Useless Eaters....

[haikugal]

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This is what Cheney was doing at his secret energy meeting...setting up a killer industry without any oversight or regulation. The 1% is making a killing....

Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania

More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything that grew, breathed air, and drank water. The Marshall Islands were also struck. This formerly pristine Pacific atoll was branded “the most contaminated place in the world.” As their cancers developed, the victims of atomic testing and nuclear weapons development got a name: downwinders. What marked their tragedy was the darkness in which they were kept about what was being done to them. Proof of harm fell to them, not to the U.S. government agencies responsible.

Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado, or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches, difficulty breathing, joint pain, intestinal illnesses, memory loss, and more. “In my opinion,” says Yuri Gorby of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “what we see unfolding is a serious health crisis, one that is just beginning.”

The process of “fracking” starts by drilling a mile or more vertically, then outward laterally into 500-million-year-old shale formations, the remains of oceans that once flowed over parts of North America. Millions of gallons of chemical and sand-laced water are then propelled into the ground at high pressures, fracturing the shale and forcing the methane it contains out. With the release of that gas come thousands of gallons of contaminated water. This “flowback” fluid contains the original fracking chemicals, plus heavy metals and radioactive material that also lay safely buried in the shale.

The industry that uses this technology calls its product “natural gas,” but there’s nothing natural about up-ending half a billion years of safe storage of methane and everything that surrounds it. It is, in fact, an act of ecological violence around which alien infrastructures -- compressor stations that compact the gas for pipeline transport, ponds of contaminated flowback, flare stacks that burn off gas impurities, diesel trucks in quantity, thousands of miles of pipelines, and more -- have metastasized across rural America, pumping carcinogens and toxins into water, air, and soil.

Read the entire article, it's horrifying... http://truth-out.org/news/item/16137-fracking-ourselves-to-death-in-pennsylvania

Nothing is being said on the MSM about this...the silence is deafening.

[patrice]

1. K&R

[matt819]

2. You have to laugh

As with most issues in the US today, you can pretty much count on the left being opposed to fracking and the right being in favor. Regarding those on the right - do they realize that fracking would not be a viable option if the earth were only 6,000 years old. God's mysterious ways apply here, I suppose.

[haikugal]

4. Follow the money...

the rubes that drink the kool aid are knuckle dragging paint chip eaters...lost to reality. Good point though..

[Myrina]

6. They cloak their earth-destroying policies in 'job creator' bullshit.

I heard this morning on NPR that they're going to build (or re-open?) a uranium 'cleaning' plant for nukes in Colorado. Because 'it will create jobs'.

Sure, we'll all glow in the dark, have 3 eyes and tails in a generation or so, but hey, we'll have jobs.
Probably minimum wage jobs. With no health care or retirement benefits.

[haikugal]

7. I guess they figure they have enough slave labor what's a few dead....

they don't pay taxes so no sweat off their brow and they'll get rid of SS and medicare ASAP.

[Myrina]

8. I know, but it drives me nuts that people don't see thru it ...

.... the only jobs that can be "created" are planet-destroying ones that are ultimately probably going to kill us? Really?

SMH

[haikugal]

9. It's discouraging...

but keep the faith...we outnumber them and people are waking up. We live in interesting times..we have courageous young people fighting back worldwide.

[femmocrat]

3. K & R Excellent article.

Thanks for posting it.

[haikugal]

5. You're welcome..

More people need to see this...

[The Straight Story]

10. Let me tell you how this will go:

They will make a ton of money off fracking, it will have long term effects mixed in with some short term environmental disasters (which will take many years to fix if possible).

There will be some hearings "Well, Senator, at the time no one could see this sort of thing happening...." many such comments such as that.

Then there will be blame passed around.

People who made a ton of money off it and ran the operations/companies will have since left and cashed out any stock they had. There will be some fines which will be about 5% of what was made and taxpayers will foot the bill for cleanup.

Then, there will be another thing to come along that we all know is bad and will cause problems, we will raise the alarm but it will drowned out by dollar signs, rinse, repeat.