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Wow, Fauve, thanks for posting that! I watched the trailer with my mouth hanging open, although why I should be surprised by ANYTHING corporations do in pursuit of the Almighty Dollar at the expense of the environment after watching the heart-rending disaster unfold in the Gulf...
Here in the Pacific Northwest, to my knowledge, it is unusual to have the mineral rights sold separately from your purchase of a property. (Timber rights are another thing entirely.) I've never really been impacted by imagining an oil or gas rig set up in my backyard like in the Gulf states, wondering what it's doing to my water supply and my health.
And, for your Doom Porn for today, imagine if all that "fracking" connects somehow deep underground and triggers The Big One on the New Madrid fault line. The corporations whose short-sighted and arrogant policies caused it will just take their operations overseas, clucking about how there's no PROOF.
Let's see: I wish I'd been born a hundred years before the Industrial Revolution and the advent of the Oil Age, and I'd be the first to sign up if E.T. landed and offered seats on a one-way trip to Pandora.
A horrifying excerpt from the upcoming documentary:
"Well, you know, the first place I went was a town called Dimmick, Pennsylvania, which was about 50 miles from me, and I'm right near the New York, Pennsylvania border. What I found there was absolutely astounding. I found people who had leased for very little money - $25 an acre. And when I got to that town, the first thing that I heard about was a woman name Norma Fiorentino. Her water well exploded on New Years Day of 2009, and it sent a concrete casing soaring up into the air and scattered debris all over her yard. And then other people started to notice that their water was bubbling and fizzing, some of their water had been discolored.
By the time I got there just a month later, there were children who were complaining of getting sick, animals who were getting sick, and the whole place was pretty much laid to waste. I mean, there was like gas well pads everywhere, incredibly heavy truck traffic. It seemed like normal life had just been turned completely upside down. And I heard all these reports of people who could light their water on fire.
And I saw water tests which indicated lots of natural gas in the water, heavy metals in the water, which are - I've later found out to be associated with the drilling muds, which are the lubricants for the drill bit that punctures down through the aquifer. When you're subsisting off of well water for your whole life, your water is a point of pride. And I think everybody was shocked that their water, which had been great, would - had turned into something that they couldn't rely on and that they were afraid of."
A horrifying excerpt from the upcoming documentary:
"Well, you know, the first place I went was a town called Dimmick, Pennsylvania, which was about 50 miles from me, and I'm right near the New York, Pennsylvania border. What I found there was absolutely astounding. I found people who had leased for very little money - $25 an acre. And when I got to that town, the first thing that I heard about was a woman name Norma Fiorentino. Her water well exploded on New Years Day of 2009, and it sent a concrete casing soaring up into the air and scattered debris all over her yard. And then other people started to notice that their water was bubbling and fizzing, some of their water had been discolored.
By the time I got there just a month later, there were children who were complaining of getting sick, animals who were getting sick, and the whole place was pretty much laid to waste. I mean, there was like gas well pads everywhere, incredibly heavy truck traffic. It seemed like normal life had just been turned completely upside down. And I heard all these reports of people who could light their water on fire.
And I saw water tests which indicated lots of natural gas in the water, heavy metals in the water, which are - I've later found out to be associated with the drilling muds, which are the lubricants for the drill bit that punctures down through the aquifer. When you're subsisting off of well water for your whole life, your water is a point of pride. And I think everybody was shocked that their water, which had been great, would - had turned into something that they couldn't rely on and that they were afraid of."
Whoa, thanks for posting this....here's a link to the full interview - Terry Gross conducted it on NPR just yesterday - it only just gets more horrifying -
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