Fascinating Inconsistency
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I wonder how it is even possible to be able to run operations where you have the right to keep secret what chemicals you're spraying into the bedrock, and this, in a country that's absurd when it comes to other forms of security.
Fascinating Inconsistency
Skånska Dagbladet, Sweden
By Editorial
Translated By Andrew Pratt
9 April 2014
Edited by Gillian Palmer
I wonder how it is even possible to be able to run operations where you have the right to keep secret what chemicals you're spraying into the bedrock, and this, in a country that's absurd when it comes to other forms of security.
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The evidence is apparently still missing that this could have to do with fracking, but in his documentary, Iain Stewart showed us well water that had become undrinkable because of high levels of methane, the primary ingredient of natural gas. Besides suspicions of gas leaks, there is also worry over the chemicals used in the process spreading through the groundwater.
The companies that benefit from the new energy source don't want to hear about problems, and when it involves people getting sick, the company boards of directors say that it's all made up. At the same time, they're apparently aware that the things they're doing are dangerous; they refuse to talk about what chemicals are used in the process.
Sitting in front of my TV, I shake my head and wonder how it is even possible to be able to run operations where you have the right to keep secret what chemicals you're spraying into the bedrock, and this, in a country that's absurd when it comes to other forms of security. To protect its people from terrorist attacks, travelers have to take off their shoes for security and have their bodies scanned with the goal of stopping someone whose intent is to kill himself and take others with him. In the same country, those who are looking for cheap energy are allowed to do that with methods that can mean, like a terrorist on a plane, taking people on a risky journey toward poorer health and maybe, in the long run, a shorter life.