NatGas Blowout Spills Toxic Fracking Fluid into Susquehanna River

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"On the anniversary of the blowout of BP's Macando deepwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. energy industry is dealing with another fossil fuel spill -- this time it is a natural gas well in Pennsylvania.

Late Tuesday night Chesapeake Energy Corporation lost control of its Marcellus Shale well near Canton, Pennsylvania. The company reports that a piece of equipment failed during the hyrdraulic fracturing process. As a result, thousands of gallons of chemical-laden water have spilled out from the well into nearby fields and farms.

Local news outlet, WNEP reports that officials have stated the toxic fracking fluid has entered the Towanda Creek which feeds into the Susquehanna River."

http://theenergycollective.com/nathanaelbaker/56070/pennsylvania-natural-gas-blowout-spills-thousands-gallons-toxic-wastewater-loca?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+%28all+posts%29

Millions of times more toxic than leaked tritium at Vermont Yankee...but who's counting?

[sakabatou]

1. Oh yay, more pollutants

[Orrex]

2. If only someone could have foreseen exactly this type of accident occurring.

If only!

[glinda]

3. I no longer believe these are just accidents. I now believe these are planned events.

1) They don't care that is why they push for oil, gas, mining, anywhere and everywhere.
2) Because they don't care, there would be no guilt to let her rip and pollute in order to justify expansion of the area.

[aquart]

4. No, they aren't planned events.

They are inevitable events which is different.

[glinda]

12. If they are inevitable, why wouldn't they just mess things up? Same logic. They don't

care. It is with aggressive desperation that they are destroying the planet.

[Nihil]

5. That's not a problem ... damn scaremongers ...

That stuff doesn't have a half-life so there's absolutely no problem
with dumping that stuff into water for drinking or irrigation of
food crops.

If it had a half-life of billions of years though, that would be cause
for all kinds of mass panic as it's obviously so radioactive that it
will kill millions just in passing ...

[DCKit]

6. Have you ever met a thread you didn't want to poop on? nt

[Nihil]

7. Nice to see that you went for simple ad-hom rather than actually thinking about what was said ...

... and, maybe, considering my point about the inability of so many
people around here to understand serious issues that don't involve
the word "nuclear" ...

:shrug:

[DCKit]

9. My brain doesn't work the same as yours. I don't comprehend your thinking...

except to know you're generally wrong on every topic.

I was born a short distance down-river from that spill and spent the best days of my childhood swimming in the Susquehanna. Add to that, I know much of what's in the fracking fluid (about 50 different, known, cancer-causing chemicals and heavy metals) and a huge F.U. is the best I can do for you.

[Nihil]

10. You could have stopped after the fourth word.

I'm really glad that you know what's in the fracking fluid.

All you need to do now is to understand why I get irritated
with people who are incapable of comprehending relative risks.

Mind you, an understanding of the concept of sarcasm without needing
dumb :sarcasm: icons would have probably helped avoid your initial
reply to me.

This situation was guaranteed to happen - in fact it has happened
on different scales in many places already - but few people cared
sufficiently about it to offset their "Ooh! Money from the natural
gas industry!" attitude.

Greed. Stupidity. Selfishness. Humanity in a nutshell.

:shrug:

[DCKit]

13. OK, you win. You have completely destroyed me with a mix of snark...

totally logical illogic, made up numbers and industry "facts".

And thanks (seriously) for expending the effort to ensure that so many of the threads you post on make it to the greatest.

[kristopher]

8. Trying to draw an equivalency between this and Fukushima is beyone the pale.

[Nihil]

11. Why do you imply it then?

My comment was to try attention to the ignorance of so many people
on this forum - yes, including pro-gas ones - who cannot seem to
grasp the idea that something that isn't radioactive can actually
be far more harmful than something that is.

The situation has been made worse by the constant Fukushima updates
but it existed long before that (and will continue to exist long after
the news cycle moves onto the next shiny object to distract the sheep).

No need to think up any other strawmen in order to slur me.

[DCKit]

14. That one's all yours. That was Kristophers first post on this thread.

Projection much?

[Name removed]

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