A drilling platform rises on the Blackfeet Reservation with Chief Mountain and Glacier Park

[Ptah]

A drilling platform rises on the Blackfeet Reservation with Chief Mountain and Glacier Park in the background. TONYBYNUM.COM



http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20111127/NEWS01/111270303/Blackfeet-members-concerned-about-contamination-by-injection-drilling-technique?odyssey=tab

xploration companies are injecting large volumes of water, sand and chemicals into
rock formations up to a mile beneath the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in attempts
to loosen embedded oil — sometimes using more than a million gallons of fluid per well.

State, tribal and federal regulators of oil development say there has never been an
instance of the practice — called hydraulic fracturing — contaminating groundwater in Montana.

Yet Jack Gladstone, an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe and a well-known singer
and songwriter, is worried that "fracking" could taint the tribe's "clean, fresh, cold water."

He supports more disclosure of the chemicals used in the frack jobs, which he described
as an "uncontrolled experiment."

[secondwind]

1. Did the Indians have to give permission for this? what a beautiful horizon, and it is

ruined by that drilling platform... oy.

[lonestarnot]

2. What an ugly piece of shit that is!

[stevedeshazer]

3. This bothers me a great deal.

I've been in this area several times. It is incredibly beautiful, and the tribes depend on this land.

K & R

[postulater]

4. Doesn't look like there's anywhere to put the waste without ruining something.

Looks like antelope country. Hate to see it trashed. It's tough enough to live there without your water polluted.

[IDemo]

5. And warming is removing the glaciers from Glacier

[RebelOne]

6. Haven't we done enough to Native Americans

and now we have to pollute their lands?