Moving to CO, concerned the state allows fracking.... (homes, inspectors)

[jwiley]

Originally Posted by phetaroi

I can't vouch for the accuracy of this, but I was listening to a report on the radio a couple of days ago, which stated that no American company has yet turned a profit on fracking.

I can tell you there are plenty of companies that have made plenty of profits in Fracking, that is why so many do it now. Hell just a few days ago I met a guy who buys wells that are near the end of their life span with production dropped to the point of no longer being worth the costs of the pumpers and trucks to drive to them, they then frack the wells, turn the recovery from 10-20 barrels a day back up to 300+ barrels a day, and then sale the oil right back to the companies they buy the wells from.

[debbie at bouontiful]

There is a fracking well about a mile and half from my home and it doesn't seem to be a problem. What I like it means they don't have to come onto my property. Also, they are doing horizontal wells which I love because they are taking all the oil from under my 300 acres ranch and not touching me. I am not easy to get along with with oil guys mainly because I do not own my mineral rights but we all need that oil and with fracking and horizontal drilling that means less wells which is good!

[lalahartma]

Debbie please give us an update in a year or two.

[debbie at bouontiful]

It's been several years now. Yes, it worried me but the plus side was they did not have to come onto my land. Thankfully, the land owners around me like that instant cash they got from the oil company. I preferred not having anyone with an easement near my place. Oklahoma was the first for fracking and have been for a very long time. Some people blame tremors on them but evidence showed a possible 2.0 earthquake. We had a 4.something a year ago but the earthquake center (wherever that is) said it was related to fracking. I personally would think most people would like it because it means a lot less wells out there. Now, if it was to get into my water I scream my head off but my water is checked all the time and is just fine. No flow difference either after the well went in.

[delta07]

Originally Posted by debbie at bouontiful

It's been several years now. Yes, it worried me but the plus side was they did not have to come onto my land. Thankfully, the land owners around me like that instant cash they got from the oil company. I preferred not having anyone with an easement near my place. Oklahoma was the first for fracking and have been for a very long time. Some people blame tremors on them but evidence showed a possible 2.0 earthquake. We had a 4.something a year ago but the earthquake center (wherever that is) said it was related to fracking. I personally would think most people would like it because it means a lot less wells out there. Now, if it was to get into my water I scream my head off but my water is checked all the time and is just fine. No flow difference either after the well went in.

This seems to be the biggest problem. Landowners accept the wells because of the instant cash they bring. However, years down the road, problems begin to arise with water, higher cancer rates, or something else, and then they begin to think about how that instant cash may end up costing them a lot more in the long run.

[jwiley]

Originally Posted by delta07

This seems to be the biggest problem. Landowners accept the wells because of the instant cash they bring. However, years down the road, problems begin to arise with water, higher cancer rates, or something else, and then they begin to think about how that instant cash may end up costing them a lot more in the long run.

Do you have any studies done on peoples health in the areas they allow fracking, I have looked but have yet to find anything that shows a higher rate of cancer or other health problems.

[CosmicWizard]

From a quick google search on the relationship between fracking and cancer, I found this article. Fracking Exposed: Shocking New Report Links Drilling With Breast Cancer and Women's Violence

There are many more on the return list, but you ( jwiley ) can do your own homework. Posted this link just to show you that there is information available if you care to find it.

[jwiley]

Originally Posted by CosmicWizard

From a quick google search on the relationship between fracking and cancer, I found this article. Fracking Exposed: Shocking New Report Links Drilling With Breast Cancer and Women's Violence

There are many more on the return list, but you ( jwiley ) can do your own homework. Posted this link just to show you that there is information available if you care to find it.

That is a link showing a lot of assumptions and guesses on what some of the possible chemicals they are using and how they have been shown to cause cancer on their own. You are right I can find plenty of articles with plenty of assumptions and guesses, but I have yet to see a study of these chemicals actually affecting an area. Fracking has been in use of 60 years, surely they must have studies by now showing actual health problems in the areas where fracking has been used. I have family in the parachute area of Colorado fracking has been used there since the 70s, not to mention northern Colorado where it has been used since the 60s, all over Oklahoma & Texas since the 50s, all over Wyoming since the 60s. Surely there must be something showing millions of cases of cancer tied to fracking if everything they put into the ground and comes up causes cancer like they are saying. So once again has anybody actually done a study showing the actual affects of fracking in any of those areas as compared to say national averages or areas without fracking?

[Idunn]

'Sandra Steingraber, an acclaimed ecologist and author of "Raising Elijah" -- a book on how to raise a child in an age of environmental hazards, takes the strong stand that fracking violates a woman's reproductive rights. "If you want to plan a pregnancy and someone else's chemicals sabotage that -- it's a violation of your rights as a woman to have agency over your own reproductive destiny," she said.' [1]


This from the aforementioned reference. In just this it seems that prudence would prevent anyone pregnant, or contemplating it, working closely with fracking operations—or even living anywhere in the neighborhood. The chemicals used are a whose who of all the nasty things no one wants to have anything to do with. No assumption in that; refer to a post of mine in the 'Fracking Your Future' thread, with mention of some specific chemicals Halliburton kindly enough provided.


1)' Fracking Exposed: Shocking New Report Links Drilling With Breast Cancer and Women's Violence,' policymic
http://www.policymic.com/articles/64...men-s-violence

[jwiley]

Originally Posted by Idunn

'Sandra Steingraber, an acclaimed ecologist and author of "Raising Elijah" -- a book on how to raise a child in an age of environmental hazards, takes the strong stand that fracking violates a woman's reproductive rights. "If you want to plan a pregnancy and someone else's chemicals sabotage that -- it's a violation of your rights as a woman to have agency over your own reproductive destiny," she said.' [1]


This from the aforementioned reference. In just this it seems that prudence would prevent anyone pregnant, or contemplating it, working closely with fracking operations—or even living anywhere in the neighborhood. The chemicals used are a whose who of all the nasty things no one wants to have anything to do with. No assumption in that; refer to a post of mine in the 'Fracking Your Future' thread, with mention of some specific chemicals Halliburton kindly enough provided.

Great the chemicals are bad, I did not disagree, what I asked is there anything showing the actually affect the public in areas used? These chemicals are combined and shot 2+ miles under the earth, now I know the drillers argument those chemicals affects are changed when combined and never make it to the surface, what I would like to know if someone has actually studied the affects and what they are. Surely if they are so bad and they make there way to the surface there should be more then an analysis on medical problems in the areas of the country they are used. I have yet to see any, have googled it a few times, and never seen any actual studies done on these areas, so I was hoping to find one I missed. I am beginning to think it does not exist, that there is nothing to show that fracking has any affect on the population of the areas it is used.