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Would you live in a major city if there was fracking being done just outside of city limits? Would you be skeptical of the water quality? What about the methane coming from the ground? It's hard to determine just how risky fracking is, with so many different 'studies' being done about it. Would you avoid it?
I don't know if fracking would be done right outside of a city, especially a major city, due to watersheds. This will vary depending on the state as well.
I don't know if fracking would be done right outside of a city, especially a major city, due to watersheds. This will vary depending on the state as well.
I believe the main immediate issue isn't methane or groundwater but the tiny particulates in the air. At least that's what I've heard from locals. Not a fan of all the gouging of the beautiful Driftless hills, and I would never want to be anywhere near fracking.
Actually, those wells are a few miles from 2nd and 3rd ring suburbs, but PA was a state I had in mind in terms of the difference in guidelines as to where fracking can take place.
I've lived in an area FULL of fracking for the past 25 years and I love it here. No water problems, no pollution problems, no mutant babies, no issues whatsoever.
My husband has lived here his entire life - no problems.
driving around western north carolina you see beautiful mountains stripped bare of their tree's...
That's the timber business, not the fracking industry. Fracking doesn't require much in the way of tree removal. The actual site is not very large and nearly always, there are already logging roads to the locations.
That's the timber business, not the fracking industry. Fracking doesn't require much in the way of tree removal. The actual site is not very large and nearly always, there are already logging roads to the locations.
No, it just destroys scenic hills, expells particulates, and pollutes the groundwater. They don't have to destroy that many trees.
No, it just destroys scenic hills, expells particulates, and pollutes the groundwater. They don't have to destroy that many trees.
Interesting. Our groundwater isn't polluted at all by fracking and fracking has been HUGE in this area for at least forty years - it was one of the first areas to use fracking in fact. We get a report on our groundwater supply every year - no problems at all.
What people don't realize is that when a location is "fracked," it's a temporary situation. The company HAS TO return the location (and these locations are not large - usually about half the size of a football field) to it former elevation and lay of the land - in fact, it's former state all the way around. The company also has to reforest that location.
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