will travel through all this rock upward to the water table.  Ask them how this will happen when polluted water in coal seams only fifty feet from the fresh water for millions of years hasn't traveled fifty feet into the fresh water.

Permalink Reply by Billy Park Whyde on January 28, 2012 at 2:30pm

Was just thinking a common sense thought, since the gas is down there and is lighter than water then the aquifers should have been polluted eons ago. Now if the gas could not penetrate the layers between  the aquifer and the shale how in the hell could water?   

Permalink Reply by Linda A on January 28, 2012 at 4:27pm

I couldn't find it after first posting it and was advised 'I may have made an error in posting', thus went for round two!  Thought the discussion was to important to take any chances. 

Permalink Reply by Dan on January 29, 2012 at 5:42am

Thanks Linda, Great stuff.  Also Thanks for the NPR plug.  I have heard at least a dozen NPR news jounals in the last month in regards to fracking, water contamination etc.  and I have yet to hear a single mention that fracking is causing any problems.  It seems there is an agenda to beat up NPR the same as there is to beat up fracking.

Permalink Reply by brian kulp on January 29, 2012 at 2:18pm

???? if the property owner defults on the loan. then the o/g,s /// the % agreeeed upon in the leese will go to the bank when they repo the property. the only problem is they the bank willl have to wait for he proerty to go into production. like the land owner would. besides dont feel sorry for the bank there all to greedy anyway.

 

 

thks brian

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