Gasland / hydrofracking

[deadly_habit]

heh it's my full time job going against the p[rocess but how many people are aware of this
such a powerful docu

[clifford_-]

thata fucking rowdy. allow drinking /that/ water!!

[deadly_habit]

if you watch it and see whats going on you'll end up pissed

[clifford_-]

i see what you mean.

[deadly_habit]

yea its my full time job talking to people one door at a time about this
and the scary part is there is no federal regulation or studies and its at state level which is often lagging behind
we actually have one of these pads within 10 miles of where rochester gets its drinking water
it's just disgusting that the epa can't control energy companies
ffs france just completely banned hydrofracking based on this docu

[tomm]

me and the missus have had this sitting for ages. we'll get around to it eventually. i hear great things.

[tacospheros]

yeah they're trying to do hydrofracking all over the Hudson Valley where I live. actually just had someone come to my friends door talking about it the other day. i signed the petition and wouldve donated money if i had some

[firky]

so you'd rather invade other countries and kill hundreds of thousands for your energy, eh? eh? eh?

Should add: I have heard of that film but haven't watched it.

[deadly_habit]

so you'd rather invade other countries and kill hundreds of thousands for your energy, eh? eh? eh?

Should add: I have heard of that film but haven't watched it.

no im for solar farms, hydroelectric dams and wind turbines
hell here in roc we have a company that makes some insane wind turbines that output 2x the energy as the large ones and can be used for off grid living as well

[nowaysj]

The world population isn't going to reduce itself, that is for sure.

[kidshuffle]

I know the guy who owns Calfrac, that shits nuts

[mcpable]

I work on a rig in Canada (admittedly a bit hypocritcal but I wanna pay off some student loans asap) and fracking is very common around here. While out working I've travelled to quite a few different small towns in Alberta, and pretty much always in these towns the water smells and tastes gross and is often off-color/yellowish--obviously likely due to the drilling/fracking etc. The tap water at my house often has a faint green-applieish scent/flavour that I often smell around oil/gas wells. Oil and natural gas are found below the water table so you gotta drill past it to get anything…I'm sure they don't always penetrate it but like in that doc I've heard more than a few stories of people who live on farms near where they are drilling, and after the drilling is done their well-water becomes polluted.

It's good to know that we know how to purify water though, which we're probably gonna have to do more of as water in areas like this gets worse. Sewage treatment plants can take human shit and process it so well that it's clean enough to drink safely (it gets dumped in rivers tho). I dunno what can be done about carcinogens and stuff though….I've heard that Sherwood Park, an area of edmonton, has one of the highest rates of cancer in N.America/the world, but that's not just the water there's lots of refineries polluting the air.

[kidshuffle]

Sherwood Park is gross, that wouldn't surprise me one bit.

[firky]

I heard something about a proposal to do this over in the NW somewhere :O