In The News: Fracking! Or...Clean Water is Vital for Life

You often see ads for "Clean natural gas" and hear about how we have oil sands that can produce enough oil for all of our needs. What you don't know is the environmental costs of getting those fuels out of the ground, I am not talking about the hooded owl habitats, I'm talking about clean air and water that humans drink and breath.

I mentioned the oil sand project recently, of course. But, if you haven't seen someone light their drinking water on fire...you've really missed a major part of the "clean natural gas" story. Fracking fractures the bedrock shale and allows gas and toxic chemicals to permeate the drinking water for tremendous distances. This isn't just happening in the less populated mid-west now, but also in New York state.

And here is an article to let you see just what those "chemical extractions" are adding to an environment. Think about the fact that politicians call for LESS regulation on those substances. In other words, sure, just give us the power we want and we will not conserve it at all and we don't care about the fact that clean water is necessary to life, human life.

http://www.propublica.org/special/what-the-frack-is-in-that-water