Another MUST WATCH You Tube Fracking Video

In our on going efforts to educate the public to the risks of FRACKING OUR LANDS, we are always on the look out for worthwhile things to share with our readers...we especially like You Tube video presentations, as they are an EASY TO SHARE educational tool you can share with your family, friends and neighbors.  Tonight, found this one to be a great example of tools you can add to your own arsenal of weapons in combating the (un)Natural Gas Industry's PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN going on here in New York State.

IF you would like an example of Natural Gas PROPAGANDA, there is no greater flim flam artist than T.Boone Pickens who has been trying to sell us (un)Natural Gas snake oil now for a few years...ask yourselves, can you really trust a BILLIONAIRE OIL MAN when it comes to ANYTHING?

What a NG Investment INSIDER Has to Say! MUST READ.

I have cut and pasted some salient remarks below from an article written by someone that can only be described as an INDUSTRY INSIDER and seriously encourage ALL THOSE IN THE ANTI FRACKING movement to read this article.  Some of the things this insider has to say are breath taking in their scope, and really confirm our WORST FEARS.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Poised to Take Control of Regulating and Banning Hydraulic Fracturing "Fracking"

March 3, 2011 (Investorideas Newswire) - Mr. Miller is part of many industry and governmental working groups regarding the Oil and Natural Gas Oversight and Regulation. 

 

It has not become a foregone conclusion that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be given full authority and mandate to regulate any and all activities surrounding Hydraulic Fracturing, to include an imminent ban on the injection of all toxic chemicals into the ground, imposition of major fines for violations of the Clean Water Act, and designation of De-facto superfund/clean up sites in major drilling areas already seriously contaminated by the Natural Gas and Drilling Producers.

The future of Hydraulic Fracturing "Fracking" in the Continental U.S. is very much at risk given the undeniable facts that the process can't be conducted without the use of toxic chemicals, contamination of water tables, use of known carcinogens known to be harmful to humans and violation of the U.S. Clean Water Act.

Mr. Miller is a major supporter and advocate for the environmentally responsible development and production of Oil and Natural Gas in the U.S.

According to Mr. Miller:

• The Oil and Natural Gas industry has brought a critical self inflicted crisis upon itself by failing to act in an environmentally responsible manner regarding the use of hydraulic fracturing. In one fell sweep, the industry has become the primary target of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State and Federal lawmakers, and most importantly, the general public.

• The injection of toxic chemicals in to Oil and Natural Gas wells, many chemicals which are clearly known to be harmful to the environment, water tables, and human beings represents a catastrophic failure of the Oil and Natural Gas producers in the U.S.
• Given the continued abuse by the natural Oil and Natural Gas and mounting incidents of water table contamination, fires and other drilling related problems in high and low density populated areas, and the pending law that will in essence "kill fracking" by virtue of eliminating the use of toxic chemicals in production wells, leads to the conclusion that the States and Federal Government will in unison and individually start to ban fracking operations across the U.S.
• The first permanent drilling bans will occur in the Eastern U.S. in the Marcellus Shale formation in New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. This geographic area has already been severely damaged by Natural Gas Fracking and substantial legal actions are pending and many more are forthcoming against production companies.

There does not appear to be any way for the Oil and Natural Gas industry to lobby itself out of this critical problem, which many industry experts consider a death nail to many natural gas producers. Public opinion is overwhelmingly now against "Hydraulic Fracking" and we see the momentum to ban the practice outright in a majority of the U.S. as irreversible.

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Natural Gas PROPAGANDA Piece

A good example of the PROPAGANDA being fed us compliments of the Natural Gas Industry...studies have shown that Natural Gas from grave to grave IS JUST AS DIRTY AS COAL, and basic research shows us companies like Chesapeake Energy are selling America's Natural Gas as fast as their Landmen can deliver new bundles of leases...it is like the home mortgage debacle all over again...wonder when the bubble will burst?

Just in From Catskill Citizens...THE FRAC Act is Back!

GOOD NEWS...The FRAC Act has been reintroduced in the House and the Senate.  This very important bill will require frackers to disclose the chemicals they inject underground and will once again subject hydraulic fracturing to the Safe Drinking Water Act, thereby closing the "Halliburton Loophole" in the Bush/Cheney Energy Act of 2005.    Even if you previously expressed support for the FRAC Act, it's important to speak up now because Washington works differently...as far as Congress is concerned, H.R.1084/S587 is a new piece of legislation.                                    

New York is already FRACKED.  Big time.

Despite a three year de facto moratorium on high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, more than 10,000 oil and gas wells have already been fracked in New York State, and that number is growing every day.   That is NOT A TYPO FOLKS...despite the moratorium, 10,000 Hydraulic fracturing wells have been drilled here in NY.

Recently Catskill Citizens used the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to obtain information on a few of these wells.  We decided to look at the two dozen that have already been drilled in the Marcellus Shale.   What we found was disturbing, sometimes shocking.

Records show that these Marcellus wells were fracked with dozens of chemicals including carcinogens and neurotoxins.   We expected that.

But we also encountered page after page of blacked out information.  And while it's hard to know exactly what information is being withheld, it certainly seems to go well beyond the secret chemical ingredients that the frackers claim are "proprietary".   Information on chemical transportation and storage was also censored, and sometimes even the DEC forms themselves had been redacted! Note from fractoid...might be time to put people to the task of surveillance of these sites.

While we haven't examined all the records yet, we've already found evidence of numerous violations, including gas leaks and water contamination.

But the most startling find of all was the huge volume of fracking fluid that is now being injected in New York's vertical wells.  Today's operations are a far cry from the 20,000 to 80,000 gallon frack jobs described in the DEC's 1992 Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS).   According to the records we obtained, vertical wells are now being injected with around 350,000 gallons of fluid.   We found one Marcellus well was has been fracked with 646,000 gallons toxic fluid!

Despite dramatic changes in fracking technology over the last twenty years, New York's DEC still permits vertical wells to be fracked according to ground rules that were developed in the late eighties and early nineties.   This must change.  New York needs to move quickly to put a halt to all fracking operations.  If any fracking is permitted in the future, it must be subjected to the new Supplemental GEIS that is now being developed by the DEC.

The DIRTY WATER SECRETS About Shale Gas Wells

Everyone seems to know about peak oil, and perhaps it is that knowledge or perhaps propaganda that is driving the Gold Rush as companies and speculators toss BILLIONS into Shale Gas Leases, and then trade them like water...which brings us to peak water that people seem too know little about. You see, we as a world are starting to run out of this most precious of commodities, and the biggest USER of that water is the Energy Industry...IE, how many people know that Indian Point sucks in 2.4 BILLION GALLONS of water from the Hudson River each and every day to cool those two dangerous reactors?

Which brings us to the DIRTY SECRET that the (un)Natural Gas industry would prefer you not know about...their MASSIVE CONSUMPTION of, and POLLUTION of our most valuable resource...CLEAN DRINKABLE WATER. So, if you know nothing else about Shale Gas wells when you make a decision to support or oppose it, know these 4 UGLY SECRETS about the Natural Gas Industry Marcellus play water usage:

1. Shale Gas Wells using fracking and horizonal drilling are are very thirsty for water...how much water you ask? Upwards of 6 million gallons of water is needed per well, each time that well is 'fracked'...that is a LOT OF WATER!

2. Twenty to forty percent of that water pumped down the well comes back out of the dark abyss ruined, polluted and no longer fit for use, can be radioactive, and and needs to be disposed of.

3. This diseased water is known as "flowback" or "produced water" and contains frac fluids (a lethal mix of chemicals that the industry hides from us) and is a salty brine with high TDS (total dissolved solids) that really should not make its way into our drinking water supplies, or our sewage treatment plants, but OFTEN DOES.

4. This RESIDUAL WASTE water needs to be disposed of properly, but most times is not, haulers dumping it on the sides of roads, into storm drains, or in some cases, it is spilled out onto the ground at well sites, or worse, holding ponds holding this legal concoction break, the waste waters ruining the land of adjoining property owners.

5. Water 'use & abuse' is the dark underbelly of horizontal gas well drilling in Marcellus Shale and you can find numerous examples of companies like Chesapeake Energy routinely ignoring regulations and limitations on their water usage as they flout the law, and simply do what they want to keep their profits flowing.

Ohio State Parks Too Play Host To Shale Gas Drilling?

Ok...something just seems so wrong here...State and Federal Park Lands were made into parks to protect their natural beauty, were SET ASIDE LANDS that were/are supposed to be PRESERVED...many of these beautiful lands, their waterways and scenic vistas have been protected not just for decades, but in many cases for generations as families down through time have enjoyed, used and taken advantage of lands acquired and set aside with the help, they set asides and the maintaining of them paid for with our own tax dollars, and various fees we pay to use certain aspects of said parks, such as camping.  So imagine my surprise yesterday to read a twitter from a woman, where in she stated a certain segment of a particular hiking trail  in a Pennsylvania Park was being rerouted around a Shale Gas Drill (FRACKING) site on these public lands.  She found out from her husband who was planning out the Scout Troops annual 50 mile hiking adventure.  I tweeted about it, provided a link for those wishing to verify the information being provided.

Now tonight, again on Twitter, I stumble upon a link (from the opposition) which led me to an article wherein the primary focus was the state of Ohio's plan to sell (un)Natural Gas Leases inside the boundaries of Ohio's State Parks...we are not just talking one lease, but untold HUNDREDS of leases if one is willing to just read between the lines a tiny bit.  The basic strategy apparently, is to use the money from this despoiling of the Parks to maintain and beautify them...EXCUSE ME?  Isn't a great deal of the beauty of the parks lost when you have contaminated water ponds, ground water contamination, scarred land, and loud trucks rumbling back and forth all day through the once quite rural park lands?

Can someone please tell me what I am missing here?  Surely this is one of the most ruthless rapes of our Park System ever stumbled upon?  Surely, the governor of the Great state of Ohio is being very shorted sighted when he is willing to permanently and forever destroy vast stretches of our Park system to address short term budget shortfalls?  Furthermore, is it just me, but if the state is supposed to be regulating these companies, protecting our environment, making sure the tenants of the Clean Water Act are adhered too, does the sale of such leases by the states create a HUGE CONFLICT OF INTEREST...after all, would not the sale of such leases, put one in bed with the very people they are supposed too be protecting us against?

Take Paradise Put Up a Shale Gas Fracking Rig...Sure The Governor Personally Approved This One

 Tiadaghton State Forest-Beautiful place this Tiadaghton State Forest...pristine woodland area with 80 year growth since it's lumbering days, beautiful clean water, a great place for hiking, walking, and a host of other leisure/recreational things...A PEOPLES PARK.  So imagine my surprise today when reading Twitter to find out a major segment of its trail has been temporarily SHUT DOWN, put off limits so that a SHALE GAS WELL can be placed, and some greedy gas company can FRACK THE HELL out of the area, destroy its natural beauty, despoil its pristine crystal clear waters, and more than likely permanently and forever scare the landscape...HELLO, this is the peoples land...who in the world in Pennsylvania sign such a short sighted lease with the (un)natural gas industry?

The mother of a Boy Scout gave me the heads up on this one, so give her a follow on twitter.....(see Hikers Guide, segment 15)

Tiadaghton Maps Detailed maps can help you plan your trip. Download the public use map and other trail and recreational activity maps.

Tiadaghton State Forest is comprised of 215,500 acres mostly in Lycoming County. Other tracts extend into Tioga, Sullivan, Potter, Clinton, and Union counties. Tiadaghton's forest features high-country flats bisected by clean, fast-moving mountain streams, including the legendary Pine Creek and Slate Run.