This story sponsored by a grant from the Patty Dumpling Fund for coverage of oil spills, fracking, and eew don't drink that fracking fluid you don't know what's in it! Terrific news, corporate America! As the Wall Street Journal giddily announces, a new draft EPA study finds that hydraulic fracturing has had no "widespread, systemic impact on drinking water." Time to drill, baby drill! Except that the
Great now I'll have to deal with all those trolls posting about how fracking doesn't contaminate drinking water when it sounds like we still don't have information.
I think the point of that part of the article was that only the oil companies know where they are going to frack next, so their cooperation is pretty essential in getting the "before" data. And surprise, surprise, they are not being helpful in gathering that crucial part of the data.
Sounds like companies who want to frack should pay up front for ground water sampling and testing before fracking to provide a baseline so we will know if or when contamination occurs.
Besides, regulations aren't going to help once corporations discover a way to make a profit off of anything, even if it were something similar to the martians in War of the Worlds putting people into a basket and then grinding them up to spray about for fertilizer.
Corporate shills, er, spokesmen from congress, noted how this was good news and went on to point out that water itself can be bad for human health.(If you are in the middle of the ocean without a boat, for instance)
Every industry executive, op-ed writer and talking head who pooh-poohs the danger of water drawn from areas near fracking should immediately be made to chug a pint of the stuff.
Small enough to fit in a uterus!
Which therefore must be controlled. So there's that, too.
Great now I'll have to deal with all those trolls posting about how fracking doesn't contaminate drinking water when it sounds like we still don't have information.
I think the point of that part of the article was that only the oil companies know where they are going to frack next, so their cooperation is pretty essential in getting the "before" data. And surprise, surprise, they are not being helpful in gathering that crucial part of the data.
Sounds like companies who want to frack should pay up front for ground water sampling and testing before fracking to provide a baseline so we will know if or when contamination occurs.
true true, must protect everything that can fit in a uterus. Besides, only the po live in areas where they wanna frack so is all good
They should, but, they do not. Cause regulation is jerb killing and stuff.
Radon Canyon- it's literally breathtaking!
h/t to Night Vale
Besides, regulations aren't going to help once corporations discover a way to make a profit off of anything, even if it were something similar to the martians in War of the Worlds putting people into a basket and then grinding them up to spray about for fertilizer.
Corporate shills, er, spokesmen from congress, noted how this was good news and went on to point out that water itself can be bad for human health.(If you are in the middle of the ocean without a boat, for instance)
Or my lemon twist charred.
That works for lakes, rivers and even streams (if you are face down in them) so water is the culprit.
Never mix business with pleasure!
Every industry executive, op-ed writer and talking head who pooh-poohs the danger of water drawn from areas near fracking should immediately be made to chug a pint of the stuff.
"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody." --Mark Twain
Fracking adds valuable nutrients to drinking water.
How about the water quality after a frakkin' earthquake?