Fracking - where is it headed ?

[Sundae]

Fracking is headed over here.
Govt just gave the go-ahead to resume it (BBC link).

Just heard a woman literally in tears over the radio about it. Fruit-loop.
Doesn't mean I'm pro-fracking, just means I don't get people who come on air and weep for Mother Earth and talk about the indiginous people of the world rising up to stop this madness.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Doesn't mean I'm pro-fracking, just means I don't get people who come on air and weep for Mother Earth and talk about the indiginous people of the world rising up to stop this madness.

My father so loved adults who are still children. Therefore cigarettes were smoked to increase health. Listerene is so often used to do nothing. So many have their computers at increased surge risk due to a power strip protector. In every case, adults who are still children entertain their emotions rather than learn facts.

His biggest complaint was the FTC who was trying to make them tell the truth. That simply took the fun out of it.

Most amusing are the most emotional will adamently deny they can be so easily brainwashed. They just know because they were told what to think. It was indeed fun to play with those people's heads. Because victims routinely deny they are victims.

[Trilby]

indiginous people are too indiginous to organize to stop anything. They will come together for a nice drum circle or a feast; but that's the extent of their organizational skillz.

The Germans on the other hand....

they're fracking here in northern Ohio. Making mini-millionaires overnight-----and everyone knows overnight millionaires are the best kind.

[busterb]

Sometime times I wonder about folks on here. Are they able to function in everyday life?

[orthodoc]

Originally Posted by busterb

Sometime times I wonder about folks on here. Are they able to function in everyday life?

Nailed it, busterb!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Been watching the PA Farm Show on TV this week. One of the things they show is Information (propaganda) displays by various government agencies and trade groups. The representative/spokesman/explainer for the Marcellus Gas group, while explaining to the crowd how fracking works, looked me right in the camera and said the only thing they put down the well is water and sand.

Now how am I to trust these people after they try to blow that smoke up my ass?

[BigV]

Really?!

There wasn't some fast talking fine print guy with all the disclaimer talk or anything asterisk on the screen?

What if there's some example where that's true, just not for most/normal wells, some kind of weasel word I had my fingers crossed "out"?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Really, I sat here with my mouth open. No "proprietary fluids", no other euphemisms, just water and sand.

[ZenGum]

Grind it up fine enough, I reckon pretty much any mineral could be called sand.

Or he's just a producer of deliberate inaccuracies with his lower garments in a state of conflagration.

[Griff]

Amazing. Did anyone call him on it?

Now that fracking is catching on in Europe, I expect to see a slowdown in activity here as the export market is not going to develop. We may actually become energy independent despite the best efforts of the industry.

[xoxoxoBruce]

No Griff, his audience was pretty slackjawed... you know, Farm Show zombies.

[ZenGum]

Must be the effects of all those chemtrails, eh?

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, sensory overload from trudging around 30 acres of concentrated indoor fair, for hours on end, carrying your winter coat, after getting up in the wee hours to drive there.

Today they had several teams taking wool fresh from the sheep, carding, spinning, dyeing, and weaving into a proscribed size shawl, in like two hours.
Then they auctioned them off for charity, bringing between $900 and $2500 each.

[glatt]

North Dakota Fracking fields can easily be seen from space at night and are as bright as a major city.

Lots of pictures at NPR.


These lights weren't there six years ago.

[BigV]

unemployment in some of those boom towns is as low as 0.1%. A tenth of a percent.