Natural Gas Extraction Expose – GasLand

[Stan]

HBO is airing a documentary tonight (8 -10 PM) on the extraction of natural gas using hydraulic fracturing or fracking. This is the procedure that gas companies are using to extract gas from the Fayetteville shale formation. I learned about the program today while listening to National Public Radio. This award winning film talks about the gas industry’s exemptions from environmental regulations. Think that is scary???!!! Apparently some people can light a fire in their tap water.

Looks like there are two important programs on TV tonight: The "Disaster in the Gulf: How You Can Help" telethon and “GasLand”.

[reedo]

I was listening to that as well....very scary!! Wish I had HBO

[hdh]

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HDH

[DeBo]

I have been involved in a project keeping track of activities in the Fayetteville Shale for the last three years. Gasland is dramatic but the incidents described are very real. The gas industry has brought jobs and many economic benefits to our region but the costs to our environment will be great and many may not manefest until years later.

I understand that people who work for this industry do not wish to see the negative side of it but what I ask is that we examine it clearly and impose the strongest regulations possible to protect our water and land.

Companies worth billions of dollars can surely look past their smugness and complacency to implement best management practices to protect our environment and our citizens from the kinds of consequences now faced by those states along our Gulf coast.

The following link will take you to a presentation that I gave last fall for the Arkansas Water Future group. It focuses primarily on surface impacts of gas drilling. The violations pictured in it were in clear sight for everyone to see.

Imagine what goes on under the surface in an industry whose regulating agency is staffed entirely by former industry employees.
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