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Water pollution from fracking confirmed in multiple states

Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Texas have received hundreds of complaints, an AP investigation revealed

LINDSAY ABRAMS

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A jar holding waste water from hydraulic fracturing is held up to the light at a recycling site in Midland, Texas, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

For a process that’s driving America’s energy boom, the things we don’t know about fracking for oil and natural gas often seem to surpass that which we do. One thing we do know: It involves pushing gallons of chemical-laden water into the ground, which has the potential to seep into nearby sources of drinking water. Leaving aside the fact that gas and oil companies aren’t required to disclose exactly which chemicals they’re using, actual information about water contamination’s scope and severity, along with other details crucial to public knowledge and health, is hard to come by.

In states at the forefront of the past decade’s boom in drilling for gas and oil, the Associated Press found hundreds of complaints about well-water pollution, a number of which were confirmed by officials:

— Pennsylvania has confirmed at least 106 water-well contamination cases since 2005, out of more than 5,000 new wells. There were five confirmed cases of water-well contamination in the first nine months of 2012, 18 in all of 2011 and 29 in 2010. The Environmental Department said more complete data may be available in several months.

— Ohio had 37 complaints in 2010 and no confirmed contamination of water supplies; 54 complaints in 2011 and two confirmed cases of contamination; 59 complaints in 2012 and two confirmed contaminations; and 40 complaints for the first 11 months of 2013, with two confirmed contaminations and 14 still under investigation, Department of Natural Resources spokesman Mark Bruce said in an email. None of the six confirmed cases of contamination was related to fracking, Bruce said.

— West Virginia has had about 122 complaints that drilling contaminated water wells over the past four years, and in four cases the evidence was strong enough that the driller agreed to take corrective action, officials said.

— A Texas spreadsheet contains more than 2,000 complaints, and 62 of those allege possible well-water contamination from oil and gas activity, said Ramona Nye, a spokeswoman for the Railroad Commission of Texas, which oversees drilling. Texas regulators haven’t confirmed a single case of drilling-related water-well contamination in the past 10 years, she said.

via Water pollution from fracking confirmed in multiple states – Salon.com.

BBC comments – Cameron urges fracking opponents to ‘get on board’

13 January 2014
BBC comments – Cameron urges fracking opponents to ‘get on board’

Councils that back fracking will get to keep more money in tax revenue, David Cameron has said as he urged opponents to “get on board”.

Comments

Mrs Vee
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:35

If fracking was the right thing to do Cameron wouldn’t need to offer tax bribes, would he?
Remus
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:32

Bedrock that has taken millions of years to form – destroyed in moments for a quick profit. And the irony is that some fracking will be done by companies from countries where the practice is banned. We need more research before taking this irreversible step.
AMc
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 12:17

What concerns me is the blatent ignorance around this whole subject. Just look at all the comments on this posting. I’m neither for nor against as no one has actually properly explained the pros & cons. But we can’t all keep saying to No Nuclear, No Windfarms, No burning of coal, No Solar Farms, No fracking, we need proper debate and leadership based on facts not emotion.
reenie
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:30

Total is investing in u.k. franking because France has rejected it outright. What does that tell you !!
Megan
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:27

This is a flagrant abuse of the taxation system. A council’s obligations & duty of care to those living in its area won’t change, so altering its funding on such a flimsy pretext is outrageous – whatever you think about fracking!
Lai
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:31

David Cameron is a threat to the British public.
Simon Johnson
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 11:22

It seems clear that we do not know what irreversible damage fracking might cause. If multinational corporations, and a Conservative government, were not promoting it, we might be able to believe what the scientists say. As it is, we can’t. This is short-term profit and long-term risk. If it were about fuel security, we would be exploiting sustainable resources. Shale gas is not sustainable.
stokiemart
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:37

In addition to the obvious conflict of interests this corrupt government is engendering one notes that Total cannot destroy the French environment as fracking in illegal there. But hey, come over to the UK, the Tories will sell anything they can get away with and will help you profit at the expense of the British people and environment. You live in a corporatocracy dressed as a liberal democracy.
Spycatcher
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:28

This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules.
BDS Now
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 11:48

Lets all club together to get a licenses to frack in Chipping Norton, near Chequers, Windsor and Sandringham. If they are rejected … then we know for sure / conclusively that there is something wrong with fracking.
Mark
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:46

Fracking in the USA has resulted in gagging orders.
This in itself is an infringement on freedom of speach.
If fracking companies had nothing to hide, then why the gagging orders?

The French have banned fracking.

Pumping carsagenic chemicals into the ground will seep into the water table.

Councils of the UK. Beware the poisoned apple you being offered.
Mark
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:30

Is this just not bribery?

Council funds cut by reduced parking charges and austerity measures will need to fill the gap.
tempting them with revenue from fracking is perverse to say the least.
flipmode
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:28

Let’s hope the local council leaders take the correct advise from specialists rather than seeing ‘££££’ signs appearing infront of their eyes.

As most councils are short of money this could be an easy way out without looking into all apsects of fracking
Sixp
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:46

62. RonnieP

The sooner the left wing open toed sandal brigade understand this, the better.

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Just grow up.

There’s a pile of evidence to illustrate environmental concerns over fracking and a proper debate is needed.

You may not care a less about the environment, others do.
Davertheraver

13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:38

All our energy needs could met and then some, by investing in insulation, solar panels on virtually every roof, more off shore wind, tidal power, combined heat and power… the solutions are all there. But the ruling class wouldn’t tolerate the people being dependent from the state-corporate alliance for energy, it’s far more profitable to give the Earth an enema and continue ‘business as usual’
Nemesis
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:50

Blackmail & corruption is truly wonderful isn’t it?
They would turn in their graves
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:42

Once they’ve dug these fracking wells, they turn their drills horizontally and can drill for 2-3 miles in every direction, blasting rock with high pressure mains water(expect water prices to increase and become scarce). They could be drilling right under your house and you don’t even know it! Or under an entire town!
Water gets everywhere, just ask a plumber, and this is HIGHLY TOXIC water.
JayTime
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:36

Cracking is a terrible idea. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that pumping large quantities of water and chemicals into the ground is going to cause problems.

Another case of short term financial gain setting the stage.
Cheddy
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 10:48

The downside of 5-year gov is no one wants to care beyond the 5-year mark. Fracking creates jobs, but at what cost? Smoking create jobs too – look where that got us. Legalising drugs will also create jobs.
The gov hires PR companies to look at which short term plan the people are more likely to swallow and then jump on it.
When it goes wrong, we won’t get the truth – just years of finger pointing.
dmcc
13TH JANUARY 2014 – 11:21

1. Bribery, pure and simple. I bet that councils which refuse get their grants cut.

2. So much for the “greenest government ever”.

3. I note it’s Total, a French company. Fracking is banned in France.
Funny, that.

Source: bbc

Le syndrome du Titanic

Hello, the very point is that we have passed the tipping point… consumption has finally taken us to a Point of No Return. Beyond the point of no return, it´s all about damage control – The Titanic sequel consequences – Why was the Titanic disaster an extinction? Mayabe, if we do as we should.. ..need 2 STOP all counterproductive activities now!

Check out this documentary

The Titanic Syndrome is a documentary film made in 2008 by Nicolas Hulot and Jean-Albert Hare, released on 7 October 2009. It follows the eponymous book published in 2004: The Titanic Syndrome

The logic step is to deal with, accept and agree on the above the sooner, the better!
/CCCRdg

“We Have to Consume Less”: Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis

A pair of climate scientists are calling for what some may view as a shocking solution to the global warming crisis: a rethinking of the economic order in the United States and other industrialized nations. Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows-Larkin of the influential Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in England say many of the solutions proposed by world leaders to prevent “runaway global warming” will not be enough..

Source: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/21/we_have_to_consume_less_scientists

How to STOP all the effects of what human counterproductive activities have done to climate change the last 200 years?

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@HistoryInPix
“Carbon Dioxide Heats The Earth”. Newspaper article from 1932 pic.twitter.com/f23NePRh1l

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@SenatorLudlam
…any advance on 1911? pic.twitter.com/d9CW4mnaPt h/t @angrygoat #norepeal

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@megs_grace
@SenatorLudlam @angrygoat Do journals count? 1896: http://www.globalwarmingart.com/images/1/18/Arrhenius.pdf …

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@Doclach
@SenatorLudlam No newspaper clipping, but this article is ref’d back to 1859 (see note #1) http://www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm … #norepeal #environment

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Microscopic debris worries marine environmental scientists – IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

The problem of microscopic debris in the ocean is much greater than previously thought. Water samples taken in the harbour of Lysekil, by researchers from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, contained 30 times more microscopic debris than previously measured in similar samples along the Swedish coast.

– The results are disturbing. Microscopic debris is not visible to the naked eye, but it can damage the marine wildlife to a larger extent than other debris, says Fredrik Norén, marine biologist at IVL.

Microscopic debris consists of small particles of plastic, textile and other kinds of waste, and since they are the same size as phytoplankton and zooplankton they will either be eaten by animals in the sea, or can adhere to the gills of fishes. The particles can also be carriers of toxic substances and that way transport environmental toxins into the animal that eats the debris.

The largest source of microscopic debris is not, as one could expect, marine transports or boats, but rather the debris from our cities. Debris thrown on our roads and streets will be transported by rainfalls towards the oceans and the problem exists in all cities where the currents will concentrate the debris at the water’s edge. The Swedish west coast is also the recipient of debris from other costal European cities and rivers, due to ocean currents.

– The way we live in the cities is a major source of the microscopic debris we now see in the sea. The good thing about that situation is that we as a society can do something about the problem. We can both improve our processes to treat storm water, as well as to educate people to throw less garbage in their urban environment. The municipalities can in turn increase the number of available garbage bins, says Fredrik Norén.

He is critical to how storm water currently is disposed along the Swedish west coast. There is too much microscopic debris that passes through the wastewater treatment plants and runs straight into the ocean.

– We need to do more studies on the debris that is currently slipping through the treatment plants filter and we must also develop new techniques for the treatment of storm water. There is plenty more to be done in this area, says Fredrik Norén.

For more information, contact: Fredrik Norén, fredrik.noren@ivl.se,
phone +46 31 708 65 05

Visit as well: http://www.n-research.se/forskning.php?id=1

via Microscopic debris worries marine environmental scientists – IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet.

UN-Water – Water Thematic Consultation report

This report is a result of sifting through and distilling the hundreds of contributions made in response to dozens of practical questions raised during the 6-months “World We Want” stakeholder consultation. Recommendations emerged for a new development framework that calls for reducing inequalities around water through rights-based approaches to service provision and governance. These approaches should integrate the management of water resources and wastewater, and improvements in water quality, requiring all sectors to break out of their narrow silos.

Download the report here: The Post 2015 Water Thematic Consultation (69 pages)
http://www.unwater.org/downloads/Final9Aug2013_WATER_THEMATIC_CONSULTATION_REPORT.pdf

via Welcome to UN-Water.

The sound of the flare

/FRACK OFF

Fracking in Sussex – What is Fracking?

@CCCRdg31 Jul

@DECCgovuk “Just don´t believe what you read on the Internet”~Francis Egan was not right. Information is Knowledge STOP F-g IT’S OIL OVER #Balcombe
Source BBC