What's so wrong with Fracking?

Nothing. Most of the contamination is due to surface spills, which really don't have much to do with the fracking process. The other part is due to leaking wells with unsatisfactory concrete. Out of 20000 wells since 2000 only a few have contaminated nearby water sources. It is a myth that fracking fluid can get into the water table a few thousand feet above the gas deposits. The fracture caused by drilling would have to extend through the whole thousand feet of rock, which is not feasible, and the fluid is too dense to travel up through this hypothetical channel. A shallow deposit may have some contamination, but there are no documented cases yet where there are no shallow methane deposits.

With shallow methane, we use concrete to keep the methane from rising to the surface. There have been cases of shallow deposits seeping through the concrete, but that was a mistake with the concrete again. Mistakes will occur with shallow deposits, but with a little regulation we should be fine.

It enriches the population

That is the ENTIRE reason all liberals oppose it.

> The EPA - openly hoping to shut-down fracking - struggled mightily to find ecological justification for doing so and failed.

> Anti-fracking lobbyists have been busted so hard they had to ADMIT that 100% of their flaming tap-water films had NOTHING to do with fracking - that ALL showed taps that would do that for decades BEFORE and wells were sunk in the area.

> Literally all Democrats PREFER we get our energy by paying hostile foreign powers and shipping oil in the most leak-intensive way mankind ever devised - OVER THE OCEANS - instead of getting CLEANER energy LOCALLY and dramatically REDUCING ecological impact.

> We've been fracking for 60+ years. NO Democrat minded until super-rich Democrat activists saw GAS (they were and are not vested in) threatening their OIL profits.

Yes bringing industry can bring jobs. Fracking in some places has caused problems with underground(well water) If it was YOUR drinking water it is a concern to YOU.

It is a risk. Some benefit with jobs and others might pay a high cost from some future problem. The concern is what to do Hint(WHO PAYS) for any problems down the road. Like most industrial things everyone likes it to be in someone else's back yard. You really do not mind if they move in next to your house and start working do you? The park down the road or the nearby school yard.

Part of this like anything is the NIMBY group. It all good just do not do it by my house,my land,my favorite place.my town,my school,my....

Do not make noise near my house. drive trucks past my house,my school....Get the idea?

Them high paid workers are driving up the rent I cannot afford to live here anymore and so on. It has both an upside and a downside. How it affects YOU personally is whether you think it is a good idea.

There is a big difference between testing a few wells here and there or the wholesale mass drilling in every possible nook and cranny of the state. Be dammed the consequences.

The crime rate has skyrocketed with all those high paid jobs too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAiHvGnKPVw

The pot of Gold has a sour edge. Good Luck It is not a miracle cure all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kafIZwybJ68

Ah, well, it seems that when Starbuck was fracking with Lee Adama, she was already married to Sam Anders...

Oh, you mean IN REAL LIFE?

In the Oil Industry, they have a method where they force water into an oil deposit, to raise the pressure and force the oil out. Unfortunately, this practice tends to ruin the Water-Table, causing horrible pollution.

The Oil Deposit was already in equilibrium with its environment, and raising the pressure causes leakage where there was none before.

Do you understand fracking?

A major part of it is pumping water and various chemicals into cracks and fissures deep down to open it up. They take the oil out and harvest what they can, but there's a lot of waste water that can't be salvaged. Then the chemicals leak into the water table along with oil and oily water.

lol... "hey the water is already dirty, who cares if it's completely undrinkable"... right?

don't worry, as you said it sounds like it's on the "fast track" and you'll get what you ask for... whatever that may be...

fracking is a fairly new tech and there are a lot of questions around it's tectonic impact and the impact on local water supplies... but hey, who cares, right?

read the effects in Texas

Fracking Boom Leaves Texans Under a Toxic Cloud

http://bloom.bg/1ecLWXJ

Well anytime politicians want to fast track something, you need to be concerned. Fracking does polluted underground water. Fracking material gets into aquifer.

Frakking is terrible for the environment and it pollutes ground water. It is literally the most destructive practice that humans do. Haven't you heard about the people whose tap water is flammable?

Smell Pennsylvania-- TASTE West Virginia- Get a WHIFF of Ohio--

that's the smell of oppression, sickness, the cancer belt and hard work.