PA fracking to continue to poison drinking water.

[lonestarnot]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/pennsylvania-gas-drillers-dump-pollution-drinking-water-supplies/

Pennsylvania allows gas drillers to dump pollution into drinking water supplies

By The Associated Press
Monday, January 3rd, 2011 -- 3:19 pm


The natural gas boom gripping parts of the U.S. has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep.

Not in Pennsylvania, one of the states at the center of the gas rush.

There, the liquid that gushes from gas wells is only partially treated for substances that could be environmentally harmful, then dumped into rivers and streams from which communities get their drinking water.

In the two years since the frenzy of activity began in the vast underground rock formation known as the Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania has been the only state allowing waterways to serve as the primary disposal place for the huge amounts of wastewater produced by a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

[PhillySane]

1. Yes, and its headed for Philly.

We'll be the first major city with flammable water spouts.

[lonestarnot]

3. eee gads.

[hootinholler]

10. That may be a race with Baltimore

Unless Harrisburg is a major city. The Susquehanna drains a huge portion of the fracking field, right into the Chesapeake bay.

-Hoot

[doc03]

2. We have two wells in my county now in the fracking

process and another 11 scheduled to be drilled so far. There have been several explosions and fires
at gas wells in nearby WV and PA this year. There is one local family in WV that has a gas well now instead of a water well.

[Swamp Rat]

4. Politicians and their families should be forced to drink the water,

as well as the foreign investors. :grr:

[lonestarnot]

6. With no other option! And no opting out! Criminal fuckers!

[Swamp Rat]

8. If anyone knows where Tony Hayward is, tell him he has a date to eat Gulf oysters and shrimp,

and is scheduled to begin his life-long task of drinking 100,000 gallons of water from Plaquemines Parish.

[blue neen]

5. It's not going to get any better either. Our new Repulican gov., Tom Corbett,

received a lot of campaign money from the Marcellus Shale "industry". Meanwhile, it's actually oilmen from Texas.

We are inundated daily with lovely, family friendly, oh-so-caring TV public relations ads by companies like Range Resources who are doing everything they can to take over our state. They don't care about the environment. They don't care about the people they use...THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THE MONEY.

It's nothing but a BP disaster in the mountains and hillsides instead of the ocean.

[lonestarnot]

7. Launch some direct actions on their asses at their well sites. Where's Green Peace?

[blue neen]

9. It's not all that easy to get to some of the well sites (and some are very well guarded).

These companies act like they are doing us all a big favor here in PA. Meanwhile, these oil titans bring in their own people to do the drilling, so they're not really providing jobs for Pennsylvanians.

Typically deer hunting season in PA is a big tourism industry (starts the Monday after Thanksgiving). Many of the hunters who usually get hotel rooms were not able to get them because they were all taken by Marcellus Shale workers here from out of state. That might actually be one of our saving graces...the hunters are getting peeved...they can't get places to stay AND the drilling has really messed up the typical hunting grounds.

Some municipalities are trying to ban the drilling outright but are afraid that the bans won't hold up in court. The city of Pittsburgh has banned it but is expecting a fight.

Let me tell you...it is a huge racket. Huge, and quite scary.