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NATURAL GAS 'FRACKING' IS DESTROYING OUR PLANET AND HER PEOPLE!!!
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52 second trailer to Gasland
Help pass the FRAC Act to remove the exemption to the Safe Drinking Water Act for fracking and call for the disclosure and monitoring of the chemicals used in the process at:
***PBS "NOW" about Gasland (Important)
RFKJr.: Oil Industry Trying to Silence “Gasland” Director
February 12th 2011 - video
Halliburton loophole: 2005 energy bill completely exempted natural gas industry and gas fracking from any regulation under the Safe Water Act (Important video)
The liquid that gushes from gas wells is only partially treated for substances that could be environmentally harmful, then dumped into rivers and streams from which communities getheir drinking water.
In every glass of water, residents of Pittsburgh (and potentially tens of millions of others in the Northeast corridor) are consuming unknown and potentially dangerous amounts of radium.
Wastewater, which is sometimes hauled to sewage plants not designed to treat it and then discharged into rivers that supply drinking water, contains radioactivity at levels higher than previously known, and far higher than the level that federal regulators say is safe for these treatment plants to handle.
When methane began bubbling out of kitchen taps near a gas drilling site in Pennsylvania last winter, a state regulator described the problem as "an anomaly." But at the time he made that statement to ProPublica, that same official was investigating a similar case affecting more than a dozen homes near gas wells halfway across the state.
In fact, methane related to the natural gas industry has contaminated water wells in at least seven Pennsylvania counties since 2004 and is common enough that the state hired a full-time inspector dedicated to the issue in 2006. In one case, methane was detected in water sampled over 15 square miles. In another, a methane leak led to an explosion that killed a couple and their 17-month-old grandson.
When the article was published on Friday night, it was the first time an industry spokesperson deployed a shift in strategy from the industry's standard denials and repeated assertions that fracking is safe, despite the numerous reportof problems, such as flammable water, contamination of drinking water, trucks leaking toxic and radioactive waste-water on public highways, the pollution of streams, as well as fires, and explosions in which people have been injured.
"We have to stop blaming documentaries and take a look in the mirror," Matt Pitzarella, a spokesman for gas producer Range Resources Corp., was quoted as saying in WSJ.
However, if you go to the article, you won't find Pitzarella's statement because within the hour the quote disappeared, say citizen journalists, who screen captured it and posted it on Twitter.
"Why did this key quote disappear from the article?
To take action on this issue in PA, click on the link below:
Tell Pennsylvania Senate President Joe Scarnati to go on a road trip with PennEnvironment to meet some of the everyday Pennsylvanians who are negatively impacted by Marcellus drilling at:
March 6, 2011