Won't fracking eventually lead to areas that are uninhabitable?

[no_hypocrisy]

Water wells and underground water supplies that are poisonous?
Methane fumes that sicken inhabitants?
Earthquakes?
Property values that plunge because nobody can live in a house with either or both of those conditions?
Lost tax revenue (municipal, state, sales taxes) from people moving away?

[dipsydoodle]

1. Main issue is likely to be

The water supply which is probably the most important issue of all.

[Drahthaardogs]

2. Probably not

Most oil and gas drilling is done in fairly uninhabited areas anyway. See Pinedale Wyoming, Lake Sak North Dakota, Vernal Utah, etc., and most of it is done very deep (3 miles down). When it does cause problems though, it generally makes a damned mess.

[newfie11]

3. There are people living in and around Pinedale.

It is a town. Granted not a large one but hey in this part of the country there aren't many large ones.


Ranchers have wells that water cattle as well as themselves.
http://www.pinedaleonline.com/

[Drahthaardogs]

8. I lived in Pinedale, but most of the drilling in the Jonah and the Anticline are NOT near

people.

[Champion Jack]

9. Bullshit

They are fracking around lots of people in PA and WV

[txlibdem]

11. Truth: IT ALREADY HAS

Thanks for your post!

[uponit7771]

4. No, same issues can happen with oil drilling just now we're doing 10 times more fracking than even

...5 years ago so we're getting 10 times more reports of screwed up wells

[necso]

5. And this affects the near-term, fracking-profits equation how? /nt

[NYC_SKP]

6. Yes, generally wherever humans spend enough time it becomes uninhabitable...

Just need enough time. Detroit, Love Canal, Planet Earth.

[CrispyQ]

10. Damn, that is some depressing truth.

My husband & I recently had a discussion about two conflicting attitudes that a lot of anti-science people (repubs) have. First, they believe that we (humans) create our own reality & that we can act outside of nature & shape it the way we want. However, their argument against human activity causing global warming is that Earth is so big that our actions simply can't have an impact on it.

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

I don't know how you even reach a brain that opeates like this. :wtf:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. yep...I remember a National Geographic commentary: humans are an exterminator

species.

That was sad to see that and know it's true.

Homo Sapiens? Feh. More like Homo Letalis

[daggahead]

7. Yes, but ...

... aren't the short-term profits to the natural gas companies more important?

:sarcasm: