Everybody Must Get Fracked 2
The Baltimore Sun takes a long and relatively balanced look at fracking’s effects on the fracked.
A nugget:
Water from their kitchen tap fizzes like seltzer water, and she can ignite a foot-long flame by holding a match to the faucet when it’s on. The state says her water is safe to drink despite the methane, Vargson said, but she’s not reassured. Her dog and cat steer clear of it.
It’s pumping construction and other money into local economies–for now–and pollution into daily life.
Short-term boom, long-term poison.
Related:
Read about life on a fracking site.
March 10, 2013 at 3:09 pm
The paradox is there’s a simple way to blow the gas companies to hell. Insist they put a chemical marker in their fracking fluid, or, uncover the blanket legislation that allowed them to make secret the ingredients. With the latter they can argue proprietary concerns but with the former, they would not be able to. A President could call on an American scientific group, independent of the energy industry, to name a chemical marker and then institute an environmental regulation to implement it. Of course the Republican Party would fight it but you’re the good side to argue when you’re talking about clean water.
March 10, 2013 at 3:18 pm
Except Cheney.
http://www.salon.com/2011/06/27/hydrofracking_and_the_epa/