- Petroleum Professor Explains

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

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?

The Five Myths About Fracking article appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal this morning. It was clipped by Carl, my co-worker here at the local health department. I was pleased it came from Ohio’s only college offering a degree in petroleum engineering and geology (I lived 2 blocks away from the school twenty some years ago). It is written by Robert W. Chase, professor and chairman of the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geology at Marietta College (Ohio).

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Please click on the link above to read about the Five Myths about Fracking. Remember, we don't know what we don't know and some things are true whether you believe them or not!

Linda Anthony