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Especially most recently with the Trayvon Martin case.   Like it is not tragic enough, then the media outlets NBC, msnbc, CNN all LIED and manipulated the 911 recording of the call!!

(jimhanson @ Apr. 05 2012,10:57 am)

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If this "science" is settled--where are the Obamunists on the issue?  Wouldn't you THINK that the advocates of big government and government control would make this illegal?

MAYBE it's because there has been no proof of your contentions.

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 People won't buy an OIL or GAS well?

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ISN'T IT INTERESTING that the "Occupiers" that oppose fracking and demand "clean air and water" cause such filth in the very public parks they "occupy"?

(irisheyes @ Apr. 07 2012,8:43 am)

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No, not everything goes.  But I get nervous when you keep talking about taking away freedoms based on YOUR interpretation of what peoples' responsibilities are.  I don't like the idea of limiting the 1st, 2nd, 4th, or 5th (or any other) Amendments because YOU don't think this or that person is responsible enough.



You don't like edited tapes, I thought you were a FOX viewer.  

I never heard the edited tape until I searched for it after you mentioned this, and I agree they shouldn't omit words to make it sound even worse than it was.  Because the unedited tape was bad enough considering what happened.  It was obvious his mind was made up long before he shot the guy.  But once again I bet you could care less that your friends on FOX have been caught editing tapes many times.

Hell, conservatives still love Breitbart and him and O'Keefe were great at editing stuff out.  I bet you never even saw or heard a single unedited piece of film from those guys.

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But I get nervous when you keep talking about taking away freedoms based on YOUR interpretation of what peoples' responsibilities are.

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I never heard the edited tape until I searched for it after you mentioned this, and I agree they shouldn't omit words to make it sound even worse than it was.  Because the unedited tape was bad enough considering what happened.  It was obvious his mind was made up long before he shot the guy.

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Considering how much resistance there's been to proving other things (birth certificates, evolution, and climate change), we might have our hands full.  If they're using high pressure chemicals to frack near groundwater sources, would you be drinking from the tap after that?

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It's usually a LONG time before regulatory agencies will say anything against companies causing illnesses

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I thought the Occupy crowd didn't know what they were protesting?

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I'll agree--Obummer is really playing catch-up--trying to explain the birth certificate

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Still NO scientific evidence that fracking is dangerous--despite its widespread use, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DO DRINK THAT GROUNDWATER with no bad effects.  Has there been even ONE successful court case proving that fracking caused issues--despite its widespread use, millions of people exposed, and an army of lawyers that would just love to jump on the issue?"

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Seriously Jim? Because the companies doing the fracking have the BIGGEST army of lawyers. But, anyways, here's a short list of documented proof of problems for you. No court case yet, but I have a feeling there will be some very very soon:
Logan Mountain Colorado, 2008http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13535728

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Pavillion Wyoming Health Survey:
People here are sick. Our water, air, soil, and our health are all connected, says John Fenton, Pavillion resident with a contaminated drinking water well. Thanks to the EPA we will know what chemicals are in our water. Now we need to know the chemicals in our air, our homes and our bodies.

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Since the development of the oil and gas resources in the area, Pavillion residents have reported contamination and health impacts that they suspect are coming from Encana's Pavillion/Muddy Ridge gas-field. Residents' symptoms have ranged from rashes and headaches to neurological disorders and cancers. The survey found 94% of participants reported health impacts that are known effects of chemicals identified last year in drinking water wells.

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A significant survey finding also includes 81% of participants reporting respiratory ailments. This indicates that a primary pathway of human exposure to chemicals in the area may be occurring through air pathways, such as industrial releases and from showering or washing dishes with contaminated water. Based on the survey, the landowners and groups are calling for regulators to identify the source of contamination, conduct residential and regional air-monitoring, and to implement medical monitoring in which residents with health impacts can receive blood and urine testing.

"We have spent thousands on doctors and tests", says Jeff Locker, a Pavillion landowner with contaminated water. Locker and his wife have struggled with respiratory and neurological symptoms, constant nausea and headaches, and aggressive pre-cancerous growths. "It's big profit over people's health. Our health officials need to step forward. "

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While Encana and regulators claim that the source of the water contamination has not been identified, oil and gas production is the only industrial activity in the area. The EPA is planning to release additional drinking water tests to the public on August 31st. The State of Wyoming's Department of Environmental Quality is slated to place an air monitor in the Pavillion area in late September that will assess regional air quality.
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Poplar Montana:
Oil companies have agreed to pay $320,000 to the northeastern Montana city of Poplar to relocate water wells and take other steps to deal with a 40 million gallon plume of pollution seeping into drinking supplies.

Environmental Protection Agency scientist Sarah Roberts said Tuesday that Poplar's water so far remains safe to drink but faces imminent danger.

Federal officials have been tracking the underground plume's spread from the East Poplar oil field for decades. It is moving toward Poplar and reached city water supplies in 2010.

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Some wells outside town already have been rendered undrinkable by the plume of salty pollution
http://billingsgazette.com/news...44.html
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August 2010:
A new report by the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association said the state has identified 1,435 violations by 43 Marcellus Shale drilling companies since January 2008, prompting environmental groups to call for quick legislative action to protect water and land resources.

According to Monday's report, 952 of the violations were identified as having or likely to have an impact on the environment. Those included 100 violations of the state Clean Stream Law, 268 for improper construction of waste water impoundments; 277 for poor erosion and sedimentation plans during well pad, road and piping construction; 16 for improper blowout prevention; and 154 for discharging industrial waste, including drilling waste water containing toxic chemicals, onto the ground or into streams.http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/10215/1077192-454.stm

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Franklin Township Pennsylvania March 2012:
The Department of Environmental Protection has asked a natural gas drilling company to step in and help three Franklin Twp. families whose well water contains high levels of methane.

State environmental regulators have not determined the source of the gas and are not saying WPX Energy is responsible for the methane, DEP spokeswoman Colleen Connolly said. But in a letter to the driller Friday, regulators asked that WPX help address the problem.

"They can offer to put in (methane) mitigation systems. They can offer to buy bottled water. We did ask them to vent at least one well," Ms. Connolly said.

"We're looking at a situation where some temporary fixes need to be put in, and we're putting the ball in WPXs court"

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The department began investigating elevated methane in the water wells in December when residents along Route 29 in the hamlet of Franklin Forks noticed discolored water and intermittent eruptions of gas and water from their well.
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news...f1SCBiU
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Two days later they put in vents and offer free supplies of clean water. Just to be nice?
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news...1289112
Ms. Hadlick's water also contained high levels of salts. Her methane level, 58.3 milligrams per liter, is more than twice the concentration state regulators have called the "true level of concern": when the water is so full of gas it begins to release it to the air.
"It makes your hair really dried out and yucky feeling," Ms. Hadlick said. "My son has had sores in his mouth from using the water to brush his teeth."
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Pennsylvania doctors now have a gag order on them so they can't tell patients what chemicals they might be exposed to.
      Under a new law, doctors in Pennsylvania can access information about chemicals used in natural gas extraction -- but they won't be able to share it with their patients. A provision buried in a law passed last month is drawing scrutiny from the public health and environmental community, who argue that it will "gag" doctors who want to raise concerns related to oil and gas extraction with the people they treat and the general public.

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There is good reason to be curious about exactly what's in those fluids. A 2010 congressional investigation revealed that Halliburton and other fracking companies had used 32 million gallons of diesel products, which include toxic chemicals like benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene, in the fluids they inject into the ground. Low levels of exposure to those chemicals can trigger acute effects like headaches, dizziness, and drowsiness, while higher levels of exposure can cause cancer.

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The latest move in Pennsylvania has raised suspicions among the industry's critics once again. As Walter Tsou, president of the Philadelphia chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, put it, "What is the big secret here that they're unwilling to tell people, unless they know that if people found out what's really in these chemicals, they would be outraged?"
http://www.theatlantic.com/health...0
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All that leftover fracking water has to be stored some place. Alot of it is being pumped deep underground in Ohio:

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All that underground space has made Ohio a leading importer of wastewater from other states. Last year, oil and gas companies injected 511 million gallons into Ohio’s wells, the most on record, according to the state’s Department of Natural Resources. More than half came from elsewhere. Of the 94.2 million gallons of drilling wastewater that Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale operators sent to disposal wells last year, 98 percent went to Ohio.
Oil and gas companies haven’t put up as much of a fight over the proposed regulations, perhaps because they were introduced in the aftermath of a series of bizarre earthquakes near Youngstown that have been linked to the underground wastewater. There had been no record of quakes in the area before D&L Energy, based in Youngstown, began injecting wastewater into a well about 9,200 feet underground in December 2010. Starting in March, there were 12 quakes within a mile of the well ranging from magnitude 2.1 to a 4.0 quake that hit on New Year’s Eve.
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 The ODNR's 20-page preliminary investigation report released Friday based its findings on evidence from seismic monitors, the locations of the epicenters of 12 minor earthquakes within one mile of the disposal well, and the discovery of a heretofore unknown fault in the underlying bedrock.
"We made the determination that, while it's difficult to induce seismic activity, the depth of this well reached a previously unmapped fault and there is a likelihood it lubricated the fault, resulting in seismic activity," ODNR spokesman Carlo LoParo said.

The earthquakes registered magnitudes of 2.7 to 4.0, rattling dishes in homes but causing no structural damage. A 4.0-magnitude earthquake has a seismic energy yield equivalent to detonating a small atomic bomb.

The first earthquakes occurred three months after the high-pressure injection of wastewater began. Several quakes occurred in December 2011, with the last and most powerful on New Year's Eve, less than 24 hours after state regulators asked the company to shut down the well.
http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/12070/1215767-503-0.stm
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Fracking is also responsible for many earthquakes in Oklahoma and the UK. Just google it.
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Unfortunately there are plenty more instances of fracking poisoning water, land and air, so just ask if you want more. Also, it is getting harder for the media, EPA and drillers to hide it. Too many people are sick, it is happening too often, too many people are finally finding out about it, and too many people are mad.
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