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Fracking Threatens Public Safety and Health

An impotent government regulatory body is a recipe for disaster

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It appears that concerned citizens are now actively opposing fracking operations.

See for yourself: http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/video-wildass-roadblock-and-treesit-shut-down-fracking-rig/

D Simm of FL 12:11PM July 20, 2012

Sam McNeil: I'd LOVE to see your references for all of those statistics. Until you show them, I could say they're fictitious numbers.

Another thing about these jobs is that companies are not going to hire some old bum off the street to do them; you need proper qualifications and skills, and not everyone has them. That's why they end up not hiring as many locals as they do people they know will be effective at the job.

Read the papers, the journal articles (here's one: http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/wy/pavillion/, it's open for public comment as a draft)....inform yourself before you say anything.

Sincerely,

Any logical person

RemovetheVeil of NJ 6:11PM May 14, 2012

I have a partial solution to the issue. Make each home owner that is in favor of hydro fracking take out a million dollar insurance policy. Make it so each well must carry a 5 million dollar policy paid for by the gas companies,drillers and other parties involved in the well. We've already seen that while in an ideal world yes it could be done safely but we are not perfect and there is bound to be problems. Side steps to safety will be taken in the name of profits. Sad but true. Also mandate that each well drilled must add new jobs to the local economy. I don't mean importing workers from Texas as has been the case thus far in PA and NY. Personally we (my family) stands to make alot of money for the gas rights (whether or not we sign) but are not willing to be so short sighted that all we see are dollar signs. We owe it to the future generations to leave the world we live in better than we found it. Our children and grandchildren will inherit the land when we are no more. If you would not want a well in your backyard why should we be forced to have one in ours? Then again if we were willing to sign with a gas company you should not be forced to clean up a mess made because we can't. I'm just a country boy but it's pretty clear to me that if you're willing to take the chance that the wells will in fact be done safely you should put your money where your mouth is. Put the insurance monies in escrow to be returned at the end of the gas lease (generally 10 yrs).

Adam Johnson Jr. of NY 10:48PM December 02, 2011

Put a well in my neighborhood and it will be burnt down.

I'm not saying I'll be the one torching it but I'll be sure to bring marshmellows.

joe average of NY 10:31PM December 02, 2011

Hydrofracking is simply too risky. From the beginning the biggest red flag was an automatic exemption from EPA standards.

Big money lies and will kill for the bottom line.

Caroline Muirhead of NY 10:06AM November 30, 2011

Hydrofracking is simply too risky. From the beginning the biggest red flag was an automatic exemption from EPA standards.

Big money lies and will kill for the bottom line.

Caroline Muirhead of NY 10:05AM November 30, 2011

Hydrofracking is simply too risky. From the beginning the biggest red flag was an automatic exemption from EPA standards.

Big money lies and will kill for the bottom line.

Caroline Muirhead of NY 10:04AM November 30, 2011

Hydrofracking is simply too risky. From the beginning the biggest red flag was an automatic exemption from EPA standards.

Big money lies and will kill for the bottom line.

Caroline Muirhead of NY 10:03AM November 30, 2011

Fracking is simply too risky. From the beginning the biggest red flag was an automatic exemption from EPA standards.

Big money lies and will kill for the bottom line.

Caroline Muirhead of NY 10:02AM November 30, 2011

My dad has been in the oilfield business for over 40 years and they have been fracking in the Texas panhandle for years and years and they are doing it right. You dumbbutt that say no are not out there day after day drilling, fracking you have no f-ing idea about it you listen to the idiot tree hugger that have not done an honest day of work and sure and the heck has no idea about oil or natural gas. Listen you dorks mother nature has be having the earth shift for years and for all the years they have been drilling the panhandle of Texas buildings and houses are still standing and even in Okla. Good old mother nature has to move and stretch sometimes. We are the largest suppliers of Natural Gas in the world lets see what does that mean JOBS JOBS INDEPENDANTS, GROWTH, MORE STABLE ECONOMY, MORE JOBS, CLEAN AIR for the tree huggers.

Melissa of TX 2:16AM November 30, 2011

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