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David Brown on Public Health & Fracking (Original Post)
limpyhobbler
Feb 2012
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Thank you,lh'er.This is a very comprehensive explanation of a very serious extraction process.
The Wielding Truth
Feb 2012
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The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)1. Thank you,lh'er.This is a very comprehensive explanation of a very serious extraction process.
Pollution on a grand scale that can contaminate our fresh water. The chemicals used are not safe and they will not just stay under the ground or disappear.Tell me how we can live with ruined unusable water? How is it not our country's responsibility to completely support truly clean renewable fuel?
grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)2. K & R
n/t
txlibdem
(6,183 posts)3. "This is the beginnings of a superfund site"
Just f**king lovely. Thank you fossil fuels.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)4. "You cannot enforce the clean air act or the clean water act...
...in situations such as energy extraction or fracking, so these people had literally no options..."
Gee. I wonder who lobbied for THOSE laws, hmm?